[VIDEO] Mad YouTube Plumber Builds World's Largest 'Fart Machine' To Fire At France
Colin Furze is his name and he is not your normal YouTuber. Colin plans to install a valveless pulse jet inside an enormous butt.
By Sadho Ram — 24 Jul 2014, 06:05 PM — Updated over 10 years ago
A garage inventor and DIY daredevil from Stamford, England, 34-year-old Colin Furze is no certified engineer. In fact, he did not even finish school; he dropped out at 16 to become a plumber.
With more than 500,000 subscribers on YouTube, Mr. Furze, 34, has found an online following for his radical — and sometimes dangerous — backyard inventions, which include the world’s longest motorbike and a scooter that shoots fire from its back end. (That one got him arrested.)
Image via nyt.comWhile living with his parents, Colin experimented with metalworking but did not have the resources to test the limits of his imagination
Colin riding the world's fastest mobility scooter (it houses the engine of a 1997 CR125 motocross bike and has a top speed of 82.5 miles per hour)
Image via colinfurze.comHis inventions have helped him set five Guinness world records. But it was his most recent projects — harnessing the powers of Wolverine and Magneto — that made him a YouTube star.
Colin Furze, who is possibly slightly mad but definitely brilliant, went ahead and made himself a set of actual, working, Wolverine claws. We know, the jealousy is strong with us, too.
Image via SAYS.com via Colin FurzeNow, Colin is building the biggest fart machine ever. It's a valveless engine that will be housed in a specially constructed pair of buttocks (yes, you read that correctly).
The machine is a giant valveless jet engine, similar to the one used by the Nazis to power their V-1 bombs during the Second World War. Furze 's configuration creates a plume of fire to accompany its fart-like, deafening roar.
telegraph.co.ukWhy is he building such a machine, you ask? His ultimate goal is to aim it across the Channel towards France.
If all goes well, the contraption will be ready to go on July 24th, between 6:00 and 7:00 pm. His hope is that the French, located 21 miles away, will hear the blast.
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