What’s the size of five elephants, stinks of poo, and is floating about underneath your feet?

Give up?

It’s called a ‘pooberg’, and Anglian Water took pictures of it sitting in a skip – before warning us that it could lead to poo bubbling up into people’s homes.


It’s all our fault, apparently – the stinking brown monsters form when people flush condoms, sanitary towels, wipes and nappies down the loo.

So-called ‘unflushables’ – baby wipes and solidified cooking fat – mix with poo to form the reeking ‘poobergs’ in the sewers.

Poobergs are now such a problem that they’re causing 24,000 blockages a year – with extreme cases seeing poo bubbling back up people’s pipes into their homes.



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(Picture Wessex News)

An Anglian Water spokesman said, ‘This can not only cause problems for people at home, but clogged sewer pipes can cause flooding of untreated sewage into homes, gardens, streets and even end up in rivers, the sea and on beaches.’