[Closed] Marathon Water Theft

Why do people insist in filming in portrait?

They look like a load of immigrants. You'd have thought they would be scared of water.

Scum. No doubt they will be flogging it to tourists later.

I'd hate to live in a world where free water was that attractive. I think we (and this is a huge generalisation about STW users) should be thankful that we aren't that desperate.

Mister P, you're right there but in this case I'm sure all those people have access to a tap. It's most likely as craig said this is a case of stealing stuff in order to rip tourists off.

That'll be on sale at the local market or corner shop tomorrow. Thieving scumbags. 🙄

This country is going down the pan, I was just reading the local news agency website and thats even worse.

How many tourists flock to deptford for these water sales.?

From the look of the road which is covered in empty bottles the runners must have already been through. It could well be people just taking what is left over after the event maybe even with permission of the people at the station...

If people were going to rush the water station and take everything why would they wait until after the event started rather than just in the morning before it got crowded?

That being said looked at some more pictures and a map. Looks like it is the 8-9 mile mark and there are still some runners in the pictures...

So I will go get the pitchfork ready...

That's about it now! I've had enough and am going to cause a riot!

What is the Landaan world coming too, water must be pricey round them parts.
I have a spring stream in my garden which I must go and fill the kettle now I've remembered 😆

This happened one year during the Edinburgh Marathon, super hot day and runners were collapsing everywhere. I think there was about 8 miles with no water and the first one we did come across was a person with a hose.

Why would you say they are immigrants?

London water is pretty bad so i don't blame folks for taking water if the orginisers have said it is ok, but if they are just nicking it then that's another story.

I'm sure that the media/public will only point out a select demographic even though the races that were taking the water looked pretty mixed in other photos on the net.

Odd that there are no police in that area of London, get's me thinking that either taking the water was ok or that no one really cared enough to do anything about it

Thanks for clearing up any confusion mrsfry. Nothing to see hear move along people. 😆

Bizarre and sad state of affairs that water in plastic bottles is so attractive, as to put that much effort to take it. Something not quite right with our society, isn't their. Not so far off the post apocalyptic Mad Max type world as we like to think...

Odd that there are no police in that area of London, get's me thinking that either taking the water was ok or that no one really cared enough to do anything about it

Police were scrambled with the water cannon, but some shits had syphoned the [water] tanks.

They're probably the unfortunate few who missed out when they looted poundland a couple of years ago, or couldn't get in to that black friday sale in Asda.

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Obviously some of it will be sold, at what price? A fiver a crate? Ten quid? Or are they going to stand on a street corner hoping to sell it for a quid a bottle? Good luck to them.

An unfortunate combination of poverty, selfishness and stupidity.

London water is pretty bad

no it's not.

I remember lots of taste tests where thames would come out top or near the top, here's one from 2013 where it comes 3rd:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/eau-de-thames-beats-volvic-in-taste-test-6673595.html

One big difference is people nearly always drink spring water from the fridge - try putting tap water in the fridge and then telling the difference.

Plus there are much tighter regs on what can be in tap water, spring water and mineral water are much looser.

I remember a documentary on waters - there's one named 99.9 as it is a very pure water, filtered many times. They asked if they started with spring water, they said no way as it is too dirty, they started with tap water.

One spring water they tried was more readioactive than it should have been, many had too much of some mineral or another, and one was festering with bacteria (a highland spring bottling for a supermarket) as the room where they bottled it wasn't clean enough and therefore human skin dust got into the plastic bottles, and then gorged itself on the plastic so by the time you bought it it was festering.

Plus all those plastic bottles are an environmental nightmare.

Police were scrambled with the water cannon, but some shits had syphoned

But Boris's water cannon cannot be used, so the 250k they cost plus the 25k per year to maintain them, is money down the drain. But let's ignore that and concentrate on some low life stealing a few quids worth of bottles.

250k they cost plus the 25k per year to maintain them, is money down the drain.

