HE WON'T GET FAR IN HIS WAISTCOAT
Police hunt Victorian toilet bomber
(Thanks to Unholy Slacker)
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East Gippsland? Weird names down there in Oz...
Posted by: wiredog | September 17, 2012 at 02:31 PM
Still on the loos?
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | September 17, 2012 at 02:33 PM
At least this didn't happen in Croajingalong National Park -- yet.
Posted by: Ralph | September 17, 2012 at 06:05 PM
The Victorian Toilet Bomber was (not is) an experimental aircraft design, not a person. A collaboration between the Putney-Thripp Air Vehicle Works of Drooling-on-the-Parquet, Lancashire, and an American designer, Harford "Mad Harvey" Shortview, it was first offered to the Ministry of Aviation in 1937, proposed as a four-winged, single-engined strategic bomber with a range that would allow it to reach most industrial targets in France. And drop toilets on them.
It was pointed out to the designers that a) most modern bomber designs involved four engines and one wing, not vice-versa; b) that toilets, while nasty, were not necessarily lethal; and c) it was Germany, not France that was the most likely upcoming adversary. And by the way, Queen Victoria had been dead since 1901. The design team reportedly said, "Oh," and weren't heard from again.
Posted by: Omniskeptic | September 17, 2012 at 10:01 PM
Omni: It should also have been pointed out that France has no industrial targets.
Posted by: Howard from Broward | September 18, 2012 at 04:07 PM
In 1937 they at least had a cheese manufacturing capability. During the war, it shifted to Wisconsin where it remained until destroyed in the recent Mitten unpleasantness with Michigan.
Posted by: Omniskeptic | September 18, 2012 at 06:01 PM