UK in a nutshell. Can’t afford to provide basic social services. Can afford to pay three people’s salary to ensure coffee doesn’t end up in the drain.
This is the same countrymetropolitan area that, in one day in 2021 (just the first result I found) pumped 1 billion gallons of raw sewage into the Thames.
Can't contaminate the motor oil, soot, rubber, broken glass, microplastics, litter, and accidentally-spilled coffee with purposely-spilled coffee! I hope the enforcement officers didn't damage their pearls, or let them slip into the drain, from all that clutching.
More seriously, this smacks of citation quotas to me.
12 Comments
Naich@lemmings.world · 54 pts · 311d
I thought this couldn't possibly as stupid as it sounds, so I read the article carefully and yes, it is as stupid as it sounds.
unconsequential@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 310d
I seriously thought I was on an onion site for a second
radix@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 311d
Wouldn't want all that street runoff - full of dirt, oil, animal droppings, and who knows what else - to be contaminated by a little caffeine.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 310d
Well, can't have the sewage rats going all hyper or something.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 52 pts · 311d
UK in a nutshell. Can’t afford to provide basic social services. Can afford to pay three people’s salary to ensure coffee doesn’t end up in the drain.
This is the same
countrymetropolitan area that, in one day in 2021 (just the first result I found) pumped 1 billion gallons of raw sewage into the Thames.https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-67357566
shalafi@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 311d
Can't have a pocket knife.
gravitywell@sh.itjust.works · 44 pts · 311d
Sounds like everyone involved knows this is a stupid law.
hitmyspot@aussie.zone · 16 pts · 310d
The law is not stupid. This interpretation of it is stupid. It says not to pollute down drains. This was some coffee.
Bring_Back_Buggy_Whips@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 311d
How do the asshole enforcement officers sleep at night when they pull such petty shit?
AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 311d
wait.... so what are the road gulleys for if not for liquid? are they for disposing of arby's foiled wrappers?
Bring_Back_Buggy_Whips@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 311d
motor oil
wjrii@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 311d
Can't contaminate the motor oil, soot, rubber, broken glass, microplastics, litter, and accidentally-spilled coffee with purposely-spilled coffee! I hope the enforcement officers didn't damage their pearls, or let them slip into the drain, from all that clutching.
More seriously, this smacks of citation quotas to me.