Dozens of toilet-clogging incidents have been reported in the last three years.
A Wisconsin man who blocked toilets with plastic bottles was sentenced to 150 days in jail and given three years of probation on Monday.The Sheboygan PressPolice tracked down Beeman after they discovered a plastic bottle stuck in an overflowing toilet at the women's bathroom at Deland Community Center in March 2018.
Investigators discovered looked at 10 other incidents from April 2017 onwards, according to a criminal complaint seen byThe manager of a temp agency told police Beeman damaged toilets at two companies he was placed at. Beeman told police he stopped plugging toilets when he discovered investigators were searching for him.
Beeman was initially charged with a dozen misdemeanors of criminal damage to property, but seven were dropped., Beeman told cops he"could not explain" his actions and said his behavior was driven by"very strong urges." The comments were recorded in the criminal complaint, which was filed with Sheboygan County Circuit Court.In addition to his jail sentence, Beeman will perform 100 hours of community service and pay more than $5,500.about the mysterious case online.
Joe Kerlin, the city's parks and forestry superintendent, estimated city toilets were clogged about a dozen times in 2016 and 14 times in 2018. Three incidents had been reported by March of this year, the newspaper stated. The perpetrator is thought to have plugged the bottles directly into pipes, rather than flushing them down the toilet."A lot of times we can just fish 'em out," Kerlin said. But officials were forced to completely remove some toilets to get at the bottles.The Sheboygan Police Department did not immediately respond toIn other toilet news, a Florida man's trip to the porcelain throne ended in disaster when a snakeLuckily for the Coral Springs resident, the snake was not venomous.
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