We give them access to sharpened utensils AND the levers of power
The operation is costing the state's taxpayers $36,000 (£22,000) and was ordered after Joshua Seater, 21, was caught on a security camera relieving himself in the pristine lake. … But David Shaff, an administrator at the Portland Water Bureau, defended the decision to empty the lake.
The operation is costing the state's taxpayers $36,000 (£22,000) and was ordered after Joshua Seater, 21, was caught on a security camera relieving himself in the pristine lake.
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But David Shaff, an administrator at the Portland Water Bureau, defended the decision to empty the lake.
They are emptying eight million gallons of water from a reservoir because someone peed in it. EIGHT MILLION GALLONS. 1/512,000,000th of the entire lake (assuming a 16 ounce bladder). Nobody let David Shaff read what is allowed in chocolate bars by the FDA or he’ll shut down Hershey, PA.
Why do we let complete idiots like this continue to ‘run’ our lives. Politicians & bureaucrats are no smarter than anyone else. In fact, I posit most of them fall below the average because people with smarts work in the private sector and make a killing. But no, we have brainiacs like Shaff here who thinks some idiot pissing in a LAKE is reason enough to drain it, damn the costs, failing to even think that animals piss and shit in it all the time.
This is Zero Tolerance, writ large.