PERHAPS Australia should export the concept of pharmacy RUM bins to the Tennessee Police Department in the USA.
Officers have issued an official warning to drug miscreants, alerting them to the possibility of creating so-called "meth-gators" by flushing illicit narcotics down the toilet.
Investigators from the Loretta Police Department said they caught someone "attempting to flush methamphetamine along with several items of paraphernalia" last weekend.
They said water authorities were great at processing normal waste "but they are not really prepared for meth.
"And if the water heads far enough downstream it would create meth-gators in the Tennessee River down in North Alabama," they added.
We're all familiar with the rigours of constipation, but this is taking it to extremes.
A Belgian man has set a new world record by sitting on a toilet for 116 hours non-stop.
Jimmy De Frenne undertook the stunt, fortunately fully clothed, in the main room of a local bar in Ostend.
Guinness currently did not have a record for the longest time sitting on a toilet, but he was thrilled to beat an unofficial record of 100 hours.
He'd been aiming for a full 168 hour week, but was forced to stop early due to lack of sleep.
He was permitted a five min break every hour, to stretch - and also use a real toilet.
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