The latest insanity in my hometown

This made the San Francisco Gate:

Milwaukee Making Progress on Stray Condoms

After spending more than $1.8 million for a temporary system to catch stray condoms slipping through a sewage treatment plant, a Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District spokesman says officials are fairly confident a majority of condoms are now being caught before they can reach Lake Michigan.

As opposed to cryptosporidium getting into the waterways.

Bill Graffin commented Thursday, more than two years after a fisherman reported seeing what he called a slick of thousands of condoms floating in the lake following a heavy rainstorm in April of 2003.

What I would like to know is how a 'slick' of condoms got into the Milwaukee sewage system. It's not like there is a place near Jones Isle for several thousand teenagers to get their rocks off on prom night.

Initially, a single laborer armed with a swimming pool skimmer was posted at the chlorine tanks at the Jones Island treatment plant to capture condoms that survived earlier phases of screening at the plant.

And somehow this became a cost of $1.8 million to Milwaukee taxpayers...how? Did the head of the MMSD threaten to take his department out of state?

There are many reasons I don't live in Milwaukee anymore: Stupidity far and wide is one of them.