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Out of the window - can't stand this type of behaviour. What makes it worse is there is literally nothing you can do about it!
there is literally nothing you can do about it!
There are literally lots of things you can do about it.
You could have stopped and picked it up
You could have video'd the driver with your dashcam / phone ( in a safe and legal manner of course ) and emailed the video to the council / highways agency / po-po.
You could have rammed him off the road, beat him to death with a tyre lever and buried him in a shallow grave.
You could have tutted, raised your eybrows and written to the Daily Mail about it.
You could have followed him home and hammered frozen sausages into his lawn.
You could have followed him home and hammered frozen sausages into his lawn.
So much this. 🙂
Pardon my ignorance, but isn't hammering frozen sausages into the lawn a leftfield method of delivering a free lunch?
And who is Po-Po? Is he a new addition to the Night Garden?
riding over houndkirk moor once near lady cannings a 4x4 driver dumped a bottle out of his window. I chucked it straight back in.
I'm going to start keeping frozen sausages in my van for such an occasion.
You could have stopped and picked it up
Given they were dropping it along a about a mile stretch of road where stopping would've been dangerous that's not a goer
You could have video’d the driver with your dashcam / phone ( in a safe and legal manner of course ) and emailed the video to the council / highways agency / po-po.
Unfortunately in the car on my own - so again couldn't do that.
Shallow grave it is then?
Shallow grave it is then?
In his own lawn, then hammer the frozen sausages so it throws the dogs off the scent.
It's cigarette butts that do my head in. Aren't you manky enough smoking the things? Nooo, take it even further and throw the things out of your car as you pass by, or drop them in the street.
Filthy mingers, beating them to death is too good for em'.
Actually, I'm having a bit of a deja vu moment. Have we done this subject before?
HAHA @perchypanter you genius
On two occassions I have seen parked drivers do this and have picked it up and thrown it back into the car.
One resulted in a shouting match, one a sheepish appology.
I really don't understand how anyone can think littering is ok. I can't get my head around their thought process.
I can’t get my head around their thought process.
"There is stinky rubbish in the car. This is a problem."
A second later.....
"There isn't any stinky rubbish in the car. There is no problem"
Yes, many people are that short sighted and simple minded.
It’s cigarette butts that do my head in. Aren’t you manky enough smoking the things? Nooo, take it even further and throw the things out of your car as you pass by, or drop them in the street.
Filthy mingers, beating them to death is too good for em’.
I agree. Filthy disgusting habit. Horrible.
I really don’t understand how anyone can think littering is ok. I can’t get my head around their thought process.
And this - how anyone can think it is okay to drop litter is beyond me. I was at Warwick Castle at the weekend and was sat having a picnic in the central green and watched not one but *two* litter pickers basically walking around constantly picking up all the litter people just left behind after finishing their picnics and so on. Do these people really think they are above the lowly litter pickers and they can just leave their crap for them to clean up. And what message does this give to their children? I felt sad.
I really don’t understand how anyone can think littering is ok. I can’t get my head around their thought process.
i guess because there isn’t one.
i have just come back from a weeks holiday in Poland and it struck me that there wasn’t any litter (a tiny amount but nothing like you see over here) but there were not hoards of street cleaners either.
if this is ‘Great Britain’ why are we so crap at something so easy as not littering?
As perchy says above, most people don't have a philosophical view on whether things like dropping litter are right or wrong, whatever makes their life easiest is the thing that they will do.
went to the beach on hols recently
sat near to two groups
both simply left their entire lunch rubbish behind
simple animals
no litter pickers there
I did two sessions at the park with the kids this weekend, Saturday and Sunday.
The park sadly has plenty of litter. And plenty of parents watching their kids playing next to this litter, and just ignoring it. As I went around, I picked up the bits in easy reach, and dropped them off in one of the many bins.
The kids were a bit nonplussed initially "Dad, that's not our litter", etc. I told them that if everyone picked up a bit more litter than they left, the park would be clean. I'm hoping that sort of idea will stick.
I think they were reflecting wider issue though -- I reckon a lot of adults in the park were basically thinking the same thing my kids were: it's not my litter, so I'm not picking it up. Yet picking it up isn't difficult or (generally) particularly dirty, and would make an obvious improvement to the immediate environment.
Reporting to the local authority sometimes works.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1511236/Driver-fined-twice-for-cross-border-chip-litter.html
My daughter goes to a football thing in the park down from our house at weekends. I take a bin bag with me and spend the 70 minutes picking up litter. Since i started i've now got another 5 people who do the same, we're into the river now. It's nice to see and the kids now do it as well. Our job is to prepare the next generation.
