How to save yourself some money (and annoy your neighbours at the same time!)

I heard a story today about someone in town, who instead of paying the 50 shekels for a truck to come and pump out his sewage tanks, was pumping the sewage into the street outside his house, where it would drain away down the hill.

Other residents began to complain to the shop owner who lives opposite this guy, and after a number of such complaints, the shop owner confronted the man in question, who denied he was doing such a thing (and even blamed it on his neighbour, who is also his cousin and lives in America for most of the year). The shop owner accepted his denial, but said he would pass on complaints to the municipality if he started receiving them again.

Such is the fabric of daily life here.