DATELINE:WELLINGTON, Dec 16, 2007 (AFP) - The New Zealand inventor of a worm-driven composting toilet has flushed away concerns from bureaucrats that the system traumatised the wriggly creatures, local media reported Sunday. Coll Bell, who built the "wormorator" as an alternative to septic tanks, was asked to get an expert's report on its mental impact on the tiger worms after an official became concerned during a site visit, the Sunday Star Times said. "She felt that the worms were being unfairly treated, being expected to deal with human faeces, and that it could affect them in a psychological way," Bell told the newspaper. "I said, 'Well, what do I do about that?' and she said, 'You have to have someone with the necessary qualifications to say the worms are happy'." In Bell's invention, a colony of worms filters solids from the toilet waste and the leftover water is filtered into underground trenches. The Auckland Regional Council's concerns went down the pan after vermiculture consultant Patricia Naidu found the worms in excellent health and breeding happily.
Stern lectures for the logically-challenged. Others have opinions, I have convictions.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Man May Work from Sun to Sun, But A Goofball's Work is Never Done.
No one knows less about animals than animal rights activists. My question is, how do people like this make it into government work?
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How do people like this make it into government work?
Simple answer: Prospective Government employees are givrn an intelligence test. If they flunk, they are hired.
Been to the DMV lately?
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