“One night, I opened my front door to such a strong gas smell I actually thought someone was trying to gas me and I rang the police”.
More on wtf and why.
Woken at 1 am by the sicky sweet smell of petrol wafting in through our open bedroom window.
@davidmarsden this isn’t far from the other topic. There’s a special sense of powerlessness when the very air you breathe is poisoning you and you feel it in your throat and lungs. The institutional injustice here is different than yours there, but it’s still fairly routine in our area for people to burn plastic waste. That smell…
@lzbth oh we get that, too. The authorities are a little more responsive when it comes to stopping and prosecuting individuals, of course.