[Closed] Dropping litter. Apparently, it's OK. Apparently, it's......

Put a dirty long scratch down his car........keeps the garages in work?

Well done Cap'n for challenging him! Sadly no doubt it won't make him change his ways.

It's a tough one cos attitudes should be challenged but I find myself reluctant to do this anymore.

There's some horrible people around. 🙁

i do wonder, would you throw rubbish on the floor of the house in which you live, then i see some of the programs on TV and realise yes people do!

"oik"...not exactly helping your cause...

right thing to challenge him.

I did the same thing once when in a traffic jam, car in front threw a cigarette butt out of his window I got out and chucked it back in saying you dropped this, a panic ensued in the car as it was still alight. He got the message though. Well done flashy

Words failed me.

Shame, you could have retorted : "Is sir perchance passing by the infirmary on his way home? If so perhaps he'd like to stitch this ****er".

Raffles would have known the correct articulation.

Tell him in a stern voice you will be reporting him on a bike related site.

[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/road-rage-incident-opinions-please/page/3 ]At least you didn't leg it and get chased[/url]

Ernie, the shame is palpable.

Project, didn't want to overstep the mark! 🙂

you could have also poured some of your water bottle/camelback content into the can, then placed it back in the car upside down.

I did this the other day, but with a lit cigarette - the panic on the driver's face was hilarious.

Anyway, well done for challenging...it will probably make him change his ways from hereon but in the moment, he didn't want to back down so throwing it back out made him feel a little better about his inadequacies there and then.

[i]It's a tough one cos attitudes should be challenged but I find myself reluctant to do this anymore.

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This which is a sad affair as these days, folk are normally vulnerable to attack when questioning such vile behaviour.

 

I had a similar exchange on the train recently & the job creation argument (or default lazy lowest denominator excuse) was used. "But what if the person who would gave to tidy up was employed creatively instead?" I asked.
"Pi55 off" seems to be an acceptable response these days when you're in the wrong.

Can't abide litter sends me mad. When out walking I fill my bag with beer cans (all white lighting strength?) and Mcdonalds shite. Was cycling long a very rarely used back road very clean not a speck of litter when I saw some cans in hedge had to stop and pick them up. 4 full cans of stellar still held together with the plastic?? Gave them to someone in pub as I don't drink shite.

Drives me apoplectic this. I watched some enormous meathead in a car park pull out a few weeks worth of Macdonalds detritus, empty fag packets and **** knows what else out of his bling range rover and, with his kids sat watching in the back, just drop the huge pile on the floor. He was a good 4ft away from A bin! Where was he parked? In a disabled space slap bang outside the entrance to Chester zoo! I don't think he was disabled.

Bullet to the head! No judge, no jury, just natural justice. The world would be a better place

+ 1 (binners) [i]in an ideal world[/i]

I don't think he was disabled.

Point at them laughing loudly so everyone around takes notice ......then explain how stupid they must be to not be able to use a bin ...

Thay hate being laughed at

DS mental illness qualifies for blue parking badge?

Nice try DS but a fail

The Blue Badge scheme allows drivers of passengers with severe mobility problems to park close to where they need to go. Find out where you can use your badge, how to display it and how to use it abroad.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/disabledpeople/motoringandtransport/dg_4001061

I wonder if I can get a Blue Badge to carry with me when a mates giving me a lift? I have Epilepsy so can't drive?

There's some horrible people around.

Selfish, ignorant, arrogant scum. I'm sick of them.

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Once picked up a can of coke that car in front dropped in a traffic jam As in, I got out of my car and walked over to pick it up. luckily, the queue moved and the culprit was able to drive off and get away scot free

well, drive 200 yards. I took the can back to my car, pulled up, got out and returned it to them the driver looked very embarrassed

Sitting having al fresco sandwich earlier this week outside work. Loads of people out doing the same. Girl in her 20's I guess sitting with her friends, gust of wind takes away her paper bag - only a few meters. She sits and watches it fly away and does nothing.
A pause, then, to her friends 'shall I go and get it?'
Luckily her friends said yes. Saved me coming out with something offensive.
I mean what's going on with your moral compass when you have to ask whether or not you should pick up your own litter??

Then again a BMW X6 driver on a gravel track forced me and my parents into the grass last weekend (parents both in mid-70's). He sees me gesturing for him to ease off. 'What;s your problem? ' me: 'it would be nice to have some courtesy' 'it's a road mate, get off it!' and off he drives, my parents standing in the nettles so they don't get run over.
No doubt he thinks I'm a prick... 😥

Good effort! job creation wont work when the government will pay them a working wage to sit on their ass doing sweet fa! Pet hate littering, +100 binners, could have done it a while back in Bowness, group of lads about 20 ish walking towards me and the family just finishing their fish and chips , one lad throws the whole rubbish can and all straight on floor, just lost it "pick it up" what "pick it up" why" look around why are all these people visiting the Lakes? you think its to come and see you chucking your crap everywhere? where can i put it? FFS!!! in the bin over the road", he cleaned it all up put it in the bin, his mates then apologised so fair play to them. I`m afraid we are on second and third generation of scum now, so sadly i feel they are beyond knowing how decent people act.

Nice try DS but a fail

Years ago where I used to live, the local comp organised litter picks around the area - after all it was the pupils that dropped it!

I'm seriously thinking of speaking to the local school here and asking them to do the same, totally fed up of seeing crisp packets, sweet wrappers, cans etc chucked into hedges and bushes.

I`m afraid we are on second and third generation of scum now, so sadly i feel they are beyond knowing how decent people act.

After seeing the debris of chip papers one lunchtime from the local chippie to the nearest school I complained to the head. Been much better since 🙂

double FAIL!

Hadn't realised that you could actually fail when having an opinion, but then again this is STW

Years ago where I used to live, the local comp organised litter picks around the area - after all it was the pupils that dropped it!

I'm seriously thinking of speaking to the local school here and asking them to do the same, totally fed up of seeing crisp packets, sweet wrappers, cans etc chucked into hedges and bushes.

CG, I read/saw (forget which!)something recently about a local shop that was making kids write their names on crisp/sweet wrappers. So, if thye dropped it... Brilliant, I thought!

Along with our neighbours we go out picking up litter from the roadsides in our local area.
The amount we collect each week is enormous.We pick up that much that its impossible to carry all the bin bags back so we ask people on the route if they'll put it in their rubbish.
A McDonalds,KFC and one of those rip off coffee places have opened up in the nearby town and a high percentage of the litter is from the first two.
A guy from the cleansing dept says it is now taking four times the time to clean around the drive through areas compared to before they were opened.
I wish the bosses of these places could see just what some of their customers are doing with the waste.
The people who do this can't be educated not to,so just cut off the supply.Eat in only with no drive throughs and turn back the years with refundable deposits on all drinks containers.

Bullet to the head! No judge, no jury, just natural justice. The world would be a better place

There is a problem with this. What do you do with the resulting waste to avoid being similarly culled?

joe - just deliver all the rubbish to the relevant businesses.

Get this all the time in school - not every child mind just a minority.

Someone had cleared out their car in one of our car parks, whilst clearing it up, we found their payslip. Management decided to over rule me and send a letter to them, I was intending to shove every bit of rubbish in the car park through their letterbox otherwise, was only a 1/2 mile down the road.

I'm seriously thinking of speaking to the local school here and asking them to do the same, totally fed up of seeing crisp packets, sweet wrappers, cans etc chucked into hedges and bushes.

The one thing that really makes my blood boil is dropping litter, whether from a car or just walking along. It's the same old lazyness.

I found out recently that in schools and with children in general, it's just not cool to put litter in a bin - WTF!!!

Sterlisation programme required.

beside the can, you should have put one of these in as well
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Bullet to the head! No judge, no jury, just natural justice. The world would be a better place
There is a problem with this. What do you do with the resulting waste to
avoid being similarly culled?
as binners said it was outside chester zoo.. lions gotta eat.
fast food outlets get the blame but there not the ones throwing away the empty packets, i know macdonalds employ people to clean up every day outside store/drive through and nearby area near where i live.

After a new McDonalds and KFC drive through opened near here recently, within a week all the small country lanes locally were littered with empty packaging. Boils my urine.

Even worse is when you see the idiots parked on the McD car park eating in their cars and when they've finished they open the window or door and drop it all out despite there being a bin yards away.

Lethal injection always springs to mind!

What is the average person's attitude to dropping litter? Unacceptable I think really but for some reason it seems to be the norm to drop small litter items - cigarette butts and used chewing gum for instance. Or is it just that a certain type of person is more likely to smoke and chew gum?

....cigarette butts and used chewing gum for instance

I always make a point of spitting my chewing gum onto the road, the stuff is quite indestructible and I feel that I am preforming a civic duty by reducing the need for road resurfacing. I have long thought that motorways should be given a top chewing gum layer, not only it provide excellent grip, but it would also be indestructible.

Last year I had a go at fatty chav in my local Tesco Express car park.
The biffa had been in for whatever and bought some scratch cards .
I was walking across the car park when she just threw the scratch cards , which clearly didnt net her £1m , out the car window .
I picked them up as i was walking that way .

" You give me 1 good reason why I shouldn't throw these back into your car ?"
Fat Biffa couldnt / didnt say a word , she just started her car and drove off .

She was parked 5ft from a rubbish bin.

The A3 On ramp at Petersfeild is simply covered in Maccy D's containers . After you have eaten there you drive out and hurl all the rubbish out the window.
Scum.