Clorox offers $5K bounty for San Francisco's porta-potty pyro

[ccharles000]

Not kidding. Since November 2008, over two dozen porta-potties at construction sites around San Francisco have been torched, and the potty pyro hasn't been caught yet, so The Clorox Company seized the opportunity to get a little publicity out of a sh*tty situation. It plans to dispatch a "potty patrol" team around the city, hoping to catch someone in the act of lighting up the crapper, and it will reward enterprising citizens who join the pyro hunt.
Forget the $5,000 reward they are offering, Clorox will give a year's supply of toilet products for tips that lead to the arrest of the person or persons who have been torching portable toilets over the last few months.
Some say the toilets are targeted because of the way the burn. It only takes a few minutes and all that is left is a melted pile of plastic turquoise mess, along with the expected stench.

...San Francisco resident Rob Spectre set up his own map to track the porta-potty-pyro and it shows the cluster of incidents surrounds the Marina, Russian Hill and North Beach neighborhoods.

...Explaining Clorox's interest in the wiping out the unknown prankster, company spokesman Dan Gagen quips, "You could say that it's a crappy job, but somebody's got to do it."

Just a question - why would someone torch nasty porta-potties?

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[murielm99]

1. Why are all those porta potties out on the streets

of San Francisco? Is there that much construction going on there?