# Can a person trap a fart? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 12, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441 "2005-01-12T21:10:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/21 "2005-01-13T04:29:19Z")
Whoops, I was trying to use a smilie as a link. It worked, but it didn’t underline it. I’m not gonna relink it though. Just click on the smilie. ---
**Author:** ![Fritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Fritz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fritz)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/22 "2005-01-13T04:51:38Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > An elevator is an excellent fart trap, but you gotta fake the sound each time more passengers get on. Anything to enrich the experience for them, though. > If you get on an elevator and there’s already one there, you get to add to it without being suspected. You can practice “throwing your voice”, as it were. \ I was staying at a nice hotel in New Orleans - I left my room on the 17th floor for breakfast one morning - there was another “gentleman” in there when I got on - and the 'vator was reeking with fart - that nasty, eye-watering “stick to the walls” type of fart that soils and corrupts everything it comes into contact with…and it had noxious undertones of long unwashed ass and body too. Really rank. He got off on the 12th floor, and I was alone with the stench on my way to the lobby…until the elevator stopped on the 9th floor and nice, refined looking couple got on. They caught a whiff of this vileness that was still dripping off the walls just as the doors closed, and they kept sneaking peaks at me all the way to the lobby. I wanted to tell them that it wasn’t me that caused that evil smell…but I said nothing. I learned a lesson that day, but damned if I can figure out what it is… \ ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/23 "2005-01-13T06:58:23Z")
> [@picker](#): > > Link: [😃](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=224120) Thank you. _\<\< bowing in awe once again to the great and almighty powerful **Lieu** \>\>_ ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/24 "2005-01-13T09:11:52Z")
You can trap big farts and keep them, but the little ones are purely catch-and-release. And don’t you dare do it out of season! ---
**Author:** ![SavageNarce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@SavageNarce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SavageNarce)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/25 "2005-01-13T12:28:32Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > You can trap big farts and keep them, but the little ones are purely catch-and-release. And don’t you dare do it out of season! Also, best to use a “humane” fart trap, not one of those nasty leg-hold types. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/26 "2005-01-13T14:17:22Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > If you trap a fart it will only enrage PETA and they will start a campaign on how farts should be free-range and not kept in a bottle. _If I could save farts in a bottle, The first thing that I’d like to do, Is save farts every day Till Eternity passes away, Just to send them to you._ ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/27 "2005-01-13T16:12:24Z")
> [@SavageNarce](#): > > Chemically, I suppose the “essence of the fart” would be methane, with an overtone of sulphur and a nuance of carbon compounds, adding just a _soupcon_ of ammonia for zest. My God, this is a thing of beauty. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/28 "2005-01-13T16:57:36Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#): > > _If I could save farts in a bottle, > The first thing that I’d like to do, > Is save farts every day > Till Eternity passes away, > Just to send them to you._ \*But there never seems to be enough time To do the things you want to do Once you lay them I’ve looked around enough to know That you’re the one I want to blow My gas at… If I had a box just for methane And beans that had suddenly come due The box would be empty Except for the huge hole Of how they were blasted at you\* ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/29 "2005-01-13T17:17:04Z")
You know, I nomally detest saying this but… ROTFLMAO 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/30 "2005-01-13T17:20:45Z")
> [@Snack Pack](#): > > but can you preserve the essence of the fart, i.e. smell, sound, etc. > > Thank You. [Emeril] What’s in that essence? BAM! [/Emeril] ---
**Author:** ![scooterboots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@scooterboots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scooterboots)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/31 "2013-09-13T08:35:03Z")
This is possibly the funniest thread I’ve ever read. Happy gassin!!! ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/32 "2013-09-13T09:43:57Z")
At some stage someone was selling bottled rabbit farts on ebay. They didn’t seem to sell any while I was watching and I am unsure how someone would capture a bunny fart unless said bunny was really compliant. Perhaps the op has some commercial enterprise in mind? ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/33 "2013-09-13T09:45:51Z")
:smack: dammit zombie got me again ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/34 "2013-09-13T10:36:35Z")
Kids today with their modern conveniences. Cell phones, segways, fart taps. Sheesh, back in the day we had to _clamp down_ if we wanted to trap a fart. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/35 "2013-09-13T12:06:42Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#): > > Kids today with their modern conveniences. Cell phones, segways, fart taps. > Sheesh, back in the day we had to _clamp down_ if we wanted to trap a fart. In my school we were content with just lighting them on fire although we did speculate that you could insert one end of a rubber tube up your bum and another end to a balloon in order to build up a good one; I don’t know of anyone who actually admitted to trying this. My question is would this said fart balloon float or drop to the group? Could I walk around proudly with my fart balloon floating high and then pin pick it at the proper time? Would this be a violation of laws against WMD’s? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/36 "2013-09-13T12:45:54Z")
That fart has probably gone bad by now. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/37 "2013-09-13T13:03:37Z")
Honey Boo-Boo’s take on using farts for evil: [Cup-a-Fart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFqlPidUmm4) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/38 "2013-09-13T13:44:29Z")
> [@SavageNarce](#): > > Chemically, I suppose the “essence of the fart” would be methane, with an overtone of sulphur and a nuance of carbon compounds, adding just a _soupcon_ of ammonia for zest. I suppose this could be captured, nurtured, perhaps even preserved - but I fear it may be an evanescent essence, too delicate for extended cellaring.( Farts are mostly nitrogen and hydrogen. Methane makes up less than a quarter of flatus by volume, at least in humans, and it’s odorless. The smell comes from trace quantities of various sulphur compounds like methanethiol and hydrogen sulfide. ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/39 "2013-09-13T14:10:42Z")
Remember, for better effect, “Do I smell cookies?” ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/40 "2013-09-13T14:22:42Z")
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