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Erupting Urinal Soaks House Press Gallery
National Journal ^
| June 4, 2012
| Billy House
Posted on 06/04/2012 1:28:44 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
A big splash occurred on Monday morning at the House Press Gallery in the U.S. Capitol.
No, this wasn’t one of those unexpected guest appearances for celebrities to talk to reporters about some favorite cause.
This splash came from an exploding urinal. More specifically, something suddenly broke in the piping of the third-floor urinal, and water began spewing from beneath the men’s room door.
As the water flowed, it first surrounded the Associated Press’s working area, then spread toward both ends of the gallery, which was occupied by fewer than usual reporters and staffers, because the House is out of session until Tuesday.
Capitol Police officers, gallery staff, and other U.S. Capitol personnel moved to contain the flow. In doing so, they found a use, finally, for the gallery's stacks of unread newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals, as makeshift sponges and sandbags.
Employees from the Architect of the Capitol and other Capitol staffers managed to eventually stop the geyser. In came vacuums to suck up the water, and a section of the gallery carpeting was taken up – leaving behind a sticky floor.
New carpeting is to be installed in the early morning on Tuesday.
Some concern remained that water may have seeped through the floor toward the Speaker’s Gallery on the second floor, next to the House Chamber. That was still being checked on Monday afternoon.
TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 2012; ap; capitol; congress; democrats; eaudetoilet; haha; iftheshoefits; liberalmedia; napl; peepeepress; poeticjustice; pop; pottyhumor; pressgallery; rawsewage; sewage; smellslikeurine; urinal; urinalism; urineluck; yellowjournalism
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To: VictoryGal
To: Hunton Peck
LOL! Well Boehner and McConnell sure weren’t going to shoot back, so we had to call in a “Drone Urinal”!
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posted on
06/04/2012 1:43:42 PM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(Sworn to Defend The Constitution Against ALL Enemies, Foreign and Domestic. So Help Me GOD!)
To: Revolting cat!; Hunton Peck
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posted on
06/04/2012 1:52:06 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: Hunton Peck; Slings and Arrows; Revolting cat!; JoeProBono
“Holy cow!” < /Seinfeld >
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posted on
06/04/2012 1:53:32 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Washington could not tell a lie, Nixon could not tell the truth, Obama can't tell the difference.)
To: Hunton Peck
Anderson Pooper usually has to pay extra for that.
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posted on
06/04/2012 1:55:36 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Washington could not tell a lie, Nixon could not tell the truth, Obama can't tell the difference.)
To: Hunton Peck
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posted on
06/04/2012 2:04:30 PM PDT
by
bgill
To: Revolting cat!
They should mount life preservers on the House Press Gallery walls.
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posted on
06/04/2012 2:04:48 PM PDT
by
Average Al
(Forbidden fruit leads to many jams.)
To: Gaffer
And dinner at the restaurant of his choice
To: Daffynition
Another reason to elect that man to Congress!
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posted on
06/04/2012 2:05:27 PM PDT
by
Hunton Peck
(See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
To: Hunton Peck
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posted on
06/04/2012 2:10:32 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they were.)
To: Hunton Peck
Another sign to the mainstream media: Urine trouble!
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posted on
06/04/2012 2:19:11 PM PDT
by
DeaconBenjamin
(A trillion here, a trillion there, soon you're NOT talking real money)
To: Gaffer
I would dearly love to meet that man who cherry bombed the sh!tter and buy him a round of drinks! Yep, this *does* sound similar to what happened to Principal Skinner's mother (in the ladies' room, right next door)...
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posted on
06/04/2012 2:36:43 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: Hunton Peck
To: Revolting cat!; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ..
G-d is merciful - true justice would've been a sewage line.
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posted on
06/04/2012 3:36:24 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Who dropped a whole truckload of fizzies into the varsity swim meet? Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner? Every Halloween, the trees are filled with underwear. Every spring, the toilets explode.
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posted on
06/04/2012 3:47:17 PM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: Hunton Peck
Proof that Karma’s a beotch.
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posted on
06/04/2012 3:53:38 PM PDT
by
Polyxene
(Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
To: Hunton Peck
Just tell the reporters that it's raining.
-PJ
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posted on
06/04/2012 4:03:42 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you can vote for President, then your children can run for President.)
To: Hunton Peck
Can this be made a daily event?
To: Rockingham
Erupting Urinal Mystery Solved 
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posted on
06/05/2012 7:52:03 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(John Adams: Two ways to enslave a country. One is by the sword, the other is by debt)
To: Hunton Peck
how fitting! :-D
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posted on
06/05/2012 7:54:28 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; different flie$". :^)
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