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World's Fastest Toilet Sets New Land Speed Record (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post  |  By Posted: 05/ 3/2012 3:11 pm

Motorized Toilet
Canadian stuntwoman Jolene Van Vugt set a new world's record for fastest motorized toilet by driving one at 45 mph in Sydney, Australia.

Most speed records that involve the toilet are set by people who have to run to one, but one Canadian stuntwoman made history by riding one.

She's Jolene Van Vugt, 31, and she's flushed with excitement after riding a motorized toilet into the Guinness World Record book on Wednesday at a speed of 46 mph.

"I flew into Australia yesterday and came out here to jump straight on the toilet," she told the BBC. "That was so fun and I'm stoked to get the record."

In the process, she beat the previous record speed of 42 mph, set March 10, 2011, by Edd China in Milan, Italy.

It wasn't easy. To win the record, she had to drive the craptastic contraption -- which, according to National Post, was basically a go-kart with porcelain toilet in place of a driver’s seat -- 330 feet in both directions. Early on, her chain kept falling off, but finally got repaired.

At one point, the whole attempt was almost dumped because Van Vugt couldn't stop wobbling all over the place on the bumpy track.

"The cobblestones were a bit dangerous and proved problematic for me,'' she told the Telegraph. "The kick off them almost threw me.''

World records are nothing new to Van Vugt, whose previous Guinness records include being the first female to backflip a dirt bike, performing the longest backflip and backflipping a dirtbike over Arizona's Grand Canyon,according to Sky News.

Still, when all is said and done, she keeps thinking about the toilet.

"I've broken Guiness World Records before but I never thought I'd be the fastest toilet rider in the world,'' she told the Sydney Morning Herald.

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Most speed records that involve the toilet are set by people who have to run to one, but one Canadian stuntwoman made history by riding one. She's Jolene Van Vugt, 31, and she's flushed with excite...
Most speed records that involve the toilet are set by people who have to run to one, but one Canadian stuntwoman made history by riding one. She's Jolene Van Vugt, 31, and she's flushed with excite...
 
 
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Anybodyseenthepopos
אני כלום בלעדיהם
06:49 PM on 05/04/2012
Just as soon as it runs on methane all our problems will be solved. A couple of Burritos and you could go cross country in a single shot; no rest stops!
02:40 PM on 05/04/2012
Flush Flush..

http://bit.ly/IKlL0e
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caveredecorator
lifes a B and then you die
02:10 PM on 05/04/2012
my toilet is way faster than yours. you call that a fast toilet. pull over i need to have a word with you.
01:25 PM on 05/04/2012
that is weird disgusting but weird
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07:33 AM on 05/04/2012
wonder if she uses Charmin??
06:56 AM on 05/04/2012
That is just a go-cart with a toilet as a seat. I thought it would actually just be the toilet with little wheels right underneath the base.
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Denice Brown
crazy cat lady
11:56 PM on 05/03/2012
No Rest Stops needed!
11:35 PM on 05/03/2012
Theres bound to be a redneck with a 750 Honda or Harley V twin on their toilet that can blow her s - - t away.
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tori griffith
09:58 PM on 05/03/2012
Dafuq did I just read?
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cqdeed
Filling the mind with facts...or trivia?
09:35 PM on 05/03/2012
When you gotta go, ya gotta go.
08:21 PM on 05/03/2012
If it starts to sputter, just jiggle the handle
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Cory111
Life is truly good...
06:21 PM on 05/03/2012
Meets EPA standards, 24 flushes per-mile and no paper trail.
06:17 PM on 05/03/2012
"I'll take a #2 to go"
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Canefighter
I post my thoughts on subjects, not opinions.
06:03 PM on 05/03/2012
That video was real moving.
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caveredecorator
lifes a B and then you die
02:04 PM on 05/04/2012
i had to get up and go too.
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Bill Ridenour
04:57 PM on 05/03/2012
I bet that she was flushed with success! But that her boy friend was probably a four flusher. In poker she probably always draws a straight flush or a royal flush.
05:32 PM on 05/03/2012
i've always said there's nothing like a good joke..that was nothing like a good joke..lol