Potty Cleanout Incident

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Potty Cleanout Incident

Post by bigbluedoggy » Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:02 pm

On Friday, I was volunteering in the Coffee Cafe and a big stink went up from the BM staffers about something that had just happened. Apparently, while pumping out a potty, a fork(!) had become lodged in the hose and caused the hose to rupture, sending the fork at high speed into the poor pumper's neck. It narrowly missed killing him and many people were quite upset about the incident. I never heard anything else about this and was wondering if the guy recovered ok. How a fork got into a potty is anyone's guess. It doesn't sound like the sort of thing one would purposefully put in there. Maybe some moron was washing their dishes into the john.
I know we have had challenges keeping the United Services guys appeased in the past, and I hope this incident doesn't hopelessly sour them on our event in the future. Can anyone in the know fill in any more details on this and the fallout? Thanks!
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Post by K-mom » Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:10 pm

"JOTS Pumper Gets High-Speed Fork In Neck And Nearly Dies At Annual Burning Man Desert Festival"

Geez, you'd think that would get more media attention than arson or suicide.

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Post by robbidobbs » Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:17 pm

That's fucking hillarious.
No, we don't know what the trash was that clogged the hose that exploded.
No, we don't know what bank he was in or which medical station he was taken to.
No, we don't know his name.

GAWD! It's fucking amazing how the rumor mill churns the truth.

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Post by AntiM » Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:35 pm

During Exodus, we heard on the radio his name was Smiley and $300 was raised to buy him new dentures.
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Post by Lukky » Sun Sep 09, 2007 8:12 pm

AntiM wrote:During Exodus, we heard on the radio his name was Smiley and $300 was raised to buy him new dentures.
AND A NEW CAR!

oh wait.
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Post by EB » Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:06 pm

JOTS Fork Takes Hose Less Traveled!
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Post by barnz » Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:06 pm

Who got to keep the fork?

Probably management, sticking it to the little guy all over again....
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Post by Ugly Dougly » Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:30 am

robbidobbs wrote:That's fucking hillarious.
No, we don't know what the trash was that clogged the hose that exploded.
No, we don't know what bank he was in or which medical station he was taken to.
No, we don't know his name.

GAWD! It's fucking amazing how the rumor mill churns the truth.

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Post by Smudge » Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:04 am

We've SO got to make a creative new slogan/mantra regarding potty use after this.
Smiley's revenge?
United Services sez FORK U!

Maybe next year the only people who get to pooh are the ones who bring their own RV's

Hopefully someone's more creative than I
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