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Lifted drain covers become handy dumping spots for a lot of people...although I don't know why I'm being nice enough to call them people.
I've seen a few of those drainage cam surveys done (little remote control car - so much fun) and you'd be surprised at the crap down there...well probably not surprised at finding crap down there, but...well, you know what I mean.
A lot can be caused somewhere further along the system.
We kept getting agro from a neighbour in our previous house, kept blaming us for flushing nappies down the toilet- so I got out one of the used scented nappy bags from our rubbish bin to show him. That shut him up.
It turned out that the pipe ran under the back garden patios from one end of the street to the other. It's even possible it stretched even further...
Sadly I can't take the credit for that one. However, although I no longer work on my local magazine, most months I'm still asked to create some of their headlines.
I couldn't beat the one on this thread - so decided against flushing out another.
My school class had a tour round Brighton sewers many (too many) years ago. For me the highlight was emerging from a manhole in the middle of the Steine in front of a bench-full of astonished pensioners.
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Sorry, I meant to say, 'I don't know.'
I've seen a few of those drainage cam surveys done (little remote control car - so much fun) and you'd be surprised at the crap down there...well probably not surprised at finding crap down there, but...well, you know what I mean.
We kept getting agro from a neighbour in our previous house, kept blaming us for flushing nappies down the toilet- so I got out one of the used scented nappy bags from our rubbish bin to show him. That shut him up.
It turned out that the pipe ran under the back garden patios from one end of the street to the other. It's even possible it stretched even further...
Where DO people think things will end up when they shove them down a drain?
I couldn't beat the one on this thread - so decided against flushing out another.
Been chuckling for a while now.
Stil am sniggering.