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No, really. This is a lawsuit over penis doodles and a piece of vagina pasta. Not a whole buffet of vagina pasta, not an entire meal of vagina pasta, not even a bowl of vagina pasta. Just one lonely—but ultimately harassing—piece of vagina pasta.
Frank Cheatham was a veteran employee of the fire department. He'd been with the Arizona city since 1979, moving through the municipal ranks as fire engineer, fire captain, fire battalion chief, and fire battalion deputy chief shift. He liked being chief of fire-related matters enough that he had never been disciplined in over three years of service. But then one day he spotted a penis doodle and everything changed.
And not for the better.
According to a federal lawsuit filed March 29, the fateful penis-doodling day took place in November 2009, when Mr. Cheatham was working his fire work in Fire Station 1—probably sliding down one of those poles again and again or playing catch with the local dalmation, the complaint doesn't say—and he saw some very immature graffiti.
But it wasn't just any regular immature graffiti—nothing as childish as HI, POOPYHEAD or U STINK—it was something far worse.
Brace yourself, here the complaint gets very graphic:
View LawsuitIn approximately November 2009, while acting in his official capacity as a "Deputy Chief Shift Commander" of "South Shift Command," Chief Cheatham saw several inappropriate, sexually suggestive drawings and items—specifically, two depictions of a penis and testicles—openly displayed in the workplace at Fire Station 1
