Down in Lee`s Summit, Missouri, there`s a secret lab manned by a lone researcher. In a twenty by forty foot windowless, locked room, Audie Murphy, Metcraft Industries` development director,
has invented an uber-toilet for use in America`s prisons.
This high tech, stainless steel turd dispenser can flush efficiently using only one gallon of water. Considering that one inmate will often flush up to thirty times a day with old style three-to-five gallon hoppers, the new design will create a huge saving on water use.
Unlike most people, a prison inmate uses the prison toilet to flush away more things than just human waste. They are a multi-tasking device: ashtray; contraband dispenser; even soft drink cooler with the pan being flushed from time to time to keep the cans nice and cool.
Prisons are looking to save money and energy, so as Steve Connaughton, product manager for a toilet valve manufacturer said, “The time for this toilet has come.”
Mr. Murphy recently showed off his baby at several trade shows pointing out the pan`s various features, including a reseal cylinder and an opening in the front of the bowl from which air and then water jets out to break up even the most stubborn fecal matter. His party trick is flushing thirty-five golf balls down the tubes in one go.
At the end of the demonstration, Murphy raised his head with pride and commented, “I`ve got the best job in the building.”
