Twenty-one years ago a driver working the the Dave Mathews Band dropped 800lbs of poop which landed on a boat full of people enjoying an architecture tour. Alyssa tells Molly McAleer and Captain Scoot all the details.
Show Notes:
Chicago Tribune: Band’s driver denies drenching boat
Chicago Sun-Times: Tour boat hit with raw sewage // 2 large buses on bridge blamed for discharge that sent 5 to hospital
Chicago Sum-Times: Complaint links rock band to dumped sewage // Dave Matthews Band denies involvement in tour boat defilement
Chicago Sun-Times: Daley: Go tough on Dave Matthews driver // Mayor still likes group despite alleged sewage dumping
Chicago Sun-Times: Band's attitude reeks
Chicago Sun-Times: Bus' waste dumping leads alderman to call for crackdown
Chicago Sun-Times: Matthews Band in harmony with clean-river efforts // $100,000 gift to begin 'healing process' after bus dumps sewage
Chicago Sun-Times: Boat tour guest sues Matthews band
Chicago Sun-Times: Dave Matthews driver to face criminal charges
Chicago Sun-Times: Matthews band driver charged in river dumping // Band faces $70,000 suit for summer's Kinzie bridge incident
Chicago Sun-Times: Tour boat owners sue Dave Matthews Band
Chicago Sun-Times: Bus driver pleads guilty to dumping raw sewage // Dave Matthews Band cuts ties to employee who sloshed boaters
Chicago Sun-Times: Matthews band dumps cash into settlement
Chicago Sun-Times: $200,000 apology ends waste-dumping suit // Dave Matthews Band also donated to Park District, river group
Chicago Sun-Times: Dave Matthews 'couldn't be more sorry' for bus-dumping
Chicago Sun-Times: Nevada family, Matthews Band settle suit over dumped waste
Chicago Sun-Times: City's surveillance cameras are making Chicago safer
Case Text: Mercury Skyline Yacht Charters v. the Dave Matthews Band
Block Club Chicago: Dave Matthews Tour Bus Dumped 800 Pounds Of Poop On People Taking A Chicago River Cruise 19 Years Ago Today
Mercury Lawsuit
Fox 32 Chicago: Dave Matthews Band tour bus feces incident remembered 19 years later with plaque dedication
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