🎵 How A Fatberg Forced Water Corporation To Cancel Bryan Adams' Perth Show

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gem Nation. Brian Adams has been in Australia
to being a series of concerts. He was supposed to
perform in Perth the other night but the venue had
to cancel for the most unusual of reasons.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
What's Brian done?

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Well, nothing, that he did. It was about a water
blockage outside the Perth Arena. Not just a water blockage,
but a fat burg in the sewer underneath. It was
a build up of fat, grease and rags in the
sewerage system, known as a fat burg, brother to christburg.

(00:36):
So fat Burg's a massive This is my research. Fat
Burgs are massive globes of congealed cooking fat, grease and
other waste.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I've seen a fat burg up close.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
How big was it?

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Well, they can be the size of an ice cream container,
like a four letter ice cream container. So if someone
puts commercial cooking food into.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
The drain and wet wipes and rags and it.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
All congeals because the fat solidifies in the sewer, and
then that keeps collecting, collecting, as you said before, the
wet wipes, and then you got yourself a fat burg.
The found being massive and the London sewer is as
big as a London bus. Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
So they're expensive and tedious to remove. And what they
felt was that they couldn't trust that this wouldn't explode
through the toilets during the concept.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
And that's and I don't want to be a bit
greenie or anything, but yeah, don't put your oil down
the sink.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
And your wet wipes. Yeah, don't cook with wet wipes
an Italian food. It tastes terrible, but imagine that. Imagine
Christaberg is in mid concert, Christaberg.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Imagine if a fat burg erpted.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
To Christiberg it's too much to burg And.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Then Dire Straits and Chris Real were touring.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
It's that diarrhea to your dream. It's your supergroup. So
imagine that Brian Adams is performing and this fat burg
is as roiling underneath the toilett minute it.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Can I play?

Speaker 1 (02:06):
You do it?

Speaker 2 (02:06):
What about everything?

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Do it? One more?

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Here?

Speaker 1 (02:17):
It is.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
The screams I've seen a Brian Adam concept not is it.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Like a fat bird.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
I was wishing for a fat pird to exploit it.