Flytipping menaces

Sorry to hear about your misfortune , I can sympathies with you as I done the same thing was doing garden work for Duchess of Hamilton. I used to put garden waste in a ditch and one day I put some petrol on to get it going quicker and the thing blew back at me and burned my face lucky the house is just a few yards away from house and I ran in and got cold water splashed on to my face then they took me up to doctors who gave me cream to put on and to go back the next day and he said that it would heal up ok when doc asked what had happened he said you will not do that again in a hurry , hope you get better soon .
 
Hicups can be a problem.
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Mobilvetta said:
We are fortunate to have some land in Blackpool were my wife and Daughter and grandkids enjoy there equestrian hobby. Last week some scum bags decided to remove the field gate of its hinges and dump green waste and tree cuttings on the land, they didn't even bother to close the gate afterwards, which could have led to the horses and pony's escaping out on the main rd.

My wife was worried about the animals eating the foliage so we put them up into the top field out of the way of it.
Well in my wisdom I said I will set it on fire in order to get rid of it, well through my own stupidity I managed to land myself in Preston Royal hospital burns unit. I stuffed some hay into it and poured about a litre of petrol on the wood thinking it would help it to burn. I used a lighter to light the hay, but there was an almighty boom and I got blasted off my feet, I rolled about screaming as I was on fire to put the flames out, my wife was about 500 yards away in the top field and heard the boom, she looked up and thought I was dead lying on the ground, I've never been as scared in my life, awful feeling. When she came to me I said ring our daughter as she is a nurse and lives 5 minutes away from the land and it was a day off so she could sort me out. But she told the wife to ring the ambulance. I started pouring cold water on my injuries as I still felt like my skin was burning, within 5 minutes of making the call there was a paramedic car on site, an ambulance and the air ambulance hovering above.

I felt so embarrassed to have caused such a fuss as I honestly believed my daughter could have sorted it out. The paramedic started putting gel packs on me and put a drip into me to give pain relief.

They decided that I would not need to be airlifted to Withenshaw Burns unit, so the air ambulance was allowed to go, I was taken to Blackpool Victoria hospital where the doctor there decided I needed to be taken to Preston Royal hospital burns unit, as he felt a plastic surgeon would need to look at me burns and they have a specific burns unit.

I was put on the burns ward were I have stayed for a few days, the service I received from our NHS and emergency staff was absolutely first class, i cannot believe the different departments that are involved with the burns unit, I had to see an eye specialist who was concerned about my right eye, although I have seen him again today and he is now happy with my progress so I will be allowed to drive, once I finish with the antibiotic eye cream. I had to see a counsellor to make sure I haven't been mentally scared from the incident, a physio as I have to do exercises to stop the skin getting tight. The plastic surgeon was a lovely lady from Romania who was very hands on, I have to see her again on Tuesday. Everyone has been so friendly and helpful, I am very lucky, I've been allowed home now as my daughter is a matron, so she can change my dressings daily.

I'm hoping that we are allowed to go away next Sunday for our family holiday to Ilfracombe. I am very lucky that it was not worse, my pride is hurt for being so stupid, I should know better at my age. Wow who would have thought that in a flash your life can change so quickly, they say live your life to the full, as you never know what is around that corner. I will be making a donation to our NHS and air ambulance.

I would just love to get my hands on the fly tippers after what they have put me and my family through, who were extremely upset, my wife has been a bag of nerves, she still can't talk about it. On a positive note I had to have a Covid test that came back negative and hopefully I will look 10 years younger when the skin finishes peeling of my face. The wife has now banned me from having a fire pit.

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Wow so lucky it wasn’t worse, though bad enough. Get well soon and stay safe on your holiday
 
Millie Master said:
The dumped rubbish was almost certainly dumped there by members of the traveller community, most of whom have absolutely zero regard for UK law and other peoples property.
Of course in a case like this it isn't only these traveller community workers who are the problem but the mindless idiots who use them to clear their gardens not bothering to check their documentation and certificates thoroughly if indeed at all :mad::mad::mad:.

For heaven knows what reason, land owners aren't supported at all by the civic authorities and so, just as soon as any rubbish is fly tipped onto private land then, it then becomes the legal responsibility for the land owner to clear it up at their own expense and that makes me almost as mad as the bloody 'dids' did in the first case :mad::mad::mad:.

My heart goes out to you Mobilvetta, I sincerely hope you make a full recovery.
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The instances of fly tipping have greatly increased due to lockdown in all parts of the country. To say this it’s the traveller community is very unfair and I believe to be incorret, unless you have evidence to suggest otherwise? PS Daily & Sunday Mail stories not accepted as evidence.
 
Mobilvetta said:
We are fortunate to have some land in Blackpool were my wife and Daughter and grandkids enjoy there equestrian hobby. Last week some scum bags decided to remove the field gate of its hinges and dump green waste and tree cuttings on the land, they didn't even bother to close the gate afterwards, which could have led to the horses and pony's escaping out on the main rd.

