Surveillance cameras at neighborhood businesses helped Madigan's investigators and Chicago police detectives trace the bus to Whol, a Texas man who is identified in the complaint as one of five drivers for the Dave Matthews Band, authorities said. At least one witness gave police an Oregon license plate number. Witnesses told authorities the deluge of waste came from a long black tour bus crossing the grated bridge. Five went to Northwestern Memorial Hospital for tests. Some of the passengers suffered nausea and vomiting after the waste cascaded into their eyes and mouths and soaked their hair and clothing. Whol of illegally dumping foul-smelling muck into the river and creating a public nuisance.Ībout two-thirds of the passengers on the upper deck of Chicago's Little Lady were doused with a brownish-yellow liquid as the tour boat crossed under the Kinzie Street bridge during an Aug. Lisa Madigan on Tuesday accused the band and driver Stefan A. The Dave Matthews Band, a rock group so "green" it has its own flavor of Ben and Jerry's ice cream, could face $70,000 in fines after one of its tour bus drivers allegedly dumped a tankful of human waste on a Chicago River sightseeing boat earlier this month.Īfter a two-week investigation into an incident that prompted outrage from Chicago's mayor and snickering from late-night television hosts, Illinois Atty.
Tour boat waste case may stain Dave Matthews Band's `green' image Madigan: Video busts band's bus in dumping Now tapes have come out showing the illegal dumping of his dump. DMB denied it was them and cited their "green" image. 3 weeks ago the DMB was accused of releasing their tour bus storage tanks on the bridge and onto a tour boat passing underneath making dozens of people ill. In downtown Chicago the bridges over the Chicago rive are a steel mesh material to help keep the bridges free of snow in the winter and also to allow them to be raised as MANY boats travel there every dave.
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