What kind of shitball logic is that? Do you also evacuate your bowels right there in the gutter, since a street sweeper that “they” paid for is going to come by eventually?
After reading your responses I now understand why most big cities smell like the ass end of an elephant in the summertime. Everybody figures somebody else is going to clean up the mess.
The actual lesson is that if you have a couple million people like 5-HT roaming around being pigs and figuring it’s no big deal, your city will be a sewer.
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How perfect-sounding! Shades of Betty Crocker…
No, because most people consider spitting and disposing of cigarettes in their homes utterly heinous. Paradoxically, many of those people don’t mind doing it when their property isn’t involved. If randomly tossing your cigarette on the ground is “no big deal,” why don’t you do it in your own home? Why would it bother you if others did it?
Because I just don’t give a shit. Someone will clean it up. It’s not my problem. You’re just not going to convince me that it makes that big of a difference.
You poison my world and are unrepentant and unwilling to stop. You really ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Then you’re an asshole.
That is all.
Thank you Shayna for being very specific and analytical and outlining exactly why this is wrong.
Snap.
Arrrgh, matey! Flog ‘em with a cat o’ nine. And fer the severely mutinous, keelhaul 'em.
*sniff
I just don’t know how I’ll keep going in this life without your approval, random internet person
Well, if you’re dead set on the idea, go ahead I guess. Its mostly just an empty lot filled with cigarette butts and dead hookers anyway.
I see one that’s been around here since June 2001.
I’m really appalled at the behaviour described in this thread - and not only dumb people seen misbehaving on the street, but a doper (who should know better, esp. after hard facts about the danger of cigarette butts! full of nicotine was posted) who openly admits that he doesn’t want to change.
When I was raised in the 80s, not only did my mother teach me that “I didn’t drop the trash, why should I pick it up” (and the related “I didn’t see it, so I didn’t have to pick it up”) were not valid excuses. We were also taught to put all paper into paper containers, all non-refundable glass into the different colour glass containers (we went regularly to the containers), to avoid garbage if possible, recycle otherwise, and not let our city go to the dogs.
Nowadays, we have little bags in the parks so dog owners can pick up the dog’s droppings afterwards (and there’s a fine if people don’t do it). This is not only more pleasant because you don’t step into the poop, it’s also safer since dog poop can spread diseases to children playing in the park.
Oh, and the asshole who throws cigarette butts away because the city is already dirty: it’s dirty because of idiots like you. If you want a nice city, start doing your part instead of waiting for others.
Do you know that little children (and animals, of course) can die from ingesting as little as two cigarette butts (because of the pure nicotine in the filter)? If you do - since you said you didn’t do it in Utah because of the animals - why do continue where other animals might pick the butts up? Or, as the post said, if the wind/rain carries the butts away before a sweeper has had a chance to properly dispose them, wildlife somewhere else is endangered?
As for Slovakia and Serbia - in case you haven’t noticed, they are rather recent additions to Western Europe and the EU. They have a lot of catching up to with things we learnt 20 years ago (and invest the necessary money in cleaning up their cities, too, of course).
Cite?
If it’s any consolation, throwing things with your name and address on them on the ground is a great way to get busted for littering. It happened to a friend of mine when a small bag of his trash was found along the side of a highway.
Ok, did a little research, and the consensus is that it is possible to poison and/or kill a child from nicotine.
Absolutely no cases I could find of actual poisoning or death, other than “many children go to the emergency room every year for ingesting cigarette butts” repeatedly quoted verbatim on anti smoking sites. Perhaps my google-fu is lacking today.
Was he later drafted? 
One of the delivery people drop a cigarette butt at the mail box and flier box 5 or 6 days a week. During the summer flood the hundreds of butts floated away. As soon as they could drive to the boxes and deliver again, the butts started accumulating. The neighbors paper trash is constantly blowing into the yard or somebody is tossing food bags out the vehicle window. We usually can’t have a clean yard for even half a day. Normally within an hour or two of removing all the trash, new stuff shows up. We often get people turning around in our yard, and peeling out on the gravel. Last week while I was outside a couple hours there were 5 turn arounds. I’d like to put up some spikes for tires. Remove them when we go away, and put them back when we get home.
constanze is correct. The nicotine in butts is very poisonous. I however am not going to dig for an online source on this as I already have read that and am satisfied.
Here you go: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00046181.htm
30 cases serious enough to send kids to the hospital…no deaths, luckily.
No, just a lazy, slovenly asshole.
Well, sloth is one of the seven deadly sins.