--- title: Cold Weather: Toilet Snow Plow description: Man uses motorized toilet with a snow plow outside of Union Hardware in Bethesda Maryland canonical: https://time.com/3714129/toilet-snow-plow/ author: Olivia B. 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Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 18, 2015 10:33 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 18, 2015 10:33 PM UTC A hardware store in Bethesda, Md., demonstrated a novel way to plow snow on the street Tuesday morning after a winter storm pummeled the Washington D.C. area. David Goldberg of [Union Hardware](http://www.unionhardware.com/2014/index.shtml) whizzed down the street on this motorized toilet with a snow plow attached — nicknamed “Loo-cy” (it has also gone by [“Loo-Cille”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROm4Yyyjyug)). He told [WUSA 9](http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/2015/02/17/man-creates-motorized-toilet-to-plow-snow-in-dc/23558013/) he made the contraption for the local pride parade last summer and just tacked on the snow plow recently. No word on whether this snow plow is heading up to [Boston](http://time.com/3712287/boston-snow-jump/). ### Six Feet Under: Photos of Endless Winter in Boston  A pedestrian makes her way past a Victoria's Secret store along a snow covered street during a winter snowstorm in Boston on Feb. 9, 2015. Brian Snyder—Reuters  A piece of heavy equipment is used to clear snow from the warning track at Fenway Park in Boston on Feb. 9, 2015. Jessica Rinaldi—Boston Globe/Getty Images  Snow fills the seats at Fenway Park in Boston on Feb. 9, 2015. Jessica Rinaldi—Boston Globe/Getty Images  A cross-country skier goes up a path near the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass. on Feb. 9, 2015. Dominick Reuter—EPA  A cyclist rides across the Mass Ave bridge during a winter snow storm in Boston on Feb. 9, 2015. Brian Snyder—Reuters  Workers clear snow around the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's (MBTA) South Station in Boston on Feb. 9, 2015. Kayana Szymczak—Getty Images  Ann Laborte shovels a path through the large mound of snow outside her Commonwealth Avenue home in Boston, Mass., Feb. 10, 2015. Nicolaus Czarnecki—Zumapress  Greg Burkett clears the snow from the front of his house during a winter snowstorm in Cambridge, Mass. on Feb. 9, 2015. Brian Snyder—Reuters  Ben Carton snowboards off snow plowed into a pile in a parking lot during a winter snowstorm in Somerville, Mass. on Feb. 9, 2015. Brian Snyder—Reuters  Jay Bullens Jr. of Able Roofing climbs with a sledgehammer to the third floor of a house to knock snow and ice from a roof on Beals Street in Brookline, Mass. on Feb. 9, 2015. Lane Turner—Boston Globe/Getty Images  A house is covered in snow and ice on Jane Road in Methuen, Mass. on Feb. 9, 2015. 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