Big rain and brain drain

Obviously we have stabbings, muggings, pickpockets, ram-raiding and gangland drug violence, but here is one danger Londoners don't have to contend with. The storm drain.

Necessary across SE Asia due to the excessively humungous nature of tropical rain, this to me conjures up whole new mental images of the phrase 'found drunk, lying in a gutter'. (Unfortunately a well-known British saying, due to the popularity of binge-drinking.) You could fit tens, or maybe even hundreds of drunks into one of these guys! And I can only imagine the number of stumbling 'piss-artistes' who would fall into them.

In fact you might find yourself almost plunging into one when sober, if you don't watch your step. I guess locals expect to find them next to most roads and pavements; Brits don't!