A lump of fat the size of a double decker bus has been discovered clogging a London sewer.
The Fatberg, described as 15 tonnes of festering food mixed with wet wipes and a host of other disgusting ephemera, was found blocking pipes under Kingston in south London.
The revolting mass caused sewage flows through the pipes to be reduced to five per cent of normal capacity and was created by people pouring cooking oils down the drain and flushing sanitary products.
The blockage was so critical it threatened to blast untreated sewage through manhole covers onto the streets of one of the leafiest London boroughs.
Engineers who found the colossal blockage of congealed fat said they had never seen anything like it. […]
Workmen used a high-pressure jet of water to blast away the massive blockage over 10 nights.
Related: Sydney Leathers releases sex tape.
“Workmen used a high-pressure jet of water to blast away the massive blockage over 10 nights.”
Might have gone faster if they’d added something amphipathic to the water. What a bunch of dumbasses. Now it’ll just reaggregate somewhere else in the system. I guess as long as it’s a less leafier suburb where that happens, it’s all good.
Cooking oil? It had better be halal or this could be history’s first racist sewer blockage.
“Fatberg”? What is Michael Moore doing in a London sewer?
“…15 tonnes of festering food mixed with wet wipes…”
Has anyone seen Barney Frank lately?
I have first-person experience removing small fat clogs (10 to 20 pounds worth) in sewer lines. (I helped clear the lines leading from a college dining center one year as part of my summer job on campus.) Fun stuff.
Might have gone faster if they’d added something amphipathic to the water.
They should have told all the neighbors to run a tablespoon of Dawn down the kitchen sink every day. They could still send a few union goons down the sewer every day to check on progress, so it’s not like they wouldn’t get their overtime…
Tell Obama it’s an underground meeting of the Tea Party. He’ll drone that bitch clear in a NooYawk minute.
What is Michael Moore doing in a London sewer?
– The same thing he does in every sewer he visits – posing for family photo’s.
How many black soldier fly maggot-meat sammiches could Londoners get out of that I wonder?
Happy Impeach Obama Overpass day!
I wonder if this is a problem now because of all the “low flow” showers, toilet etc.
I agree with the Dawn suggestion. We used to get fat clogs all the time in our kitchen sink until we switched to Dawn (we also we had lower flow when it was clogging until I re-did all the water supply).
A friend of mine from the UK who wanted to see Obama elected in 2008 (he’s a centrist! Everybody likes him!) told me that he hopes we don’t reelect him in 2016. I can’t tell if he is ignorant of how the election system works, or if he knows something we only grimly suspect might happen. Is he dumber than me or a prophet teasing the shape of tomorrow from the mists of today? I can’t tell.
Dumber.
i never heard of this ever happening in America, which is where most people I know live
Is there some means to usefully analogize Islam the religion to an enormous bolus of stinking fat and sanitary napkins clogging the world’s waste water thought processes? Otherwise, I ain’t seeing the point.
Is he dumber than me or a prophet teasing the shape of tomorrow from the mists of today? I can’t tell.
We have no term limits in Blighty – we can make the same silly mistake over and over again until we, the crook or all of us are dead.
If Jerry Brown can do it, why not Obama?
“Related: Sydney Leathers releases sex tape”
This is even a BIGGER ewwwwww
I wouldn’t be so quick to rule out prophetic, myself.
I mean, really, if he wants to run again, and he’s got the support of his base, who’s going to stop him?
The media. You can tell by the way they say this or that “phoney” crisis “doesn’t rise to the level of Watergate” that they’ve just been pacing themselves on the whole watchdog role. Any time now, they’ll be ready to muscle up to those bars and voom!
[…] The London Daily Mail, Sam Webb reporting, we learn [tip of the fedora to Darleen Click][emphasis […]
Huma must be absolutely thrilled that her husband appeals to such fine upstanding young citizens. Or is that “denizen?”