Dave Matthews Band dumps - um -

[sisyphusshrugged]

Police are considering criminal charges against the Dave Matthews Band and its bus driver for allegedly dumping gallons of human sewage onto tour boat passengers June 8.

At separate news conferences, Chicago police officials and Mayor Richard Daley said they have witness accounts, partial confessions and video that indicates driver Stefan Wohl's bus was responsible for the load of waste.

Passengers who were on the boat, which was passing beneath the Kinzie Street bridge over the Chicago River, were doused in waste.

"It's a criminal charge to basically pollute a river, to basically endanger the health of somebody, all those people on the boat," Daley said.

Chicago police spokesman Dave Bayless said the department is talking with county and federal attorneys about possible criminal charges. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan sued the band and Wohl on Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court, asking for $70,000 in damages. The lawsuit says 800 pounds of waste was released into the river without a permit.

Madigan also wants the court to check on the policies for waste dumping at Four Seasons Coach, the bus company.

"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," Madigan said in a statement."

Comments

[canonfire.livejournal.com]

Puts a new spin on the DMB song "Don't Drink the Water".

[drownedinink.livejournal.com]

There are too many possible jokes from this for one lifetime.

Ah, what the hell:

"The judge is less inclined to be lenient because, as many noted, this was far from the first occasion the Dave Matthews Band dumped shit on an unsuspecting public."

[incendiarymind.livejournal.com]

I'm just amazed that spokespeople from the band are still denying it. I mean, for goodness sakes. The videotape shows no other bus on the bridge within 15 minutes of the incident!!!