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Guy gets 15 months in prison for dumping over 1m tires
image credit: Burns Library, Boston College (Flickr CC)
Sometimes you just don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
I must confess I did the latter when reading about the arch eco-criminal, über litter bug a.k.a. audacious tire thug who illegally dumped over a million tires in remote spots of English countryside during the course of a single year.
It’s a lousy, shameless crime, but it’s also funny. I mean, was he going for a world record in tire dumping, or as the English say ‘tyre rubbishing’? And he’s been given 15 months for this – I imagine, but honestly have no idea – unprecedented tyre crime.
But tire or tyre dumping is serious business and seriously criminal to the environment.
The head of waste and illegals at the UK’s Environment Agency is quoted in the Guardian:
Huge tyre dumps are not only an eyesore, but also present a serious risk to the environment and human health. Stockpiles are a significant fire risk, as they can burn for several years, releasing dangerous gases such as hydrogen sulphide, hydrogen cyanide and sulphur dioxide. The Environment Agency has specialist crime teams to target serious, organised waste criminals, and make sure that illegal operations such as these are shut down. We also seek to confiscate the profits of waste crime, making it clear that waste crime does not pay.
They can burn for several years? Sounds awful, since the clouds of noxious black smoke I get each time I burn one of my tires is horrendous. Imagine one million burning.
Oh shut up, I don’t own a car or even a tire swing for that matter. I’m too ‘tired’.
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yes perhaps,but as what you have said, people has different absurdities…Hello to you too!
Hi Rachel. I imagine this guy was getting paid to dump tires, rather than hoarding them. By dumping them illegally he avoided fees.
Hoarding is one of the unpleasant habits of human, from the least valuable to the most precious one. It is insatiable that most of the times could lead to affect others lives as well….oh! I miss commenting…
Fair enough. While the crime is not funny per se, the audacity is absurd to me. There are many absurdities in human society, sorry if you don’t like them being pointed out. Sometimes laughter is a reaction to this absurdity. Best wishes.
People that do this are so dumb. I really can’t imagine what anyone who does this sort of thing is thinking about while burning tyres. They probably don’t bother to think at all.
Thanks for the info, but whilst the article is informative, I don’t like how you are trying to be funny in the end and you are not! No offence, mate. Also, there is nothing amusing about what you describe as a “lousy, shameless crime”. That is what it is and nothing to laugh at!