How to fix an industrial sized H2O leak? Stuff some pipe in there!

So, I came back 3 days later to see if this pipe was still leaking. It had been "fixed" - they took a piece of the same kind of pipe, slashed it, flattened it and then stuffed it in between the two pipes to block off the leak. It's so nice to know that they value our FREE, FRESH WATER so much. Zoom on the "fix" in the next photo.