Bad dog!
Posted on 08/29/2005 4:02:52 AM PDT by Brainhose
PROVO, Utah
Paul Dalebout wasn't happy to come across a foot of raw
sewage in the basement of his house, but it was a bathroom that left him horrified:
"It was just gushing up out of the toilet like a geyser."
Dalebout's houses was among 17 in Provo's Edgemont neighborhood left wallowing
in a backup of sewage Friday that gurgled through drains and toilets.
Authorities blamed a dead dog stuffed down a sewer manhole and opened a criminal investigation.
They found the dog's owner from an identifying chip implanted in it.
The owner said the dog had been missing.
Provo offered to reimburse homeowners for the cost of hiring professional crews to clean up their houses
_ for a second time since asphalt chunks clogged their sewer line five years ago. Other Provo sewer
lines have yielded bowling balls and carpet scraps.
This time crews snaked a high-pressure hose with a
spiked end into a manhole to clear the sewer main,
dislodging the corpse of the large dog.
"I can't take this anymore. We're going to have to
move," said Dalebout's wife, Donna. "It's all the
neighbors' sewage coming up here in our basement, just
like it did five years ago. I can't take it again. I'm too old for this."
Paul Dalebout said, "We're like the hurricane victims."
Provo Public Works Director Merill Bingham said someone
had to lift a manhole cover to drop the dog into the sewer line.
He said sewer backups weren't uncommon _ the city deals with about five incidents a year _
but that it was "extremely unusual" to strike the same houses twice in five years.
Bad dog!
Scum is as scum does.
I can see stuffing a worthless spouse into the toilet, but a dog?
From now on, make sure you remove that chip before you stuff your dog down the crapper.
Imagine all the sympathy this guy would have had if he had been an unwed mother who stuffed her newborn baby down the toilet.
That's just mean. Flush a load and tell him to fetch.
I suppose that having basements complicates things, but good grief!
This happens at Gitmo all the time. From all the Korans you know.
Your Scoobie Snacks may well weigh in the balance.
Purrrrfect! LOL!
Sounds like a job for Mike Rowe.
Drinking from a toilet bowl is tricky business at that altitude.
Was it a "yellow-dog-Democrat?" I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.....
LOL :) I'm still wondering why the high pressure hose had to have a spiked end on it. It sounds like adding insult to injury.
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