Fess up... Who wrecked the freepers potties???

[SoCalDem]

We all know how freeps guard their potties..Who breached their security??



http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4870922.html


Last update: July 12, 2004 at 6:28 AM
Flushing out porta-potty vandals
Jill Burcum, Star Tribune
July 12, 2004 POTTY0712



NORTH BRANCH, MINN. -- Rich Anderson talks in hushed tones as he sadly details each violent death. One victim was crushed by a truck. Another has a gaping, blackened wound to the midsection. A few feet away, a burn victim's remains are almost unidentifiable. "This one, there was an accelerant used -- definitely gas or lighter fluid," Anderson said, pointing out scorch marks and melted innards. "There's nothin' left but a puddle." The remains of about 15 others are piled outside Anderson's office in North Branch. Fortunately, Anderson isn't talking people here. He's the owner of Jimmy's Johnnys.

The deceased are portable toilets.

Their burnt-out, beat-up hulks tell of a pesky Minnesota crime wave proving difficult to wipe out -- porta-potty vandalism. Vandalized pottiesMarlin LevisonAll"It's terrible," said Tom Roesner, who loses 15 to 20 portable toilets each year as the owner of Nature Calls in St. Paul. Since Minnesota relaxed fireworks restrictions in 2002, Roesner said, "there's been more damage to our units. It's an increasing problem every year." Roesner, in fact, is still trying to figure out what happened to one porta-potty near a Lake Elmo-area park earlier this month. Something exploded so powerfully inside it that parts were scattered plane-crash style throughout nearby woods. "The Sheriff's Department said fireworks," Roesner said. "But boy, I've never seen fireworks like that."

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"You can't place a Marine standing beside every portable toilet, even though we'd like to sometimes," said Bill Carroll, the sanitation association's executive director.

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Said Ham Lake's city administrator, Doris Nivala: "Boy, when they burn, they melt down to nothing."

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In addition, he makes sure only the oldest and most beat-up porta-potties -- which Anderson has often rebuilt from salvaged parts -- get sent to known trouble spots. "It's my livelihood," Anderson said, wistfully. "You hate to send them out there when you know they're not coming back."

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[Philostopher]

1. It's clear now.

White Castle hamburgers just aren't for everybody.

[Bozita]

2. Terra-ists with explosives and incendiary devices attack Middle America

I like my headline better than the one in the link.

[tandot]

3. Ahhhrrrrgggg! Raise the terror alert level to HIGH - they're attacking our

potties.

Tom Ridge was right. ORANGE ALERT !!! :crazy:

[SoCalDem]

4. um.... brown alert..

run for the hills.. and hold your nose

[matcom]

5. I Did

when i posted this yesterday :D

[DS1]

7. Yeah!

:grr:

[SoCalDem]

8. Well...excuuuuuu-uuuuu-uuuu-se me

:evilgrin: :loveya:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

6. J'acuuse.... this guy

Or, since it is out there, do Kleeb, HeyHey, and HypnoToad have alibis?

[tandot]

13. Your Picture: LMAO! Looks like his ass is on fire. Too many jalapenos?

n/t

[Blue-Jay]

9. I did it. I probably shouldn't eat Thai food I guess.

:D

[havocmom]

10. That's the chance they take when they get too full of

****. The human body has a limited capacity to safely contain crap. Obviously, it was only a matter of time before something like this happened.

[baldguy]

11. Its the chili

[zbdent]

12. Strangely, my blackouts, whole periods of time where I have no

memory of what happened, coincide with rumored appearances of the strange, dastardly villain "BurritoMan!".