Word: showering
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...drills for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Oncale had worked on offshore rigs before (and does today), but says he never encountered such abusive treatment as when he signed on with Sundowner in 1991. He claims, for instance, that three male co-workers held him down in a shower and shoved a bar of soap between his buttocks. One of them threatened rape, he says. He quit and later was found to have posttraumatic stress...
Brutal, yes. But illegal sexual harassment? Even after the Supreme Court's ruling, Oncale might not convince a jury that Sundowner and its men discriminated against him. Scalia's brief opinion merely allows the possibility for the first time. Sundowner attorney Harry Reasoner says his clients deny the shower incident. They admit to roughhousing with Oncale, but they didn't single him out for special abuse, Reasoner says. "All males who go onto an offshore platform are subject to a kind of hazing." Reasoner also points out that Oncale could have brought state assault charges against the men but went...
...Adams House senior exiting the shower surprised a thief in the process of dismantling his roommate's stereo. A television set was stolen from an adjoining room that night...
When I reached my hotel room I discovered that the hot water in the tub would not turn on, and the cold water would not turn off. The spout on the sinks was attached to a flexible pipe. To use the shower, I had to pull this spout from the sink to the bathtub where it hung on a hook...
After stepping out of the shower, Gabriel A. Biller '98 said he heard a crash in the room of his roommate, Ravi C. Chhatpar...