Pooberg

[Tracey Suntan-King]

We had the misfortune to have to unblock our drains yesterday. Sid took up the manhole cover to discover a massive poo/fatberg which has obviously been incubating since before we lived here

Way too big to break up and flush down, we (Well Sid really, I was hiding in the house with the widows shut) removed it by the shovel full.

It is now double-bagged, weighing several kilo's sitting in the garden -I swear it's pulsating - in full sunshine.

So, my serious question to BCF is what to do with it? How does one dispose, legally and safely, of a massive lump of grease/poo/soap/tissue? Surely we're not the first

Where's Bodytard when we need him? He was always dumping shit in lay-bys.

In other related news, we now have the cleanest drains in the country, although Sid wasnt allowed back into my life until he'd been scrubbed and flushed too
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

If you could just box it and send it to Northampton County Council, that'd be grand.
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[hellkat]

Cripes, well done Sidders, that's a proper nasty job, real mens work.

There was a picture in the Evening Standard yesterday of a rat that got stuck in a sewer manhole cover in London, cos he was too fat to get thru the holes, and had to be rescued by the Fire Brigade. First thing that struck me was that he was probably down there nibbling fatbergs. He had such a terrified look on his ratty little face, I can safely say that its the first time I've ever actually felt sorry for a rat.

I'll be interested to know how you manage to (lawfully ) end up disposing of it.

Not all councils are going to have the same rules about it. My overactive imagination has previously had awful visions of such things being fly-tipped, mehhhh.
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[Ste]

fpos

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[Suntan Sid]

[Suntan Sid]

Oh yeah, one incident I just remembered.
We needed to survey a sewage pumping station.
This can't be done until the sump is empty.
I got sent out to do the survey, as the sump was being emptied that day.
When I turned up a vactor unit was pumping out the sump.
I was chatting to the foreman when the hose going to the tanker decided to disconnect itself.
Everyone on site got covered in, what is laughingly called, sludge, what any normal person would call shite!
Despite it being before lunch time I went home immediately to get a shower, I didn't go back to work that day!!!!!
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Just a few years ago my toilet backed up and my then landlord, who lived next door, said it had happened before because the drain was too shallow, so he stuck a hosepipe into the manhole cover outside my door. He then lifted the cover in his yard and we watched my accumulated shits and bog roll flow by while I endeavoured to make polite conversation with him and his wife. Happily, inexplicably, it didn't smell particularly bad.

[Tracey Suntan-King]

In other Suntan news, we now have a solution.

We're going to put the double-bagged pooberg into a bag for life, pour 10 litres of cat litter over it and gaffer tape it shut.

Then it can go in non-recyclables.

People put cat shit and shitty nappies in their bins don't they? The only difference is that this is 20kg of shit/grease in one go

What could possibly go wrong?
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I never have to buy bin liners because an East European company is in cahoots with every charity and council to collect clothing (and bric-a-brac), sell them abroad, and "donate" a measly £50 per tonne to the charity. The council get to fulfill their "recycling" objectives and the charities get a token amount with zero effort. Meanwhile the donors mistakenly believe they're doing good and the company gets rich on charitable donations. As I said though, I use them as bin bags, so I suggest your double-bagged shite-berg should go kerbside on collection day to be transported across the Continent and unveiled in the back of Bulgarian Oxfam.

Oh, and "The Children's Air Ambulance"? WTF!?

[Moo.]

We had a covered internal manhole in our office that no one knew was there... It became known because one day because the office started smelling like a sewage plant, the next day a large stain started appearing through the carpet tiles!

Turns out the pump station up the road had failed and this manhole was absolutely brimmed with office coffee fuelled shite.

A brave plumber was employed to get it flowing again. I remember seeing him at lunchtime chomping down on his sandwich after he’d been unclogging 😳
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[Sister Sledge]

I would just burn it in the garden. Should burn well due to the fat content.
They burn poo in other countries so why not here?
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[grr666]

Lads following that dustcart around all day won't thank you. Soon as that bag goes in the back it will split open and kick
right up as it gets pulped by the compaction mechanism. Hope it doesn't go pop while someones standing next to it.
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[Freddyfruitba...]

The most eco-friendly, neighbour-friendly and binman-friendly method of disposal would simply be to bury it (unwrapped, obvs) in the garden...
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Just sayin'.
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[hellkat]

Thanks but no thanks.

Would you like a martini? You must have had a hard day
Just let me know what time you want your dinner on the table.
I'll just pop upstairs and check your bathwater is the right temperature.

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