Posted on 07/30/2002 5:12:33 AM PDT by badfreeper
Idomo Furniture says the city is to blame for $1 million in damage to its Downsview area store after the building was flooded with sewage following Sunday's papal mass.
Gerrit de Boer, president of Idomo Furniture International, found most of the 24,000-square-metre basement of his Sheppard Ave. store coated in feces, urine and other sewage early yesterday morning.
"I came to the warehouse and (excrement) was everywhere. The smell was horrible," de Boer said.
"I have the sewage of 800,000 pilgrims in my store."
His building is next to Downsview Park, where about 800,000 people came to see Pope John Paul.
De Boer closed his store yesterday and hired cleaning crews to mop up the sewage, which was as deep as 10 cm in places.
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Holy sh*t!
Actually, I hear the problem isn't really the Pope himself - it's his entourage.
Seems as if I've heard this excuse consistently used over the past few months in a different context.
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