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(BBC)   Nothing quite says "customer service" like when the local water company provides you with a 30-minute sewage fountain in your home, no extra charge   (news.bbc.co.uk) divider line 56
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2005-11-04 06:53:30 AM
That's no ordinary fountain of poop - it's a damn tourist attraction.
 
2005-11-04 06:53:44 AM
 
2005-11-04 08:07:59 AM
Holy shiat !
 
2005-11-04 09:07:51 AM
What can they say. shiat happens.
 
2005-11-04 09:17:16 AM
"It's a bit like having burglars in your house. You feel as if your home has been soiled."

there's a reason for that feeling
 
2005-11-04 09:28:06 AM
Special.
 
2005-11-04 09:52:47 AM
There really should be some sort of statute of limitations on the ability of the word "loo" to make one smile.

Fourty-four years and counting....
 
dly
2005-11-04 09:52:56 AM
 
2005-11-04 09:52:57 AM
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?

We call it "riding the gravy train."
 
2005-11-04 09:53:23 AM
Story is so like three days ago
 
2005-11-04 09:53:48 AM
Hey! We found shiat!!!
 
2005-11-04 09:54:40 AM
"It's a bit like having burglars in your house. You feel as if your home has been soiled."


Ummmm, yeah. Like burglars.

/where do people come up with these comments?
 
2005-11-04 09:55:17 AM
But it said the sewer blockage was caused by people's "irresponsible" disposal of fat into the sewers

What???

/so confused...
 
2005-11-04 09:57:24 AM


Hey! We found shiat!!!
/filters messed up first time... filename has sh*t in it.
//had to

 
2005-11-04 09:57:45 AM
"We are very sympathetic to their plight, but the cause of the blockage was the irresponsible disposal of fat into the sewer," he said.

Unless thay're shoving cans of Crisco down the crapper I believe that everybody disposes of fat dow tne crtapper. It's called eating a steak and letting nature takes it's course.

/??
 
2005-11-04 09:57:59 AM
Wonder if that was the irresponsible disposal of human fat in the sewers?
 
2005-11-04 09:58:41 AM
Sh*t geyser stories are *always* funny.
 
2005-11-04 09:59:21 AM
But it said the sewer blockage was caused by people's "irresponsible" disposal of fat into the sewers

So, SSW is saying that other customers were to blame, thereby exonerating SSW from any liability?

Wonder what they'd be saying if the victim was a minister instead a pair of pensioners?
 
2005-11-04 09:59:39 AM
Dam you, Taco Bell!
 
2005-11-04 10:00:32 AM
an alternate option for their fat problem:



/make soap
 
dly
2005-11-04 10:00:36 AM
CoolBeans: Wonder what they'd be saying if the victim was a minister instead a pair of pensioners?
an act of god.
 
2005-11-04 10:01:19 AM
I didn't think you Brits had indoor plumbing yet. I was under the impression you still dumped it out in the street.
 
2005-11-04 10:04:35 AM
macross87: Hey! We found shiat!!!
/filters messed up first time... filename has sh*t in it.
//had to




You forgot the big pick
 
2005-11-04 10:05:11 AM
Apparently he's not the King.
 
2005-11-04 10:05:20 AM
The eruption continued for half an hour and flooded the couple's utility room, hall, sitting room and dining room.

That, my friends, is a rather significant amount of fecal matter.

Unless you live in Milwaukee. We dump that much shiat into Lake Michigan every time it sprinkles.


 
2005-11-04 10:08:50 AM
If this happened in the States, the lawyers would be circling like the sharks they are.

In England, don't you guys have ambulance-chasing solictors for this sort of thing?
 
2005-11-04 10:09:02 AM
"The eruption continued for half an hour and flooded the couple's utility room, hall, sitting room and dining room."

It's funny, how a story about a house full of shiat, taken out of context, could sound like a letter to Hustler!

/oh give me a home
//where the buffalo roam
///i'll show you a house full of shiat
 
2005-11-04 10:09:40 AM
Irascible: Unless you live in Milwaukee. We dump that much shiat into Lake Michigan every time it sprinkles.

*makes mental note to never swim in Lake Michigan*
 
2005-11-04 10:12:58 AM
In Germany, pervs'd be lining up for a shower.
 
2005-11-04 10:17:00 AM
What's that smell?

It's raw sewage, I've been swimming in it all day!
 
2005-11-04 10:19:54 AM
Mrs Mitchell said: "It was shooting up in a torrent. I lost my cool and screamed. I thought the next thing will be a rat.


