Have just looked at the link to the EP act in the article. I challenge anyone to show how this prohibits what the lady did. It is indecipherable gobbledegook and if I was sitting as a magistrate i would throw any case like this out, unless there were clear signs showing that this type of action was prohibited. Good law is easy to understand and simple to know if you are breaking it.

Coffee-pouring lady one of the top stories in the Torygraph 😃

Would be interesting to know if the Enforcement Officers are salaried and/or on commission.

I should have said rainwater from roofs goes to a water table or soakage, although some do incorrectly also find their way to sewers. Waste water from a sink should never go to the same destination as a gully.

Woking - it’s a tenner because I’m an old git 👴🏻 and Trigg - yes I think it was my own ineptitude 🤪 but I’m happy to forego the quid 😂

Even if she spilled it? A quiet word and all this goes away but a some enforcement idiots have made the council look stupid and wasting taxpayer money. I see workman throwing leftover tea out all the time, usually on grass but they're not too fussy where it lands.

Pouring it on the pavement would have been an offence. Would pouring water down the gully be an offence? even if it was raining?

Concessions are £10. I was given the option to skip the donation too. Presumably, if you have a donations option it goes to our club but if you just hike the price up it is shared with Gateshead and whoever else the FA cone up with. Pipes from toilets and sinks are treated as wastewater and go to the sewer, so pouring coffee down a sink is fine. Rain water either goes to a water table or a soakage. No idea where rainwater from a gully goes. Presumably a water table too, unless it's near a river. How that woman was treated over pouring coffee down a gully is disgusting. If she just poured some on the pavement would that have been an offense?

Suggest that's user error A4E.

£10? I was charged £15 - south stand

The donation isn't mandatory. I clicked on Proceed to payment when I just bought ours.

Weird ticket thing for Gateshead - couldn’t buy my own seat without adding a donation (to what, I’m not sure…), so added the minimum allowed (£1) because I’m a cheapskate - still good value at £11, but I don’t really understand why the donation is mandatory, why not just have the ticket price a little higher in the first place…? 🤔

I’ve just poured a bit of coffee down my sink - sue me… ☕️

KT2, here the enforcement body are NOT Council, they are a contracted Co, who keep 100% of the fine proceeds

P99 - exactly, and I’m pretty sure paint is a lot worse than a few coffee dregs…

nick - true 👍

I see workman pouring paint and other stuff down the drains when I’m out coffee is nothing

Same enforcement types tried to nobble me outside Wimbledon train station on the way to a game recently (with my 6 y/o son). Incorrectly thought they'd seen me drop some litter, caught me just as we were going through the barriers into the station. I politely told them they were mistaken and we tapped / walked through the barriers, that was that. Seen some pretty shocking reports of how the Merton officers are behaving.

Depends where you live A4E different areas have different systems, Combined , Seperate and Partially separate. You see lots of incorrect connections into drainage systems though as people don’t understand the very simple configuration of the drains.

Yeah but the water companies can't guarantee that those drains don't leak into adjacent land/waterways so you get fined for their inability to protect the environment.

Also, where do they think the coffee goes when you pour it down your sink…? It’s the same drain as the rainwater drain, it’s different to the soil pipe sewerage drain….

OI - meanwhile people all over the country flush wet wipes down their toilets with impunity, and all the builders and decorators pour paint and white spirit down the drains and nothing happens at all to them… 🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

Maybe enforcement officers should follow the dustmen ,always a mess after they have been down my cul de sac

Storm drain stuff goes directly to river @ Richmond and is untreated, but come, this is coffee!

Imagine if Thames Water were fined an equivalent amount-per-ml for "disposing waste in a way likely to pollute land or water."