# Goddamnit! The box on my pickup truck is \*not\* your personal trash bin!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 23, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-the-box-on-my-pickup-truck-is-not-your-personal-trash-bin/183660 "2003-06-23T01:09:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-the-box-on-my-pickup-truck-is-not-your-personal-trash-bin/183660/1 "2003-06-23T01:09:52Z")
M_ther f_ckin dogbreathed sonofabitch! In the past 5 days, I’ve either hopped into the bed of my truck to get to my toolbox, or put someting into the bed, where each time I’ve seen something new–and I didn’t fuckin’ put it there. First time, it was someone’s McDonalds’ bag. The wrappers of a quarter pounder with fries, and a large shake. Second time, it was someone’s 16oz. cup full of pistachio shells. Third time, it was someone’s half finished Mountain Dew that laid it’s contents all across my bed. Fuckin’ assholes! I know it’s the curse of pickup trucks, but there is no fuckin reason that I should have to clean up after you asswipes! Take your fuckin’ garbage to the can like everyone else, or I _will_ make it my point in life to get in your face about it and make you eat what you throw in my bed. Tripler I’ve had enough. Have some decency, or I will thump you. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-the-box-on-my-pickup-truck-is-not-your-personal-trash-bin/183660/2 "2003-06-23T01:24:57Z")
There’s got to be a way you can use some surplus plastic explosive and resolve this situation once and for all. ---
**Author:** ![NBIT33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NBIT33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NBIT33)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-the-box-on-my-pickup-truck-is-not-your-personal-trash-bin/183660/3 "2003-06-23T01:27:30Z")
I have to admit, I’ve done this in a fit of laziness . Now I feel bad about it. Can I send you a McDonalds gift certificate or something? ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-the-box-on-my-pickup-truck-is-not-your-personal-trash-bin/183660/4 "2003-06-23T01:29:47Z")
I suggest carrying a large loaded water pistol in the car… For emergency cleanup, of course. Really. ---
**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-the-box-on-my-pickup-truck-is-not-your-personal-trash-bin/183660/5 "2003-06-23T01:40:41Z")
Wow. It’s never even _occurred_ to me to do that! And there’s **NBIT33** over there, guiltily confessing to it. 😉 The inside of my car always looks like a trash compactor; I don’t ever litter but I rarely get around to finding a trashcan, either, so usually I just end up littering up my car instead. But at least I know it’s all _my_ trash. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Read\_Neck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Read\_Neck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Read_Neck)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-the-box-on-my-pickup-truck-is-not-your-personal-trash-bin/183660/6 "2003-06-23T05:13:02Z")
Wait’ll they throw all that shit in there and you don’t notice. A $50 littering ticket because the shit blew out will really piss you off. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-the-box-on-my-pickup-truck-is-not-your-personal-trash-bin/183660/7 "2003-06-23T06:13:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tripler \* > \*\*I’ve had enough. Have some decency, or I will thump you. \*\* I’m with you, brother! This happens to me often. Some motherfucker left the remains of an Old English 40 ouncer in the bed of my truck. This disturbed me on several levels (being a 12 step guy). I’m glad I saw it before I got on the road. I don’t know if the cops would consider that an ‘open container’ in my car. You know what the really fucked thing is??? There was a trash can not 25 feet away. He threw it in my truck rather than walking _25 feet_ to the trash can! ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-the-box-on-my-pickup-truck-is-not-your-personal-trash-bin/183660/8 "2003-06-23T06:35:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lno \* > \*\*There’s got to be a way you can use some surplus plastic explosive and resolve this situation once and for all. \*\* O! I swear to God, if I knew who it was, he/she’d have a trunk full ‘o’ the stuff. Tripler Blasting cap? Oh, that’s two ohms of resistance. ---
**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-the-box-on-my-pickup-truck-is-not-your-personal-trash-bin/183660/9 "2003-06-23T10:53:02Z")
**Tripler,** I was so intrigued with this previously-unknown phenomenon that I asked Mr. Levins about it, b/c he used to own a pickup truck. He said it happened all the time, and that his “favorite” occasion was when he lived at an apt. complex and came outside to see two Hefty trash bags sitting in the bed of his truck. One of his neighbors had apparently decided to save themselves a walk to the dumpster. He said he almost hauled it off, and then said, “Fuck that!” So he pulled the bags out, set them on the sidewalk, and got a piece of cardboard and stuck it on top of them, facing the apt. complex. He’d written, “If I ever catch whoever put this trash in the bed of my truck, or see anyone else doing it, I swear to God I will beat your fucking ass.” He says it never occurred again. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![In\_Conceivable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@In\_Conceivable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Conceivable)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-the-box-on-my-pickup-truck-is-not-your-personal-trash-bin/183660/10 "2003-06-23T11:45:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spooje \* > \*\*Some motherfucker left the remains of an Old English 40 ouncer in the bed of my truck. > > [snip] > > There was a trash can not 25 feet away. He threw it in my truck rather than walking _25 feet_ to the trash can! \*\* He was probably too drunk to find the trash can! 🙂 I really can’t understand why someone would even consider throwing their trash in someone’s truck bed. Really, what is the logic behind that? Why not just throw it on the ground? ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-the-box-on-my-pickup-truck-is-not-your-personal-trash-bin/183660/11 "2003-06-23T12:42:19Z")
This makes me fucking INSANE. Between the assholes putting the goddamn flyers on my windshield on the passenger side in the RAIN and the shitheads throwing their garbage in the bed of my truck, I’m about ready to murderize somebody. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spooje \* > \*\*Some motherfucker left the remains of an Old English 40 ouncer in the bed of my truck. This disturbed me on several levels (being a 12 step guy). \*\* No shit! I’ve found beer cans and bottles too, and I hate even having to touch them to throw them out. You get that smell on your hands…blecccchhhhh. I’m just waiting for the day I catch the idiot while they’re doing it. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-the-box-on-my-pickup-truck-is-not-your-personal-trash-bin/183660/12 "2003-06-23T13:47:19Z")
I’ve been thinking about replacing my van with a pickup, and I thought one of those bed covers would be a good idea. Now I see that it might be a necessity. Da noive of some people!! ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-the-box-on-my-pickup-truck-is-not-your-personal-trash-bin/183660/13 "2003-06-23T13:53:53Z")
Trip, ya needs a bed cover. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-the-box-on-my-pickup-truck-is-not-your-personal-trash-bin/183660/14 "2003-06-23T14:03:10Z")
That is soooooo rude. I have a cap. It’s a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-the-box-on-my-pickup-truck-is-not-your-personal-trash-bin/183660/15 "2003-06-23T14:06:56Z")
Not that I’m suggesting to cap someone’s ass or anything. Shit. You know what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![pencilpusher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d6d6ee/32.png) [@pencilpusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pencilpusher)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-the-box-on-my-pickup-truck-is-not-your-personal-trash-bin/183660/16 "2003-06-23T14:16:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kalhoun \* > \*\*Not that I’m suggesting to cap someone’s ass or anything. Shit. You know what I mean. \*\* Altho if you were in one of them Suthern states that’d be an option too LOL ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Norse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/big_norse/32/9954_2.png) [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-the-box-on-my-pickup-truck-is-not-your-personal-trash-bin/183660/17 "2003-06-23T15:01:44Z")
I always thought people who kept collections of crushed beer cans in the beds of their trucks were losers. Until I got a truck and instantly the bed started being a collection site for other people’s cans while my back was turned. I wonder what the houses of people who do that to other people’s property look like. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-the-box-on-my-pickup-truck-is-not-your-personal-trash-bin/183660/18 "2003-06-23T15:15:03Z")
My camper topper keeps my bed clean of other people’s trash. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-the-box-on-my-pickup-truck-is-not-your-personal-trash-bin/183660/19 "2003-06-23T18:36:57Z")
Get one of those big dogs who bares his teeth and growls at anyone who comes near the truck. That’ll keep the trash tossers away.