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Kew woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down drain in Richmond - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 1 week ago by Bring_Back_Buggy_Whips@sh.itjust.works to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] Naich@lemmings.world 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 points 6 days ago

I seriously thought I was on an onion site for a second

[–] radix@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We are committed to protecting Richmond's waterways

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 points 6 days ago

Well, can't have the sewage rats going all hyper or something.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 52 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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 ~~country~~metropolitan 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 points 1 week ago

Can't have a pocket knife.

[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Richmond-Upon-Thames Council has now said said it had cancelled the fine as it was "likely" that Ms Yesilyurt's appeal would have been successful.

Sounds like everyone involved knows this is a stupid law.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 16 points 6 days ago

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 points 1 week ago

How do the asshole enforcement officers sleep at night when they pull such petty shit?

[–] AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 points 1 week ago (1 children)

motor oil

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

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.