Go, Jo! (Ew.)

SHE’S broken bones and dislocated her shoulder, but yesterday circus loo-natic Jolene Van Vugt smashed the land speed record for a motorised toilet.

While she may have had bad luck in the past, the stars were aligned for the thrill-seeker yesterday as she flushed the old record down the crapper and dumped her name into the record books.

Van Vugt cruised past the 2011 record of 68km/h comfortably, with the radar gun clocking the porcelain bus at 75km/h at Sydney Olympic Park.

Somebody’s getting a little carried away with the bathroom puns. Probably hoping for a Poolitzer Prize. (Thanks. Wee’ll be here all week. No, that is not a typo.)

Congratulations, Jolene!

Video of the feat:

Many thanks to BRI fan Bill P. for alerting us to this important news! Thank you, Bill!

There is a (bathroom) God!

The toilet, designed by architect Sou Fujimoto, is surrounded by a cherry, plum, and peach trees garden, protected by a two-meter high fence.

The natural landscape can however only be enjoyed by women, as the toilet is available for use by women only.

“The area around the station has an incredible natural beauty,” architect Fujimoto said.

“We wanted for those who used the toilet to enjoy this scenery and that feeling of release.”

And with videos like this – it’s almost better than it’s in Japanese!

Another Fujimoto design. Hmmm.

Huh. You’d think they’d be slippery! (Ew.)

As it turned out, the blend worked perfectly, and soon 400 unwanted toilets were stirred together with recycled concrete to give Anthony the 250 square yards of ‘porticrete‘ he needed to get the job done. According to the City of Bellingham, the final mix contains about 20% crushed toilets by volume and represents about 5 tons of material diverted from a landfill.

Heck of a job, City of Bellingham, Washington! We give you a Bathroom Reader Salute! You are the swirl beneath our things! (Wait, that didn’t come out right…)

And you know what this means, don’t you? If you’re ever standing on a street corner in Belllingham, Washington, remember – the sidewalks run poopendicular to each other! More than usual!

We got that story from BRI reader Janice S.! Thank you, Janice S!

I. P. Friely would have loved this place!

That was sent to us by Michael C. Thank you, Michael! (No location was given. Anyone know the city? Is it Ottawa? Is that white band in the foreground the Rideau Canal? Update: Wow, that was fast. One Mark Farley over at FaceBook sent us this link with that exact shot in it, and a bunch of other very cool shots of a skyscraper…in Moscow. Go figure.)

A quick search found some similar shots. Our favorite of that collection – by far:

That’s what we call going to the can.

That’s equivalent to about $130,000 U.S., and it is assumed to have been left for people left in need by March’s devestating earthquake and tsunami:

An anonymous donor in Japan has left 10m yen ($131,000; £83,000) to charity by dumping it in a public toilet.

The money was found with a letter saying it should be donated to victims of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March.

The neatly wrapped bills were found in a plastic shopping bag in a toilet for disabled people in the city hall of Sakado in the Tokyo suburbs.

The note read: “I am all alone and have no use for the money.”