Do you throw litter from your car?

[Spexxvet]

Ice/melted ice. Only. My car is a fucking trashcan, but not even apple cores go out the window. You should hear my kids' outrage when they see trash come out of a car window. WHen I see glowing cigarette butts come flying out of a car, I really want to do something about it. But what can you do? The cops don't ticket speeders, or stop-sign-rollers, so what would they do with a 911 litter report?

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

WHen I see glowing cigarette butts come flying out of a car, I really want to do something about it.

A driver in front of me once carelessly flicked a lit cigarette out his open window. Not only did it hit my car, but it got sucked into my open window, buzzed past my ear, bounced off the door frame, and exited through the rear open window. I spent fifteen frantic minutes on the side of the road searching the floor of the car, fearing a fire.

I have no idea how anyone thinks it is acceptable to toss burning material onto the side of the highway. We suffer enough brush fires started by lightning in the dry season.

[Griff]

Iron Eyes Cody

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by Griff

Iron Eyes Cody

I am so bummed after reading that link.

I just read Chief Seattle's "speech" a couple weeks ago and took the hook not realizing that the whole thing is a fiction. Well written fiction, tho. Very well written.

[Beestie]

Nope. And while my kids were still figuring out how I feel about litter, I had to stop the car a couple times to go back and pick up a candy wrapper or two.

You guys think I'm a shrill asshole, seriously?
You should be around when I see someone litter.
Yes, I actually yell at them, in public, loudly. I don't care if they are a large biker, though I can honestly say I have yet to see one litter... but I would, happily.
Something like "What the hell do you think you are doing? Pick that up fuck-head!"

[Shawnee123]

Throwing litter out the window shows the level of no class and egocentricism you possess. Spitting (out a car window or on the sidewalk that people have to walk on) is also a deal breaker for me. Just trashy.

[Weird Harold]

RED ALERT RED ALERT Everyone on the Cellar is agreeing.

I think that's one of the seven signs of the apocalypse.

Pretty much.

It does bother me that the fines are not being enforced and I feel that there should be, specially hired, litter cops. The senior members of the Explorer force is a great place. (Does the UK have something like these little brown-shirts?)
This is a great place to make money to keep from having to raise local taxes for outfitting our police.
This would not be ticketing people going five-over, jaywalking, parking for ten min. over, this is a legitimate issue that would make our parks, streets and towns a better place to live and generate funding for our police.
Focusing on places where people toss/drop trash, throw cigarette butts out of their cars (worse yet, dump their ash trays in parking lots, fine for each butt, BTW), and others.

There, someone will disagree with me.

[barefoot serpent]

Abbey confounded environmentalist proprieties about "littering" by tossing his beer cans out the window onto roads he hated, such as the new paved road to the Bullfrog Marina at the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area. As he explained in "The Second Rape of the West," "Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly."

from Edward Abbey: A Life, by James M. Cahalan

also another way to look at it is that roads will become the mines for future generations.

[Shawnee123]

Huh? Roads will become mimes for future gener...oh, never mind.

[lumberjim]

how do you feel about cigarette butts?

[monster]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

how do you feel about cigarette butts?

That they should be in your ashtray while you drive and in a bin(=trash can) when you empty it.

Are you the first confessed litterer? If so thank you for your bravery. Come on..... statistically speaking a whole shitload of you reading this thread must do it, so either tell us why or tell us you ain't gonna do it again. Dare ya! :p

[wolf]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

how do you feel about cigarette butts?

You've seen what I do right? (first of all, I don't smoke in the car at all)

I twist the ember off the end, stamp it out, and the filter end goes into the watch pocket of my jeans until I get to a trash can.

I like the Altoids tin idea, Rzen. I'll have to try to remember to save one.

[DucksNuts]

Originally Posted by wolf

You've seen what I do right? (first of all, I don't smoke in the car at all)

I twist the ember off the end, stamp it out, and the filter end goes into the watch pocket of my jeans until I get to a trash can.

I like the Altoids tin idea, Rzen. I'll have to try to remember to save one.

Ohhh my ex used to do that, except he would just leave it in his pocket ...drove me fucken nuts. Tobacco all through my washing