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To: Mr.Manners who wrote (7001)	6/30/1999 12:23:00 AM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12754

Kasha Meets With Success in Flush at the new Ballpark Tuesday, June 29, 1999 SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER (Seattle, June 29, 1999). In our quest to bring you all the news from Safeco Field, here is an important update: Long-time Silicon Implant poster, Kasha, has confirmed, The toilets flush. "They just fill back up kind of slow," said Kasha, "particularly after I've used them." There are 638 bathroom fixtures -- urinals and toilets, for those uninitiated in the dark arts of plumbing design -- at Safeco Field. And all were flushed last night by the workers who built the Seattle Mariners' new home. The flushing became necessary after a mid-night visit to the field by Kasha, who had had one too many chili dogs, and decided to test the plumbing. Workers arriving at the stadium for the day shift were met with an impenetrable wall of stench. In light of Kasha's action, management thought, what better way to thank the people who built the $517 million stadium than to let them and their families in for a sneak preview, get some free ballpark food . . . and help flush the evidence of Kasha's visit? That's why the Public Facilities District, which oversaw the construction, and the Mariners nicknamed the festivities "Superflush." In bathroom U21A, a men's room, 6-year-old Bryan Suarez flushed when the 5-second countdown began. When he flushed so did 9-year-old Scott and 12-year-old David down the row. The flushes came three seconds early, and when the time came for everyone else to flush the three kids tried valiantly. Sadly, the plumbing balked. It was another minute before they could flush. "It seems there were some problems filling back up," said Bob Schaeffer, the Public Facilities District steel engineer supervising the flush exercise in U21A. "I'll turn that in. Maybe it was all the water pressure. On the other hand, it may be remains of chili dogs left by Kasha." On the bright side, it would take a remarkable coincidence or a half-price beer night for there to be as many toilets flushing simultaneously as there were last night, particularly if Kasha is barred from ever entering the stadium again. The low water pressure problem appeared sporadically throughout the stadium. After the first big flush in the upper section, it took nearly a minute for the toilets on the suite level -- one floor down -- to build up enough pressure to flush. Officials from the Public Facilities District said they will evaluate the results of the tests today. The Los Angeles Dodgers forgot to do the flush test when they opened Dodger Stadium in 1962, and on opening day some toilets spit up, not something the Mariners want to repeat. The Mariners, however, probably wouldn't mind winning 102 games, as the Dodgers did in '62. Spitting toilets and all. Safeco Field opens July 15.