Man Who Caused Reservoir Shutdown Fined
You know, I'd like to think that even if most us of were faced with a situation where we had to change our underwear, we still wouldn't toss our soiled shorts in our city's drinking water. Of course, we're not DUMB@$$E$...at least not yet. Sadly, Troy Musil is.
ERIE, Pa. (AP) - A man who shut down the city's largest reservoir after he tossed a bag containing dirty underwear over its fence was ordered to pay $5,000.
The city bomb squad and hazardous materials crew responded after an Erie Water Works employee became suspicious after he saw the black bag near the 33-million gallon Sigsbee Reservoir on May 27.
The reservoir and surrounding neighborhood was shut down for several hours while the Erie Bomb Squad X-rayed the bag and the Erie County Hazardous Materials Response Team waited to test it.
Police tracked down Troy Musil, 18, of Erie. He told police he'd been ill and soiled his underwear. He changed at a friend's house, then climbed over two barbed-wire-topped fences to ditch the underwear.
Musil pleaded guilty Thursday to defiant trespass. District Justice Dominick DiPaolo gave Musil a 90-day suspended jail sentence and ordered him to pay $500 a month for 10 months to the emergency agencies that responded.
If he doesn't pay, DiPaolo said Musil will be jailed.
Yuck...the maroon ought to at a minimum be forced to have the city's drinking water tested.
That does it, honey; we're going to Home Depot to buy that water filter TOMORROW. In the meantime, it's bottled water for us....
