...or tie a belt around the seat to maintain the pressure so Murtaugh can get up and not trigger the bomb? His weight on the seat is preventing the bomb from going off isn't it? Or if it's a light trigger slide a piece of tile or something under his butt.
sharewhy didn't he just flush ?
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"if seagal was thinner this could have been a theatrical product."
Maybe more weight would have set it off. You would have had to double the weight briefly unless you managed to get it on precisely as Murtaugh stood up (as Indiana Jones attempted to do with the idol in "Raiders of the Lost Ark").
shareStrange how the toilet was blown out of the bathroom over the lawn and land on the car totally intact and spotless. Kind of like two stage hands on ladders just tossing a brand new toilet on top of the car.
That thing would have been blown into tiny porcelain pieces. I think the bomb had three packs of C-4 strapped together.
Because if they'd done that, they wouldn't get an explosion.
Seriously, there is no good reason they couldn't have done that. It's not like the terrorists would have researched Roger's weight and calibrated the bomb to it exactly.
And it blows when he drops a few pounds into the toilet... lolol.
shareThis is probably an instance of the powers-that-be not including a logical thing because to do so would not take the movie where they wanted to go. For example, if a simple normally-open switch was used to arm the bomb when someone sat on the toilet, all one would have to do is short the contacts together with a clip-lead and then you could tap dance on the toilet without setting it off!
isaiah-12 "I don't ask much, I only want trust, and you know it don't come easy," Ringo Starr.
It's called The Indiana Jones Sandbag Switch For the Gold Statue effect. Roll off the bag and you release a big, huge round boulder that chases you down and nearly kills you.
Now, in a bathroom in which stuff-yuck-has been sitting in the toilet bowl for nearly 20 hours, you want to roll Murtaugh off and get these round things flying all over the room, and, of course, one of which could be Murtaugh?
This could definitely be done in real life, there was a contact between the bowl and seat to automatically arm the bomb when pressure was applied. Also liquid nitrogen has been proven to disarm bombs according to Mythbusters.
shareI was thinking the same thing. The easiest thing to do would be to screw a pair of eye bolts into the floor, one on each side of the toilet, and use them as anchor points for a ratchet strap to clamp the toilet seat down.
shareYep , just put your hand on the seat to stop raising any , then stand up , then put something heavy on it.
What was going to make the seat spring up and trigger the bomb anyway?
a microswitch?