Plumber takes leak

[JoeP]

Plumber who took leak convicted (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/4103834.stm)

A plumber caught on camera relieving himself in a customer's loft has been found guilty of attempted deception.

Roy Williams, 46, from East Grinstead, Sussex, was captured urinating into a vase and pouring it into the water tank at a house in Leatherhead, Surrey.

Deception?

[viscousmemories]

Silly rabbit. I think deception is just a British way of saying 'fraud'.

A jury at Guildford Crown Court found [said plumber] guilty on three counts on Friday after he charged householders £173 for replacing valves that were not faulty.

[livius drusus]

Not to sound like a Windsor or anything, but what is a water tank? I mean, is that like the hot water tank? As in the source of bath water?

[justaman]

I grew up with water tanks :indifferent:

Surprisingly enough they're big tanks that hold water. Generally you're drinking straight rain water that goes through an electric filter, so it tastes much butter then flouride enriched town water crap thankyou very much.

[livius drusus]

Generally you're drinking straight rain water that goes through an electric filter, so it tastes much butter then flouride enriched town water crap thankyou very much.

Yeah, unless your plumber takes a slash in it.

[justaman]

Well he'd probably need to take a very-long-been-drinking-beer-all-night kind of slash to make an impact, but thankyou for the image. :vomit:

[Ymir's blood]

Silly rabbit. I think deception is just a British way of saying 'fraud'.

A jury at Guildford Crown Court found [said plumber] guilty on three counts on Friday after he charged householders £173 for replacing valves that were not faulty.
Obviously his valves weren't faulty.

[viscousmemories]

:laugh:

[MooseIBe]

hahaha! we've had a lot of joiners - no plumbers though - up in our loft lately; maybe I should be buying bottled water?

[PinkRose]

plumbers are water problem specialists so they often have the urge to uriniate. its common practice for them to mark their areas. :nooo: :nooo:

[JoeP]

These particular tanks are mains water tanks. Hot or cold: British building codes seem to call for a cold water tank as well as a hot water tank (which you obviously need if have a boiler system rather than instant heating). Regulations say you have to have at least one tap that is directly on the mains ... in case your cold tank becomes, ah, contaminated, I suppose. But possibly only one such tap. One advantage is to get a good head of pressure in areas where the mains pressure is low. Another, for the utility, might be that it evens out demands on the mains flow.

Cold water tanks are unheard of here.

[Crumb]

Now I know what that tank of water was in the attic in Shallow Grave! :1thumbup:

[mountain_hare]

you're drinking straight rain water that goes through an electric filter, so it tastes much butter then flouride enriched town water crap thankyou very much.

Agreed. I moved from the country to the city about 6 months ago, and I still can't get over how BAD the water tastes here. No wonder people in the city always have headaches. They don't have their 8 glasses of water a day, because the water tastes revolting.

I used to drink about 10 glasses a day at home. Now I might drink 1 or 2.

[MooseIBe]

there is a huge difference between the water here - rural North - and when I lived down South ,in an urban area. I couldn't get soap to lather properly when I first moved down there and my hair always felt greasy :)

[JoeP]

water softener!

[PinkRose]

water softener!

salty water, yuk. wash often with soap.