Angry at traffic fine, man blocks toilet and floods court bathroom

The Morning Call ^ | 9/24/2009 | Manuel Gamiz Jr.

[Red in Blue PA]

A man upset with a guilty ruling in a Bucks County traffic case this week filed a different, messier type of appeal: he stuffed a toilet with paper, flooding the district court's bathroom, according to state police at Dublin. Everett Jackson, 26, of Philadelphia, was in the Nockamixon Township courtroom of District Judge M. Kay Dubree on Monday where he was found guilty of disregarding traffic control devices and ordered to pay more than $200. Upset, Jackson went into the men's bathroom, stuffed a toilet with a roll of toilet paper and paper towels and then left the courtroom, police said. The toilet overflowed. Police will be charging Jackson with institutional vandalism.

[Slings and Arrows]

WHAT YOU SAY?!

[NightOfTheLivingDems]

Police will be charging Jackson with institutional vandalism.

Thus closing the lid on the case.

When I was in junior high school we had a guy who was the grand wizard of bathroom vandalism. He'd take a length of tissue and place it in the bowl then tap-dance the flush handle like Fred Astaire until the entire roll spun off at about 500 rpm and disappeared down the tubes.

His next stunt was to stand on a sink and jump up and down until he and the sink crashed to the floor, the broken water connections spraying the room.

He then advanced to depth charges, sending M-80's down the third-floor plumbing with waterproof fuses sputtering. Geysers erupted on the third, pipe ruptures crippled the second, first and basement. All within a week until he was expelled.

He later turned up in my high school and promptly ripped the pay phones off the wall of the lobby, repeatedly rammed a donated car with dogged determination against the outside brick wall of the industrial arts class, was arrested for using a Thompson machine gun to cut down trees, and planted homemade bombs on power line towers, exploding late at night but not bringing them down.

[Raven6]

And then he went on to enlist in the Marine Corp, later becoming part of Force Recon Atlantic...

Raven6
:-)

[dragnet2]

How childish. Things don’t go your way so you have a little temper tantrum and destroy taxpayer’s property. My 10 year old nephew behaves better than that

Tax payers propety? Is that a joke?

People in courts are treated like the enemy by the government employee tax parasites that work in courts...Bullet proof glass, CCTV cameras, you get sniffed, scopped, x-rayed and searched just walking into a court, as the tax payers are treated like enemy prisoners.

Look at the courts nowadays....They've got more cash registers than a super Walmart, all supporting lottery style government salaries and government retirement pensions.

Tax payers property? Thanks for the laugh..

[ktscarlett66]

My taxes go for the upkeep of those buildings. I’ve been in the local courthouse very recently, it was less hassle than walking through the airport. I went under a metal detector and then on my way into the office I needed to go to. I still think it was childish, even if he was frustrated and mad about the ticket. I wouldn’t support my teenage son if he’d done something like that after speeding and being ticketed.

[a fool in paradise]

The more common prank is to leave a floater or to c*ap in the water tank. They’ll smell it but never find it.

[a fool in paradise]

You pay your taxes every time you are cited with another revenue ticket.

And the fees are going up and up. And like a phone bill, they will tack on things like “court costs” even if you do not go to court and instead apply to take defensive driving.

Yes. It is about the salaries. Lawyers give a lot of money to campaigns and it keeps their practices busy too.

[a fool in paradise]

Sounds like you went to junior high with one of the Weather Underground.

[dragnet2]

My taxes go for the upkeep of those buildings.

Ya mean to pay to government unions that support these government over paid janitors?

My taxes go for the upkeep of those buildings.

Your taxes are being used to support the bloated salaries and opulent government retire pensions of judges, government lawyers, interpreters for illegal aliens, over paid court reporter and for tens of thousands of government employees to operate the cash registers at these courts.

[Titan Magroyne]

Two questions:

Why? and;

What's he doing these days?

[ktscarlett66]

Your courts must be different where you live. I have a friend who is a court reporter, she earns about $25,000 a year, working FT, been doing it for 20 years. There is one cashier and she’s also a clerk in our courthouse. They not only do the payments for tickets and fines, but things such as payments for business name registration. We have a beautiful old courthouse that was built in 1874 that is, I’m sure, terribly inconvenient for the employees but it is well-cared for. I can only base my observations on my experience locally.

[NightOfTheLivingDems]

Anyone who lived in West Caldwell, NJ in the 1960's and 70's knew the guy; even the police. He was not unlike the above character. His last stunt (that I know of) was throwing a transmission block at a pedestrian from a pickup truck bed. After torching a Ford in front of a classmate's house who owned the car.

He may be now a member of the NJ state assembly.

[Titan Magroyne]

Good grief! LOL

Those darn NJ politicians!