I've posted it back through a car window, and once chastised a young lady once who told my Girlfriend to go back to her own country.
Litter droppers are delightful people. Not.
I really don’t understand how anyone can think littering is ok. I can’t get my head around their thought process.
If they are thinking about it at all they probably think someone whose job is it to pick up litter will come along and pick it up.
We've started regular litter picks in our village. Surprisingly restful activity, usually get 4 or 5 others turning up, other passersby always seem keen to join 'next time' (none do, but I forgive them) and it's usually a fairly pleasant way to spend an hour. More so if we finish in the pub...
I'm glad it's not me who gets riled up by this. So many times I wish I had an old defender so I could ram into the back of them.
Saw a little boy playing hide and seek with his parents when dog walking yesterday. He spotted some plastic bottles and said "daddy, litter" and pointed to it. His dad said "don't touch it" and my heart sank. I already had a few things in my hands to walked over and picked it all up as the little boy watched. I hope his dad felt ashamed and the little boy follows my example not his fathers.
I was a very proud dad earlier today when my 10 year old daughter sent me a photo of the discarded NOS canisters she had collected in the park. Damn things are everywhere round my way.
His dad said “don’t touch it” and my heart sank.
As I would have said to any of my kids when they were little.
That bottle could have contained water or maybe urine, white spirit, used needles, bleach, anything.
I'd have picked it up myself and then handed it to my kid to put in a bin.
Hammered frozen sausages into his ear holes
💯%
As I would have said to any of my kids when they were little.
That bottle could have contained water or maybe urine, white spirit, used needles, bleach, anything.
I’d have picked it up myself and then handed it to my kid to put in a bin
That was actually my thought tbh. They were two empty plastic bottles and a kinder bar wrapper - not very suspicious looking and had been there a matter of minutes by the looks of them. The dad just walked past them...
Some bastard lorry driver lobbed his sandwich wrapper out of the window outside Ilkley today. Thought I'd memorised the name of the firm for passive-aggressive comms with his transport manager, but have now forgotten it. Bollocks!
It’s really sad that this seems to be normal behaviour for lots of people. I took the kids to Snowdonia last week, climbed Snowdon and filled my pack with litter and again when we walked along the riverbank up to Swallow falls. My kids couldn’t understand why people travel 100’s of miles to visit these places only to leave rubbish everywhere.
I've said it plenty of times on here.
McDonalds shite. It's time that company took some responsibility to educate the many moronic trampy arsewipes that frequent their establishments that hoying fast food wrappers out of car windows into the countryside, (quite often bloody MILES from the nearest drivethrough) is ignorant ****tish behaviour.
Boils my water, & every single time I go out on the bike I see loads of the ****ing stuff. Same with Costa coffee cups.
Knobs.
About 3 weeks ago my wife and I were at Homebase in Blackpole, Worcester and were walking back to the car and watched two gentlemen throwing their KFC rubbish out of the windows of their car parked next to ours.
I proceeded to so something along the lines of "That gash there is a bin literally behind your car" to be met with a load of expletives from both of them.
So I picked it all up and deposited it all through the drivers window. This sent the passenger apoplectic and he got out the car and dragged me out of my car and tried to hit me. My wife jumped out and started to try and film it and the driver went round and started to push her around.
I felt helpless.
Moral of this story. Some people are arseholes and don't care.
there is a bin literally behind your car
Sounds dangerous.
One strong gust could have blown that bin over.
I take a bin bag with me and spend the 70 minutes picking up litter. Since i started i’ve now got another 5 people who do the same, we’re into the river now. It’s nice to see and the kids now do it as well. Our job is to prepare the next generation.
Where’ the like button?
I think generally some people are selfish ****s and they don’t even see an issue with the behaviour the OP is talking about. Many moons ago I used to work for Kirklees Council as a gardener. The state of some of the parks, public spaces and gardens around Huddersfield was horrendous. Sure I could put in a PTSD claim for the things I saw, walked in or found in hedges.
Watched a chav ette fail to win on 2 or 3 scratch cards, as I was queuing to use a cash machine. She lost, unsurprisingly enough so she ripped them in half and threw them out the car window.
I got my money, picked up her litter, turned, walked 6ft to the bin and put them in it. Walked past her open car window, gave her the look. Not a word said.
