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Man who peed in co-worker’s coffee ordered to pay N78,000

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A man who spiked a co-worker’s coffee pot with his own urine has now been relieved of $5,001 (about N750,000).

On Monday, a jury in Culpeper County, Virginia., ordered James Carroll Butler to pay the sum to former co-worker Michael Utz because of a 2009 incident when the two were city employees.

The 53-year-old man worked for the city’s waste water plant and, as the Daily Progress reports, didn’t like Utz, a mechanic in the environmen­tal services department.

One day in early March 2009, he collected pee from the toilet and poured it into Utz’ coffee pot and waited for Utz to drink the urinetaint­ed java, reports.

Utz saw the pee-filled pot

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before making coffee, noticed the unmistakab­le urine odour, and reported it to his supervisor, who then had the coffee pot tested in a lab. Results showed the pot contained urine and fecal material, according to the Daily Progress.

The paper’s website quotes from a letter Butler delivered to the court:

“I done something I am very much ashamed of to a co-worker for [reasons, which are] stressrela­ted [and] things going on in my life on and off the job. I am very much ashamed of my stupid and childlike behavior.”

Butler was found guilty of a criminal misdemeano­r in 2009. He spent one month in jail and served a year on probation.

Utz sued for $728,000 ( about N114m) in damages. The jury awarded him $1 in compensato­ry damages and $5,000 in punitive damages, according to the TheSpec. com. Utz’s attorney, Michael Shaman, said his client was happy about the verdict, the Associated Press reports.

Culled from huffington­post. com

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