By Jim Knippenberg
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Adam Hildebrand shows off one of the toilets his fraternity will deliver. (Gary Landers/The Cincinnati Enquirer)

Oh great. The potty pirates are at it again.

Those would be the guys of University of Cincinnati's Beta Theta Pi fraternity who will spend March 6 depositing toilets on the lawns of unsuspecting victims. Psychedelic toilets.

It's actually a fund-raiser and the brainchild of Adam Hildebrand, 21, Beta's philanthropy chairman. Here's how it works:

For $10 he and his fraternity brothers will deposit a toilet on the lawn of your choice.

"We'll then ring the doorbell and ask the lucky recipient for $10 to remove it. If they're not home, we'll take a Polaroid and attach it to the front door with a note saying, 'You've been dumped on.' But we won't leave the toilet.

"We'll also ask them for $10. Or, for $15 they can send (the toilet) to someone else. That $15 includes 'toilet insurance' to keep us from coming back."

The Betas have 10 used toilets donated by Hofmeyer Plumbing. The lads scrubbed them - "I mean really, really scrubbed. It wasn't pretty," Hildebrand says - and then decorated them.

The Betas did this in fall 2002 and raised $2,000 for Literacy Center West, the fraternity's adopted charity.

To schedule a delivery, call 305-9448; e-mail: adamhturbo01@aol.com.

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