It was no laughing matter for one fly tipper caught on film dumping dozens of nitrous oxide cannisters. Mohammad Waqas Ali has been left nearly £700 out of pocket by magistrates.
He was filmed sat in his white Volkswagen Tiguan in a Salford street inhaling copious amounts of the chemical, known as "laughing gas" from a gold balloon.
He was also recorded dropping and leaving the canisters in the street along with cardboard packaging, before driving away from the area on June 21st last year.
Ali, 28, of Hadfield Street, Broughton, was fined £115 and ordered to pay £540 in costs and a £34 victim surcharge at Manchester and Salford Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to contravening the Environmental Protection Act.
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