Blatant Littering! What Pig Does This?!?

[Rickysa]

this was on Falls of Neuse Rd., just past Millbrook,

Quick OT...right where I grew up (ate at Andy's Pizza, Quail Corners, weekly)

[sand_man]

Originally Posted by Rickysa

Quick OT...right where I grew up (ate at Andy's Pizza, Quail Corners, weekly)

Yep! That'd be the local! Crazy! Busy road, busy time..."I know, I'll just throw my refuse out here..."


(BTW, I think Andy's is called something else, now)

[R K T]

She threw the bag out the window because it was McDonalds! Ever smell that crap?

[unclebilly]

In Russia, it is normal to throw your garbage out on the road. While working there, one of our Canadian engineers started a trash box inside one of our field vehicles on a long trip in Siberia.

He was dismayed to catch one of his Russian colleagues dumping out the garbage box on the side of the road the next day when they stopped for a pee...

[scottmandue]

In Japan they don't have janitors in grade school, the kids have to clean up the classrooms themselves.
I have never been to Japan but I presume they don't have much of a littering problem.

[Baz]

When you see humans leave their shopping cart in a landscape bed - the ones with the front wheels only in the bed are really special - because they are too lazy to return the cart to the place it belongs.....that's the current state of civilization in our society.

Been happening for many years now.....humans are pretty vile creatures for the most part....

[pavulon]

Vividly recall my dad throwing almost cigarette butt out (still lit) of the moving car. Mom's ended up in the ashtray only to have dad dump them on the ground whenever the car exited the interstate. I asked him about it once and he said that it might be an issue never occurred to him.

[motion]

Originally Posted by scottmandue

In Japan they don't have janitors in grade school, the kids have to clean up the classrooms themselves.
I have never been to Japan but I presume they don't have much of a littering problem.

Generally, there are no public trashcans, either. You are expected to take your trash home with you.

[look 171]

Some years back, I was walking across a university parking to try and get my transcript. A young couple kids open their doors and dumped their trash of fast food and drinks right out their window from their park car. I turned and ask them to pick it up and walk 5 car lengths to the trash can and that was not acceptable as a college student or any one for that matter. His reply was,"They have people cleaning that siht. Don't worry about it, all right?" What a bunch of fooking dumb ass?

[Baz]

Originally Posted by look 171

Some years back, I was walking across a university parking to try and get my transcript. A young couple kids open their doors and dumped their trash of fast food and drinks right out their window from their park car. I turned and ask them to pick it up and walk 5 car lengths to the trash can and that was not acceptable as a college student or any one for that matter. His reply was,"They have people cleaning that siht. Don't worry about it, all right?" What a bunch of fooking dumb ass?

Should have gone all "Falling Down" on those D-bags!

[Por_sha911]

I get angry when smokers use America as their ashtray. Just toss the filter (and a still lit cigarette) out the window...

[Tishabet]

Originally Posted by HardDrive

Not making light of the issue here, but India is another universe. Sights like this are common

Yep, trash in India is on another level... a lot of South and Southeast Asia seems to be on the same wavelength. When I moved from the US to Kuala Lumpur this was one of the few "shocking" things to me, similar scenes there. Any cavity found in the city (drains, hollow in a broken sidewalk, hole in a tree) would be literally stuffed with garbage. Tokyo is on the other end of the spectrum, eerily clean.

[look 171]

Canada is pretty darn clean compared to the US. I have relatives in Calgary and been to most of Western Canada from SK westward. EVen their bathrooms are damn clean. I am talking about gas station restrooms. The big cities are ppretty bad in the US. In LA, lots of foreigners who are used to just tossing out trash when they are done, both old and the young does the same carp. I got off the fwy once and saw this women just casually dropped a bag of trash out of her big expensive Benz at a red light. I honked and flashed my lights only to get a finger.

Growing up on a dead end street with a huge park at the end, I always remember the neighbors would just pick up the trash in front of their house and the park when they had the chance. Now, all those great people are gone and the new folks would walk right by the bag or bottle in front of their house and does nothing only to turn and walk right into their home. Sad times.

