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Tom Scheck

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Washington D.C. is known for its leaks but an incident at GOP Rep. Erik Paulsen's office takes that meaning to a whole new level. Politico is reporting that water starting spritzing out of one of Paulsen's office walls this morning:

At first it was somewhat containable, filling up those small recycling bins every 15/20 seconds, spokesman Andrew Foxwell tells us, but it "wasn't overwhelming." But then, things got worse. Five minutes into the shower, the water caused a hole two inches in diameter to burst open. People sprang into action. "We had runners, basically. People were transporting water back and forth," Foxwell says, into the closest option: the Congressman Paulsen's bathroom.

Video of the leak is here.

Maybe Paulsen's recent hiring of Luke Friedrich will stop such leaks in the future (ba da bing!).