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The urine appeared the night after Christmas, and it covered the women’s restroom at the westbound rest area on Interstate 80 near York.

On the walls. In the sinks. Soaking all of the toilet paper rolls.

It happened again the next night, and the next.

“Someone was coming into the rest area’s women’s restrooms and had peed on multiple items,” a York County Sheriff’s lieutenant wrote in his investigative report.

“It got so bad they decided to close down the westbound rest area while an attendant was not there.”

The lieutenant had been summoned Jan. 24 to the York office of the state Department of Transportation, where he met with the manager and the contractor hired to maintain the rest areas near York.

They described the damage. And they told him closing a rest area on one of the nation’s busiest highways from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. — the 14 hours an attendant wasn’t on duty — hadn’t worked.

Because there was another rest area across the highway and down the road.

“Once they closed that facility the subject moved to the eastbound rest area and continued to do the same thing.”