My wife was worried about the animals eating the foliage so we put them up into the top field out of the way of it.
Well in my wisdom I said I will set it on fire in order to get rid of it, well through my own stupidity I managed to land myself in Preston Royal hospital burns unit. I stuffed some hay into it and poured about a litre of petrol on the wood thinking it would help it to burn. I used a lighter to light the hay, but there was an almighty boom and I got blasted off my feet, I rolled about screaming as I was on fire to put the flames out, my wife was about 500 yards away in the top field and heard the boom, she looked up and thought I was dead lying on the ground, I've never been as scared in my life, awful feeling. When she came to me I said ring our daughter as she is a nurse and lives 5 minutes away from the land and it was a day off so she could sort me out. But she told the wife to ring the ambulance. I started pouring cold water on my injuries as I still felt like my skin was burning, within 5 minutes of making the call there was a paramedic car on site, an ambulance and the air ambulance hovering above.

I felt so embarrassed to have caused such a fuss as I honestly believed my daughter could have sorted it out. The paramedic started putting gel packs on me and put a drip into me to give pain relief.

They decided that I would not need to be airlifted to Withenshaw Burns unit, so the air ambulance was allowed to go, I was taken to Blackpool Victoria hospital where the doctor there decided I needed to be taken to Preston Royal hospital burns unit, as he felt a plastic surgeon would need to look at me burns and they have a specific burns unit.

I was put on the burns ward were I have stayed for a few days, the service I received from our NHS and emergency staff was absolutely first class, i cannot believe the different departments that are involved with the burns unit, I had to see an eye specialist who was concerned about my right eye, although I have seen him again today and he is now happy with my progress so I will be allowed to drive, once I finish with the antibiotic eye cream. I had to see a counsellor to make sure I haven't been mentally scared from the incident, a physio as I have to do exercises to stop the skin getting tight. The plastic surgeon was a lovely lady from Romania who was very hands on, I have to see her again on Tuesday. Everyone has been so friendly and helpful, I am very lucky, I've been allowed home now as my daughter is a matron, so she can change my dressings daily.

I'm hoping that we are allowed to go away next Sunday for our family holiday to Ilfracombe. I am very lucky that it was not worse, my pride is hurt for being so stupid, I should know better at my age. Wow who would have thought that in a flash your life can change so quickly, they say live your life to the full, as you never know what is around that corner. I will be making a donation to our NHS and air ambulance.

I would just love to get my hands on the fly tippers after what they have put me and my family through, who were extremely upset, my wife has been a bag of nerves, she still can't talk about it. On a positive note I had to have a Covid test that came back negative and hopefully I will look 10 years younger when the skin finishes peeling of my face. The wife has now banned me from having a fire pit.

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I believe people are misled by the many times we see petrol being used in films to set things on fire and starting it with a lighter or match while close up. What happens is the petrol evaporates very quickly and creates a cloud of explosive gas, just like in your engine cylinder and the smallest of sparks is enough to ignite. Sad that you had to experience the effects so directly and that your experience will send a message to everyone who hears of it.
 
Some folk will go to great lengths to get a good sun tan,correct petrol does not burn but the gas and air do with a big bang,get well soon.
 
I wish you a speedy recovery.
Let's be honest now, using we all know it's is a silly thing to do to use petrol etc to light a fire.
Hands up how many have done the same and been lucky, I know I have.
Just goes to show how easy things can turn nasty.
 
Yup, hands up too. I once put a lit match to the end of a recently emptied Meths bottle, it went off like a flame thrower and badly burnt my thumb and index finger.

Not the brightest thing I have ever done although my wife thinks that is debatable:(.
 
A mate I know saves the thinners he cleans his sprayguns with (equipment cleaner, xylene, toluene) he keeps it in an old drum and uses it for lighting his bonfire. Saves the problem of getting rid of it. Does go with a woof though
 
Many years ago, playing on a rubbish site with a mate, we found two large drums, we tried to roll them down the rubbish hill which was about 30 feet high but the drums were too heavy. We found an iron spike and punctured a drum and a thick grey liquid poured out and ran down the hill. Down the hill we go and my mate said "I wonder if it'll burn". Of course we had to see if it did indeed burn.
We got some cardboard, lit it and threw it onto the liquid that was still running down the hill. The flame tore up the hill, reached the drum, there was one almighty woomph, we were blown over with the force. The flames were incredibly high, we near crapped ourselves and ran as fast as we could.
We later found out that the drums were Toluene!

When you think back to the idiotic things you have done, it really does make you wonder how you are still alive. :ROFLMAO:
 
When we where kids we read that you shouldn't put aerosol cans on fires as they would explode, I think the term for this is 'red flag for a bull', as of cause the first thing we did was save the old aerosols to throw onto bonfires.
 
I have seen calor gas taks hidden in bonfires,folk stay all night to watch over just in case.
 
I can't help but laugh at that vid, the dogs are sitting there thinking "this should be entertaining"
 
Any one wearing them daft sandles and shorts are sure to be a numpty,prob a school teacher.
 
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