Stinky problem highlights city's property damage immunity

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Chris Laclede could smell the problem in his bathroom before he saw it bubbling up into his tub in late April.There was “fecal matter. It was brown. There were things floating around in it,” Laclede said.Laclede, 62, rushed a plumber to his home in the Johnston Terrace neighborhood of east Austin. The plumber snaked a camera down the wastewater line.“Once he found the clog, right here, basically where my pipes and the city pipes all meet, he said we need t