I worked with a guy from Ireland, his name was Declan O'Farrell. Not his real name. He arrived at work one day quite late. He explained that the local council had turned off his water supply, because he hadn't paid the water bill. Apparently he had to drive to a friend's house to borrow a key for the water valve, so that he could turn the water supply on again.
This story went on for about 6 months. He didn't pay the bill, they turned the water off. He turned it back on again.
He came in one morning in a rage, not only had the council turned off the water supply, They had dug up the road around the valve and moved it under the road. Then tarmaced the road over the top of it. Every time this happened his wife would give him grief until the water was turned on again.
This went on for a while until one day he came in to work, covered with what looked like tar and soil. He told us that he had been up most of the night digging up the road to find where the council had buried the valve. He told us, "I had to dig six holes to find the damned valve."
When we had stopped laughing, I think I had suggested to him, that it might be easier to pay his water bill. I won't tell you what he said.

thats hilarious!!
I have to know what he said. And why don't the wife just get him to pay for it anyways?