Arf arf

Ah, remember the outrage on here last time one of our friendly London youth stole some bottles of water?

Whatever happened to "its only £3.50 worth of water"?

Have you ever [i]tasted[/i] london tap water? Worth doing a year inside just to avoid it

London Tap Water? I piss it!

...as do most of us who live upstream 🙂

It doesn't look like much of a marathon. They'd got it in a few seconds

Have you ever tasted london tap water? Worth doing a year inside just to avoid it

[url= http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2008/jul/31/tapwatertastetest ]Perfectly adequate[/url]

Looks like it's all the left over water being given away to me.

mefty - Member

Perfectly adequate

Maybe it's just because we're spoiled up here but London's pretty much the only place I buy bottled water. Not nice at all.

London tap water is pre-filtered.

By someone else's kidneys 😉

"They look like a load of immigrants"

They just look like a load of people to me. But then; I'm not an ignorant racist ****. 🙄

[i]1. Severn Trent Water
2. Anglian Water
3. Thames Water
4. Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
5. Southern Water
6. Scottish Water
7. South West Water
8. Yorkshire Water
9. United Utilities
10. Wessex Water[/i]

That's very interesting. I find it incredible that a city as massive as London can have such a relatively clean and contamination-free water supply. In fact, I think our country's entire water supply is absolutely outstanding, in being able to produce such a quality service.

London tap water has been throught the human body at least 8 times I believe.

I shall drink some London tap water tomorrow - we have a filter at work so I will make sure I do not use it. In fact I shall compare the filtered to the non-filtered and may even recruit some work colleagues in a blind taste test...

Double post?

I'd hate to live in a world where free water was that attractive. I think we (and this is a huge generalisation about STW users) should be thankful that we aren't that desperate.

Seems v generous - unless drac is correct, looks like basic opportunistic theft.

If the "scumbags" were to drive to Buxton they could have as much as they wanted for free as the lions mouth must never stop. Always makes me chuckle when I see folks filling up their empty plastic bottles.

London tap water has been throught the human body at least 8 times I believe.

It must be pretty good then

5s in to the video there is a guy in a Buxton t-shirt stood idly watching as bottles of water get 'stolen'. Makes you think doesn't it.

"London tap water has been throught the human body at least 8 times I believe."

[i]All[/i] water has been through the digestive system of countless creatures, countless times:

[i]Also in the show, Doherty sets out to settle an urban myth about water once and for all: does tap water really go through seven people before it reaches our glass?
After a warts and all visit to a sewage works in Sutton Coldfield, in the West Midlands, where water arrives fresh from the sewer, he learns how good bacteria in the water kills bad bacteria - before water is flushed out into a river.
He then moves on to a water treatment works where in a three hour process, the water is ready to drink three hours after arrival.
And it is here he learns the real truth - forget seven people, all the water we drink has been through billions of people.
As John McGregor, of South Eastern Water, explains: 'You can't make new water.
'You can basically say the water we drink today is the same water that the dinosaurs drank.
'So forget seven people - it's been through billions.'[/i]

http://www.****/health/article-3046928/Revealed-tap-water-just-good-slice-CHEESE-truth-really-does-7-people-drink-it.html

"5s in to the video there is a guy in a Buxton t-shirt stood idly watching as bottles of water get 'stolen'. Makes you think doesn't it."

Not really. The companies giving out the water don't want the expense of taking unused bottles away again, and having to store them somewhere, as that costs a lot more than just giving it away. I've seen bottled water given away at the marathon several times; this year was cold and humid, so far less water was taken by runners than in other years. Hence the surplus. The scramble of people getting it is rather unedifying, but it says more about our consumer society in general, than it does about those individuals.

As John McGregor, of South Eastern Water, explains: 'You can't make new water.
'You can basically say the water we drink today is the same water that the dinosaurs drank.
'So forget seven people - it's been through billions

No shit!

