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Grass fly-tipper hit hard in pocket
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18-02-2004, 12:07 PM
Robert E A Harvey
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Grass fly-tipper hit hard in pocket
(Nick Maclaren) wrote in message ...
But the other point made by the defence is a good one. Dumping
such material onto farmland is the least important form of fly
tipping - certainly less serious than throwing a plastic container
out of a car window.
I don't think it's as trivial as all that. Sheep and horses are often
attracted by the smell of clippings, and can suffer serious illness if
they eat fermented grass clippins. It has been known to be fatal,
(as, of course has eating plastic bottles) to valuable animals.
The ideal penalty for that offender would have assigned him to
collecting non-degradable rubbish from that farm and others, say
10 wheelie-bins full.
That's not bad. I like that.
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Grass fly-tipper hit hard in pocket