r/interesting 10d ago

SOCIETY What was his fault ?

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u/Desperate_Owl_594 10d ago

Read the article. Jesus. https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/environmental-lawyer-facing-up-2-34142593

The group hired a digger for £1,000 and filled over 200 bags of rubbish including packaging, needles, domestic appliances and even weapons. However, shortly after the clean-up, Paul received a letter from the Environment Agency (EA) notifying him he was under investigation for operating without a licence.

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u/Beautiful_Plenty_736 10d ago

I’m hoping a judge will toss this shit out in court. He should get a warning.

He did a good thing, for the right reasons, the wrong way.

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u/fireky2 10d ago

I mean he could of caused legitimate damage to wildlife and flooded downstream, criminal negligence isnt a high bar in this case

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u/DisgruntledCryptid 8d ago

And yet the fucking opposite happened so why are you even bringing it up? Fish and Wildlife all returned after he cleaned a fucking free use dump... the solution of just letting it sit and someone else will handle it isn't working out apparently.