Seriously, WTF is wrong with some people.

[Spare tyre]

funkyrobot said:

We seem to get a fair bit of exploded McDonald's litter on the road outside our house. It explodes because the scum bags throw it out of the window as they drive down the road.

I'm also seeing a hell of a lot of cigarette butts too. Why is it that some smokers don't seem to consider throwing their cigarette butts on the floor as littering?

I live on a A road, about 3 miles from Mc Donalds, we also get this problem, think we are the perfect distance for people finishing their food.

Interestingly a new starbucks opened (Hedge end for those interested), within a couple of hours i saw my first cup appear at the lights near me, then over a day a few more. A new costa opens next month, next to Starbucks so will be interesting to see how quickly we get some of their litter

Luckily there is an old boy who works for the council who walks the stretch each couple of days and does a good job cleaning it up, so I guess keeping him in a job is a good thing, although if he didnt have to pick litter im sure they could find him something else to do.

I really wish they'd print number plates on cups, bags etc, not sure who could follow it up but im sure it would help keep the streets a bit tidier

[GTIR]

I live in Cambridge and if I've got rubbish in the car I drive to Haverhill and throw it out the window.

My reasoning is that place is a dump anyway so rather than mess up nice Cambridge it makes sense to get rid of my crap where it won't be noticed. I've been know to take a poo by the side of the road for the same reason.

I've not always been this conciencous.

If I see litter in my road I'll often pick it up, and save it for my Haverhill trip.

[funkyrobot]

Spare tyre said:

funkyrobot said:

We seem to get a fair bit of exploded McDonald's litter on the road outside our house. It explodes because the scum bags throw it out of the window as they drive down the road.

I'm also seeing a hell of a lot of cigarette butts too. Why is it that some smokers don't seem to consider throwing their cigarette butts on the floor as littering?

I live on a A road, about 3 miles from Mc Donalds, we also get this problem, think we are the perfect distance for people finishing their food.

Interestingly a new starbucks opened (Hedge end for those interested), within a couple of hours i saw my first cup appear at the lights near me, then over a day a few more. A new costa opens next month, next to Starbucks so will be interesting to see how quickly we get some of their litter

Luckily there is an old boy who works for the council who walks the stretch each couple of days and does a good job cleaning it up, so I guess keeping him in a job is a good thing, although if he didnt have to pick litter im sure they could find him something else to do.

I really wish they'd print number plates on cups, bags etc, not sure who could follow it up but im sure it would help keep the streets a bit tidier

We live between a town and a village, about 2 - 3 miles from a McDondald's too. The road we live on is also the main drag route from the town to the village, so we get a lot of traffic.

I've never seen so many cigarette butts though. I'm always picking them up in the lawn mower as I cut the grass at the front of the house.

I think it beats where we used to live though. We resided in the local town, the the end which has become a bit of a dump. My weekly task was sweeping up smashed glass so that it didn't wreck my car and bike tyres.

[funkyrobot]

Thinking about it, has anyone ever seen a John Lewis bag dropped as litter?

[steveo3002]

GTIR said:

I live in Cambridge and if I've got rubbish in the car I drive to Haverhill and throw it out the window.

My reasoning is that place is a dump anyway so rather than mess up nice Cambridge it makes sense to get rid of my crap where it won't be noticed. I've been know to take a poo by the side of the road for the same reason.

I've not always been this conciencous.

If I see litter in my road I'll often pick it up, and save it for my Haverhill trip.

haha i told one of the locals pretty much that and they got the hump lol

[droopsnoot]

I see a lot of Mcdonalds wrappers out in the countryside - it's not that far out from Crewe to the lanes outside Nantwich and probably an ideal spot for a bit of licking followed by a Big Mac to take the taste away - or the other way around. Lots of town centres nowadays are dumps because of all the litter, but they only became that way because people chuck stuff on the floor, but there's no point having a go at people and risking getting stabbed. That said, Liverpool Lime Street station doesn't seem to have any bins at all, so it's hard to see what you're supposed to do - a real problem for me as I was brought up to not drop litter so was determined not to just chuck it on the floor.

My pet hate is people who gather their dog droppings in a small plastic bag, tie the end up, and then hang it on a tree rather than carrying it to the nearest dog poo bin - in the specific area I've noticed it, it's a footpath of around 300 yards in length, with a bin at either end.

People of today, no respect, blah blah.

[iva cosworth]

There isn't a McD that close to mine but still get the dropped bag outside.

Either they eat slowly or drive really quickly.

[thinks].....the latter....The infamous "Mad Mile" is between me and the nearest burger emporium.

[Lost soul]

Funkycoldribena said:

See this in Mcds,kfc all the time.Finish food,throw out of window.Im not a fan of using cctv for fining people but I really wouldnt have a problem with using it for that.

Great idea

[tuffer]

I just cannot understand the mentality of it, who do these people think will clear up their st. I often see whole bags of McD wrappers discarded in the lanes near me, a new take-away recently opened on the A303 and it looks like the local squaddies just throw their crap out of the window on the way back to camp.

[Lost soul]

funkyrobot said:

Thinking about it, has anyone ever seen a John Lewis bag dropped as litter?

