What are some fucked up ways you’ve seen people litter.
I used to do adopt a highway clean up on occasion. We would find used condoms at least once per clean up. Sometimes we would find porno mags.
When me and my cousins were kids, I had an aunt who used to throw trash out the window in her car. One time the police pulled us over and she blamed it on us! Her logic was that we would not get in trouble. We didn’t, but what she did was tacky as hell!
I live next to a high school, and my dog loves when I take her for walks around the parking lot there. Kids just throw whole sandwiches on the ground. Often they are wrapped in foil (they might serve Chil-Fil-A in the cafeteria) and then I have to go in my dog’s mouth after the foil.
The property next door to me has had a pretty checkered history over the last 5 or so years. It looks like its apartments or dorms for college students. They’re usually pretty good. But a few years ago someone knocked over a big trash can in the back part of the driveway. I’d bet it was a year before anyone cleaned it up.
I was walking through a grocery store parking lot, and a guy a few yards ahead of me apparently decided he was done with his beverage, and just dropped it on the ground mid-stride. The worst part was, he was walking directly toward a garbage can. He actually had to walk around it to get into the store. He wouldn’t have had to do anything but hold onto his cup another 30 seconds, and that was still too much trouble for him. I think I said something like, “Really?!” and he shot me a dirty look over his shoulder, and just kept going.
Sad, but there are many roads in my neighborhood that go through some pretty parkland, which is surrounded by urban areas. People like to dump trash, sofas, yard waste, TVs, tires, etc. on the shoulder of these roads (and down into the river, if they can manage). It just makes me ill to see that.
I hate cigarettes out of the windows of cars in front of me.
I had my top down and one hit my windshield and embers got sucked into the front seats. I wanted to whoop the dog crap out of the person.
Years ago, my wife and I visited an animal refuge on Earth Day.
Filled with vague green happiness, we were driving into the entrance area when the rightside passenger in the car in front of us threw a wrapper of some kind out the window as the car passed the “NO LITTERING – $1000 FINE” highway sign.
To recap:
A visitor threw trash pretty much directly at the NO LITTERING sign. At an animal refuge. On Earth Day.
I was pissed off, but my wife flew into a rage and screamed and honked…and improbably enough, the other car stopped to see what she wanted.
She totally read them the riot act. Despite the fact that the litter-tosser claimed not to know anything about any trash (although we’d SEEN her hand come out the window holding it!) they eventually agreed to walk back along the roadside looking for the wrapper, while maintaining their innocence.
It was never found, of course, and the cops won’t cite for littering unless they see it themselves, so that was that. But that’s the most egregious, almost comically obnoxious act of littering we’ve seen so far.
Do people really celebrate that day? I couldn’t even tell you when it is.
When I lived in our bar-infested downtown I watched a grown, middle-aged man light up a cigarette then blatantly toss the empty pack on the ground in a store doorway.
I was walking my dog (small beagle) so I didn’t feel comfortable freaking out on him, but if I’d been alone and drunk I might have. :mad:
A couple of times when i lived in Baltimore, i saw people who ate fast food in their parked car, and then simply opened their car door, placed the empty burger wrappers and soda cup on the ground, and drove away.
At the light rail station by my house, it’s common to see people flick their cigarette butts or candy wrappers on the tracks–while standing right next to a garbage can.
My buddy’s father was a maniac about littering - he (the father) had a friend (now passed to the great beyond) who knew this. Whenever they were out Jim would say: Hey Jon - and when Jon looked over, he’d throw a small scrap of paper out the window. This made Jon berserk and nothing would do but Jon would have to pull over and go back and get it, muttering the whole time.
I know it isn’t right, but it still made me laugh when he did it. (I’m positive that Jim never littered in any other situation.) (BTW, neither were named Jim nor Jon, I’ve changed the names)
But that is the only time I was tolerant of it. It even annoys me to see people flick cigarette butts out the window.
I’ve got a winner, because it includes not only littering, but also DUI (or at least open container laws). That’s when people see fit to leave upright beer bottles/cans sitting right there on the side of the road, usually at an intersection, as if they were putting it down on a table. They sit there like a monument to their combined crimes. I wish the police would collect all those and fingerprint them, building up a database that may come to bite the offenders in the ass.
I’ve noticed some big yellow wagons dumping a lot of kids out on the street most afternoons. That’s really annoying.
The most infuriating for me is seeing some genius empty out his car’s ashtray in a parking lot or highway rest area. What sort of moron does this?
The corner lot I lived on attracted all sorts of @$$#@!!$ who would literally clean out their car in front of my house.
While I was standing there.
One guy threatened to call the police on me, cause I stormed up and threw his trash back all over his car.
I’ve seen people who are waiting for the light to turn green, and apparently they decide that the car’s ashtray simply CANNOT hold any more ashes or butts, so they dump out the ashtray right there in the intersection. :rolleyes:
When touring Tulum, a beautiful setting by a beach where people can actually swim right nearby. My favorite place ever.
Some chick dropped her cigarette and stubbed it out on the way out of the tourbus. Then so did her mother. 
Also, the Mayan guy guiding the tour assured us (over 15 years ago) that the 2012 didn’t mean the end of the world, just the end of an era. A change.
My husband and I went to Lake Superior for our honeymoon. We’re not hunters and were unaware that deer hunting season started during our last weekend there. I was surprised by the number of people who dumped deer feet (legs?) and de-antlered heads on the side of the usually scenic roads.
Around here the most common litter is beer cans and beer 12-packs, almost always Miller Lite. The worst was when some idiot tossed a computer monitor into the little river that runs nearby.
My grandfather lived on a country road in western NC that went up to the Blue Ridge Parkway. He and his neighbors used to put their non-burnable trash in a trailer hooked up to a tractor and take it way back in the mountains and dump it up there. It boggles my mind now to think about it, but to them, that’s just what they did.