they don’t even think twice about throwing gum, food wrappers, newspapers, etc on the streets and from their cars . so eventually everywhere i look there is trash all around the streets. whats up with that? i think its pathetic. its not that much effort to put it in a trash can or keep it until you find one… what do you think?
Chief’s Domain - http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~ravi
I agree one hundred percent, people who can’t be bothered to hold on to their trash until they get to a trash bin should be shot on site.
Especially when they are hiking in the middle of the wilderness! Nothing ruins a nice trip up to the mountains more than running into some idiot’s stash of empty beer cans.
On a recent visit to Yosemite National Park (my favorite place, as you can tell by my username) I visited the beautiful Mirror Lake. It is as the name suggests - mirror-like, beautiful, pristine. And, on the day I visited, polluted by a DIRTY DIAPER that some asshole moron left there!
The depths of my contempt for that sort of behavior cannot be measured.
Some years ago, I was fortunate in going to the Galopagos Islands for one week. The government keeps these islands free of any trash as they levy huge fines on any tourist who does. Even as we left one island to go to another, we had to shake all the sand and dirt off our shoes.
It was a wonderful feeling to see the beauty of these pristine islands as they might have been for centuries.
Its disgusting to see garbage on the streets, against fences, just about everywhere but no one around here seems to enforce any litter laws.
Chief, I think you should read Carl Hiaasen’s new novel, Sick Puppy, for a practical manner of dealing with these dickheads. I think you’ll approve.
Chief’s Domain - http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~ravi
Alright, the protagonist, one Twilly Spree, follows people he’s witnessed throwing trash out of the car window. The first guy happens to be driving a convertible and good old Twilly bribes a garbage truck crew to empty their load into the convertible after it’s parked. Later on he fills a guy’s truck with dung beatles. I just started the novel a couple days ago and I’m sure there are more examples to come.
Most of Carl Hiaasen’s books take place in south Florida and the protagonist is usually some environmentalist who takes things to extremes. I highly recommend all Hiaasen novels for violently hilarious and hilariously violent humor. Check www.bn.com for some reviews.
Delurking for the first time to add this little tidbit to this whole mess:
People who smoke in their cars but insist on tossing their ashes and butts out on the road. I mean for Christ sakes people, smoke if you want to, but what’s the matter with the ashtray in your car! Afraid of stinking up your car?! Argh…I hate it when see that lovely little butt flicked outta your car. We’ve had enough grass fires started around here because of you idiots.
Was the diaper in the water? It’s possible that it blew away from the person who was changing the baby and landed in the lake. I can understand if that individual opted NOT to leave their baby unattended to wade in after it. Benefit of the doubt here please.
If you want to see real filth, look out the window while coming into the city (NYC)on the Metro-North line. It’s as if people throw away their CARS the way some throw away an empty chip bag.
I take the bus to and from work. After work every day, I see these two women. They’re standing ten feet from an outdoor ashtray but when they see their bus coming, they throw the end of their cigs in the street.
I don’t give a shit if it’s small, bitches! All those teeny butts add up to a big ol’ nasty world FULL of your crap!
FUCK!
…which brings to mind another topic. Why don’t cig manufacturers make biodegradeable filters? Half the things get thrown in the street anyway, might as well find a way to make them out of cornstarch, like those edible packing peanuts. That way the whole thing would dissolve during the next rain and everything would be hunky-dory.
But that might cost a few bucks… heaven forbid. 
It was near the shore. A shallow part of the lake. I have to clarify, Mirror Lake is not very large, at least the part where the tourists gather. And, there were people swimming in the lake - it’s not this huge, lake where people jet-ski and go around on their boats. It’s an intimate, mirror-like lake. Also - there was no excuse for anyone to be changing a diaper that near the lake anyway. Maybe 20-40 feet away there are places to sit down and do the job properly, away from the lake. There was just no damned excuse for it.