Flying J dumps station

wa8yxm wrote:

WoodGlue wrote:
How does one go about abusing a dump station?

WoodGlue

There are many ways, Dump steel bolts down the hole for example (Why some rest areas in GA no longer let you dump) Stuff a dead (or live for that matter) Cat in, Dump gravel in the hole, Sticks, and other debris never intended to go into that hole in the ground.

Fact: Last winter the sewer line in the "A" bathhouse in the campground I spend most of my winter at became clogged.

They roto-routered it and pulled out quite a bit of gravel.

The manager figured kids had dumped gravel down the toilets (I disagreed, that is way too much work for a vandal)

(Turns out I was right, but that's a story for another thread, if ever).

But that was the manager's first thought..

Few years back, before we closed all our dump stations, we had a situation where the parents of a couple of three year olds thought it was a good idea to let them use the dump station as a playground. The station had one of those hinged covers over the pipe. The parents had placed a large rock on the foot part of the hinge, locking the cover in the open position. The kids were using smaller rocks as basketballs, having great fun tossing and sliding the rocks into the hole. They were crawling all over the concrete drain pad. I went and sent the kids home and went to have a talk with the parents. As I walked up to the rig, the mother was handing the kids sandwiches. I was 10 seconds behind the kids, so there was no way for them to have washed up after crawling all over the dump station. That made me realize there was no reason to have a discussion with the parents over either the sanity of playing in a sewer, or the damage rocks in the system might cause. As Forest Gump said, "stupid is as stupid does"