In honor of Sir Thomas Crapper and Jerry Garcia
Posted on 04/01/2006 2:50:17 PM PST by NormsRevenge
SONOMA - The long, strange trip continues for Jerry Garcia's toilet.
Police say the Grateful Dead leader's commode was stolen recently from a driveway along with three other toilets and a bidet.
Garcia's salmon-colored toilet was the subject of a legal battle before it was finally moved to Sonoma, to await shipment to a Canadian casino.
It's unclear if the toilet was swiped by a wayward Deadhead or a thief remodeling a bathroom. Police have no suspects or leads.
Henry Koltys bought Garcia's Marin County home for $1.39 million in 1997 and removed the toilet and other items he planned to sell to raise money for a charity.
After Koltys sold the house to a friend of the band's, the new owner sued to block the auction. The dispute was resolved last year, and Koltys moved the items to his home in Sonoma, about 40 miles north of San Francisco.
Last month, Koltys sold the Grateful Dead singer's toilet for $2,550 to online casino Goldenpalace.com, which planned to use it as part of a traveling marketing exhibit. The casino is offering a $250 reward for its return.
Henry Koltys said Friday that the toilet once stood in the master bathroom of Garcia, who died in 1995 at age 53. "It would have been his personal head," he said.
The casino also paid $25,000 for actor William Shatner's kidney stones and $28,000 for a grilled cheese sandwich that reportedly had the image of the Virgin Mary on it, Koltys said.
Jonathon Lipsin, who worked for Garcia as a gardener and now owns a Northern California record store, said the toilet might appeal to dedicated Deadheads.
"It's a little gross," Lipsin said. "But I could see it at a rock 'n' roll museum, too."
If you leave a toilet in the driveway, you shouldn't be surprised if someone swipes it.
Everyone could use an extra toilet.
For once somebody actually took a crap-er but since it was stolen, nobody gave a crap-er.
Now he doesn't have a pot to p in.
If it was a good old fashion flusher and not the newer eco flushers you bet someone wanted it.
Police are baffled and have nothing to go on.
the sad thing is that looking at jerry before he died i doubt he ever used it
Ah, the memories of vomit and feces from drug-induced late-nights.
LOL! Very true. Gotta love those "eco-friendly" toilets. You have to flush 'em three times to make all the turds go down thereby using even more water than the old toilets. Ah... The Law of Unintended Consequences.
I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for these guys. Something about their $25,000 "forehead tattoo" stunt really bothered me.
Dead Head.
Yup.. this one won't be popping up on eBay anytime soon.
Probably not a low-flow model. The old big tankers are valuable in Cali. That might be the reason someone copped it.
I really should read the threads before I post....
The police chief of Sonoma issued a statement requesting the public to ....
"Bring me the Head of ol' Jerry Garcia"
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Freaky deaky, maaaan.
LOL!
I've never seen a toilet made with Legos.. wow.
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