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ShootersHillGuru
ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,658
edited October 22 in Not Sports Related

This is surely effing mad ?????

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg435gg66gpo

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  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,519
    Needs deporting
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,218
    'We are committed to protecting our waterways from pollution' the politicians say as they patiently watch Thames Water dump 72 billion litres of sewage into the river
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,389
    I saw this on the BBC website. Effing mad is an understatement, @ShootersHillGuru.
  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,529
    Gribbo said:
    Needs deporting
    In an instant.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,122
    Agreed, utter madness, she should be locked up.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,735
    edited October 22
    For starters, why did it need three of them to stop her?

    A Richmond Council spokesperson said that body-worn camera footage had been reviewed and they did "not agree that officers behaved aggressively".

    I mean the fact that three "Officers" had to stop her seems aggressive behaviour on its own.

    Especially if they had body cams to protect themselves
  • HastingsRed
    HastingsRed Posts: 1,607
    Worlds going......gone mad.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,658
    I think the three enforcement officers should be named and shamed. Heroes to a man (woman)
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,757
    Gribbo said:
    Needs deporting
    Needs decanting
  • charlton4ever
    charlton4ever Posts: 1,729
    edited October 22
    Crazy.

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  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,904
    not as annoying as the BBC needing to put in a picture of a drain to illustrate the article.


  • MrWalker
    MrWalker Posts: 4,135
    Surely her defence is "it was ground this morning"
  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,300
    edited October 22
    Wrong to target her but the story does at least emphasise the fact that much of London's outer drain network goes directly to streams and rivers (surface run-off). In other mostly inner London areas it goes to the sewage network (one shared network), which is why a deluge leads to water companies spilling sewage as their inadequate capacity/ poorly maintained drains network get overloaded.
    Would be better to target people who poor stuff in to drains like paints and solvents, and other crap. Have wondered if car washes should be a campaign focus too to highlight the fundamental problem, also car and other vehicle fleets especially, including TFL busses, police vehicles and fire engines.   
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,392
    edited October 22
    Two Tiers is on it...

    "This government will ensure through our legal system, that the missuse of drainage with tasty everyday beverage will not be tolerated and that after twenty years of missrule by previous adminstrations we will act decisively to ensure our sewage system is not discriminated against, His Majesty's government stands by this pledge". 
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,887
    Making a Mokkary of our laws 
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,835
    Costa fortune that miscalculation.


  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,639
    AFKABartram said:
    Making a Mokkary of our laws 

    You having a Latte?
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,351
    The concentration of coffee that resulted from this wanton and heinous act of contamination is in the region of 26 nanograms per litre.  

    To put that in context, water is considered safe to drink if the level of MERCURY is up to 38 times higher; and of LEAD it is up to 400 times higher. 

    A lethal dose of STRYCHNINE would need to be 20,000 higher in concentration; ARSENIC 400,000 times higher; CYANIDE 10 million times higher; and drinking ANTIFREEZE would produce a lethal reaction only if it were millions of times higher. 

    (Please don't experiment with any of these.  I cannot be held responsible for anyone trying these out).   
  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,529
    A west London council has reversed its decision to fine a woman £150 for pouring the remnants of coffee down a gully.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg435gg66gpo
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,367
    AFKABartram said:
    Making a Mokkary of our laws 
    Mochary 

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  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,658
    Another successful Charlton Life campaign 👍
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,519
    SuedeAdidas said:
    Gribbo said:
    Needs deporting
    Needs decanting
    Defininte "Would Ya"
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,061
    She was an easy target.
  • Zulu
    Zulu Posts: 144
    Coffee needs to go down the drain - cant stand the stuff.
  • BJW
    BJW Posts: 68
    Zulu said:
    Coffee needs to go down the drain - cant stand the stuff.
    Well said.

    When I am Ruler of the World it will be the first thing I ban.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,088
    edited October 23
    Spot fines for polluters? I'm all in favour of it. On one condition; that the powers that be pick on the biggest polluters first. Now, let's get to work on those whose chronic mismanagement of our water systems leads to 8,000,000,000 (eight billion) litres of raw sewage being dumped every month. 
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,079
    The thing about this one, and not making it right, I can imagine 95% of people don't even know it's an "offence".

    Like if somebody was pouring paint or petrol down the drain I'd get it - but not a coffee.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,205
    Chizz said:
    The concentration of coffee that resulted from this wanton and heinous act of contamination is in the region of 26 nanograms per litre.  

    To put that in context, water is considered safe to drink if the level of MERCURY is up to 38 times higher; and of LEAD it is up to 400 times higher. 

    A lethal dose of STRYCHNINE would need to be 20,000 higher in concentration; ARSENIC 400,000 times higher; CYANIDE 10 million times higher; and drinking ANTIFREEZE would produce a lethal reaction only if it were millions of times higher. 

    (Please don't experiment with any of these.  I cannot be held responsible for anyone trying these out).   
    The bit in brackets might not help you. Take the ubiquitous "wet paint" signs for example. They act as a warning sure, but also indicate that there is a known problem and they do not absolve the owner of the property from liability, particularly if there is no alternative route/barriers made available. 

    I think you might need to offer a supply of alternative non-toxic beverages.  Mine's a zero Guinness please.
  • stop_shouting
    stop_shouting Posts: 3,684
    WSS said:
    The thing about this one, and not making it right, I can imagine 95% of people don't even know it's an "offence".

    Like if somebody was pouring paint or petrol down the drain I'd get it - but not a coffee.
    How is it offence if the council say she would have won on appeal. It’s either an offence or it isn’t. Just sounds like bully boy tactics by enforcement officers who are likely to be on commission.

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