I can't find them on Google Earth. Link?

davidphogan: I can't find them on Google Earth. Link?

Look for "New New Jersey."

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: davidphogan: I can't find them on Google Earth. Link?

Look for "New New Jersey."

Oh...SNAP!

*sigh* Why is it you can never find an arsonist when you need one.

I had the link but Fark wouldn't let me post it correctly.

Just do a Google maps search for East England Tank Museum

submitter: Man finds one million old car tires illegally dumped on his property - [gathered them into] a pile so big you can see them on Google Earth [in 2004, since which he's left them sitting there]- and so authorities are threatening to prosecute him

Won't somebody think of the billionaires !

/would be pissed off if someone dumped a load of tyres on my garden
//wouldn't still be biatching about it 5 years later

Psychotropic: Just do a Google maps search for East England Tank Museum

...and you'll be a mere 170 miles from where you're looking for ;)

They're here

Fail is mee. Try Google Maps "Thetford, Suffolk IP24 2SY".

When did Richard Hatch dye his hair red and change his name to "The Earl of Iveagh"?

FarkinNortherner: They're here

... and you'll be a mere 20 miles (in space) from where you're looking for ;)

Well, done, snarky!

In 2002, businessman Timothy Phillips was jailed for two months after being convicted of operating without a waste management licence and dumping hundreds of thousands of tyres on several sites in East Anglia.

He was said to have handled up to one million tyres a year through three unlicensed companies.

But he wasn't sentenced to spend the rest of his life, if necessary, schlepping the tires by hand until the mess is cleared up? WTF?

Make the tires into the bar towels you promised us, ya cheap bastard!

FarkinNortherner: Try Google Maps "Thetford, Suffolk IP24 2SY".

Which is also exactly where teh Googles sent me when I searched for "East England Tank Museum"^{^} like Psychotropic said.

So is it the big pile on the right of the museum? Because that looks like the big pile in the top middle of the museum.

BuckTurgidson: But he wasn't sentenced to spend the rest of his life, if necessary, schlepping the tires by hand until the mess is cleared up? WTF?

And/or forced to pay up to remove the tires? Don't tell me, let me guess - whatever fine he paid went to general revenue instead? And any fines this liege lord baron has to pay will go the same place?

Pretty farked up scene there.

FloydA: Make the tires into the bar towels you promised us, ya cheap bastard!

LOL! Awesome. +1 Internets for you.

BuckTurgidson: But he wasn't sentenced to spend the rest of his life, if necessary, schlepping the tires by hand until the mess is cleared up? WTF?

I like that idea. That's a real punishment!

And-1: Which is also exactly where teh Googles sent me when I searched for "East England Tank Museum"^ like Psychotropic said.

"We could not understand the location East England Tank Museumoe=utf-8client=firefox-aie=UTF8hl=enll=52.368197,0.71969spn=0.007782,0.022 745t=hz=16iwloc=A"

Well, done, snarky ! :P

Google Maps gives me The Tank Museum, which is in Dorset. Weird. Anyhow, yes, it's the two big piles.

BuckTurgidson: But he wasn't sentenced to spend the rest of his life, if necessary, schlepping the tires by hand until the mess is cleared up? WTF?
davidphogan: I like that idea. That's a real punishment!

While forcing restitution is excessive in crimes of survival, I'm all for it in greedy scam cases like this.
At a minimum, some significant fraction must be cleaned up by him. Alone. And he's on day-release from house arrest or minimum security prison until it's complete.

FarkinNortherner: "We could not understand the location East England Tank Museumoe=utf-8client=firefox-aie=UTF8hl=enll=52.368197,0.71969spn=0.007782,0.022 745t=hz=16iwloc=A"

Well, done, snarky ! :P

LOL!! Fail is apparently me also.

/Looks like Fark takes the initial ampersand out of the URL, prolly to prevent injection attacks or HTML failures. Lesson learned!

I really dont understand why we arent dumping tires into volcanoes. If you're freaked out about fumes, shred them, encase them in concrete "tombs" then drop them in. By the time any gas makes it to the surface it will be elemental and not complex molecular.

/stayed at a holiday inn express last night and not a real chemist.

FTFA: "Like any form of fly-tipping it is the responsibility of the landowners to clear the mess up and unfortunately there is little chance of getting the company that originally dumped them to pay up."
The Environment Agency confirmed that the tyres had been bailed up and were being taken away for use in local building projects.

In 2002, businessman Timothy Phillips was jailed for two months after being convicted of operating without a waste management licence and dumping hundreds of thousands of tyres on several sites in East Anglia. He was said to have handled up to one million tyres a year through three unlicensed companies.

So they knew who it was, jailed him for a mere 2 months and he will likely not be liable for a penny of the costs incurred by the land owner who is being forced to clean up after his mess.

Considering the amount of money in disposal costs the businessman saved, crime certainly pays in Britain. It really is surprising Britain isn't in a more tropical clime... it's teeming with fruits - yuk yuk yuk

This tread is full of win.

Procedural Texture: BuckTurgidson: But he wasn't sentenced to spend the rest of his life, if necessary, schlepping the tires by hand until the mess is cleared up? WTF?
davidphogan: I like that idea. That's a real punishment!

While forcing restitution is excessive in crimes of survival, I'm all for it in greedy scam cases like this.
At a minimum, some significant fraction must be cleaned up by him. Alone. And he's on day-release from house arrest or minimum security prison until it's complete.

I don't suppose you thought of going after the guy that actually did the illegal dumping, did you?

