# Toilet bomb **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 7, 2009, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166 "2009-07-07T04:36:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [July 7, 2009, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/1 "2009-07-07T04:36:57Z")
In October 1965 a U.S. Navy pilot bombed a target in North Vietnam with… [a toilet](http://www.midwaysailor.com/midwayva25bomb/). ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/2 "2009-07-07T15:00:05Z")
(Ok, I’ll get things going… 🙂 ) Gee, that was a crappy thing to do! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/3 "2009-07-07T15:36:39Z")
Pretty cool but I’d be more impressed if he’d used it to down a MIG-17. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/4 "2009-07-07T15:37:48Z")
The 1st Armored Division didn’t follow up with an attack by septic tanks? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/5 "2009-07-07T15:46:36Z")
Was it loaded with something ‘special’? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/6 "2009-07-07T16:06:39Z")
You mean… like… Slim Pickens? ---
**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:** [July 7, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/7 "2009-07-07T16:39:35Z")
The scheduled restroom upgrade for the Navy’s bomber fleet did not go as planned? ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/8 "2009-07-07T17:07:58Z")
I like the dope because it has (so far) been able to answer any question I’ve had. I love the dope for it’s ability to answer questions I would never had considered asking. “Hey, anyone know how the 6,000,000th pound of ordinance dropped was commemorated?” “Hell yeah! We dropped a toilet!” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/9 "2009-07-07T17:37:41Z")
“Somebody set up us the can!” ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/10 "2009-07-07T18:45:06Z")
Glad they saved six hundred bucks or so by removing and saving the seat. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/11 "2009-07-07T19:05:35Z")
They should have followed up with a strafing attack using the cardboard tubes that TP is wrapped around. “Take that Charlie!”…“In your face!!” ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/12 "2009-07-07T19:18:59Z")
Did they flush out the enemy? When I saw the thread title I thought it was going to be about a 4th of July prank in which someone booby-trapped a toilet with an M-80. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/13 "2009-07-07T20:40:21Z")
There are so many possible subjects to go with the thread title that I didn’t really expect it to be an actual toilet as a bomb. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/14 "2009-07-07T21:28:18Z")
I guess they dropped the toilet in loo of more appropriate ordnance. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2009, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/15 "2009-07-07T23:16:58Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I guess they dropped the toilet in loo of more appropriate ordnance. God will get you for that. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/16 "2009-07-07T23:43:09Z")
I didn’t know Vietnam was merely a testing ground for anti-Russian mafia ordnance. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/17 "2009-07-08T01:24:39Z")
Wouldn’t that qualify as chemical and/or biological warfare? I hope someone raised a stink over it. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/18 "2009-07-08T05:49:35Z")
So when did they drop the kitchen sink? ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/19 "2009-07-09T02:43:38Z")
What? No toilet roll streamers? ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166/20 "2009-07-09T02:48:37Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > What? No toilet roll streamers? I doubt that anyone here is privy to that information. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-bomb/502166.md?page=2)