Dave Matthews Band bus incident

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On August 8, 2004, a tour bus belonging to the American rock group Dave Matthews Band dumped an estimated 800 pounds (360 kg) of human waste from the bus' blackwater tank through the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago onto an open-top passenger sightseeing boat sailing in the Chicago River below. The incident has been referred to as "Poopgate" in retrospective assessments. The members of Dave Matthews Band were not on or near the bus during the incident. After weeks of investigation, during which the band claimed that all of their tour buses were accounted for, a Dave Matthews Band bus was deemed to be the culprit. The band's bus driver, Stefan Wohl, initially denied dumping the waste. He was later determined to be the only person on the bus during the incident; in April 2005, he pleaded guilty to the dumping, and the band fired him without pay. As part of the band's 2005 legal settlement with the state of Illinois, in exchange for the band not admitting guilt to the incident in court, its...

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