Littering... arggggghhh!

derekshannon wrote: "pull over and I'll MAKE you pick it up".

this makes me mad too, except there are too many crazy nuts out there that might put a hole in my head...

Arkansas has a snitch line. Maybe your state does too. You phone in to report littering that you observe. They get a really nasty letter in the mail threatening them. Better than nothing, and I think it has been helping. For whatever reason, the people here have a problem with throwing their trash away in a responsible manner.

I'm hoping you were driving a full sized 4x4 truck with a 6" lift kit, a gun rack, and a camo painted brush guard, while he was driving a Neon.

If not, you got moxy.

I spent 8 hours in the spring of 07 doing community service cleaning up E36 M3 like that. In the Jones Falls Watershed. I did it to get close to a girl. We had a lot of fun, and we even found a couple homeless guy sleeping areas (we didn't disturb them). But damn, we berkeleying cleaned that place. She and I ended up with like 9 bags of trash. That was only half of what the 10 people out there found. (We worked our asses off.)

It pisses me off even more now that I have done that when I see people litter. You'd be amazed at how much trash is sitting on the sides of the roads. Absolutely amazed.

Maybe not littering a dozen lottery tickets, but I took a lit cigarette to the chest last year from the car in front of me. Pinhead didn't understand why the guy on the motorcycle was so riled! Any other place in a dry season and you get jailed or knuckled up.

Dan

Cigarette smokers are the worst in this regard. Every time I sit behind one at a red light, I wish I was 6'-4" of muscle and had a concealed carry permit. They invariably toss a burning butt out the window. I'd love to go pick it up, politely hand it back to them, and promise them the next berkeleying time they do it, it's going into their gas tank instead of their ashtray.

Every curb and median strip near a light has a berkeleying snow drift of cigarette butts around here. It's absolutely incensing.

I got out of Atlanta traffic and picked up a butt and flicked it back into the car past the driver once. He had an issue. WTF?

I hate littering; hell, I hate billboard signs. I once stopped my truck on the side of I-20 after my Dad threw out the outer clear plastic wrapper on his cigarettes and asked him to pick it up. This is what is called in the Marines, "Good Initiative, Bad Judgement". He smacked the E36 M3 out of me and told me we were going to be late. WTF?

I have stopped arbitrarily at random cemetaries if I saw trash on the ground and did a police call through the entire thing. Trash gets on my nerves.

-Les

Hours of picking up other people's cigarette butts as a teen convinced me that I didn't need to start that particular habit.

I will say that the diaper-tossers are worse, if fewer. And let's not even get into the tobacco chewers and their residue.

Diaper-tossers meet motorcyclists.

One time, we were driving behind an old work truck with the tailgate down, and a ton of random tools in the back. The guy threw out an entire McDonalds meal. Mom pulled up next to him, rolled down the window, and said "you dropped something back there." He said "thanks," and turned around to look for what he assumed was a tool.

The title of this thread sums up my feelings nicely.

Everyday is Earthday.

that is all

I used to smoke, and sitting in the parking lot one day at work(Army) there's a bunch of guys out picking up Butts one of them comes over to me and says "you should be out here helping us since you smoke" I show him my empty soda bottle filled with Butts. I've literally had a pack of butts in my pockets before.

Duke wrote: Cigarette smokers are the worst in this regard. Every time I sit behind one at a red light, I wish I was 6'-4" of muscle and had a concealed carry permit. They invariably toss a burning butt out the window. I'd love to go pick it up, politely put it out on their forehead.....

Fixed it for you.

Around here, cigarette butts light off big-ass fires. it's not good.

I'll just add to the general consensus: Littering is gross.

I believe it was Neil Boortz that proposed that there be a "bounty" on cigarette buts. Give the local bums or any one a dime for each but turned in. It would be paid for when you buy a pack of smokes. So if there are 20 cigarettes in a pack it cost you $2.00 more per pack, but if you police your own buts you get it all back. I had someone at the house the other day working on my chimney, he was a smoker and I live in the middle of 5 acres of woods 2500 feet from the road. He field stripped his buts after smoking them out side and put the filter in his pocket. That’s a responsible smoker and I complimented him for it.

What really drives me crazy about the cigarette butts is that every car on the road came with a recepticle SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR CIGARETTE BUTTS! If your cig butt is too dirty to put in your ashtray then maybe you just shouldn't smoke.

The worst thing about the butts is pulling them from the Esprit grill. The thing is like a Hoover, 6" off the deck. Yeah, I have the AR litter hot line on my speed dial, voice recognition. I push the button, say "Snitch-Line" and it dials for me. Snitching these shiny happy people off really has helped cut down on the littering. That and the demise of the construction industry and repatriation of the "undocumented workers."

worst incident i've had was at a bar, we were sitting outside and this guy at another table decides that instead of using the ashtray, he'll be cool and flick his butt basically straight up and over the fence but apparently sucked at aiming. it lands damn near IN my beer. so i take this guys butt and return fire. imagine THEIR suprise when the (still lit, btw) butt they just tossed comes back and lands in the middle of their table. we exchanged words, but i think the guy realized that he was a giant douche and shut his mouth.

It really pisses me off too, I wish there was a snitch line. I got a lit cigarette right in the middle of the windshield the other day. The low pressure area behind the guy's (guess what, the local favorite idiot vehicle) Vitara sucked the butt right behind the vehicle and into my windshield.

I'm always dodging tossed stuff though, and when I'm driving the Samurai it's worse with the lowsy cornering, and if it goes under the vehicle there's a chance it'll get caught in the suspension >:(