Because we are tired, and it has been a long and stressful week, we bring you more evidence that the Internal Revenue Service has no sense of humor. From The Smoking Gun:
But why make a federal case out of a simple piss? The damages of course:
But what could the punishment possibly be in such as case? We are dealing with the Federal Government, remember?
In other words the same punishment as for theft from a bank, savings and loan, or credit union. (Title 18, section 2113 of the United States Code.)
Yikes!
It's enough to make a person cry "Uncle". (Get it? Uncle? Never mind.)
Hat tip: Above the Law.
“A Michigan man was actually named yesterday in a U.S. District Court complaint charging him with urinating in the freight elevator of an Internal Revenue Service building in Detroit. According to the document, Michael Hicks relieved himself in the lift "on numerous occasions" in late-2007…”How did the IRS ascertain the identity of said urinator you ask? DNA testing perhaps? No, my friends. As if you did not think the Internal Revenue Service was Orwellian enough already, “a federal agent installed surveillance cameras in two freight elevators”.
But why make a federal case out of a simple piss? The damages of course:
"Hicks' urination caused the IRS to incur a deep cleaning expense of $4,626.25 within and underneath freight elevator #1," reported Special Agent Delmaria Scott (who is no doubt now the laughing stock of the Detroit Field Office as the agent who solved 'the great urine caper'--at least for the next few days).
But what could the punishment possibly be in such as case? We are dealing with the Federal Government, remember?
“Hicks, who was charged with damaging government property, faces a maximum of ten years in prison.”
In other words the same punishment as for theft from a bank, savings and loan, or credit union. (Title 18, section 2113 of the United States Code.)
Yikes!
It's enough to make a person cry "Uncle". (Get it? Uncle? Never mind.)
Hat tip: Above the Law.
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