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On Boxing Day 2022, Canberra's major waste management facility caught fire and was essentially destroyed.

This was not due to a freak accident but stupidity. The investigations found multiple batteries of varying types, including lithium ones, in the remains of the fire. It would seem dumbos have been tossing them into recycling bins rather than taking them to readily available places such as supermarkets which accept them for recycling.

Such brilliance has currently cost people in Canberra about $1.4m for disposal of waste to interstate facilities. That figure will climb while the centre is rebuilt which could take a few years.

I really do despair at the dumbnutedness of some people.
 

1979: FRED DIBNAH and his wife TOPPLE HUGE CHIMNEY with FIRE | Steeplejack | 1970s | BBC Archive​

 

Damage inflicted on a manganese loading wharf after bulk carrier MV Anikitos crashed into it during Cyclone Megan on Groote Eylandt.
 

Video shows people risking their lives at level crossings as Kent’s most dangerous spot named​

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Around 258 misuse incidents and 33 near misses were recorded in the last year across the Kent route. East Farleigh near Maidstone, England saw 51 incidents in the last year, followed by 11 at Bax near Sittingbourne and Faversham.
 
I remember reading the book about this amazing story over 50 years ago. It was called "Survive the Savage seas"
Intriguing to see it being revived again in 2024. Well worth a read.

‘We pledged not to eat each other’: the family that was shipwrecked for 38 days​

In 1972, while travelling the world, the Robertsons’ boat was attacked by whales. They found themselves adrift for weeks on a tiny raft, forced to drink turtle blood, kill sharks and use enemas to stay hydrated, while fighting for their lives


The Robertson family and Robin, who they picked up in Panama. Photograph: Supplied image

‘We pledged not to eat each other’: the family that was shipwrecked for 38 days

In 1972, while travelling the world, the Robertsons’ boat was attacked by whales. They found themselves adrift for weeks on a tiny raft, forced to drink turtle blood, kill sharks and use enemas to stay hydrated, while fighting for their lives
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A choice takeaway from this story. Remember it for your next dinner party

Were they confident they’d survive? “No. We could be dead on the next wave. The problem was never food, it was water. We never had enough. My mother came up with this plan to absorb dirty water as an enema. So I made an enema out of a tube, my dad tied the funnel on it, and I cut the edges so it didn’t hurt too much, and we took enemas from the dirty water in the bottom of the dinghy.
My mum, God bless her, is the author of a survival technique in the SAS bloody survival manual! She’d be really honoured to think of that.”
 
Yes, I appreciate that last post was a bit tasteless. However It does add another, better , dimension to "sticking it up your xrse". This can be seen as a helpful way to survive a very difficult situation.

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