Late last month, thieves in Seattle unwittingly stole a truck containing a 7-foot toilet. The truck, was stolen from a hotel parking lot, housed a soapbox race car, 7 feet high and 7 feet long, designed in the shape of a giant toilet.

A group of five friends from Colorado Springs built the humorously customized soapbox race car for a an event set to take place in late September in Seattle, Washington. Parked outside their hotel room, the truck disappeared sometime during the night.

The truck and it’s custom commode contents have yet to be recovered, though the thieves were likely a bit flushed upon discovering the cargo they had seized.

Intended driver of the racing toilet, Tom Valentine, commented, “We’re laughing about it.” Then stated he only wished he could have seen the faces of the thieves as they discovered what they had stolen.

Valentine went on to joke about the suspected response of the thieves, “My guess is, ‘Oh, crap! It’s a giant toilet!”

While the soapbox car didn’t win any races, it did receive second place in the people’s choice competition.

—- Can you imagine all the adrenaline running through your body as you heist the truck, get away  and them the anticipation of opening the truck and TA DA! A giant toilet!

Moussaieff Jewellers in London who has built a reputation for acquiring rare gemstones adds another to its collection and this is one of the rarest of them all. A flawless blue diamond was sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $7.98 million. Per carrot this is the most expensive gemstone sold at auction in the world.

According to Sotheby’s, the 6.06 carat breathtaking blue diamond was purchased for $1.32 million per carat. The previous record had stood for nearly 20 years and was held by the “Hancock Red”, a red diamond that sold at $926,000 a carat.  

The mystique of the blue diamond is legendary and perhaps the most famous being the “Hope Diamond”. This famous 45.52 carat diamond has been passed through time from King Louis XIV through Marie Antoinette and American heiress Evalyn Walsh McClean and now finds a home in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C.

What make’s a blue diamond blue is the very small amounts of boron in the stone’s crystal and what makes them so special, unlike other colored diamonds, is that they are mostly found at just one spot on the planet, the Premier Mine in South Africa.

450 Fargo North Dakota high school kids were stretching it out this weekend trying to reach, bend and curve their way into the Guinness World Records.  What are they doing? Playing Twister and using 180 mats, trying to play in the biggest Twister game on record.

The attempt came during a weekend conference of a high school business club (North Dakota DECA).  “We will break the record,” said a confident Kevin Reisenauer, State DECA advisor.

A review of the video tape by Guinness World Records officials still has to come before the students will for certain have a record but they left nothing to chance.

The 180 mats for a twister board measuring 4,699 square feet, topping the old record set in 2005 in the Netherlands of 2,453 square feet.

The biggest task of the day according to organizers was the actual tapping of all the mats together. “There truly is a process to it, and we learned a lot,” Reisenauer said.

—- I hope they made it!  I imagine there was a lot of high schoolers very happy and very sad with whom they got twisted up with