# Someone took a Crapster

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 14, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-took-a-crapster/422683 "2007-10-14T16:36:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-took-a-crapster/422683/1 "2007-10-14T16:36:34Z")

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[The seven-foot toilet-shaped soapbox racer is still missing](http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=webcrapster10m&date=20071010&query=toilet).

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> “It was kind of a bummer that they didn’t find it in the back of the U-Haul,” Valentine said.

Heh.

The police found the U-[del]Bend[/del] Haul truck, but all of its contents – including the Crapster – were gone. So what will the thieves do with a seven-foot toilet on wheels? They can’t sell it. They can’t be seen with it. They’ll probably just dump it.

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**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-took-a-crapster/422683/2 "2007-10-14T21:37:55Z")

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Or take a dump in it?

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-took-a-crapster/422683/3 "2007-10-14T21:59:44Z")

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Maybe they’ll put the Crapster in a dumpster?

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2007, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-took-a-crapster/422683/4 "2007-10-14T22:24:15Z")

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Peccant punks have peculated a peripatetic pooper? Preposterous!

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-took-a-crapster/422683/5 "2007-10-14T22:39:46Z")

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They’ve nothing to go on.

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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-took-a-crapster/422683/6 "2007-10-14T22:43:06Z")

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Thefts of unsalable items usually point to a jealous competitor.

In the big band era, a well known band would occasionally be robbed of its music library. It couldn’t be sold as a unit because other bands in the territory could identify the band’s “specials” or handwritten arrangements; it couldn’t be played by anyone else because audiences in the territory could identify it; and it was hard to move or break up quickly, being a heavy trunk of 15 or more music books, each containing many dozens of parts for one instrument.

It could, however, be quietly trashed, putting the band pretty well out of business until a new library could be assembled. Few if any stolen libraries were ever seen again.