Hanxter

seems dave matthews band's tour bus took a dump on a tour boat in chicago that was going under a bridge in chicago that the bus was on...

Dave Matthews Band Blamed For Human Waste

UPDATE: Dave Matthews Band Offers Up DNA

Aug 24, 2004 6:01 pm US/Central
CHICAGO (CBS 2) Rock star Dave Matthews and his tour bus driver are facing a filthy lawsuit.

The Illinois Attorney General's office says they're responsible for dumping up to 800-gallons of raw human waste from a tour bus onto the Kinzie Street Bridge earlier this month.

The nasty mess rained down on passengers aboard a sightseeing boat two weeks ago.

The lawsuit accuses the band and one of its tour bus drivers, Stefan Wohl, of violating state water pollution and public nuisance laws. It seeks $70,000 in civil penalties.

"Our driver has stated that he was not involved in this incident,'' band spokesman John Vlautin said in a statement. "We reserve judgment on anyone until we have seen the evidence. We have been and will continue to be cooperative in this investigation.''

According to the lawsuit, on Aug. 8 a bus leased by the Dave Matthews Band was driving toward a downtown hotel where band members were staying for a performance in Wisconsin. As the bus crossed the grated Kinzie Street bridge, the driver allegedly emptied the contents of the bus' septic tank into the river below, the lawsuit alleged.

At that moment, more than 100 people on the Chicago's Little Lady architecture tour passed underneath the bridge and were showered with the human waste.

The attorney general's office said no one was seriously injured.

"This incident may be unique, but that does not lessen the environmental or public health risks posed by the release of at least 800 pounds of liquid human waste into a busy waterway and onto a crowded tour boat,'' Attorney General Lisa Madigan said in a statement.

After the incident, the boat's captain turned the vessel around and took passengers back to the dock. Everyone received refunds and the boat has since been cleaned with disinfectant.

Officials with the Chicago Architectural Foundation, which operates the tour boat, have said they received several angry calls from passengers demanding compensation for clothing and personal items that got soaked.

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gotta love the timing

Averett

Here's the update:

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MrFlux

This reporter allegedly likes the word alleged, MrFlux alleged.

That's pretty gross.

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Medicine. The discharge of large quantities of fluid material from the body, especially the discharge of watery feces from the intestines.

maleficent

They had interviewed some of the folks on the news when it happened - most of them were pretty good humored about it-

but gack - that's just disgusting... plus what about the risks of hepatitis and other diseases...

800 pounds of waste? What the hell do they eat on that bus?

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Cynthetiq

I forgot what the flush volume is on those Prevost coaches, but I figure there's at least a good amount of it that is just flush water.

And yeah it's disgusting... but not that different then what other people do in those other poorer countries.

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The Phenomenon

Thats rather disgusting I'd say.

Redgirl

So what, there's just a little button right there by the driver that says "dump shit now"? I thought you had to stop and hook up a hose or something to empty the waste from those things.

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maleficent

Is this common practice on buses and trains? to just dump the contents? What about airplanes?

These are chemical toilets, not that the Chicago River is actually clean, but other than the human waste, isn't this adding in stuff that doesn't disinigrate?

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Glory's Sun

there's no such thing as bad publicity heh

maleficent

for who, dave matthews or for the Architecture tour? Which, by the way, is an awesome tour...

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Cynthetiq

happens even from airplanes...

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/arc...es/02local.htm

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Dave Matthews Band

Don't Drink the Water

Come out come out
No use in hiding
Come now come now
Can you not see?
There's no place here
What were you expecting
Not room for both
Just room for me
So you will lay your arms down
Yes I will call this home
Away away
You have been banished
Your land is gone
And given me
And here I will spread my wings
Yes I will call this home
What's this you say
You feel a right to remain
Then stay and I will bury you
What's that you say
Your father's spirit still lives in this place
I will silence you
Here's the hitch
Your horse is leaving
Don't miss your boat
It's leaving now
And as you go I will spread my wings
Yes I will call this home
I have no time to justify to you
Fool you're blind, move aside for me
All I can say to you my new neighbor
Is you must move on or I will bury you
Now as I rest my feet by this fire
Those hands once warmed here
I have retired them
I can breathe my own air
I can sleep more soundly
Upon these poor souls
I'll build heaven and call it home
'Cause you're all dead now
I live with my justice
I live with my greedy need
I live with no mercy
I live with my frenzied feeding
I live with my hatred
I live with my jealousy
I live with the notion
That I don't need anyone but me
Don't drink the water
Don't drink the water
There's blood in the water
Don't drink the water

Trisk

That is so disgusting. Ugh, i feel so bad for the people on that boat.

billege

Just FYI, the video links from that newstation don't get along with firefox/netscape.
And there's not much interesting to see in them. The passenger videos are about what you'd expect. There is no video of the bus taking a dump, so to speak.(unless I somehow missed it)

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Fuckin' hippies.

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moonstrucksoul

those people on the boat should have saved it.

hmmmm, I wonder how mush Daves Matthews' turd would go for on Ebay.

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pan6467

So how do they determine it wasn't from the Greyhound or Semi carrying waste from somewhere next to the band's bus? DNA testing of the waste? (Just a hypothetical).

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VitaminH

Living in chicago I've heard a little more about this...

Apparently there was a car behined the bus that saw it dump the crap thru the bridge. The driver knew it was against the law, didn't know there was a boat underneath but took down the bus's plates anyway and called the cops. That's how they pinned it on Dave Matthews' bus.

Ick.

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