Day 275 - 08 Jul 96 - Page 16
1 invariably McDonald's environment/index.html">litter on the pavement.
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3 I have also seen environment/index.html">litter outside lots of other
4 branches, in particular the Haringey Stadium branch of
5 McDonald's which is on Green Lanes in Haringey. It is also
6 not that unusual for me to find McDonald's environment/index.html">litter in my
7 front garden. I live quite a distance away from
8 McDonald's. I probably would not notice it if it was not
9 for this case, but I do, unfortunately, tend to notice
10 everything about McDonald's now. I also at one stage went
11 down to Kings Road restaurant. I have actually lost the
12 notes I made of this, but I have got a draft statement on
13 computer and I meant to ask about this before I got in the
14 witness box, because obviously I have not served it, it is
15 not really--
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What does it relate to?
18 A. At the time when the witnesses concerning Kings Road
19 were in the witness box I went down to Kings Road and
20 watched the store for about, I think I watched the front
21 door of the store for about 50 minutes, and nobody came out
22 and went out on a environment/index.html">litter patrol. It was one woman who came
23 out and swept the steps and I then walked around the route
24 that had been described by the witnesses in the witness box
25 that the environment/index.html">litter patrol was supposed to take and made a note
26 of all the McDonald's environment/index.html">litter that I saw, and a note of how
27 long it took me to go round, and I think on the first time
28 I went round I think it took me 20 minutes to walk right
29 the way round, going up to every piece of McDonald's environment/index.html">litter
30 that I saw, although I was not criss-crossing the road to
31 check thoroughly, but if I saw a piece I went up to it as
32 if I had been going to pick it up if I was somebody on the
33 environment/index.html">litter patrol to get an idea of how long it would take to
34 carry out the environment/index.html">litter patrol.
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36 That took me about 20 minutes and that was not picking
37 up -- sorry, that was not going up to any environment/index.html">litter other than
38 McDonald's own environment/index.html">litter. So if what they were saying was
39 true about picking up all environment/index.html">litter, not just McDonald's, then
40 it would have taken even longer. After I had been round
41 there once, I then went around again in the opposite
42 direction, this time not stopping at all just walking the
43 entire route without stopping, up and down all the streets
44 they mentioned, and that took me eight minutes, I think.
45 And in all the time that I was walking round the routes,
46 walking round the route in both directions, I never saw
47 anybody from McDonald's doing a environment/index.html">litter patrol. And the
48 second time when I went round I did notice that some of the
49 environment/index.html">litter I had seen on the first time round was still there.
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51 I cannot remember where I got up to. I have not got a
52 screen to look at.
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54 Q. Well I think you got to the top of page 4. I think you
55 perhaps start reading in the middle of the second line
56 again although you may be repeating yourself.
57 A. I have also walked past numerous branches of McDonald's
58 and seen piles of environment/index.html">litter emanating from them in various
59 surrounding streets. On occasions I have picked up various
60 pieces of environment/index.html">litter and put them in the bin and I have seen
