I really hate fly tippers.

[Dave7]

My house backs onto a nice country park called Peel Hall Park. I'm part of an organised volunteer group called 'friends of peel hall park'. We have regular litter pick days and have spent many hours clearing paths and cutting back shrubs and bushes. We recently planted hundreds of trees and will be creating a large wild flower meadow.
Some barsteward has just dumped this! Its about 1500 cm long and very heavy so must have been at least 2 people.

 

[Dave7]

My son is a chef and says the following......

That’s an industrial service fridge. I’d imagine a pub has asked someone to get rid of it, paid them and then it’s been dumped. It costs a small fortune to get rid of them properly because of the gases. They’re recyclable but if someone has taken the coil to the refrigeration gas compartment then it’s worthless

 

[teeonethousand]

I fully agree...I was out on a ride a few weeks ago in the lovely countryside and came across this. The chairs were dumped further up the road.

A curse on them!

 

[ColinJ]

Yes, scumbags!

A couple of years ago I spotted 2 men fly tipping from their white van. I managed to get its number as they drove away and reported them to the council.

Last autumn, I was high up in the local hills but fly tippers had even been there...

 

[Sea of vapours]

Someone's dumped a bike up there! What a )*)(^*&&^%

I saw that particular pile of stuff too - really incredibly annoying.

 

[biggs682]

It's a real curse for sure

 

[ColinJ]

Someone's dumped a bike up there! What a )*)(^*&&^%

I saw that particular pile of stuff too - really incredibly annoying.

One reason that those large boulders were placed along the side of the road there was that joyriders used to steal cars, drive up there, and push them over the edge. I once saw 3 burned out wrecks down there at the same time.

The other reason is to stop people accidentally driving over the edge!

All went well until we got to Thursden. We crossed the cattle grid and began the climb but there was absolutely no grip and we had to make emergency dismounts. Closer inspection revealed that there was a river of black ice all the way down the hill! Because of its orientation, the road is in shadow so there is no heat from the winter sun to melt any ice that forms. The road had not been gritted so it was potentially lethal.

We started walking our bikes up along the grass verge but then I saw a car hurtling down the hill towards us. I waved frantically at the driver but he made no attempt to slow down so I screamed at him as he passed and that did the trick. He skidded to a halt just before he got to the black ice and leapt out of his car, looking like he was ready to pick a fight with me. "Oh yeah, oh YEAH!" that kind of thing. I just pointed at the road in front of his car and suggested that it probably wouldn't have done him, his girlfriend or his car much good to have hit that at speed. He went all sheepish after that "Oh, er, thanks mate - yeah, could have been nasty, that!"