Posted on 05/30/2018 10:21:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The villain’s clogging tool was an unconventional one, according to police. He would take a 20-ounce soda bottle and jam it into a women’s toilet at the Deland Community Center in the city. Once he’d lodged a bottle deep in the pipes, the vandal would run-off — leaving behind a messy surprise for the city to clean up.
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As of March, the serial clogger had struck three times just this year, according to Joe Kerlin, the city’s parks and forestry superintendent. But the clogger had been even busier in past years, Kerlin told the Sheboygan Press — blocking the same public women’s toilet 14 times in 2017, and 12 the year before.
That substantial tally (29 cloggings — but who’s counting?) only includes incidents since the city began keeping track, Kerlin told the newspaper. And it wasn’t until halfway into 2016 it dawned on authorities that a serial clogger was on the loose. Kerlin estimated that the city has spent between $2,000 and $3,000 dealing with the clogger’s reign of terror.
“A lot of times we can just fish ’em out,” Kerlin told the newspaper, describing the best case scenario. Especially obstinate bottles mean plumbers have to remove the entire toilet.
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The guy is a piker. Years ago there was a fairly new office complex - may a bit under a year old?? Anyway - the toilets started backing up. All of them.
Turns out they ran the sewer line the 2000 feet (or whatever) out to the street - but forgot to tie it into the main sewer line out in the street!
Ah. R. Crumb.
I’ll bet everyone is glad he does it that way and not a more natural way. I used to work at a place that had industrial-strength toilets. (WHOOSH!) Some people still managed to clog them. I felt sorry for whoever had to deal with that.
I worked one summer at a boys camp. The campers stayed for the entire summer in cabins with 8-10 residents, and one counselor. There was a central bathroom for these cabins with a row of toilets.
Every Saturday night "The Big 'T'" would strike, and clog the end toilet in the row. The maintenance man finally decided to simply come down early every Sunday morning and unclog that stall. No one ever fessed up to the origin of the big T. We counselors suspected the one person who was big enough to create it as well as store it for a whole week, but no one had any proof.
Anyone that is a serial toilet clogger is a whack-job.
Sounds like my wife’s brother. He comes up to visit once a year for a week. And for some reason he can’t figure out the plunger - so I end up doing it. Although with him it’s usually 2-3 times in a week.
LOL too plausible.
Buddy’s mother’s anatomy frequently resulted in such. Her hubby, a lic plumber did his duty often.
I’m glad they got a handle on the problem.
“He’s been placed on sewercide watch.”
ABC will pick up the story, make a show out of it, and the guy will be flush with cash.
what is the appropriate punishment? I suggest one year of cleaning those toilets with a toothbrush..
Florida. We just can’t help it.
What are you talking about? I wasn’t referring to sticking a pin hole camera inside the bathroom...lol.
Outside, in a hallway leading to the John etc or how about the front entrance? It’s a Community Center. A camera would clearly reveal who was entering the facility with a 20oz container and not exiting with one. This guy did this about 30x.
This is not complex.
as long as it is his personal, everyday, toothbrush.
“This is not complex”
You know this, I know this, but all of the SJW types in the area don’t understand this, and they would suffer a total conniption about anyone who placed a camera anywhere near a public restroom. LOL
As mentioned earlier, how about the entrance to the Community Center? Have you never seen cameras inside city/county facilities/operations?
Buildings with restrooms are jammed with cameras. You need to get out more.
What I am saying is that if special cameras had been placed (in addition to those already on premises), the Left would have screamed Fascist Police State when the new cameras went public.
What one man can do against Leviathan.
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