Do we teach our kids to throw trash into the trash can anymore? Look at our public jr high/high schools? no one say anything to kids who just drop trash on the floor or leave them on the bench when they are done while the trash can is 10 feet away. it needs to start way before that and in the home. If my kids throw a little piece of chip out the car window I will rip him a new one.

[RKDinOKC]

I've stopped twice after making a left turn at a 4 way intersection on my way to work. Spotted and stomped out a grass fire starting just off the edge of the road ignited by a lit cigarette. It was kinda weird to me that BOTH times an unassuming old 4 door with four nuns pulled up and stopped behind my car. All four nuns in their habits jumped out ran over and each poured a bottle of water on the smoldering ashes I had stomped out.

When I was 5, 1965 we were traveling down the highway and a pickup truck threw a grocery sack of garbage out their window. It hit the windshield of the car in front of us. It swerved all over the road and almost wrecked. My Dad immediately floored it and started turning red. He chased the truck down at speeds well over 100 and forced it off the road. Dad jumped out and ran up to the pickup yelling at the driver. We were far enough behind that I couldn't hear what was being yelled but saw Dad pointing back toward the car that was hit with the trash. The guy yelled something back and my Dad yanked him out the window of the truck and beat the crap out of the driver. Then Dad calmly walked back to the car and we drove off. The guy was slowly crawling back to the pickup. I was in shock, neither my Mom or Dad said a word, just acted like nothing happened.

[petrolhead611]

Not been to India, but was in Pakistan in 1975 and was shocked at the litter everywhere.Walking in Karachi was like being in a forest in the fall, except instead of being ankle deep in leaves, it was other peoples crap. At that time, the UK was still relatively litter free, but now despite laws that say that fast food outlets have to pick up litter within 200 yards radius of their premises( very rare that it happens), the streets are full of discarded food trash. I have been pressing for take away food to only be sold in wrappers with the outlets name and address thereon, so that they can be find if it is found on the street and also for a small tax to be applied to all wrappers to help pay for litter collection. The tax man would then have records of say, how many pizza boxes were bought by a given outlet and could do a stocktake to determine the amount of product sold(most takeaways are privately owned in the UK, not franchises, and many of those are money laundering operations).

[wdfifteen]

When I stayed in Rome I lived on the third floor at the back of a big apartment building. On the day I left I went around back to take a picture of the window of my room. The alley was filled with overflowing trash cans and crap everywhere. One of the locals came up and tried to stop me from taking a picture, because the trash would be in it. It's not like they don't know they live like pigs, they just don't want anyone to mention it.
I was in New York last January and I have to say we don't have anything to brag about here.

[sand_man]

Originally Posted by Baz

When you see humans leave their shopping cart in a landscape bed - the ones with the front wheels only in the bed are really special - because they are too lazy to return the cart to the place it belongs.....that's the current state of civilization in our society.

Been happening for many years now.....humans are pretty vile creatures for the most part....

Yeah, I have seen a lot of carts left in some strange places, over the years! Not every city has a "Bubbles" to take care of them:

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

I get angry when smokers use America as their ashtray. Just toss the filter (and a still lit cigarette) out the window...

The vast majority of smokers think a cigarette just vanishes into thin air the second they are done getting their drug fix.

I have seen the entire ash tray full of butts dumped on the ground. Open the door and dump the ashtray on the ground.

Many years ago I buddy was riding in my 914 and he finished his can of soda and casually tossed it out the open top into the ditch. I never said a word. I just hit the brakes, turned around walked into the ditch and found his can and put it on the floorboard on the passenger side. Several years later he said he had never felt so small and he quit littering after that.

As a kid I remember going to my grandparents house and they lived at what was then the edge of town when they moved in. Urban creep enveloped them and the road they were on became a busy road as it was just a few blocks from Rt66. Grandpa had us up early every morning picking up the litter from just the night before. Cigarette butts, food wrappers, beer cans, booze bottles, and just trash. Every single morning, especially on Saturday morning. That was when I changed into an anti litterer.

[berettafan]

Originally Posted by sand_man

Yeah, I have seen a lot of carts left in some strange places, over the years! Not every city has a "Bubbles" to take care of them:

+100 internet points for you!

those guys also do greasy things like recycling underutilized grills.