Des Moines, Iowa Flooding Basin Draws Local Attention...
The Des Moines Register was tipped off by an anonymous City Hall source that the city's "detention basin," which helps to prevent flooding, has a remarkably phallic shape to it.
Accompanied by an aerial photograph, a story on the paper's Web site notes that engineers claim not to have purposely made the basin in an obscene shape.


Editor and Publisher | June 9, 2006 05:19 PM