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DaveM
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 8:16 pm: | |
Here's the story:
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A driver for the Dave Matthews Band was charged on Wednesday with reckless conduct for dumping human waste from a tour bus over the side of a bridge onto passengers aboard a boat on the Chicago River.
Stefan Wohl, 42, who turned himself in to authorities and was released pending a March hearing, drives a bus assigned to the band's violinist, Boyd Tinsley.
Prosecutors said Wohl was alone on the bus at the time of the incident last August 8, in which up to 100 gallons of waste were dumped over the bridge and fell on scores of people aboard a boat passing underneath.
Several of the passengers, who were on an architectural tour, retched and tore off their clothes. No one was seriously injured, authorities said.
Wohl was also charged with polluting the river. He had earlier denied the charges, which each carry a penalty of up to a year in prison, authorities said.
The bus was identified with the help of a surveillance camera at a nearby health club, prosecutors said.
The band, a vocal champion for environmental causes, cooperated in the investigation and donated $100,000 to organizations involved in cleaning up the river.
At least one passenger has filed suit against the band and the driver.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050119/music_nm/crime_band_dc |
Visitor
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 9:02 pm: | |
This happened approx month ago an was visted real well the first time. Thanks for revisiting it. |
Macgyver (91flyer)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 10:17 pm: | |
Perhaps, but this particular entry in the story is new. It's dated today...
-Kevin |
Jim in California
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 3:47 am: | |
Now it's that driver in deep sh......
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On a related note:
You pull into a new town and you've got loaded tanks. Typically, what's the easiest way to find a PROPER dump and freshwater refill location? |
niles steckbauer (Niles500)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 3:51 pm: | |
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Jim (Jim_in_california)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 4:39 pm: | |
Heh. Yeah, I had assumed that and other "real truck stops". And of course anywhere you can pay for a parking spot/"shore hookeup" for the night.
Anywhere else?
If not...hmmmmmm...for really serious travelling, you'd need at least 150fresh/150gray&black to have even a chance at "two people for a week" completely untethered. And that's *pushing it*. |
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