What is wrong with people?!

We received enough rain last weekend that I actually had to mow the (whole) yard tonight. We live on the corner of a pretty busy county road and a little less busy township road so there is plenty of roadside yard. Everytime I mow I have to pick up all kinds of trash, fast food packaging, cans, cups, bottles, plastic bags, boxes, anything you can imagine. What the heck is wrong with people that they think that the minute they are "done" with something they can just whip it out the window?!! I would never dream of throwin anything out the window unless it just bit me or is on fire! (well, maybe an apple core or something like that).
Is it just me? Do you just whip it out the window? If so, why? Is your car so full of crap that you absolutely cannot wait 'til you stop to throw things in the appropriate receptacle?! No respect
And this is not a recent thing either, I grew up on this road and as a kid I picked up trash before we mowed back then too (maybe slightly less?)

 

Never did it, don't get it. Trash cans everywhere, no excuses but lazy and a lack of respect.

 

One of the reasons I hate going downstate. Absolute filth and no regard for anything other than "me". Didn't like it when I lived there, and less now.
Almost no trash up here, except after the weekend warriors have been here. I find bottles, cups, and cigarette boxes/butts up and down our road.....
Pigs are pigs, even when they have lipstick on.

 

I don't know what's wrong with people, I run into this sometimes but I know darn well nobody on my street is throwing this crap out, I see. Fast food paper bags and cups.
If I caught them doing it, I don't know!! I might end up in jail.

 

Plain and simple. People just don't give a !$&@. Bottom line.

 

Perhaps it's how some were raised although I pretty much raised myself, and I don't have it in me to throw so much as a gum wrapper let alone some kind of beverage container or other trash on the ground for someone else to pick up. It's not unusual to find my right pants pocket filled with some kind of trash that I've either picked up or created myself (gum wrappers or similar).

So far I've only found one beer can in the ditch at the front of my property which I put in my wood stove, and that's over the course of 6 years. No wrappers or other trash of any kind. But, if someone would toss something, they would be on video, so I would at least know who the culprit was. Then I might have to follow them the next time they came by to find where they lived. That way I could leave them a gift on their front doorstep (the stankiest trash I could come up with), with a note indicating why where they would find it.

 

Anyone remember this one from the 1970's?



Some people just don't respect property, public ot private.

 

I love on a short dead end road. Most of the traffic is residents. There's still trash up and down my road every day. The kids and I regularly drive up and down the road on the gator picking it up. It's like a game for them now that we got the trash picker upper thingy. Hopefully this will help create a life long habit of taking care of the land.

 

Yes! Filthy litterin pigs!

Nice!

Exactly!

Good for you, great example

 

I'm amazed how many empty beer cans and bottles I pick up in my front ditch. Clearly "open container" laws are only forcing people to get rid of the evidence.

Seeing cigarette butts flipped out of car windows is one of my pet peeves. I wish cops would cruise in unmarked cars and nab anyone that's caught littering. I think that's way worse of an offence than driving 10mph over the limit.

 

I get lots of trash in my yard too. One day I got three partly used Gatorades. I also get a lot of those individual floss things. And I think someone is stalking me because I find cig butts of a single kind congregating in one place - I'm guessing from a walker. Of course I get empty bottles/cans, paper trash, receipts (?) and other oddball stuff.

Really, about the only thing I don't find by the street is dog poo - which considering the amount of people who walk their dogs by my place, is dang near a miracle.

 

Remember that one quite well actually.
It's ironic....just drive on to any reservation around here and you'll see how ironic it is.
Now before anyone else goes flying off at this comment, this was pointed out to me by a reservation member!

 

Hmm, good point...

 

RESPECT! To many people don't have it and just don't care.

 

now you have your own personal stalker stop it!

 

MasterMech , most of Europe is clean because the littering fines are massive.

They need to enforce the littering fines here in the states.

If I were a cop, I'd bust people for littering, not for speeding within reasonable amounts.

I had a young girl flip her lit cigarette butt up and out of her car window, on the freeway. I was behind her on my motorcycle. That lit butt hit me square in the center of my visor of my helmet. Luckily I had the visor down.

She ended up getting off the highway at my same exit, living in my same town. I had some words for her when she got out of her car. She was very apologetic, had no clue of what she did, but I imagine it scared the hell out of her. I also told her the next time she has some guy tail her home, to go to the police station, or somewhere very public and not her apartment with street parking. . She was clueless on so many levels.