This is absolutely the worst ecological disaster to hit the Pacific Northwest since global warming!
Posted on 10/18/2013 12:23:51 AM PDT by Zakeet
A Portland, Oregon man urinated in a Mt. Tabor reservoir Wednesday causing the city to take it’s critical water supply off line and dump millions in gallons of water.
According to The Oregonian, officials saw five people throwing objects into the reservoir, while one person began to urinate into it through the fencing. Police did not cite the 21-year-old or his friends, but the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office may press criminal charges after surveillance video and police reports are reviewed.
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An administrator for the Water Bureau, David Shaff, said that because of this incident, roughly 7.8 million gallons of drinking water will be discarded. He said the bureau often finds dead animals in the same drinking supply but the water isn’t dumped.
“This is different,” Shaff told the newspaper. “Do you want to drink pee?”
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This is absolutely the worst ecological disaster to hit the Pacific Northwest since global warming!
Do they have an accord with the birds in the area so none of them pee or poop in the reservoir?
What’s that taste? It’s got a little wang in it.
seriously, they dumped millions of gallons for one man's pee but not for dead animals?....and gee, why if they're so sensitive about it don't they put up better baricades to keep the peeing public out?
And what about the fish? Do they have toilet facilities elsewhere? This story is rediculous!!
A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That’s the way your hard-core Commie works.
Fish are having sex in that reservoir as we speak. Imagine the effluent from that/WC Fields said he never drank water because fish f in it.
What will we do especially with global warming kicking in and the oceans rising. What will we do???
HF
I mean is this for real? One guy pees in a giant reservoir and they start dumping the water? That seems crazy to me.
“What will we do especially with global warming kicking in and the oceans rising. What will we do???”
Next most of the U.S. will experience some major global warming. Hint; most of us had better get our cold weather gear ready this weekend.
Too bad the bird population of the area lacks internet connections. I'm sure they'd be in stitches when the implications sunk in (or plopped in)!
“Do you want to drink pee?”
No. But I’ll take a shot of dead rat on the rocks...
"...officials saw five people throwing objects into the reservoir..."
Bird poop and dead animals are okay, but pee? Yuck.
Anyway, the astronauts drink pee.
So with 7.8 million gallons in the reservoir , and a very healthy piss being around half a Liter, that works out to a urine concentration in the reservoir of about 0.00000169%. And I assume that they actually TREAT the water before using it. Yup makes PERFECT sense, TO A FREAKING MORON, to dump the reservoir.
I sure am pissed off about this! (sarc)
Didn’t Gandhi use to drink his own pee?
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