I thought I'd seen it all........

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LONDON (Reuters) - A plumber was fined and given a community service order on Tuesday after being captured on hidden cameras urinating into a vase in a customer's attic and pouring the contents into the central heating system.

Roy Williams, 47, was caught in the act by trading standards officers who had rented the house in Leatherhead and rigged it with cameras as part of a sting operation to check on tradesmen.

The plumber had been called out to fix a simple fault but instead missed this and charged 203 pounds for unnecessary work, Steve Playle of Surrey trading standards told Reuters.

Williams then urinated into a vase, poured the urine into the hot water tank and rinsed the vase in the cold water tank.

The plumber denied the charges, claiming he had a medical condition which meant he needed the toilet regularly and had been overcome by the sound of running water.

He was sentenced to 150 hours community service by Guildford Crown Court on charges of deception and making false trades descriptions, and was ordered to pay 3,778 pounds in fines and costs incurred cleaning the water tanks.

Steve Ebels_3

Must be something that's going around....

We were working in the courthouse of an ajoining county, talking with the maintenance man about a project we have going on there. His phone rang and when he got done with the conversation he informed us he had to go. Seems a person was upset with a ruling by the judge and decided to unzip and pee on the floor of the courtroom to show his displeasure. (at least I assume it was a he) Undoubtedly this made a lasting impression on the judge and the law enforcement officers in the courtroom. I'll see the maint guy again next week and ask him how the incident turned out. Should be interesting.

Christian Egli

No time to run to the toilet

Why rinse the vase? Was the guy worried about leaving things dirty?

Ted_4

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> LONDON (Reuters) - A plumber was fined and given

> a community service order on Tuesday after being

> captured on hidden cameras urinating into a vase

> in a customer's attic and pouring the contents

> into the central heating system.

>

> Roy

> Williams, 47, was caught in the act by trading

> standards officers who had rented the house in

> Leatherhead and rigged it with cameras as part of

> a sting operation to check on tradesmen.

>

> The

> plumber had been called out to fix a simple fault

> but instead missed this and charged 203 pounds

> for unnecessary work, Steve Playle of Surrey

> trading standards told Reuters.

>

> Williams then

> urinated into a vase, poured the urine into the

> hot water tank and rinsed the vase in the cold

> water tank.

>

> The plumber denied the charges,

> claiming he had a medical condition which meant

> he needed the toilet regularly and had been

> overcome by the sound of running water.

>

> He was

> sentenced to 150 hours community service by

> Guildford Crown Court on charges of deception and

> making false trades descriptions, and was ordered

> to pay 3,778 pounds in fines and costs incurred

> cleaning the water tanks.

Ted_4

P

Well, that's one way to adjust the pH of boiler water!