We know realize why our 85 year-old great aunt has a tin of grease sitting under her kitchen sink.

The chief judge of the D.C. Superior Court ordered a stop of all court proceedings yesterday when a clogged sewer line — grease from the courthouse cafeteria has been pinpointed as the culprit — rendered restroom facilities useless. With bladders filling up and lines to use the restrooms growing ever so long, the judicial process ground to a halt as the problem was being attended to, the Post reports.