She will do it again, 3rd generation chav scum were not taught right and wrong and the problem is going to get worse judging by the amount of parents I see ignoring kids whilst engrossed in who is doing who on love islands insta feed
I came out of our local shop on Monday and noticed bloke about 70 standing outside the bookies next door. He unwrapped a new packet of fags and threw the paper on the floor right in front of my 12 yr old. Instinctively my lad picked it up and without saying a word he walked over to the bin about 10 feet away and dropped it in the bin.
I was so proud of my lad and couldn't help pointing out that something was arse about face with this particular picture and that my lad was setting a better example than someone old enough to know better. He told me to **** off and mind my own business. Nice man.
I was cycling on the pavement next to the main road from work to my local trail centre last week and I couldn't believe the amount of rubbish on the verge and in the hedges, you don't notice it all when driving.
I'll never understand the mentality of someone who decides it's ok to chuck it out their car window rather than just bin it when they get wherever they are going 🤬
I hope you informed him what you do for a living Bregante. Iirc you are with the police force. But I may be wrong
You're not wrong and no I didn't. If the actions of a 12 yr old kid didn't embarrass him then I wasn't going to waste my breath on him and get into an argument with a miserable old git when I'm with my lad.
The Spanish can teach us a thing or two..
So I picked it all up and deposited it all through the drivers window. This sent the passenger apoplectic and he got out the car and dragged me out of my car and tried to hit me
Last time I thought about doing this, I realised the dickhead in the car looked much tougher than me so just said "dont worry I'll put it in the bin for you!" This still had the desired effect but didnt make him angry enough to get punchy!
We have Civic Pride where I live which do a great job
https://www.civic-pride.org.uk/what-we-do/
I get rolls of bags from them and pick litter up when I'm out walking the dog. If Im willing to bend down and pick an animals shit up surely I can do the same with litter.
The only thing some people care about is themselves and their money. So often you can trace the shit people leave behind to the fast food and coffee chains. So how about this as a policy - yes you can have your mcshite burger meal for 99p..... but if you want any of the packaging that’ll be an extra 50 quid. You can eat it off a wipe clean table or you can pay up. If you don’t like that you can f*ck off
I might run for pm. Who’ll vote for me?
Oh, and if I get in disposable bbqs will suddenly go up to £1000 each.
What's the fine for littering? £100? A camera or 2 at my local beach would raise thousands every sunny weekend.
I have in the past chucked rubbish back into people's cars.
They get very *very* angry about it, which is weird, as it's surely no different to them chucking the rubbish out of their car window in the first place?
But I'm not totally convinced it's a good idea.
I think these days I would play safe and bludgeon them to death and bury them in a shallow grave.
I chucked some rubbish back into a where the passenger threw it out of the window at traffic lights. It ended with a chase around the city and me crashing!
I was queuing in traffic on my bike, saw a woman open her door and empty an ash tray into the gutter. I was able to scoop the whole lot up in one hand and throw it through the open window into the back of her Vitara. Called her a horrible C and pedalled for my life.
Absolutely splendid feeling.
I once had an ashtray emptied into my face whilst cycling back from work.
It actually got me pretty distressed seeing the never ending and increasingly littered grass verges. Car accidents create a littering problem from the smashed up components left behind to the police cordoning tape left tied around trees. As someone said before you're right up close and personal to it when riding on a bike. I thought parts of eastern Europe were bad but the UK is just as bad now.
I'd like to think we'd be able to drop plastic from all of our packaging and recycle every plastic component that is manufactured but it's never going to happen.
What can we do about it? Everything is made of plastic these days.
The mess left in cinemas is another one that boils my piss. I always take my rubbish out to a bin and so does my lad, but some people are absolute pigs.
It’s cigarette butts that do my head in.
BBC News today. Campaign #FillTheBottle aims to tidy up cigarette butts
Hubby has taken a coke can thrown out by a scum bag cow, in a traffic jam. He calmly got out of our car and threw it back through her window. It still had some coke in the bottom, hopefully she got the sticky substance all over her clothes.
I absolutely detest seeing the amount of Maccy D's and Costa discarded rubbish in our country lanes and in hedges and grass verges.
I've asked so many people to pick up their litter after dropping it (usually by a bin), but all you get is crude abuse.
One woman even threw her cig butt into the road near a police officer the other evening. I wish I'd said something with the officer close by.
Getting tired by this me, me, me, inconsiderate society, luckiy most people do care and will look after this wonderful country that we lucky enough to live in.