Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe SEATTLE, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Instead of being flushed away, a Soapbox Derby driver's dreams of victory remain afloat now that authorities in Seattle found his entry, 7-foot-tall toilet. The white commode, outfitted with tires and seating for one inside the bowl, was in a truck reported stolen Oct. 1. The truck was found several days later, but the Soapbox Derby racer, nicknamed "The Crapster," was gone, The Seattle Times reported Thursday. Advertisement Police found it Wednesday in a field in rural King County. A group of co-workers at Hewlett Packard in Colorado Springs, Colo., spent 25 days building the Soapbox Derby entry. On Sept. 29 the Crapster finished the Red Bull Soapbox Race in Fremont, Calif., in 75 seconds and was awarded second in crowd-favorite entries. Tom Valentine, driver of The Crapster, was shocked that the toilet was found with minimal damage. He and teammates are deciding whether to pay nearly $800 to have it shipped back to Colorado. "I'm surprised they found it," he said. "I was thinking if they found it, it would be all beat up and at the bottom of a lake."
