True story No. 2 from our summer in the drought-hit suburbs of DC.
A fire chief from one of the smaller communities between Baltimore and DC was caught filling his swimming pool in direct contravention of the st
ate of water emergency across the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast that year. His excuse? He used the pool (occasionally, as it turned out) to train his dive team.
He eventually got fired, as I recall, but that was back in the days when plain old-fashioned stupid was cause for dismissal of senior municipal employees …
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