No shit!

I expect that's what the 3 hour treatment process takes care of.

I imagine the volunteers running the stall had left as they will have a cut-off time. You'd imagine they have excess water ordered and today was cold so probably even less drunk than normal. I can't imagine they'd go round collecting keft over water so its got to go to a new home one way or another.

Water Canon are very effectively used in other cities, I even seen the Paris police firing water canin at the striking fore brigade who where buring pallets in the street. All very surreal.

You can't make new water

Hugh Brasher, Event Director for London Marathon Events Ltd, said: “It’s very disappointing to see water being stolen in this way from the official water stations for our runners.

“These water stations are staffed by volunteers and we are very grateful to them for their work on Race Day.

“We always brief our volunteers not to get into altercations if this kind of thing happens. We’ll investigate this further.”

Hmm. Well what do you know. They were opportunistic thieving ne'er-do-wells.

Who saw that coming?

Erm, I'm no chemist, but I'm fairly sure you can, with just two ingredients... Has a fairly useful by product too.

I presume you're referring to hydrogen? Not much of that knocking around (its lighter than air so if there was any then it would leave the atmosphere).

You could argue that burning any hydrocarbon produces water, but that's also false because that hydrogen got there via photosynthesis from water in the past so is just on a very slow path through the water cycle too.

So yea, in a roundabout way unless you can find some leftover hydrogen from the big bang, new water will be difficult to come by 😉

Deptford - 'nuf said.

Sh*thole part of London, very close to where I was brought up.

If you get people to take all the spare water away, saves the organisers having to arrange to get it taken away 🙂

Typical London behaviour - "here is a resource that has been made available to people who may be in serious need of something to keep them safe and healthy during an athletic event which will benefit charity. Shall I ensure that they have ready access to it? Or shall I 'alf inch it in the hope of making a few bob without giving a flying duck about anybody else on the planet?" No contest, when you're within the sound of Bow Bells. Or inside the M25.

So you get all outraged at this, and yet Only Fools And Horses continues to be the nation's best-loved comedy.

You can't have it both ways.

So you get all outraged at this, and yet Only Fools And Horses continues to be the nation's best-loved comedy.

And the Tories keep getting elected.

People stealing stuff that isn't nailed down shocker !

I've handed out water at the Moonwalk (night time marathon walk run by women in bras) outside the Breakthrough Breastcancer labs in Kensington and there were plenty of usually drunk people trying to pinch the water bottles

As for saying it's something that would only happen in London....

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/thieves-steal-bikes-disabled-riders-5824391

We had a burst mains that meant no water for approx 24 hours. The water company shipped in crates and crates of 2l bottles of still water.

They then had to pay a someone to sit and watch it, 24/7. Some of it's opportunistic - OAP's turning up with wheelbarrows to 'stock up' but the water board chap said a lot of theft is more organised - with it ending up resold to shops or restaurants in bulk rather than per bottle. He said they have found it's the same culprits and thought they were monitoring social media to try and see when 'free' water would be handed out.

Go figure. As said ^^ - people grabbing 'free' stuff shocker!

So you get all outraged at this, and yet Only Fools And Horses continues to be the nation's best-loved comedy

Have you heard about Joe Cocker?

Only Fools And Horses continues to be the nation's best-loved comedy.

Is this a Peckham Spring reference?

Is this a Peckham Spring reference?

I read it more as a sitcom celebrating the comedy antics of a couple of lovable rogues selling stolen and knocked off items to earn a living in the East end of London. Bless 'em.

This lot are clearly just modern day Del and Rodneys, and should be celebrated as such. Thankfully, they're already on TV as we speak so we can soon hope to enjoy the rest of the story of their hilarious criminal capers.

So yea, in a roundabout way unless you can find some leftover hydrogen from the big bang, new water will be difficult to come by

I think the video speaks for itself.

Have you heard about Joe Cocker?

You what?