UCLA Flooding & KABC

[MadMan]

Seems DWP Spokesman Louis SLUNG POO made it on the air yesterday to explain how this water main broke. He told the reporters the cause of the pipe failure and they actually believed him and went with this new info. So much for the two source rule?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/29/ucla-water-main-break-prank_n_5632439.html

 

[Robnoxious]

I have it on good authority that the water main break was caused by flatulence from an underendowed radio d.j. out of New York. I fully trust my source, Mr. Bob A. Buoy.

 

[MadMan]

I mean this is great Crap!

"A man who called ABC 7 in Los Angeles ostensibly to explain Tuesday's water main break near the UCLA campus claimed to be Department of Public Works spokesman Louis Slungpue -- pronounced "slung-poo," as he helpfully corrected one of the anchors live on the air.

Slungpue first told the news outlet that the break was caused by college students flushing a cherry bomb down the toilet.

"Wow! Can you say that again?" the male anchor said. "You think somebody sent a cherry bomb down the toilet?"

Slungpue went on with his explanation, saying the DPW is "still in the investigation phase," and added that, "it was either a cherry bomb or someone took a really large dump, y'know?"

"That is incredible," the female anchor said. "Are you 100 percent sure about that?"

The line goes dead and in the background someone can be heard saying, "It's a prank call."

 

[Thomps2525]

Newspaper headline writers usually come up with very clever headlines for sports stories. One of the best is in today's Los Angeles Times. Two days ago when that 93-year-old 30-inch-diameter water main burst beneath Sunset Boulevard, 20,000,000 gallons of water gushed out, flooding the UCLA campus. The water in Pauley Pavilion was six inches deep. Workers are starting to remove the water and repair damage to the hardwood floors before basketball season starts. Today's headline about the cleanup is Pauley Unsaturated.