Litter Lout

grego

grego

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:mad: I'm quite proud of myself today, on my way home from work I had to stop off in Ossy, anyway a young man sat in his car eating pizza, flung his pizza box onto the road, got out of his car and kicked it towards the kerb, I was disgusted. To my surprise I shouted " Put that in the bin" I immediately thought I was going to get an earful but instead he picked it up, put it in the bin which was only 10 feet away and said nothing. What I dont understand is why he threw it on the floor in the first place, do people just not care? It took about 30 seconds for him to dispose of it in the bin, I suppose its lack of respect again.
 
I couldn't agree more Gem, there's just no need for it, unfortunately I think we are the minority.
 
well done grego, :thumbsup: bet he was mortified at being caught. I hate it when people blatantly chuck their litter on the floor and even more so when they make the excuse that they are "keeping someone in a job" to clean it up, gggrrrrrrrr :mad:
 
I once got a right gob full from a women for telling her kids to pick their rubbish up and put it in the bin. I just told her if she wanted to live in **** then do it at home and walked away.

It comes down to personal pride. If you care about what people think of you then you will be tidy. If you couldn't give a stuff then I would recklon you'd be like that silly woman.
 
all my litter goes in the bin or so i thought ..

paper bags , pop bottles/cans ,sweet wrappers etc all go in the bin but then it dawned on me that i am a litter bug

i am a smoker and quite shamelessly disregard my ciggys after i have had my fix leaving a little black smudge where i step on it to extinguish the giggy

even though i am guilty of that crime i still get peeved when i see somone emptying their car ashtray on to the pavement and driving off
 
Well done grego. I too hate litter bugs. My 7 year old will walk the full length of the bus station to put his sweet papers in a bin failing that mums pocket. It's the way I've taught him. I just wish other kids & adults did the same. I get fed up of picking other peoples rubbish up out of our garden.
 
Debbie J said:
Well done grego. I too hate litter bugs. My 7 year old will walk the full length of the bus station to put his sweet papers in a bin failing that mums pocket. It's the way I've taught him. I just wish other kids & adults did the same. I get fed up of picking other peoples rubbish up out of our garden.
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Downside to that is if I forget to check pockets before doing the washing I end up cleaning nearly a much rubbish as I do clothes!!! Better that than it flying around in the wind!!! :rolleyes:
 
tissue is even worse it gets in everything if you leave some in your pockets lol

paper money seems to survive pretty well in the wash though i have found

not that i wash my money on purpouse lol
 
Yes, I uasually end up with pockets of crisp packet, sweet wrappers, tissues ect............

I too hate it when people throw things on the floor, there is just no need for it.
I'm am always telling the kids " if you don't finfd a bin, put it in your pocket, until we get home". They just do it now, saves the ear bashing off MUM.
 
I too shout at litter louts, but I'm afraid I'm with Chav again on this one.

Being a smoker I sometimes have to stoop to dropping my cigarette in the gutter if I can't find a drain.

I only do this because once whilst waiting for the bus outside Green Park tube station, I put what I thought was an extinguished cigarette but in a waste paper bin, only to watch it smoke then set on fire. I always worry the same thing may happen to me if I put it in my pocket.

I do always put it in those bins with those little ashtrays on the side, but because of security risks now they are scarcer than hen's teeth.
 
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what about chewing gum? Yuk it gets everywhere.

I dont know about Accrington but here in Preston city center we now have boards dotted about where you can stick your gum saves walking in it. and strts the clean up of the streets.
 
MUMMIBOO said:
what about chewing gum? Yuk it gets everywhere.

I dont know about Accrington but here in Preston city center we now have boards dotted about where you can stick your gum saves walking in it. and strts the clean up of the streets.
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In Accy we have tables, and bars in pubs where we can stick ours. Don't ever put your hand under the bar in a pub in accy, it's not nice!!:mad:
 
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Here's one I prepared earlier ( in the words of Blue Peter).;)
 

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Oh bugger I'm as much to blame too, I regard myself as a none litter bug everything goes in the bin except yes ....... cigarettes and I am really naughty because I throw them out the car window to keep my car ashtray clean :o


garinda said:
I put what I thought was an extinguished cigarette but in a waste paper bin, only to watch it smoke then set on fire.
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OMG that made me chuckle I did it at home the other day :rolleyes: I emptied the ashtray but one of the cigarettes was still smouldering I had to go running into the garden with a smoking bin :D
 
Tinkerbelle said:
Oh bugger I'm as much to blame too, I regard myself as a none litter bug everything goes in the bin except yes ....... cigarettes and I am really naughty because I throw them out the car window to keep my car ashtray clean :o
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I've gotta to own up to that too :o
 
Wow!

good on yer girl..............so glad you didn't get a smack in the gob!!!
 
good on you grego...
i told a young woman off a few months ago ,for letting her dog fowl the pavement.the language she used would have shamed an irish navvie....i dont know what i'd have done if she had set the dog on me it was a great big boxer ,still i felt better for letting her know..
 
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