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    28 A lesson in overpopulation and toilet-clogging

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    This bloke went around clogging toilets. Judges reviewed and re-reviewed his case and carefully punished him. This sort of dedication to cases that would in many other countries be dismissed as laughable is testament to what overpopulation affords societies: serial toilet clogging without the consequences. That said, in any other (more populated) country the culprit would likely have lost his job.

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    Published on Tuesday, 2nd July 2019.

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