The Piddle Fountain -- an extremely mild rant

[repsac]

for what it's worth, I felt bad and offered to repay, but they didn't believe me.

I ended up sending them a check for the cleaning, but it's never come through as canceled. Thankfully, being that Savannah is a college town, that kind of thing was happening regularly with the smaller fountains. Me, I just got somewhat creative with the larger one.

[MadMike]

Two Saint Paticks Days ago, I made the national news by putting a case of Mr. Bubble in the main fountain in Forsyth park Savannah. Granted, no one ever caught me, but the fountain had to be drained and cleaned at a huge cost to the city.


The fountain, as I recall, spittered and sputtered this nice pillowly green foam for hours before the city got wind of the problem. By then, it was too late to stop it.

Fox and CNN ran the story, and since then there's been a few copycats trying the same stunt again with mixed results.

This is where I should point out that we don't condone vandalism or illegal activity here on CS. Harmless pranks are one thing, but once it became "a huge cost to the city", that clearly crosses the line.

If you insist on playing destructive pranks like that, please keep them to yourself. Bragging about it on a public forum probably isn't a good idea anyway.

[sportsmom]

Two Saint Paticks Days ago, I made the national news by putting a case of Mr. Bubble in the main fountain in Forsyth park Savannah. Granted, no one ever caught me, but the fountain had to be drained and cleaned at a huge cost to the city.


The fountain, as I recall, spittered and sputtered this nice pillowly green foam for hours before the city got wind of the problem. By then, it was too late to stop it.

Fox and CNN ran the story, and since then there's been a few copycats trying the same stunt again with mixed results.

Please tell me that you are now appropriately ashamed of your actions, because I see nothing funny about costing the city a large sum of money that could have been spent on other things, like schools.

[Tria]

Two Saint Paticks Days ago, I made the national news by putting a case of Mr. Bubble in the main fountain in Forsyth park Savannah.

They still make Mr. Bubble?

[repsac]

dishwashing liquid

Two Saint Paticks Days ago, I made the national news by putting a case of Mr. Bubble in the main fountain in Forsyth park Savannah. Granted, no one ever caught me, but the fountain had to be drained and cleaned at a huge cost to the city.


The fountain, as I recall, spittered and sputtered this nice pillowly green foam for hours before the city got wind of the problem. By then, it was too late to stop it.

Fox and CNN ran the story, and since then there's been a few copycats trying the same stunt again with mixed results.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Black or red dye in the water maybe? Or perhaps green; then with any luck the Health people will force your boss to remove it. Put some kind of fish around the back of it to make it smell and enforce this if you can stand it.

[Jpurple]

Dish soap is not enough- what you want is a combination of a small amount of dish soap and a large amount of dry ice......now that looks really cool!

[Antisocial_Worker]

I really wish I could post pics of this fountain, despite the very real risk that some of you would look at the pictures and thus be blinded or driven insane. Unfortunately, I have neither a scanner nor a digital camera, nor any place to store pics online if I did...

I'm what you might call a "dark age desk clerk."

Edit: Believe me, if I had a pic, I'd have posted my infamous all teeth smile by now, too. For lack of high technology, the world plods on without pics of the piddle fountain, or the smile that conforms to Blah Inn standards.

[stickycoins]

Maybe it was a major award.

Must've been for 2nd place, we all know the lamp was for 1st!

[Phone Jockey]

I too vote for pictures of this horrendous fountain! Please post pictures!

[Antisocial_Worker]

If she thinks bubbles look like snow, she really hasn't seen much of it...

The way that they're piling up on the roof of the mini-mill, they actually sort of do look like snow.

[Gurndigarn]

We tried very hard to clean it, and apparently the brush we used had soap in it because the fountain started to foam like a mad dog as soon as we turned it on, and it's still going strong today, some 20-odd hours after we got it going. The guests are divided on their opinions of it although one very sweet older lady said it looks like snow, which she doesn't get to see now that she lives in Miami, so it made her happy to see it.

If she thinks bubbles look like snow, she really hasn't seen much of it...

[Antisocial_Worker]

When my boss brought this thing over last night, it had a quarter inch of rusty scum caked in the bottom of it, and probably most of it is still there despite our best efforts. We tried very hard to clean it, and apparently the brush we used had soap in it because the fountain started to foam like a mad dog as soon as we turned it on, and it's still going strong today, some 20-odd hours after we got it going. The guests are divided on their opinions of it although one very sweet older lady said it looks like snow, which she doesn't get to see now that she lives in Miami, so it made her happy to see it.

[Brighid45]

Maybe it was a major award.

[trunks2k]

Covertly add a few drops of liquid dishwashing soap

Within the past couple weeks, somebody poured a bunch of soap into the fountain at Love Park in Philadelphia. There were suds EVERYWHERE. It was a funny sight.