Feds Plug Leak: Alleged Elevator Urinator Charged

[steven johnson]

Thank goodness. People were really getting pissed off about this.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 26, 2009
Filed at 6:40 p.m. ET

DETROIT (AP) -- An agent used surveillance cameras to confirm a smelly suspicion: Someone had been urinating in a freight elevator at an Internal Revenue Service data center in Detroit. Authorities filed a criminal charge Tuesday against Michael Hicks. In an affidavit, treasury agent Delmaria Scott said she interviewed Hicks in January 2008 and he admitted urinating in the elevator for months.

Scott said Hicks did it ''because he felt he could get away with it.'' It cost $4,600 to clean the elevator.

Hicks, who was a contract employee at the IRS, was charged with damaging federal property. A defense lawyer was not listed.

Gina Balaya, a spokeswoman for prosecutors, says the government was unsuccessful in trying to resolve the case without a criminal charge.





Feds Plug Leak: Alleged Elevator Urinator Charged

[arbusto_baboso]

1. Geez. Show me a freight elevator that DOESN'T smell like urine!

I think all freight elevators are "inaugurated" by drunken night watchmen and their beer-sodden friends.

[hobbit709]

2. Piss on the I.R.S.

How many people have thought of that but never were in the right time and place.:rofl: