Blatant Littering! What Pig Does This?!?
 

Driving on a busy city street, checked my rear-view to change lanes, and saw a woman driving in a totally beat 1990s Honda Accord, roll down her window and drop what looked like a McDonald’s bag!!! W-T-F?! Wrappers and cups just spilled out everywhere and another driver swerved!! Again, W-T-F! Who does this? I’m not sure I have ever witnessed this before! Yeah, I’ve seen people throw gum and cig. butts, and empty their coffee cups, but never just purposely throw a bag of trash with other drivers around them! It actually made me sort of sick to see.

I wonder if I had captured it on video with her plate, if I could have gotten authorities to pay her a visit?

Whenever I walk or ride my bike, I usually stop to pick up liter, now I have a different perspective! Thanks pig!!!!:mad::(:mad:

there is a vid. of a motorcycle guy witnessing same..
he picks up the trash & catches up with her..
then dumps it back into her car / lap..

Rika

Not only littering but McDonalds. She should be eating an apple or a banana instead of that poison. If she tossed out the core or peel then it wouldn't be as bad. Problems diminish when the right things are done ...

I too do not understand this mentality. They can't wait until they get home to clean out their car?

Trash pickup, particularly beach clean up has been a lifelong persuit for me.
It is galling to see folks be thoughtless pigs.

I keep hoping that seeing others doing clean up will turn on the light for them.
Quietly planting seeds in others minds. 😆

Cheers Richard

There exists a segment of society that feels no sense of personal responsibility for anything.....

I was out mowing my ditches on my (not a small tractor) John Deere 955, with headlight/taillights blazing, and the 4 way flashers making my presence obvious. A crappy old minivan, with a crappy old, fat woman threw a beer can about 100 ft in front of me. I threw up my hands and screamed at her as she drove by (hoping she would stop). As I made my next pass in the ditch, I saw another beer can laying on the freshly cut grass.

I have never so much as thrown a gum wrapper out of the car, and tend to be obssesive about keeping the interior clean. It also burns my azz when people flick their still lit cig out the window in front of you, like the world is thier ashtray........ these people live in sqauler, just don't make me do so.

not that uncommon, drive through Mexico or some of the urban areas in the US.

Trash is one of my pet peeves. I hate picking up after humans. Tree leaves are one thing, but human trash another all together.
Many years ago they built some new houses in an area of right of way for some power lines that run behind the houses across the street from ours. People moved in and traffic on our street picked up because they put speed bumps in the private street that the new houses were on.
One day I see a truck come down the street, headed into the track. I recognize is as one of the new residents. As they drive by they toss out some trash, obviously thinking no one is watching them. They don't park in their garage at night. So, I type up a nice note saying I hope they have as much fun cleaning up their windshield as I did picking up their trash, along with welcoming them to the neighborhood. I was leaving for work at o'dark thirty in the mornings back then so I plaster the note to their windshield with vaseline as the adherent the next day.
Now when they drive down our street they have their windows rolled up.

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

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...and then they pile it up and burn it, because no one is coming to get it for weeks.

Used to see it in the 80s a lot in New York State. Eat while driving, toss everything back in bag when done, toss bag out of window onto road

10 years ago a kid flicked a cheeseburger out the window that hit me in the face while on my motorcycle at highway speed. Reminded me of napolean dynamite when uncle Rico throws Kip's steak at Napolean's face while on his bike

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmh5e-9bn8w

Another time on my motorcycle riding through Brooklyn, a kid tossed an entire slurpy out the window which hit my handle bars and sprayed all over my face and body. Nice.

Yup, there are plenty of folks out there that do not give a crap.

I was behind a pick-up truck once and the driver opened up the back window and tossed his fast food bag and wrappers onto the highway while stopped in of rush hour traffic. Person next to him honked to get his attention and he replied with the one finger salute:mad:

NC DOT has a link to report littering.

https://www.ncdot.gov/doh/operations/dp_chief_eng/roadside/Beautification/Litterbug/salform.html

I'm starting to get a little hungry, what should I have for lunch today?

I was always struck by the huge amount of trash on my trips to India. I would often spend much of a day carrying around my trash because there was never a bin to put it in, until one day at a train station in Goa I saw a bunch of nuns waiting on the platform and a couple of them finished eating something and threw the trash on the ground. I gave up, figuring if the nuns are doing it, so will I.

Probably the one clean place that really stood out was the Lalbagh gardens in Bangalore.

Littering is also a pet peeve of mine... I live a block form an ocean side park... Monday morning walk not uncommon to see piles of trash on the lawn a few feet from a garbage can. :rolleyes:

There is a car club that has BBQ's in the park on Sundays (lowriders), it was refreshing to see at the end of the BBQ they had bagged up all their trash.

Long time ago I gave a waitress from my local pub a ride home, she looked at the floor behind the passenger seat littered with gum wrappers and assorted trash and said "Ewww... well, at least you are not a litterer."

I see it all the time at work (construction). Guys get out of their truck and they just drop it on the ground. Pisses me off as there is a 30 yard dumpster on every lot.

I tell them to pick it up and if they don't, I have it cleaned up and back charge them.

Thing have gotten better with litter across the last 50 years.

About once every other year I still see a whole fast food meal trash go out someone's window. I don't get it. Car is always a beater. Who cares if it's on the floor?

...and there it is:
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Since you're in Raleigh, you might be able to relate, but this was on Falls of Neuse Rd., just past Millbrook, during morning traffic! I was actually in shock!

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)

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

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...

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.

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....

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.:rolleyes:

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

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! :mad:

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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:
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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.

+100 internet points for you!

those guys also do greasy things like recycling underutilized grills.