Litter

[carom]

I dont believe that I said that I was a litterer. I just said that I dont see it as a big problem.

If we are going to play the right and wrong game: I see littering a macdonalds bag on the same level as speeding 10 km over the limit. I have a problem with someone dumping a loaded truck in fish creek like I would with someone doing 100 over the limit. I also have the same level of disrespect for someone throwing a macdonalds bag back at someone’s car like someone who road rages on someone for doing 60 in a 50 zone.

[Rerun]

Btw, not all Canadians are conscientious when it comes to cleaning up your own garbage. Sadly, I think the younger you are (adult and teenagers) the worse you are.
I 4x4 and if you ever want to see a mess, go to one of the popular off-road areas after a long weekend, after all the teen and young adult partyers have left, and you will be shocked at the amount of garbage and destruction that they have left behind.

[Flash Walken]

Cigarette Butts give me RAGE.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by Rerun

Btw, not all Canadians are conscientious when it comes to cleaning up your own garbage. Sadly, I think the younger you are (adult and teenagers) the worse you are.
I 4x4 and if you ever want to see a mess, go to one of the popular off-road areas after a long weekend, after all the teen and young adult partyers have left, and you will be shocked at the amount of garbage and destruction that they have left behind.

That gives me bush rage.

[vanisleflamesfan]

Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck

I was at KFC just the other day and there was a drunk "first nations" man standing just outside the entrance munching some chicken...

Can't you just say there was a drunk MAN? Why do you have to add "first nations"?

If it was a white guy would you have written that it was a drunk "white" man?

[carom]

^^Duh, he is a red neck

[WilsonFourTwo]

Originally Posted by gargamel

What kind of packaging are you proposing that could never make it to the street?

I highly recommend that all packaging by hot chicks that don't talk.

I'd never throw anything away......

[mikey_the_redneck]

Originally Posted by vanisleflamesfan

Can't you just say there was a drunk MAN? Why do you have to add "first nations"?

If it was a white guy would you have written that it was a drunk "white" man?

If it was a white guy, I would have referred to him as a "drunk a-hole" or something like that.

I find first nations to be the most dis-respectful bunch down here however. They don't care about anything but coming up with creative new ways to ask me for money so they can get drunk. Then they just throw their garbage on the ground like out at the reserve.

I don't want my community to turn into the Blood Reserve, where there is so much garbage lying around it is just a turn off.

[Devils'Advocate]

Originally Posted by Rerun

Btw, not all Canadians are conscientious when it comes to cleaning up your own garbage. Sadly, I think the younger you are (adult and teenagers) the worse you are.
I 4x4 and if you ever want to see a mess, go to one of the popular off-road areas after a long weekend, after all the teen and young adult partyers have left, and you will be shocked at the amount of garbage and destruction that they have left behind.

As if THAT has changed. Twenty-eight years ago, when I was a kid looking for hockey card money, I knew what to do. I knew 4 teenager outdoor party sites and I could collect all the beer bottles and other alcohol bottles and make myself quite a sum of money. Just had to be careful there were no needles and avoid the broken glass. By the time I was a teen, those sites were biohazard areas. Now those kids have grown up and say stuff like "the kids these days have no respect... making a mess and littering everywhere.... ".

[darockwilder]

Sue Sylvester's view on litter-

"Not everyone's going to have the walnuts to take a pro-littering stance, but I will not rest until every inch of our fair state is covered in garbage. That's why I pay taxes. It keeps garbage men working so they can afford tacos. To feed their families."

[JustAnotherGuy]

Originally Posted by vanisleflamesfan

Can't you just say there was a drunk MAN? Why do you have to add "first nations"?

If it was a white guy would you have written that it was a drunk "white" man?

I don't like to be too judgemental about people. I don't know their life story and all that.

As much as I hate it I have come to the conclusion that their is a difference between a drunk "first nations" person and a drunk MAN. So him saying it was a first nations does provide me with more information about the drunk person.

[narbeZ]

I absolutly HATE people who are litterers. I just cant comprehend how someone could be SO lazy to not be able to find a garbage can for their litter. It completely boggles my mind. Its a simple equation.

