Chances are there is a coworker or two in your office that could use a little urine in their coffee as payback for the way they conduct their business. Then again, maybe you’re that coworker.
But if you think the only harm that will come from it is a desk covered in vomit, think again.
According to WTVR, a Virginia man who put urine in his coworker’s pot of coffee five years ago was ordered to pay him $5,001 in damages. James Carroll Butler said he urinated in the coffee in hopes that Michael Utz would be the one who drank it, and he was apparently successful at that.
Butler, who worked at the Culpeper waste water treatment plant for 17 years, originally took a leak in a toilet like a good human being. But, he then scooped it out with a soda can and poured it in the coffee pot that Utz eventually used.
Utz was seeking $728,000 for “emotional distress,” but the jury awarded him just $5,001, probably because it could have been way worse. I mean, he should actually feel rather fortunate that piss was the worst thing that found its way into his coffee mug. After all, Butler was working at a waste water treatment plant.
It would be interesting to see that concoction on this menu: If Coffee Shop Menu Boards Were Honest
