Laugh of the day..

[Scrumpy]

A London woman fined 150 POUNDS for pouring her coffee dregs down a drain.
THREE Enforcement Officers stopped her near Richmond station and handed her a Fixed- Penalty Notice .
The officers told her that she was in breach of section 33 of The Environmental Protection Act 1990.
  'Dispose of Waste in a way that could Pollute Land or Water'..

What a laugh.. when one considers the crap that is disposed of in our rivers and seas..

[Dextrous63]

There's an enforcement office outside Newcastle Station who hands out loads of Penalties to people who drop their ciggie butts.

Anyway, as for the London lass, this is great news.  Mayor Khan has sorted out so much crime that there's nothing left for his police force to do.

[Mups]

A London woman fined 150 POUNDS for pouring her coffee dregs down a drain.
THREE Enforcement Officers stopped her near Richmond station and handed her a Fixed- Penalty Notice .
The officers told her that she was in breach of section 33 of The Environmental Protection Act 1990.
  'Dispose of Waste in a way that could Pollute Land or Water'..

What a laugh.. when one considers the crap that is disposed of in our rivers and seas..

How utterly ridiculous when THREE have got the time and energy to enforce things like that.
Got to be seen to be doing something useful I suppose!

[Michael Rolls]

useful?

[klondike]

What a laugh.. when one considers the crap that is disposed of in our rivers and seas..

Quite literally.

[Ashy]

I gather the local council has decided not to proceed with the fine, but it shows how careful you have to be in the presence of the peaked cap brigade.

On a lighter note, the sewage works at Beckton on the opposite side of London runs the plant from generators driven by huge diesel engines. The fuel oil is processed on the site from fats and oils recovered from the sewage.

It rather suggests that if we all stop pouring waste oils down our sinks the sewage works will stop working.

[klondike]

I think there must be a huge fatberg blocking the sewer that runs near a path I walk along fairly regularly on the way to a gym I use. 

For weeks now there has been a couple of hundred yards of steel pipe behind barriers running alongside the path. The pipe runs from what must be a temporary pumping station powered by diesel generators. 

The inlet to the pump is from an access point on the buried sewer pipe  along to another access point the other end of the section of path. I initially thought they were installing something new for some big development that was coming but the signage says repairs. 

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