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Sat Jun 8, 2013, 09:35 AM Jun 2013

A Massive, Unauthorized 'Man Cave' Was Found In An EPA Warehouse [View all]

http://www.businessinsider.com/epa-shuts-down-man-cave-2013-6


The EPA found gym equipment, couches, TVs and passports scattered throughout the "man cave" in a Maryland warehouse.


The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is dedicated to preserving natural spaces, but apparently "man caves" are not considered critical wildlife habitat.

That's why the agency dismantled the extensive man cave that private contractors had set up in a large EPA storage warehouse in suburban Landover, Md., northeast of Washington, D.C.

The contractor, Apex Logistics, was hired by the EPA in 2007 to manage the agency's 70,000-square-foot (6,503 square meters) warehouse.

But Apex is now barred from the site, because their employees had set up couches, big-screen TVs, refrigerators, gym equipment and other furnishings inside the storage facility, according to the government's business news daily Government Executive.


Read more: http://www.livescience.com/37221-secret-man-cave-epa-warehouse.html#ixzz2VdDXRS4c
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