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World's Fastest Toilet is Jet-Propelled, not Powered by Farts

Well, Flame Grill my Whopper and call it Professor Caractacus Potts! Is there nothing sacred any more? Not even those precious moments when a man wants a little peace in the world so that he can go about his daily business without being disturbed? It seems not, but then the British always were a little strange. This is, apparently, the world's fastest toilet. Powered by a Boeing Jet engine, the $10,000 vehicle's top speed is in excess of 70mph, and it farts flames from its tailpipe - rather like, I would imagine, a man forced to eat ten vindaloos one after another.

There's a video, as well another pic of the flaming khazi in action and its inventor, Paul Stender, all after the jump.

On the day when we remember Walter Schirra, let us also salute mechanic Paul Stender, without whom we would not be able to use clichés such as "To Boldly Go" and have them mean something completely different. – Ad Dugdale

Hold onto your Trousers... It's the world's fastest Loo

9:35 AM on Fri May 4 2007
By Addy Dugdale
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bignaz2k at 08:58 AM on 05/04/07
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I would hope for a bit faster than 70mph w/ a jet engine, but I guess it it went too much faster, it would just flop over with its high center of gravity and not too wide base.

But, mmmm, I'd totally eat 10 vindaloos in a row. Awesome.
Promethh at 09:22 AM on 05/04/07
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I would have thought the "World's Fastest Toilet" title would either go to a toilet onboard a British Airway's Concorde or the toilet aboard the International Space Station.

Maybe it's "World's Fastest Outhouse"?
jimmykay at 09:33 AM on 05/04/07
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flaming toilets this close to cinco de mayo?

new caption on the main picture "Beware of mixing too many burrittos and margaritas this Cinco De Mayo"
slowreader at 09:55 AM on 05/04/07
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And this is why I read the giz.
AshWag at 10:08 AM on 05/04/07
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Being British, I can tell you this is a brilliant display of our dry sense of humor... and very much in response to those rubbish x-biscuit "Pimp my Wharrever" programs that have been foisted upons us by the American Networks....
cruiserman1 at 10:09 AM on 05/04/07
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I would have like to have said that you could leave a helluva 'skid mark' taking a sh!t in this, but it would have been technically incorrect given that it's powered by a jet engine.
Monty at 10:19 AM on 05/04/07
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Um, just one question: Where does the poopy and pee-pee go?
strider_mt2k at 10:25 AM on 05/04/07
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@Monty: Wherever it goes it's gettin' there in a hurry!

Just one Oscillation Overthruster away from greatness.
mtopper at 10:34 AM on 05/04/07
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of no real significance, but a fact nevertheless:

it appears to be a MEN'S room
Munch at 10:42 AM on 05/04/07
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Totally practical invention - an outhouse that scares the sh@t out of people. Huzzah!
trunk666 at 11:23 AM on 05/04/07
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Um, just one question: Where does the poopy and pee-pee go?

AIN'T YOU SEE DEM FLAMES SON? (hick voice)
Kaiser-Machead at 11:35 AM on 05/04/07
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How could they call the guy who built this thing an inventor? He took a shitter and strapped it to an engine. This is a melding of the inventions of Thomas Crapper, Sir Frank Whittle and Hans van Ohain.
Cloudscout at 11:38 AM on 05/04/07
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Twin Cities native, Ky Michaels (aka Rocketman),equipped a portable outhouse with rockets for a Discovery Channel event. He has a description along with photos of the Stinkin' Rocket on his site:

http://www.the-rocketman.com/outhouse.html
Cloudscout at 11:39 AM on 05/04/07
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Er... Ky MichaelSON, not Ky Michaels.
Kaiser-Machead at 11:44 AM on 05/04/07
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Now if he can figure out a way to use excrement to power jet engines, he can be lifted onto the shoulders of engineering giants. We will raise a bronze statue in his honor, and jets will fly overhead powered by passengers in the rest room.
auricom at 12:36 PM on 05/04/07
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does he lean forward inside when he blasts off with this thing?
TheName at 12:42 PM on 05/04/07
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I know for a fact that jet engines should never, ever be combined with toilets. The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Total Re-Carl" told me so.
clear rants at 12:55 PM on 05/04/07
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I'd like to see the porta potty that previously held the record for world's fastest toilet. you know, just for shits and giggles.
amppcguru at 01:44 PM on 05/04/07
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looks like the perfect place to dispose of all those MiniMac Bricks...
infmom at 01:56 PM on 05/04/07
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Just wait till Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage get their mitts on this....
os_2 at 02:13 PM on 05/04/07
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at 70 mph? come on, shitter on 1970's RV goes faster than that.
FreeMan at 02:48 PM on 05/04/07
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does it steer?

why is there flame coming out of the vent stack?
bgplpshep at 03:32 PM on 05/04/07
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A rocket powered toilet... *hangs head in shame*

What have we come to as a species?
pcdsim at 08:19 PM on 05/04/07
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Dayum!! That's a lot of burritos.