Drummer's flatulence costs Washington, D.C. nightclub

Washington, D.C. is certainly not the Windy City. A drummer's fart has cost a D.C. nightclub $500.

Why? The emission was so offending that a window at the city's Madam's Organ Blues Bar was opened to lessen its impact, thereby breaking a no-windows-open-during-live-music city ordinance, according to the Borderstan news Web site.

"(The drummer) opened the window to let (a) fart out," said club owner Bill Duggan in the report. "He cracked it open for five minutes, then the inspector showed up."

A city Alcohol Beverage Regulation Administration inspector spotted the band playing "directly in front of one of the establishment's ground floor windows" between 1:30 and 1:33 a.m. on June 22, 2014, according to the report.

The club owner is not happy.

"Twenty (blanking) years with not one violation and this is what they came up with," Duggan said. "People get stabbed and shot in these other establishments. In ours, someone farts and cracks a window and they spend a year on it."

Duggan said he may appeal. The band, and the drummer, were not identified in the report.

Chris Jordan: cjordan@app.com.