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'...decision based on the 'yuck' factor involved in someone urinating into people's drinking water.' ::)
Eight million gallons of water had to be drained from a reservoir at a cost of more than $32,000 to the taxpayer after a young man admitted to urinating in it.
21-year-old Joshua Seater was caught on CCTV walking up to the huge reservoir in Portland, Oregon, in the early hours of Wednesday morning before relieving himself onto the treated water.
As soon as security spotted the man they cut off the key water supply and alerted authorities. Seater may now face misdemeanor charges and fines.
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'That’s what happened last night, somebody did something really stupid,' David Shaff of the Portland Water Bureau told MSNBC.
By the next day, the Water Bureau made the decision to drain the reservoir of eight million gallons of water at a cost of $32,700 to the taxpayer.
Shaff said he made the decision based on the 'yuck' factor involved in someone urinating into people's drinking water.
'More likely than not a tiny bit of urine in eight million gallons of water isn’t going to hurt anybody,' he said.
'But in this one, I guess I’m responding in part to the yuck factor.'
Seater admitted he had acted stupidly and offered to help clean up the mess he had caused.
'I had a pleasant buzz and I should have known better,' he told MSNBC.
'It was a split second thing and as soon as I was done I was like, "Oh man" and I saw the police officer show up I knew exactly what they’re here for.'
He added: 'I wouldn't mind paying for it, but I don’t have a job right now. I’m willing to do community service to clean up the place because I feel bad and feel pretty stupid.'
''It’s really an unfortunate incident that probably could have been avoided if he had just chosen a bush'
Sergeant Pete Simpson
City commissioner Randy Leonard said it was important the reservoir was drained because of the huge number of people it serves in the area.
'The water is chlorinated, but its chlorinated before the reservoirs so the water in the reservoirs is the water that you drink,' he said.
Sergeant Pete Simpson, of the Portland Police Bureau, added: 'It’s really an unfortunate incident that probably could have been avoided if he had just chosen a bush.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2004420/Reservoir-drained-man-urinates-Portland-Oregon.html
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Fucking Hilarious, that piss wouldn't have hurt anyone.
Bigger question: If public water is this accessible why hasn't Al Qaeda taken advantage? Maybe the threat of terrorism has been blown way out of proportion?
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No doubt a variety of animals have urinated in this water and birds droppings have been deposited in it as well. Yuck factor? Yes! Fine the young man--for the full amount! He is young and will have years to pay it back--when he eventually gets a job.
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Silly. Urine is the least of anyone's problems when it comes to our drinking water.
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W. C. Fields...“I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.”
“I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.”
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No doubt a variety of animals have urinated in this water and birds droppings have been deposited in it as well. Yuck factor? Yes! Fine the young man--for the full amount! He is young and will have years to pay it back--when he eventually gets a job.
x2! That is so stupid to drain the whole fucking thing. There is so much other shit that is in the air or flying in the air that get's in the water besides a little piss, fucking weirdos.
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Shit my drinking water comes from a lake were drive my boat, and I'm sure ive pissed in.
Do they not have a filtration process in Portland? They drink the water strait from the lake? I dont get it
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If he'd defecated in the water - like I'm sure many animals do - that would be a problem. But urine poses no threat whatsoever.
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W. C. Fields...“I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.”
“I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.”
Water?! You mean like from the toilet? I drink Brawndo, the thirst annihilator.
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Trying to figure out what's worse....the draining of that or shutting the water off to farming communities to Central California and put 50,000 people out of a job and lose crops to save a fucking fish!!!
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If he'd defecated in the water - like I'm sure many animals do - that would be a problem. But urine poses no threat whatsoever.
i'm sure there are many filters before that water hits the tap, that water doesn't just go from a big tube straight to your house from their.
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I don't think it was a lake of untreated water,...I think it was a concrete sided tank/resevoir with water that had already been processed and it was being held in the tank just before being pumped into the mains.
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Urine is sterile. No problem :D
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Definitely a Getbigger. No doubt.
Did he pop a hole in the superintendent windshield too?
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Soundness would've paid to buy that water
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Water?! You mean like from the toilet? I drink Brawndo, the thirst annihilator.
Idiocracy.... ;D
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Soundness would've paid to buy that water
Whatever happened to him?
Miss him deeply.... :(
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I live in a suburb of Portland. Although we don't get our drinking water from the Mt. Tabor reservoirs, if we did, I would still think it was a ridiculous waste of money to drain the reservoir. There are probably some politics behind this action. The city is planning to cover the reservoirs at a considerable cost to the rate payers. Perhaps they thought making an issue out of a drop pee in a huge volume of water would sell their cause. Who knows.
BTW the fellow was not arrested....nor was he fined, I believe.
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Whatever happened to him?
Miss him deeply.... :(
He just stopped posting one day
Pee.I.P
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Fucking Hilarious, that piss wouldn't have hurt anyone.
Bigger question: If public water is this accessible why hasn't Al Qaeda taken advantage? Maybe the threat of terrorism has been blown way out of proportion?
they prefer something like bombs,fire related...
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In Holland people don't urinate..
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Trying to figure out what's worse....the draining of that or shutting the water off to farming communities to Central California and put 50,000 people out of a job and lose crops to save a fucking fish!!!
What fish?
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Someone called my name
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Trying to figure out what's worse....the draining of that or shutting the water off to farming communities to Central California and put 50,000 people out of a job and lose crops to save a fucking fish!!!
well then, obviously farming is unsustainable in that area.
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What fish?
Coach's righteous anger is sometimes blinding. ;)
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Sergeant Pete Simpson, of the Portland Police Bureau, added: 'It’s really an unfortunate incident that probably could have been avoided if he had just chosen a bush.'
hahah we are fucking doomed!!!
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Mike Mentzer approved.
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OMG! :o I actually have seen the reservoir in person back in Summer 1989 when visiting Family in Oregon! They actually lived across the stree from it and we would walk over there to play on a tennis court next to the reservoir.
Funny story - my cousin actually threw a tennis ball in there by mistake and we were all terrified that we were going to get in serious trouble as there were even cameras up back then as plenty of WARNING sings!
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I don't see this on Fox News ???
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well then, obviously farming is unsustainable in that area.
Bingo.
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I live in Portland and have been to that reservoir. It is in a park on a small extinct volcano Mt. Tabor. Anyway our water is very clean and great tasting and there is no reason to have drained this other than just because of the yuck factor. And yes birds and animals crap and piss and die in it on a daily basis and nothing bad happens. And no, it wasn't me who did it, sorry.
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I live in Portland and have been to that reservoir. It is in a park on a small extinct volcano Mt. Tabor. Anyway our water is very clean and great tasting and there is no reason to have drained this other than just because of the yuck factor. And yes birds and animals crap and piss and die in it on a daily basis and nothing bad happens. And yes, it was Greg Oden who did it, sorry.
:D
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religion of peace ::)
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Lost vitamins... straight from the tap.
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This little shit needs a public lashing/caning like in Singapore
20 lashes across the back will set his hippie ass straight.
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This little shit needs a public lashing/caning like in Singapore
20 lashes across the back will set his hippie ass straight.
There was nothing about this young fellow that suggested he was a hippie. Anyway most hippies are middle-aged at least. This guy was about twenty years old.
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Definitely a Getbigger. No doubt.
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