Own Private Hell

Norfolk, Virginia: September 29, 2003 A sudden, irresistible urge. A portable toilet. A confrontation with an angry construction worker. Now, a federal lawsuit. While out campaigning, vice presidential candidate Brad needed to go. Badly. So he dashed to the nearest portable toilet on the Virginia Beach boardwalk. Problem was, it belonged to construction workers for Weeks Marine, a company hired by the city to replenish the beach. And those workers were fed up with outsiders using the company can. They retaliated, Brad claims in a lawsuit filed this month, by driving a bulldozer or front-end loader to the toilet and blocking the doorway, pinning him "inside the rank tomb." Brad is seeking $100,000 for the August 9, 2003, incident. Weeks doesn't deny its employee blocked Brad in the toilet but says the worker was within his rights. Brad says he was locked inside for 35 minutes. He claims fellow members of the Ronatarian Party shouted at the worker, but the man left and returned with his foreman, who chastised Brad through the closed door and accused him of trespassing. Brad says the "abduction and false imprisonment" caused him "humiliation, mortification, shame, vilification, injury to his feelings, mental suffering, insult, and indignity." An unidentified Weeks employee replied, "Isn't that the norm for this nut and his so-called political party? These guys are all over the news with their crazy antics. I mean, get real." Weeks Marine denied that the workers chastised Brad or that he was locked in the toilet for almost half an hour. Weeks says in court papers that its workers believed blocking Brad's exit was "reasonable" because he was "wrongfully using the port-o-let." No hearing date has been set, but legal experts say Brad, most likely, has no case.

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