NP Topless woman causes power outage

[argus.]

It takes some people a while to get over Burning Man.   Relapses happen.

:} susanargus
> 
> Sorry to interrupt the Best Book of the 20th Century debate, but this news
> story is too good not to share:
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> Topless woman causes power outage
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> SEATTLE (AP) - A fire-breathing woman danced topless on an electrical
> tower beside a freeway bridge for more than an hour this morning,
> snarling rush-hour traffic and forcing a power outage to 5,000 homes
> and businesses. The 37-year-old Olympia woman donned a halter top and
> descended at the urging of police shortly before 9 a.m. She was
> arrested for investigation of criminal trespass and indecent
> exposure, police said. The woman was first reported at 7:26 a.m. on a
> tower that carries electrical lines next to an interstate bridge over
> the Lake Washington Ship Canal. Wearing only shorts, she was
> gyrating, drinking vodka, spitting the liquor out of her mouth and
> lighting it on fire. Seattle City Light cut power to protect the
> woman, leaving 5,000 customers without electricity.
>