Dave Matthews Hits The Crapper

You know, the headline, "Dave Matthews Band Blamed For Human Waste" has so many meanings...

Rock star Dave Matthews and his tour bus driver are facing a filthy lawsuit.

The Illinois Attorney General's office says they're responsible for dumping up to 100-gallons of raw human waste from a tour bus onto the Kinzie Street Bridge earlier this month.

The nasty mess rained down on passengers aboard a sightseeing boat two weeks ago.

The suit charges both the band and the bus driver with violating state water pollution laws, as well as common law public nuisance laws. A spokesman
for the band says all of its tour buses were parked at the time of the incident.

The spokesman doesn't say where the buses were parked. Of course, it's pretty clear this is just another instance of John Ashcroft trying to silence freedom of expression. If Dave Matthews can't dump 100 gallons of human waste on a passenger bus without threats of recrimination, then our civil liberties are truly in danger.