lol, owned, and owned back
In my opinion, nothing adds pungency to a news story like urine – and an outrageous tale brought to us by Channel 4 investigator Brian Maass is positively drenched in it. The story revolves around 23-year-old Gus Natvig, who allegedly spent fifteen hours last October locked in a five-feet-by-six-feet room at the city’s detox facility, which sports the Orwellian name Denver CARES. Trouble was, the accommodations didn’t include a toilet, and the staff reportedly refused to let Natvig out long enough to do his business. Here’s Maass’ dry account of the splashy standoff that followed:
After about an hour in the quiet room, Natvig says he needed to relieve himself but attendants told him he was not allowed out of the tiny room and would have to urinate and defecate down a drain in the middle of the floor. Natvig refused to use the drain saying he did not want to stand, sit or sleep in his own urine or excrement for the length of his stay. “They told me to use the drain and I told them no way,” said Natvig.
Natvig then urinated under the door of his cell. Videotape captured by a Denver CARES camera in the hallway then shows a Denver CARES attendant apparently noticing the urine seeping out from under the door. According to information gathered by Natvig’s attorney, a mop cart was nearby. Instead of using the mop, the attendant reached into a bag of Natvig’s clothes hanging on the door, removed Natvig’s fleece jacket and a sock, dropped them on the floor and used them to sop up the liquid. A second Denver CARES attendant is seen on the videotape using his foot to push the clothing around on the floor to make sure Natvig’s clothes are absorbing the mess.
http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2009/09/urine_trouble_for_denver_cares.php