Poll: Do you litter?

[Schadenfreude]

Only fruit peels, and that's if I can't find trash cans around (most of the areas I walk through are poorly-kempt college towns with beer cans strewn about, so I think a fruit peel is the least of their worries).

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: mugs
I'm really interested in knowing WHY people choose to throw their trash out on the road rather than waiting until they get home and putting it in the trash can. I have a feeling there won't be many people willing to explain themselves here, and yet I know there must be many people here who litter. So I ask you, why do it if you're not willing to own up to it?

Because 99.99% of the people are stupid, redneck, a******s, and should likely be shot on sight? Yeah, I don't understand litterbugs either. I just put my trash into a plastic grocery bag in the back seat of my car, and dump it the next time that I stop, or if it gets full.

It's worse because, at least in this state, you can get pulled-over/fined for tossing stuff out of your vehicle, and I've had friends (whom I no longer hang around with, because they match the above description), toss stuff out of my car before. Remember kids, LITTERING MAKES HULK ANGRY!!!

Originally posted by: mugs
I have a feeling most people are motivated by laziness, and anonymity plays a big role in their willingness to do it. Next time you're driving past my house, keep the White Castle bags in your car please. Thank you.

What would be really mondo-cool, is a set of high-speed phalanx guns, like the anti-missile types that they have on ships, that would utterly destroy any litter that got tossed out in the general direction of your property. Yes, the car tossing it might get hit as well by the bullets... oh, too bad. 🙂

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: eigen
I litter sometimes,I will of course throw refuse away when there is a rubbish bin close by.But If not I chunk it.My problem with people who are against littering is that they state "littering is an eyesore" or "damage the enviroment" as if landfills are beautifull enviromentally friendly locations.They just dont want to be confronted with their own consumption.

I honestly can't tell if you're deliberately trolling or if you're serious... either way your post isn't really worth responding to because of the astoundingly poor logic you use, but I'll humor you.

Imagine a world WITHOUT landfills. Garbage would be evenly distributed across the land. Would you rather live in that world or this one? Landfills serve to concentrate the garbage in one place, out of view. They also concentrate the environmental impact in one area, although if people were more responsible about recycling hazardous materials that would be lessened.

But I didn't say anything about litter being an eyesore or environmentally unfriendly in the OP. Whether you throw your garbage out the window or in a trash can, it will most likely end up in the landfill. The only difference is if you put it in a trash can, I wouldn't have had to spend any of my Saturday afternoon picking up other people's garbage from my lawn.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron
Only cigarettes.

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It's not mentioned in your post, but my favorite story of a fire started by a discarded cigarette is the one where the cigarette went out the front window and in the back window and burned the guy's SUV. And he got fined for littering. 🙂

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: chrisms

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
Only cigarettes.

I don't smoke but I would love for you and all smokers to ride behind me with your window open and I toss a lit butt out the window into your face. :| :disgust:

Why? Everybody throws cigarette butts on the ground because they are harmless.

I hope you're kidding.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Amused
Only in your neighborhood.

Considering the usual high quality of your posts, the immaturity and unoriginality in this one is surprising.