There's a chap moors on the towpath a mile or so from Burscough known as 'Dirtyshirt' for obvious reasons, I often say ok to him when our paths cross, if I'm heading to Parbold, walking to the boozer or suchlike.
Now I know his boat doesn't move anywhere, he uses a water butt for his water supplies so he never ventures anywhere where he can empty his bog so can only presume it goes in under the hedge / in the cut!
He uses one of the 'bucket/chuck-it type of bog like below as I've seen it on his back deck quite often( fortunately not when it's being used!!)
Should the subject be broached with him on health hazard fly tipping grounds or is it better just to block it from my thoughts?
you've got to be pretty sad to allow your imagination to work on that kind of shit.
get on and enjoy life's journey, why don't you?
................. oh, and while you're about it, the title of your thread is entirely imaginary in itself, 'cos by your own admission you don't know what he does with his personal effluent.
I can't answer that honestly, but, judging by the state and smell of the chap, I would imagine he slops the contents of said bucket over himself and his shirt from time to time!
Is this thread about throwing the cassettes in the hedge or throwing the shit in the hedge?eta title has been edited to add the word "contents"
Its an interesting point dogless made that all boat dwellers and itinerant workers would have been shitting in the hedge or the cut in the canals' working days.
I wonder if keen traditionalists do this while polishing their gas mask clip chimney chains?
Coming through Thorne yesterday a boater blatantly tipped his bucket into the cut right in front of me. It was obviously a bucket and chuck it so a regular practice for said boater. He was only yards from an elsan point, lazy bastard.
Coming through Thorne yesterday a boater blatantly tipped his bucket into the cut right in front of me. It was obviously a bucket and chuck it so a regular practice for said boater. He was only yards from an elsan point, lazy bastard.
Pics or it didn't happen!
oh it happened , I tend to focus on sailing my boat rather than taking photos seen as I'm a single hander.
I was at Naburn Marina earlier and noticed that and was discussing it with one of the guys there .... oddly now the sky also has a yellowish glow which is something I have seen before in the Gulf of Mexico when there was a hurricane in the offing.
(and my solar panels are extracting very little charge from it I'll have to run the genny this afternoon)
the biggest disadvantage of age .... is that you can't outgrow it
Red Sun here in Luddenden, quite exotic. Will look for Sahara dust on sliding hatch later.
Its weird. It was bright red London way and when we got closer to home it has gone yellow there is 100% cloud cover.
Flying in, from about Belgium there was complete cloud cover for as far as the eye could see in every direction. All the way to Luton. Blooming Windy too.