"MM" wrote in message
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Where I live the sewage treatment plant recently broke down and needed
a new pump. Householders each had to pay a relatively small sum of
money in order to avoid tapping into the contingency fund which is
really there for replacing the entire plant in 20 years' time.

And then a number of residents refused to pay, for whatever reason I
don't know. Those who had paid got their money back and the bill for
the new pump plus labour etc was paid from the contingency fund
instead.

Tell them that the people who paid money, instead of it buying a new pump
due to the ****s who wouldent pay, had non return valves fitted to their
sewer lines instead,
and when the pump fails their sewage will flow into the main system, where
it will back up into the houses of those who didnt get a non return valve