"Your name is Malcolm Bates and you claim to be a journalist?" Er, Yes, I am. "You are the owner of Exhibit A, an old fridge freezer?"Yes I was. I mean I am. "But you wanted a new one, didn't you? And when it arrived, you were intent on dumping the old one weren't you?" Er... "Answer the question!"Yes. No. Arrrgghh! Where am I? I've just had a nightmare! I was in the dock facing a prison sentence for dumping my old freezer down a quiet county lane because my local council had made it impossible to dispose of it legally. How did I know the council had just spent £10m on a fleet of infrared camera-equipped stealth drones to.... "help stamp out the menace of fly tipping"? True, something had to be done, but the situation was made worse by council planners closing the local tidy tip for six months while plans were drawn up for a £2.5m refurbishment scheme.
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