Covert television cameras and spy systems hidden in bushes and trees are catching fly-tippers in Cheshire.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to TipWatch.
“Nearly daybreak, and the monitoring team have been up all night, determined to capture evidence of a Drobelle – that is a Drobelle of the nocturnal Abominable Ronny Drobelle variety – fly-tipping.
“After studying his habits and reported sightings the team chose a spot under the railway arches hoping he would appear. But after six hours they were weary and about to admit the Drobelle may be the stuff of legend, when they were alerted by rustling in the shrubs.
“Look carefully now – there! – that’s the Abominable Drobelle breaking cover. He’s never before been filmed.
“See how cautious he is, how he looks around before fly-tipping. How quickly he withdraws, taking the same route.
“But, disappointingly for the team, he is carrying only one bin bag. They make a search but find only domestic rubbish he probably could not squeeze into his wheelie. They were hoping for some rubble and perhaps last year’s Christmas tree.
“A few hours ago, our other cameras on the site of some demolished houses, picked up a fine specimen of a Frank Dumper, of the genus brazenus arrogantus.
“The Frank Dumper does not attempt secrecy. Witness his confidence in his natural habitat.
“Watch the way he pulls up in his estate car. Unlike the furtive Drobelle he does not bother looking around for natural predators, like policemen or nosey neighbours. He simply pulls the mattress from the boot and lays it just inside the gate, admires what he has done, straightens his back and leaves.
“They are predictable, observing certain routines. The team fully expect this Frank Dumper to return within an hour with a car tyre and an old piece of panel fencing and sure enough they are proved correct.
“Well now, for several days our cameras and microphones in Bluebell Woods have picked up nothing more exciting than young couples having fun, but then, the pictures aren’t too clear, but this is a sofa being dropped in the woods, a rare sighting indeed. Usually they just appear, as if by magic.
“Significantly – you just can make out through the undergrowth – the car driver stumbling toward the stream into which he throws an old bicycle frame.
“All woodland streams contain a bike frame and we are close to finding out why.
“Join us next week on TipWatch when David and the team attempt to solve the ancient mystery of who hangs plastic bags in the trees and they ask: ‘Is it territorial?’.”
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