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Good Samaritan Doused w/Urine

Posted by DFO

Nov. 3, 2009 9:55 a.m. • 8 comments

Caroline Francis was driving home from the gym last week when three young men pulled up next to her acting like they needed directions. When she tried to help them, they threw urine in her face. Last Tuesday night around 7:30 Caroline was headed home after working out at the YMCA . She pulled to a stop at the light at Lincoln and Boone when a large white van pulled up next to her. “There was a guy sitting there doing this, roll down your window, he was asking me for directions where some road was,” Caroline said. From what Caroline thought was the safety of her own car, she gave the three guys in the van directions, but they kept asking questions. “I should have known something was up because he was inquiring a lot,” she said. As soon as the light turned green they drenched Caroline with a 20-ounce water bottle filled with urine/Tori Brunetti, KXLY. More here.

Question: Does a story like this make you less likely to stop for someone who appears stranded or in need of help?

Eight comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Sisyphus on November 03 at 10:02 a.m.
I heard about this new fad. While this isn’t funny, what is funny is that these idiots tape it so they can put it on youtube and social network sites. There’s been several arrests already as a result.
Digger on November 03 at 10:07 a.m.
Who thinks this kind of stuff is funny? Seriously.
poolman on November 03 at 10:12 a.m.
European soccer fans have been throwing “urine bombs” around “football” stadiums for years. God help us if we as a society are regressing to the level of “European Soccer Fan”.
Sisyphus on November 03 at 10:17 a.m.
Agreed poolman. “Who thinks this kind of stuff is funny?”—from all appearances, pubescent males with too much time on their hands and beer engorged bladders.
JeanieSpokane on November 03 at 10:38 a.m.
How disgusting! I will think twice before helping anyone, if it is a similar situation (guys in vehicle asking for directions). Sterile or not – I am with the detailers – it’s a biohazard. What if they had some disease? You know – I am old enough to be those despicable fiends’ mother – maybe grandmother! Pox on them. May they get the worst urinary tract infection they have ever had and may they grovel in the dirt, praying to NOT pee for the burning and bleeding they will experience every time.
Stickman on November 03 at 12:45 p.m.
I will always stop for someone that might need help or assistance in some way. If someone wants to piss on me, then I guess they will. Eventually someone will somehow piss on them in some way in the future.
nic on November 03 at 12:49 p.m.
@ JeanieS - remind me not to get on your bad side.
Liz on November 03 at 1:30 p.m.
Ah, here it is. I missed it and sent DFO the link thinking I had found something he hadn’t. Oops. My bad.

But yeah, how gross can you get???? I mean it got in her MOUTH. On the other hand, truckers have been filling bottles with pee and tossing them by the roadside for years. Don’t pick up any gatorade bottles you find filled with a mysterious liquid.

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.