Weekly Flush: Thieves Steal Used Cooking Oil From Pizza Restaurant

In other recent septic-related news, police find an insane amount of meth inside the holding tank of an RV near Laredo, Texas

Weekly Flush: Thieves Steal Used Cooking Oil From Pizza Restaurant

It’s like a Mad Max movie out there, folks. Now, it seems even used cooking oil has become a hot enough commodity to entice the bandits.

A Norwalk, Connecticut, restaurant owner recently caught thieves in the act of stealing oil from his grease bin. Dave Kuban, the owner of Planet Pizza, managed to get the thieves’ license plate number and report it to police.

He says he heard a vehicle pull up around 7 a.m. and at first thought it was the company that pays him about $40 per month for his grease. But when he checked a security camera, he saw an unknown vehicle. He confronted them, and as they were driving away, snapped photos of the vehicle. 


A man near Laredo, Texas, recently found a new way to use his RV’s holding tank. According to court documents revealed in the February trial of Oscar Florencio Gonzalez-Leon, police say Gonzalez-Leon was pretending to be on a family trip but was in reality smuggling mass amounts of methamphetamine.

Authorities say a canine alerted on his RV at a checkpoint, and when agents searched the vehicle, they found 235 pounds of meth in the vehicle’s holding tank. The drugs were worth a reported $4.7 million.


DTO Go is a go. The one-year public restroom pilot program was recently approved by Orlando city officials. Under the pilot program, two-stall portable restroom trailers and accompanying handicapped-accessible units will be placed around the downtown Orlando area to help alleviate need by homeless residents and downtown patrons alike, according to Bay News TV-9.

“The main objective of this pilot program is to allow the Community Redevelopment Agency to investigate long-term solutions while learning lessons from this short-term approach to providing public restrooms,” says Thomas Chatmon Jr., executive director of the Downtown Development Board/Community Redevelopment Agency. 

The DTO Go program is a result of the Nightclubs Task Force’s 2016 Orlando Sociable City Study and is a stopgap measure. City leaders will review the program at the end of 2020.



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