Dave Matthews urinates on people in Chicago

[thatpatguy]

ok.. that headline is a bit of an exageration.. here is the article

Matthews Band sued over waste dumping

Bus driver allegedly dumped excrement into Chicago River

Wednesday, August 25, 2004 Posted: 8:24 AM EDT (1224 GMT)

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- The state of Illinois sued the Dave Matthews Band on Tuesday for allegedly dumping up to 800 pounds of liquid human waste from a bus into the Chicago River, dousing a tour boat filled with passengers.

The lawsuit accuses the band and one of its bus drivers of violating state water pollution and public nuisance laws. It seeks $70,000 in civil penalties.

"Our driver has stated that he was not involved in this incident," band spokesman John Vlautin said in a statement. He said the band "will continue to be cooperative in this investigation."

According to the lawsuit, on August 8 a bus leased by the band was heading to a downtown hotel where members were staying. As the bus crossed the Kinzie Street bridge, the driver allegedly emptied the contents of the septic tank through the bridge's metal grating into the river below.

More than 100 people on an architecture tour were showered with foul-smelling waste. The attorney general's office said no one was seriously injured.

"This incident may be unique, but that does not lessen the environmental or public health risks posed by the release of at least 800 pounds of liquid human waste into a busy waterway and onto a crowded tour boat," Attorney General Lisa Madigan said in a statement.

After the incident, the boat's captain turned the vessel around and took passengers back to the dock. Everyone received refunds, and the boat was cleaned with disinfectant.

read it here http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/25/bus.waste.ap/index.html

[boogieknight]

this isn;t the first dave matthews and poo story i;ve heard

[purple foot]

800 lbs is a lot of sh!t. i'm not that surprised though, i'm sure this is common practice with tour buses.

[Alexis]

i believe zero already got this one as it happened...his post also had interesting bits about how girls in the know IM each other talkin about how dave likes to pee in their mouths and lick anus.

[purple foot]

An eyewitness account via The Chicago Tribune...

Mostly what I remember is people gagging.

Before that, I remember our lightly lisping docent say what a beautiful day it was to catch the city's river bend reflection on the green glass of 333 W. Wacker Drive. And, really, it was: just this cool and sunny day with billowy white-gray clouds floating in a deep blue sky.

We were puttering along the Chicago River, watching paddlers from the Flatwater Classic float by, craning to see the tops of sundry architectural marvels. A perfectly polite, boringly edifying way to spend the afternoon.

And then came a gush of goop raining across most of the upper-deck viewing platform.

From where I was seated, toward the front of the boat, I couldn't see what was dumping on us but figured it was a street cleaner or maybe one of those landscaping trucks that you see spraying arcs of water into the median weed beds along Ashland Avenue.

Somehow I got just the lightest little splash on my left shirtsleeve, while people two seats away were left squeezing gritty gunk from their sticky wet hair.

We passed under the bridge and the deluge seemed to pick up, getting stronger as the passengers toward the rear of the boat approached the waterfall. The stuff splat heavily on the deck, dousing dozens of white-haired ladies and gents in nylon windbreakers.

There was confusion.

Then the smell hit us.

An unmistakable stink: porta-potty juice.

"Oh, God." The woman next to me turned and said to no one, "I had my mouth open."

Another woman, whose white shirt was soaked in what looked like dirty wiper fluid, said nothing. She just stood up and surveyed the boat, her eyes registering what she was now wearing. Reflexively, she began heaving. She looked like she was drowning.

The docent was slow to understand the magnitude of what had happened. "It appears that some water has hit the boat," he said, ridiculously.

A guy from the back of the boat shouted: "That's not water, buddy! That's urine!"

The docent, still playing dullard, asked, "Should we go back?"

By then, though, the boat's crew was rushing in with wet naps and paper towels, and soon we were turning around and plowing back to dock in high gear. Damning the no wake zone, we sent recreational boaters splashing in our wake as Chicago's Little Lady churned for home.

People wiped off their glasses, took off their coats, and sat in stunned anger.

What could you do?

I was on the boat with my girlfriend and a friend of hers visiting from out of town. They, too, managed to avoid the worst of it and we hustled down into the boat's main cabin. There we could avoid the stench up top but could clearly hear people puking in the nearby bathrooms.

We sat downstairs, hugging the air-conditioner register for stench-free air, until back at the Michigan Avenue dock. I did not begin reporting about all this until after we'd gone to the Billy Goat Tavern and washed up in the bathrooms, which was a mistake.

Because I wanted to get my hands and face and hair clean, I didn't get the name of the guy who was standing on the sidewalk when I got off the boat wearing only his waterlogged khakis. Stripped to the waist, he was actually joking with a woman airing out her wet red dress.

"I feel like I'm in a bad Ben Stiller movie," he said.

[StoneMtn]

I must admit that when I read the headline to this post, I assumed Dave Matthews had become a big Blind Lemon fan and chose to emulate their late lead-singer's momentous act of peeing on an audience in Vancouver.

[shitidiot]

normaly there is a no poo rule on tour buses, only pee. if you were to poo on a tour bus,the whole bus would smell like sh!t.

[MarcO]

The driver should be charged, and relieved of his duties for DMB. End of story.

I've seen too many people speak of this as though Dave Matthews himself pulled the "unload" lever. I'd kinda like to think he, the band, and their management are pretty horrified by this incident. sheesh!

[thatpatguy]

I agree Marc.. it's crazy.. the band and the rest weren't even with the guy when it happened..

[c-towns]

Dave Matthews: Driver?

Driver: Yes Sir?

DM: Go drop my poo off in the Chicago river

Driver: But sir?

DM: Do it or I'll pee in your mouth again.

Driver:

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[Alexis]

i don't have time to go and look for it, but in the other article i read about this, which was posted to jamabands.ca the driver of the bus is denying the charges. he invited a police officer onto the bus to show he hadn't "dumped his load" recently.

[TimmyB]

from www.rollingstone.com

DMB Sued for Dumping

Band in trouble for allegedly dropping waste into Chicago River

The state of Illinois sued the Dave Matthews Band on Tuesday for allegedly dumping up to 800 pounds of human waste from its tour bus into the Chicago River and hitting a passing boat filled with tourists. The suit cites the band and its driver for violating water pollution and public nuisance laws, and seeks $70,000 in damages.

The state alleges that on August 8th en route to the band's downtown hotel, the driver emptied the bus' septic tank while crossing the Kinzie Street Bridge. More than 100 passengers on an architecture tour boat were doused with human waste, though the attorney general's office said no one was seriously injured.

"This incident may be unique," said Attorney General Lisa Madigan, "but that does not lessen the environmental or public health risks posed by the release of at least 800 pounds of liquid human waste into a busy waterway and onto a crowded tour boat."

A statement from the band rebuffs the suit's accusations. "Our driver has stated that he was not involved in this incident," it reads. However, DMB go on to pledge to "continue to be cooperative in this investigation."

MARC W. DOLECH

(Posted Aug 25, 2004)

[shainhouse]

the band had nothing to do with this. stupid press.

[Phred]

I just did the math. 96 gallons of piss. almost 20 of those 5 gallon jugs for water coolers.

I own a trailer that I stay at in the summer, and we are on a site without septic or sewer. Trailers have two tanks, a blackwater and a greywater. The blackwater for toilet stuff, and the greywater for sink drain. The most common size of tank for a trailer is fifty gallons. (i imagine it is the same for busses)I imagine that the bus driver emptied both tanks, which is where they got the number 800pounds. Most likely both tanks were not full as the greywater tank tends to get full a whole lot faster than the black water tank.

[c-towns]

its still pee and poo man.