{"id":1449675,"date":"2022-04-22T07:42:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T11:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1449675"},"modified":"2022-04-22T07:43:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T11:43:55","slug":"red-wings-zamboni-driver-sues-team-after-being-fired-for-peeing-in-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/red-wings-zamboni-driver-sues-team-after-being-fired-for-peeing-in-drain\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Wings Zamboni Driver Sues Team After Being Fired for Peeing in Drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fred-wings-zamboni-driver-sues-team-after-being-fired-for-peeing-in-drain%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1449675&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A longtime Detroit Red Wings Zamboni driver who was caught urinating in a drain claims he was fired for age and disability discrimination and is suing the Red Wings\u2019 parent company, Olympia Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Al Sobotka, 68, says he has benign prostatic hyperplasia, a condition which causes an uncontrollable need to urinate. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/2022\/04\/20\/detroit-red-wings-zamboni-driver-al-sobotka-fired-peeing-into-drain\/7384479001\/\">According to the Detroit Free Press<\/a>, Sobotka was standing between two Zambonis on Feb. 2 and urinated into a drain when he was spotted by a fellow employee. He was fired two weeks later.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Al-Sobotka-red-wings.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Al Sobotka driving a Zamboni for the Red Wings.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NHLI via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI am crushed,\u201d Sobotka, who had been with the Red Wings for 51 years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/sports\/2022\/04\/20\/i-am-crushed-beloved-detroit-red-wings-zamboni-driver-al-sobotka-goes-1-on-1-with-bernie-smilovitz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told WDIV-TV<\/a> in Detroit. \u201cIt\u2019s like a bomb dropped on you that \u2014 every morning you get up, you have nowhere to go now. \u2026 Now I just mope around the house. I\u2019m getting tired of watching TV.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sobotka, who became known for spinning octopi over his head after fans threw them on the ice, told the station he has trouble sleeping at night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took a sleeping pill from my wife. She has a condition. I couldn\u2019t sleep with that either,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/al-sobotka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"833\" height=\"617\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/al-sobotka.jpg\" alt=\"Al Sobotka\" class=\"wp-image-21984545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/al-sobotka.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 833w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/al-sobotka.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=417 416w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Al Sobotka<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">WDIV-TV<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Al-Sobotka-detroit-red-wings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Al-Sobotka-detroit-red-wings.jpg\" alt=\"Al Sobotka swings an octopus at a Red Wings game.\" class=\"wp-image-21984602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Al-Sobotka-detroit-red-wings.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Al-Sobotka-detroit-red-wings.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Al-Sobotka-detroit-red-wings.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Al Sobotka swings an octopus at a Red Wings game.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NHLI via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sobotka, who says he\u2019s \u201cembarrassed\u201d about what he did, would return to the Red Wings if they offered him his job back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout any hesitation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A longtime Detroit Red Wings Zamboni driver who was caught urinating in a drain claims he was fired for age and disability discrimination and is suing the Red Wings\u2019 parent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":1449775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1449775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}