You buy something + you use the something you bought + you discard any leftover material/remains into a........WAIT FOR IT..... WHATS THE ANSWER? = GARBAGE CAN


I remember when I worked on the service rigs for year, my first week in the driller picked me up at my house in the country. On the first day, we all went to Tim Horton's in the morning for coffee/bagels/etc. As soon as the food was gone, all the wrapper went outside, I didnt say anything at the point, but I wanted to, but being as it was the first day I let it slide.

The next day, the 'guys' show up to my house with those little Chocolate milk 1 litre bottles. We must have just pulled out of my driveway and two of them went out the window. I just SNAPPED. They ended up backing up and picking them up in the ditch to appease me. The whole 8 months I was with that crew after that, none of them threw anything out the window.


I find it as the LOWEST form of disrespect for people to litter. You know what, I would rather someone make the ditch their 'ter' before they toss their tim hortons or chip wrappers out the window.

If I was prime minster of Canada, littering would come with a suspension of license, 100 hour community service, and the inability to go on EI or welfare.....basically your a bum on the street.

I could go on forever, but in all honesty if I see you litter ONCE your on my shatlist for LIFE. There is nothing more telling about a human being...

I have to say this has got to be my NUMBER 1 pet peeve. I just cant stand it.

[Nage Waza]

But what about the receipt? I was hoping for more CP thought on that point - I have some evidence to help catch the litterer. Of course I understand that the police likely won't do anything about it, but can a person push and push the police into making it a matter where they use that evidence? I am sure a pretty cool short documentary could be made based on this premise. After all, we pay the police wages, and as a group we can pretty much pressure them to do whatever we want. We just need to now how to do it.

As for the guy that thinks it is fine to litter, I cannot follow his logic. It is not fine to litter, since it is against the law. Litter is also the type of crime where the perpetrator forces someone else to fix what they have done, at the expense of taxpayers. Speeding is totally unlike littering.

[stampsx2]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

I watched an angry old guy throw a bunch of garbage from KFC right back into a car full of teens that had just chucked it out the window.

I have also seen this happen. Two girls (probably in their 30's) threw a paper bag out their car window. Someone happened to be walking by picked it up and threw it in their car. They threw it back out and she threw it back in again. I had some garbage in my truck and felt like emptying it in their car but did nothing more than watch. Now I feel terrible.

I used to watch the old guy walking on the boulevard picking up garbage and thinking, well that's a little extreme. But now I have a new found respect.

[ken0042]

Originally Posted by Nage Waza

But what about the receipt? I was hoping for more CP thought on that point - I have some evidence to help catch the litterer. Of course I understand that the police likely won't do anything about it, but can a person push and push the police into making it a matter where they use that evidence? I am sure a pretty cool short documentary could be made based on this premise. After all, we pay the police wages, and as a group we can pretty much pressure them to do whatever we want. We just need to now how to do it.

No, the police will not do anything. And as much as I hate litter, I would also be a little miffed if I heard that they had actually used some resources to do something. Had you seen a white panel van grab a kid, and this bag had fallen out with the receipt in it during the process- then they might.

Is the entire bank card number on the receipt, or just part of it? If it's all- and you really want to risk getting into trouble, I might call the bank from a payphone and say you found this ATM card lying in the street.

[The Yen Man]

Originally Posted by ken0042

No, the police will not do anything. And as much as I hate litter, I would also be a little miffed if I heard that they had actually used some resources to do something. Had you seen a white panel van grab a kid, and this bag had fallen out with the receipt in it during the process- then they might.

Is the entire bank card number on the receipt, or just part of it? If it's all- and you really want to risk getting into trouble, I might call the bank from a payphone and say you found this ATM card lying in the street.

Agreed. Considering they didn't even use much resources to track down the guy who broke into my car in a parking lot across from a police station, I'd be pissed if I found out they spent resources tracking down some guy who threw some fast food wrappers onto the street.

[aaronck]

I live by a high school-teenagers are freaking idiots who throw their garbage everywhere-I feel bad for people who live close to school grounds and have front years full of half eaten lunches, butts and various other garbage-I think kids in detention should have to clean up the neighborhood

[J pold]

I don't mind litter to much, but spitting on the ground, that is infuriating.

[Sliver]

What about banana peels? Would you guys throw a banana peel out your window? (on the highway - not in a residential street)

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Rerun

Litter is a big deal to me. People who litter are just thoughtless and inconsiderate.

Yet you drive a 4X4 through the mud and sully our environment?