Teen caught urinating in reservoir (Portland Ore)

MyFoxNY ^ | April 16. 2014

[SMGFan]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Once again, Portland officials are preparing to flush millions of gallons of treated water because a young person urinated into a city reservoir.

Water Bureau Administrator David Shaff said 38 million gallons will be discarded because a 19-year-old was caught in the act on Wednesday

[Delta 21]

Thats it exactly.

[upchuck]

Absolutely no info in the article about the perp. Name? Charged? In jail?

Thanks AssPress.

[Palio di Siena]

WC Fields: I never drink water, fish f*** in it.

[Aria]

where are you from?

[KarlInOhio]

Equal to one (0.05mL) drop in 8000 gallons. You probably get a lot more from spray from a flushing toilet hitting a glass by your sink. (and I bet you close the lid next time before flushing just from thinking about that)

[Ditter]

Of course Portlandia, I am not surprised.

[Rodamala]

I was in the public restroom at the train station and this old guy in a funny white hat asked me for a quarter for the pay toilet...

[the_daug]

.1/38000000=2.6315789473684210526315789473684e-9 that is being generous lol.

[bigheadfred]

it is the government if a private citizen tells them pi$$ on this they freak but if it is the government running up on a private citizen their attitude is sh** happens

[publius911]

Good thing birds and wild animals never pee or poo in it.

This must be the most incompetent group of "professionals" in charge of that water system.They are unaware that the water of the space station recycles 100% of all their water (no details should be necessary)?

They are planning to waste, literally,a month's supply of water for a medium sized city.
And here I thought there was a drought problem in the Western U.S.

[coloradan]

If water costs a dime per hundred gallons, then 38 million gallons would cost 3.8 million pennies, or $38,000. They could send him a bill.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

It isn’t treated yet in the reservoir, it goes from the res to the treatment plant.

[Chode]

pretty much...

[kiryandil]

The government:

"We're retards, so you don't have to be!"

[kiryandil]

I forgot to ask if this was satire...

[gunsequalfreedom]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW7H6iohAb8

[elcid1970]

W.C. Fields was once asked why he never drank water though he drank all manner of liquors:

“An abominable substance, my boy. Fish f*** in it!’

[publius911]

Now wait a minute... they treat it first and then store it in an open reservoir?

No one ever claimed that public employees generally come from the sharp end of the gene pool (although they are paid as if they were.)

Not all, but the majority of them. The competent ones don't last; they just give up and move on. Deadwood accumulates.

Ever work for a "public" agency? I have.

[kiryandil]

If water costs a dime per hundred gallons, then 38 million gallons would cost 3.8 million pennies, or $38,000. They could send him a bill.

Or, they could beat themselves in the heads with Large Hammers, until their brains leaked out.

Oh, wait...

[bigheadfred]

yeah huh