I once threw a lit butt out the window doing 55 on a busy state highway, and somehow the wind blew it right back in so it landed inside my shirt collar. I somehow managed to pull over without hitting anyone else or driving off the shoulder.
Yes, that was the last time I ever did that.
I live in an apartment complex, and it never fails to surprise me how people must seem to think the maintenance crew can’t figure out where the butts are coming from! There’s also a unit in an adjoining building that bags their dog’s poop, but they don’t throw the bags away; they just pile them up on the patio. How do people like this live, anyway?!?
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.
I am, too. It was a carful of women; I might not have done that if it had been men.
Not sure if that’s a whoosh or not, but it’s okay if the inside of a trash bag gets messy. If you really want to dump it out (for example, so someone doesn’t have to lift the extra weight) at least find a sewer or some grass or gravel to dump it so it doesn’t make a sticky mess.
It’s honestly not a whoosh. I used to work retail; when people dump liquid into trash bags, sometimes the liquid leaks out and causes a spectacular mess.
The littering/dumping in my area has really gotten out of hand in the last 5 years or so. It’s really depressing, and frankly the amount of crap alongside the freeways, sidewalks and bike paths that I travel has become a huge negative when I consider my quality of life here.
And, when I read the “the world is my ashtray” post I had to go around the corner to a spot I walk past 3-4 times a week and take this picture. Hey, it looks like a ready-made place to put cigarette butts, so why not use it?
Really??? I’ve never seen that. I have seen poop bags left all over the dang place, but never hanging from trees. I don’t understand it. What, you think it’s gross to walk around with a bag of poop? Don’t have a dog then.
What annoys me is people who jog with their dogs and don’t allow their dogs to stop to do their business. I guess because that interrupts the jogger’s run? Then, the dog poops on the run and leaves a trail of poop on the sidewalk. Disgusting!
I am not defending this behavior if it is really as described. But, I had an elderly dog that got to the point where his back hurt him enough that he wouldn’t really hunch over to poop any longer. We learned that he pooped best when we were on walks. We would pay attention so we could pick it up rather than leave the trail of poop. So, I always assume that when I see that, it’s an old dog and the owner may not have known.
Karma.
I’ve seen people doing it, so I know it’s not old feeble dogs. A dog that feeble wouldn’t be jogging!
Although I know about the issue with old dogs, I always watch my dog when out because I used to have one who was a stealth pooper.
To be sure. And it could have been much worse. As it was, I did have to explain the small-but-obvious burn on my neck to my parents. (Oh, did I mention I was about 16 at the time?)
It’s so bad in my neighborhood. It really has made me not enjoy my walks anymore. The last time I went, I had to step around a man sleeping on the ground using discarded trash bags for a pillow.
I was driving my mom somewhere years ago and when we stopped at a red light, she rolled down her window a little bit and threw out the cellophane from a pack of gum or something. My mouth fell open and I know I was less than kind in my reaction. I was just so stunned that she would do that. I guess she isn’t the one that taught me to know better. 
I wish Karma (or in your case, Car-ma!) had burned me like that when I did something stupid.
My friend Dave had a short fuse when he was a young man. He was walking through a parking lot when a man in a car opened his door and dumped his ashtray onto the pavement. Dave walked over, scooped the ashes into his hands, reached into the window, and dumped the ashes in the guy’s lap. Dave walked away while the man cussed and flailed.
Or you could just drink it…
If I were telekinetic, I would do nothing but spend my time flicking cigarette butts back into the cars from which they were tossed.
It’s rude and disgusting under the best of circumstances. I used to live in Central Florida where the occasional wildfire was a very real thing; it’s an actual goddamn fire hazard in locales like that.
Hey, old feeble people gotta poop too.
Littering does seem like ingrained, automatic behaviour for some people. I’d be interested to know whether litterers genuinely don’t mind the look of a rubbish-strewn street or park, but suspect they just don’t connect that with their own actions.
My least-favourite littering trend is young people dropping the metal cannisters from Nitrous Oxide inhalation. Hope they think about that while nursing their dysfunctional bladders! What’s wrong with a nice joint? Youngsters today, etc!
Yeah, I’ve seen that, too.
We have a lot of homeless encampments around here*…not pretty.
*Not on my block but within a mile or so.