I'd Give It 4.96 Seconds If I Were You
A US inventor has created a 70mph, jet-propelled toilet.
Inventor Paul Stender, 43, made it out of a rickety old portable toilet and a 1,000bhp Boeing turbine engine bolted on to a go-kart chassis. Two tiny holes in the door let him see where he's going - as a 30ft fireball roars from the back of the £5,000 machine.
Paul, who also has a jet-powered motorbike, thrills crowds with the powerful Portaloo at race meetings near his home in Indiana. He said: "I used to keep a toilet roll inside to make it look really authentic. But I soon found that wads of paper got sucked into the engine which was dangerous. If it sucks in paper it could explode - and take me with it."
How many times have you been sitting in a traffic jam bursting for a pee? How many times have you been left at the traffic lights by a smug banker in a Porsche? Now you can take care of both problems at once!
Sign me up for one, what do you think?
Actually I haven't fired up the jet engine yet.
Inventor Paul Stender, 43, made it out of a rickety old portable toilet and a 1,000bhp Boeing turbine engine bolted on to a go-kart chassis. Two tiny holes in the door let him see where he's going - as a 30ft fireball roars from the back of the £5,000 machine.
Paul, who also has a jet-powered motorbike, thrills crowds with the powerful Portaloo at race meetings near his home in Indiana. He said: "I used to keep a toilet roll inside to make it look really authentic. But I soon found that wads of paper got sucked into the engine which was dangerous. If it sucks in paper it could explode - and take me with it."
How many times have you been sitting in a traffic jam bursting for a pee? How many times have you been left at the traffic lights by a smug banker in a Porsche? Now you can take care of both problems at once!
Sign me up for one, what do you think?
Actually I haven't fired up the jet engine yet.
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Ambiguous (06-05-2007 12:05:47)
So will this be a new sport (Out-House F1)
"when you GO , you really Go"
"when you GO , you really Go"
revrobuk (04-05-2007 20:12:26)
Remember that kerfuffle a few months back when the police caught people running cars on cheap cooking oil because they could smell chips when they drove past...
garethwi (04-05-2007 06:09:13)
Who would have thought that curry would end up being the fuel of the future?
revrobuk (03-05-2007 23:22:33)
Let's hope the Hamster doesn't get hold of one!
revrobuk (06-05-2007 18:52:03)