I can't help but think she's not seeing the bigger picture here
 
2005-11-04 10:22:29 AM
All the poop references were obvious and amusing, but I'm really interested in this "irresponsible disposal of fat" issue, which the article didn't bother to address at all.

Are we talking about dumping some bacon grease in the sink? Carving up a pig and stuffing the unwanted pieces of it down the toilet? People who secretly live on nothing but WOW potato chips? What? I'd have appreciated better information on that count. Inquiring minds want to know.

It's as if her home was soiled!!
 
2005-11-04 10:24:46 AM
Oh Tubgirl, you naughty thing! Whenever I hear "poo fountain", I'll always think back to the day when my Internet innocence was lost...
 
2005-11-04 10:25:00 AM
"irresponsible disposal of fat"

Dead baby.
 
2005-11-04 10:25:49 AM
Irascible: Unless you live in Milwaukee. We dump that much shiat into Lake Michigan every time it sprinkles.

Is that picture what you suggest it is? Who dumps it?
 
2005-11-04 10:36:13 AM
*must go home and take a shower*
 
2005-11-04 10:38:14 AM
I'll always think back to the day when my Internet innocence was lost...

I'm like "why is that donut shooting pea soup into the air???" and then the whole picture came into focus. I've never been the same.

/secretly changed my dad's homepage to it that same day
//he countered by finding the actual video the pic comes from
///sickest thing I've ever seen
 
2005-11-04 10:46:17 AM
Summon Poopsmith
 
2005-11-04 10:46:22 AM
sput
i'm thinking maybe she thought a rat would have burst out of the toilet with the rest of the sewage?


there are a lot of rats in sewers. just ask Master Splinter.
 
2005-11-04 10:54:13 AM
King_of_the_Cows: Is that picture what you suggest it is? Who dumps it?

The county waste and storm sewers lead to the same place. When it rains hard the treatment plant can't handle the extra water and it overflows right into the lake.

dstanley: *makes mental note to never swim in Lake Michigan*

Yeah. Good call. Of course, people usually figure that out after just catching a wiff of the water.
 
2005-11-04 11:25:42 AM
orb_nsc:

Oh *******, you naughty thing! Whenever I hear "poo fountain", I'll always think back to the day when my Internet innocence was lost...

Infidel! That is "She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named"!
 
2005-11-04 11:42:52 AM
Idiotkiller
Good point. You don't want rats getting in the way of all the poo ;)



Oh go on, laugh. I'm being faecetious!



/I'm here all week...
 
2005-11-04 11:55:02 AM
I work on this sort of stuff for a living. The grease you pour down your drain doesn't just go away, it tends to stick to the sides of the sewer lines and eventually clogs the line and they end up looking like this...





Take a look outside and see if any part of your house is below the top of the manhole near you. If it is, get a sewer backflow valve installed in your side sewer and this will never happen to you. In the business, we call these "fecal fountains".
 
2005-11-04 12:20:22 PM
SSpiffy
Thanks for ruining my lunch of burritos!!!
 
2005-11-04 12:31:10 PM
My father is the superintendent of sewers in his town, and this sort of thing, according to him, IS the responsibility of the sewage treatment facility because the sewers should be better-maintained. The city should be sending maintenance crews out on a regular basis to check for these blockages, and catch them before it gets this far. They have special Vactor trucks that basically take all that grossness out. It's what they're for.

According to him, regular maintenance has made it so this has not happened in his plant's jurisdiction for over 10 years. But of course, I suppose some cities would rather "save money" by letting sewage back up into people's homes.

The ONLY way this wouldn't be the city's fault is if it was something they honestly couldn't have foreseen -- for instance, if a potato chip plant started dumping tons and tons of fat down the sewers. But people dumping grease down the sink is expected, and if they don't take that into account when doing sewer maintenance, they're idiots and they deserve to pay for these people's damaged things.
 
2005-11-04 12:35:45 PM
"It's a bit like having burglars in your house. You feel as if your home has been soiled."

Burglers? You mean "turd burglers"?

/Thanks
//Try the veal
///blah blah...
 
2005-11-04 12:40:11 PM
NCg8r: I've never been the same.

Yeah. Me neither.
 
2005-11-04 12:47:39 PM
SSpiffy

That looks like a whole chicken float'n in there.
 
2005-11-04 12:56:25 PM
SSpiffy

Your post reminds me of that broadcast of "Dirty Jobs" on discover not to long ago. The shiat he had them clean out had to be some of the most nasty nasty nasty things ever seen in this world.

Whatever they pay you sir... it's not enough.
 
2005-11-04 01:02:59 PM
Javacrucian:

Ummm, poop should not be yellow.


 
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