# People who publicly litter, in broad daylight!

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 12, 2021, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-publicly-litter-in-broad-daylight/946263 "2021-07-12T02:08:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-publicly-litter-in-broad-daylight/946263/23 "2021-07-12T20:06:33Z")

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I just remembered this thread I started a while back. I don’t see as many of either, nowadays, but just a couple days ago, I did see one of those floss picks in an unexpected place, which I can’t recall right now but it wasn’t outside a restaurant.

> [@Fireball Whiskey mini-bottles and toothpicks with dental floss](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fireball-whiskey-mini-bottles-and-toothpicks-with-dental-floss/843267):
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> Why am I starting a Pit thread about these two items? Because it seems I can’t go anywhere without seeing the bottles by the side of the road, and the toothpicks in the parking lot. Doesn’t anyone throw these in the garbage? I kinda sorta understand the whiskey mini-bottles (they want to drink it and don’t want the people they live with to know about it) but floss picks? Just pitch them, mmmmkay? (I’ve probably made a couple dollars off the mini-bottles I’ve picked up while walking in my ne…

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