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News Clippings
Reuters (30 June 1998)
Snakes in the Sewage of Europe
A popular urban myth is that alligators
inhabit the New York sewage system. Meanwhile Paris has
its own
Phantom in its aqua arteries but Britain is not far
behind in the sewage glamour stakes. Snakes, lawnmowers,
motorbikes, dentures and toupees are on the list of items
found lurking in Britain's 212,500 miles of sewers, says
the 'Guardian'.
A report by Water UK reveals pornographic photographs,
"jostle with Action Man, mattresses, jail keys and a
5ft tall toy gorilla". Not all in the same pipe, you
understand. Three 15ft Boa Constrictors were fished out
after people had flushed them down the toilet along with
a 9ft Python. To quell any hysteria, the reptiles were
dead but not so the live terrapins, salamanders, sea
trout, salmon, eels and frogs. For any of you wondering
how lawnmowers got in the system, larger items were
stuffed down manhole covers and not flushed down the
toilets. That would just be silly.
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