That brings new meaning to the term having a SPARE TIRE I Guess

In 2002, businessman Timothy Phillips was jailed for two months after being convicted of operating without a waste management licence and dumping hundreds of thousands of tyres on several sites in East Anglia.

Although the material was dumped illegally by a crooked businessman, it is up to the landowner to clear up the mess.

It's almost comforting to know that criminals and thieves run your government, too. At least we're not alone.

Too bad there aren't many rednecks nice country folk in England.



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FTFA:"But the odd empty can or packet of crisps is small beer compared to the problem faced by the most senior member of the Guinness family."

Guinness family? They very well could just melt and bottle the tyres, then call it a "dark" Guinness

phlegmmo: This tread is full of win.

You got some good mileage out of a heavily-worn cliche.

Its in UK, so its Tyre, not Tire.

strangeguitar: Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: davidphogan: I can't find them on Google Earth. Link?

Look for "New New Jersey."

Oh...SNAP!

I was born in New Jersey and I now live in Bury St Edmunds.

What do I win?

Hilary T. N. Seuss:
phlegmmo: This tread is full of win.

You got some good mileage out of a heavily-worn cliche.

I took the chance it wouldn't fall flat.

Oldiron_79: Its in UK, so its Tyre, not Tire.

Well, WTF does this mean? Like any form of fly-tipping... Gawd damn British, no wonder they lost the war.

Sounds like he should dump them back on council property.

"Hey Mr stupid public servant type, yeah - well we cleaned up the rest of those tyres. What's that - someone dumped types outside the council chambers?!?. Yeah - well it's happening a lot lately."

Man finds one million old car tires illegally dumped on his property......

Shouldn't the museum be trying to keep people from destroying something that old?

/confused

Oh come on, he's a senior member of the Guinness Family and no one has done it yet?

A million tires? Brilliant!!!

NightOwl2255: Oldiron_79: Its in UK, so its Tyre, not Tire.

Well, WTF does this mean? Like any form of fly-tipping... Gawd damn British, no wonder they lost the war.

If it wasn't for our founding fathers we would all be speaking English right now!

Hey, wait...

bingo the psych-o: NightOwl2255: Oldiron_79: Its in UK, so its Tyre, not Tire.

Well, WTF does this mean? Like any form of fly-tipping... Gawd damn British, no wonder they lost the war.

If it wasn't for our founding fathers we would all be speaking English right now!

Hey, wait...

Damn right, that's why we speak American!

/Wait, what?

Nice digs. I'd let him hit it, marry it, then spend the rest of my life hiding from that ginger mug in any number of those 375 rooms and 23,000 acres.

/yes, I do flatter myself
//learning from the male Farkers

OMG LOOK AT THAT HOUSE! I mean, the poor dear man...I wonder if the love of a good TFette would help ease his sorrow.

How can you not notice a million car tyres being dumped on your property? Did this guy just sneak on and dump them all in one night?

phlegmmo: Hilary T. N. Seuss:
phlegmmo: This tread is full of win.

You got some good mileage out of a heavily-worn cliche.

I took the chance it wouldn't fall flat.

I'd keep making tire puns with you, but you know the expression: Angels fear to treadwear fools rush in.

In 2002, businessman Timothy Phillips was jailed for two months after being convicted of operating without a waste management licence and dumping hundreds of thousands of tyres on several sites in East Anglia.

I can think of a completely plausible method to deal with the tires and comply with the order. Make a declaration that the tires, being evidence in the trial proceedings are being returned to the owner as most evidence is that is not also illegal to possess. Then truck the tires to the property of Timothy Phillips. Timothy Phillips has already been excused of paying to clean up the tires and the Earl of Iveagh will have to eat the cost of the trucking but that has been established by the authorities in the article.

a pile so big you can see them on Google Earth

Given that it's easy to see things like automobiles, newspaper boxes, and patio tables using Google Earth... the pile is bigger than a patio table then?

/impressed that only enormous things are visible using Google Earth

Aren't tires considered "clean fill" in some states?

If I recall correctly, here in Connecticut tires are considered pollution, and they are typically unburied, trucked to Massachusetts, and buried there (where they are clean fill).

me texan: I really dont understand why we arent dumping tires into volcanoes. If you're freaked out about fumes, shred them, encase them in concrete "tombs" then drop them in. By the time any gas makes it to the surface it will be elemental and not complex molecular.

/stayed at a holiday inn express last night and not a real chemist.

I, too stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night, and I notice that the closet volcano to the UK is in Iceland. I'm not sure if any of their volcanoes are active enough to support your plan (open crater, etc, but I AM pretty damn sure that:

1. Iceland doesn't want farking Britain's waste being dumped into their volcanoes

and

2. Even if they did, it would surely cost more to transport said tires to said volcano than it would to simply dispose of them properly on site.

wombat18: How can you not notice a million car tyres being dumped on your property? Did this guy just sneak on and dump them all in one night?

When you're an earl with miles of property you didn't have to earn but just take for granted?

wombat18: How can you not notice a million car tyres being dumped on your property? Did this guy just sneak on and dump them all in one night?

Did you notice the part about 23,000 acres?

mmagdalene: OMG LOOK AT THAT HOUSE! I mean, the poor dear man...I wonder if the love of a good TFette would help ease his sorrow.

Step off! I got dibs!

How the fark does someone sneak a million tires onto your property? I mean, the first few hundred thousand, sure, but at some point wouldn't the dust from the trucks start to mess with your roses or something?