Dave Matthews Band bus dumped 800 lbs of poop onto a boat full of tourists 15 years ago today

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What would you say?

https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/08/08/dave-matthews-tour-bus-dumped-800-pounds-of-poop-on-people-taking-a-chicago-river-cruise-15-years-ago-today/

AUG 8, 2019

Dave Matthews  @davidlmatthews

RIVER NORTH — It’s not a proud anniversary or one marked with a precious metal (not yet, at least). But it’s an anniversary nonetheless.

Fifteen years ago Thursday, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus infamously dumped 800 pounds of human waste on a hapless river cruise floating at exactly the wrong time under the Kinzie Street Bridge. 

Boat passengers — including a Chicago Tribune reporter — enjoying an open air architectural river cruise “described a downpour of foul-smelling, brownish-yellow slurry that ruined their clothes and made several of them sick,” on the afternoon of Aug. 8, 2004, the Tribune reported. 

The jam band’s tour bus driver admitted to the dumping and reportedly paid a fine, served 1½ years probation and performed community service. The band, known for huge outdoor shows, a string of hits and environmental activism, later donated $50,000 to the Chicago Park District “to begin the healing process,” according to reports.

Time heals all wounds, but years later, DMB’s dumping lives on in infamy to many Chicagoans.

In 2015, in fact, someone posted a sign at the scene of the crime to remind the world.

“In August 2004, at this very location, a DMB tour bus dumped 800 pounds of poo on some people. #NEVERFORGET #ALWAYSREMEBER.”

Edited August 9, 2019 by clapclapclap
Mom it's my birthday!

[formermav43 4,606]

Don’t drink the water

[mulletpelini 5,216]

Glad it didn't crash into me

[JohnnyRage 1,617]

 

[MNLonghornFUKM 8,821]

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[Girdwood 118]

Who?

[SwanderedTalent 5,761]

Dave Matthews Band bus dumped 800 lbs of poop onto a boat full of tourists 15 years ago today

aka released one of their albums

[Wally Fairway 5,587]

This day in History thread is ------> that way

[Call 393]

It’s piss

[Kennythetiger 9,464]

I don't know, man- it kind of seems like 800 pounds of shit calls for its own thread.  

[smuggs 9,353]

Those folks were under the bridge and hurling.

[South Austin 52,607]

As if the world needed another reason to hate Dave Matthews Band.

[Guest Lobo]

Didn't DMB kick out their violin player because he tried to rape the mandolin player in their opening act?  

But yeah, this is still the worst thing this band has done.  Well, that and every album since 1998.  

[Armybrat 40,912]

Never heard of Dave Matthews.

I thought it was going to be about a connection between the Bang Bus and 2 Girls, 1 Cup.

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

Didn't DMB kick out their violin player because he tried to rape the mandolin player in their opening act?  
But yeah, this is still the worst thing this band has done.  Well, that and every album they ever made.  

Fixed.

[Beau Vine 54,432]

Basically sounds exactly like one of their concerts, amirite?

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2 hours ago, Wally Fairway said:

This day in History thread is ------> that way

But the anniversary was yesterday in history.

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3 hours ago, Call said:

It’s piss

 

[phdhorn 6,224]

if he would have eaten more healthy, the tour bus wouldn't have had to dump so much shit over the bridge, and he wouldn't have been playing the guitar way up around his neck because his stomach had that eternal ready-to-shit cramping 24/7.

[gecko 1,104]

....and he's been dumping on the music scene ever since.

[NeverMarryAStripper 21,922]

That seems like a lot of poop for a band tour bus

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14 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

That seems like a lot of poop for a band tour bus

Prob a 100 gallon tank. Any way you look at it, they were full of shit.

[NeverMarryAStripper 21,922]

The googles told me that effluent weighs about 8.34 pounds per gallon so I guess their tank was pretty full.

[El Diablo 4,232]

1 hour ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

That seems like a lot of poop for a band tour bus

Do you even colon cleanse, bro?

[Bevo 13,601]

I thought this was Dave Matthews but it was Jim Carroll:

 

[Uncle Nate 2,097]

It just dawned on me that my wife and I took that same architectural boat tour in Chicago 2-3 weeks before that happened.  Around mid-to-late July.

 

 

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[Judge Roybeanbag 11,821]

25 minutes ago, Uncle Nate said:

It just dawned on me that my wife and I took that same architectural boat tour in Chicago 2-3 weeks before that happened.  Around mid-to-late July.

 

 

No shit?

[SDG 3,319]

Sounds like a shitty situation all the way around.  

[Deej 76,924]

Boat patrons were asked afterwards if they could think of a worse situation.

"We could have gone to a Dave Matthews concert."

[conVINCEd 21,469]

2 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

The googles told me that effluent weighs about 8.34 pounds per gallon so I guess their tank was pretty full.

You’re gonna get some lovely intertron ads the next few days. 

[Underdog 28,773]

Those poor people got frosted like they were chocolate cake...

 

[XYZ 2,154]

How do they know that it was 800 lbs?

[Armybrat 40,912]

2 hours ago, Uncle Nate said:

It just dawned on me that my wife and I took that same architectural boat tour in Chicago 2-3 weeks before that happened.  Around mid-to-late July.

 

 

So that almost hit close to the band’s colon?

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1 hour ago, XYZ said:

How do they know that it was 800 lbs?

 

4 hours ago, RPM said:

Prob a 100 gallon tank.

 

4 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

The googles told me that effluent weighs about 8.34 pounds per gallon

Maths r hard.

[Junior Miller 1,502]

The thread title is a perfect description of the state of the USA government vs it's citizens and the citizens of many other countries around the world. It just keeps coming down with no end. 

[El Diablo 4,232]

14 hours ago, Junior Miller said:

The thread title is a perfect description of the state of the USA government vs it's citizens and the citizens of many other countries around the world. It just keeps coming down with no end. 

Yeah, let's just cloak room the fuck outta this thread. What you're describing is a fresh, new take on things.

 

 

[TornACL 7,722]

On 8/9/2019 at 5:15 PM, Uncle Nate said:

It just dawned on me that my wife and I took that same architectural boat tour in Chicago 2-3 weeks before that happened.  Around mid-to-late July.

 

 

Shits close to home

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[Uncle Nate 2,097]

On 8/9/2019 at 5:40 PM, Judge Roybeanbag said:

No shit?

Thankfully.

[Red Five 40,895]

Never heard of Dave Matthews.
I thought it was going to be about a connection between the Bang Bus and 2 Girls, 1 Cup.

You were probably in your 90s back when they were popular.

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