Dune Bashers Beware....
Oct 24th 2008, 5:21 am
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Dune Bashers Beware....
Am feeling sick reading this...
A dune basher got more than he bargained for when his 4x4 ploughed into a ditch full of raw sewage. The vehicle had to be pulled out by a rescue truck after sinking in the stinking mess, near Jebel Ali port. Its driver, a British expat, was forced to get out of his car and wade through the pungent pit so he could attach the tow rope.
It is believed the sewage was dumped by tanker drivers trying to avoid queues at Al Awir treatment plant. Tow truck driver Frank Murray said: “It is a whole pond of human excrement - the man was up to his knees in it.
“There were billions of flies and the guy was nearly passing out because of the fumes.“It’s a typhoid outbreak waiting to happen.“I don’t know how these tanker drivers get away with it. That was the worst job I’ve ever undertaken in Dubai in 35 years.”
http://www.7days.ae/storydetails.php...t%20Old%20Mess
And they are worried about stray cats spreading disease - duffers.
A dune basher got more than he bargained for when his 4x4 ploughed into a ditch full of raw sewage. The vehicle had to be pulled out by a rescue truck after sinking in the stinking mess, near Jebel Ali port. Its driver, a British expat, was forced to get out of his car and wade through the pungent pit so he could attach the tow rope.
It is believed the sewage was dumped by tanker drivers trying to avoid queues at Al Awir treatment plant. Tow truck driver Frank Murray said: “It is a whole pond of human excrement - the man was up to his knees in it.
“There were billions of flies and the guy was nearly passing out because of the fumes.“It’s a typhoid outbreak waiting to happen.“I don’t know how these tanker drivers get away with it. That was the worst job I’ve ever undertaken in Dubai in 35 years.”
http://www.7days.ae/storydetails.php...t%20Old%20Mess
And they are worried about stray cats spreading disease - duffers.
Oct 24th 2008, 7:28 am
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Re: Dune Bashers Beware....
omg, can you imagine...no, hold on, i don't want to think about it...
but, those poor guys in the sewage lorries, waiting for hours on end, some of them are bound to do something like this, you somehow can't blame them, it's the system that is screwed up...
MM, xx
but, those poor guys in the sewage lorries, waiting for hours on end, some of them are bound to do something like this, you somehow can't blame them, it's the system that is screwed up...
MM, xx
Oct 24th 2008, 7:36 am
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Re: Dune Bashers Beware....
You're right. The blame lies squarely on the authorities.....
Oct 24th 2008, 7:45 am
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Re: Dune Bashers Beware....
I couldn't believe the amount of wagons up by International City ! those poor guys must have to wait days and days 
Oct 24th 2008, 8:03 pm
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Re: Dune Bashers Beware....
Am feeling sick reading this...
A dune basher got more than he bargained for when his 4x4 ploughed into a ditch full of raw sewage. The vehicle had to be pulled out by a rescue truck after sinking in the stinking mess, near Jebel Ali port. Its driver, a British expat, was forced to get out of his car and wade through the pungent pit so he could attach the tow rope.
It is believed the sewage was dumped by tanker drivers trying to avoid queues at Al Awir treatment plant. Tow truck driver Frank Murray said: “It is a whole pond of human excrement - the man was up to his knees in it.
“There were billions of flies and the guy was nearly passing out because of the fumes.“It’s a typhoid outbreak waiting to happen.“I don’t know how these tanker drivers get away with it. That was the worst job I’ve ever undertaken in Dubai in 35 years.”
http://www.7days.ae/storydetails.php...t%20Old%20Mess
And they are worried about stray cats spreading disease - duffers.
A dune basher got more than he bargained for when his 4x4 ploughed into a ditch full of raw sewage. The vehicle had to be pulled out by a rescue truck after sinking in the stinking mess, near Jebel Ali port. Its driver, a British expat, was forced to get out of his car and wade through the pungent pit so he could attach the tow rope.
It is believed the sewage was dumped by tanker drivers trying to avoid queues at Al Awir treatment plant. Tow truck driver Frank Murray said: “It is a whole pond of human excrement - the man was up to his knees in it.
“There were billions of flies and the guy was nearly passing out because of the fumes.“It’s a typhoid outbreak waiting to happen.“I don’t know how these tanker drivers get away with it. That was the worst job I’ve ever undertaken in Dubai in 35 years.”
http://www.7days.ae/storydetails.php...t%20Old%20Mess
And they are worried about stray cats spreading disease - duffers.
Oct 25th 2008, 7:40 am
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Re: Dune Bashers Beware....
You have just reached the winter of my discontent...Oh, and I'm saying it nicely with a loving smile on my face...
Oct 26th 2008, 6:02 am
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Re: Dune Bashers Beware....
These guys should be arrested then deported, do you have any idea how dangerous this is? the lazy bastards,
And also, how difficult is it to get them to fill some form in, or have some sort of electronic card so when they do dump it it is ticked off so they know for sure that the tanker has been emptied in the correct place?
Oct 26th 2008, 7:26 am
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Re: Dune Bashers Beware....
One evening about a week ago, I was heading out of the Jebel Ali Industrial estate going towards the Emirates Road and there were two sewage tankers parked up right next to the duel carriageway dumping their waste. One was dumping onto the sand and the other directly onto the road.
These guys are not even trying to hide what they are doing.
These guys are not even trying to hide what they are doing.