He has told shocked councillors he can’t afford a replacement sewage treatment system and has sought their advice. The middle aged farmer, when building a new house more than two decades ago, decided to put an old Cortina to good use by digging a hole in the ground and lowering it into it.
He removed all seats from inside the car and inserted the outflow pipe from the house in through the driver’s door window – then opened a rear window which he used for percolation purposes, before covering it all in. The man told stunned politicians that the system was working fine and he had no difficulties with it.
He’s hoping for grant assistance to replace the buried car ... a proper filtration system could cost up to €17,000. One prominent politician said: “I couldn’t believe it when I got the call. At first I thought it was a joke and then discovered that he was actually genuine. He told me that at the time he couldn’t afford to provide a septic tank.”
Via Broadsheet.ie.
2 comments:
Classic Red Green solution. He's a comedian from Canada.
I remember visiting Ireland a few years ago and seeing several cars being buried in gardens. I was told that this was due to the introduction of a road worthiness test (the NCT test) which hadn't been required before. Prior to this mobile junk heaps were not uncommon in Ireland. Rural drivers were, I'm told, reluctant to pay the fees necessary to get their car towed to the nearest scrap yard which was often quite some distance away. So the inventive Irish solution was to borrow a back hoe loader and bury the car in the garden.
That was the reason I was given for what seemed to be quite a common practice, but maybe it was actually people installing DIY septic tanks.
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