Very good point

[jesta1865]

long time ago (long before the smoking ban) a taxi driver threw his (still lit) fag end out the window into the car park of the football club i played at.

i picked it up, said to him 'it's a car park not an ashtray' and poked it back through the window.

cue much frantic flapping as he tried to stop the fag from burning his upholstery

[9mm]

A few weeks ago I was driving along and saw traffic ahead slowing and then weaving all over the road. When I got closer I could see it was an animal of some sort they were trying to dodge and cars coming from the other direction were approaching too fast and a squish looked imminent. When I got really close it was tragi-comedy. A fox cub had a McD's soft drink cup (those big beaker things) totally jammed over its head and was running randomly about in the road.

I stopped the car, all the time expecting the little blighter to be squished at any moment but when I got near the cub darted into bushes and down an embankment by the side of the road. I couldn't just go as I was sure the fox would just end up back on the road again at some point. It was so young it obviously didn't even have the wherewithal to claw the thing off its face.

So I then spent the next twenty minutes crashing around in brambles. Every now and again I would see the cub but there was a happy ending. Eventually I got fairly close and to my amazement it wandered right up to me and stood stock still. It really was as if it knew someone might help. Without a word of a lie I just reached down and grabbed the cup and pulled it off the cub's head. Cub then did a Tom and Jetty eyes bulging impression (I probably did the same) and then it just charged off.

I felt as good as I've felt in years and I bloody hate litterers!

[droopsnoot]

tuffer said:

I just cannot understand the mentality of it, who do these people think will clear up their st.

People like the OP, and that's the main reason I don't do it. That and not wanting to be stabbed.

tuffer said:

I often see whole bags of McD wrappers discarded in the lanes near me, a new take-away recently opened on the A303 and it looks like the local squaddies just throw their crap out of the window on the way back to camp.

Now that really is depressing, if that's who it is. The very people that you'd expect to understand discipline and behaving properly.

[Funkycoldribena]

funkyrobot said:

Thinking about it, has anyone ever seen a John Lewis bag dropped as litter?

They're never knowingly dropped.

[jdw100]

A few years ago I had a couple of sales guys arrive to sell my company something or other. I knew they had arrived as i could hear quite loud music from a car under my window (my office was on first floor).

I poked my head out in time to see them both chuck their cigarette ends out of the windows of car, along with a fast-food wrapper of some kind, get out and pop on their suit jackets.

They didn't get the business.

A few weeks later their boss rang, keen to see if we could still do a deal. He asked if there was anything that he could do to get our business. I told him that I would think about it if he came over and picked up the rubbish that his two reps had dumped in our car-park. He was not not a happy man.

I hope that they got a good bking!

[bazza white]

I pulled up to a asda carpark and parked up. From the car opposite a hand appears out then window and dropped a happy meal box with the wrappers and drink cup inside. As I walked passed I picked it up and threw it back in to the car, the women just sat there with a shocked look on her face and said nothing.



It really grates on me people being so lazy.

[GTIR]

steveo3002 said:

GTIR said:

I live in Cambridge and if I've got rubbish in the car I drive to Haverhill and throw it out the window.

My reasoning is that place is a dump anyway so rather than mess up nice Cambridge it makes sense to get rid of my crap where it won't be noticed. I've been know to take a poo by the side of the road for the same reason.

I've not always been this conciencous.

If I see litter in my road I'll often pick it up, and save it for my Haverhill trip.

haha i told one of the locals pretty much that and they got the hump lol

They probably tell you they live in a "village" near Haverhole when in fact it's an estate on the outskirts!

It's called Haverhole for a reason.

[Lost soul]

9mm said:

A few weeks ago I was driving along and saw traffic ahead slowing and then weaving all over the road. When I got closer I could see it was an animal of some sort they were trying to dodge and cars coming from the other direction were approaching too fast and a squish looked imminent. When I got really close it was tragi-comedy. A fox cub had a McD's soft drink cup (those big beaker things) totally jammed over its head and was running randomly about in the road.

I stopped the car, all the time expecting the little blighter to be squished at any moment but when I got near the cub darted into bushes and down an embankment by the side of the road. I couldn't just go as I was sure the fox would just end up back on the road again at some point. It was so young it obviously didn't even have the wherewithal to claw the thing off its face.

So I then spent the next twenty minutes crashing around in brambles. Every now and again I would see the cub but there was a happy ending. Eventually I got fairly close and to my amazement it wandered right up to me and stood stock still. It really was as if it knew someone might help. Without a word of a lie I just reached down and grabbed the cup and pulled it off the cub's head. Cub then did a Tom and Jetty eyes bulging impression (I probably did the same) and then it just charged off.

I felt as good as I've felt in years and I bloody hate litterers!

[droopsnoot]

bazza white said:

I pulled up to a asda carpark and parked up. From the car opposite a hand appears out then window and dropped a happy meal box with the wrappers and drink cup inside. As I walked passed I picked it up and threw it back in to the car, the women just sat there with a shocked look on her face and said nothing.



It really grates on me people being so lazy.

And, generalising for a minute, it's often parents with kids that are doing this. So not only are the parents lazy untidy people, they're showing a whole new generation that it's alright to just chuck stuff on the floor if you can't be bothered putting it in the bin. That's why people do this, why they sit in the pub or on the bus with their feet on the seats, why they cough or sneeze without putting their hand over their mouth - because no-one's clipping them round the earhole teaching them it's wrong.

[Google [bot]]

9mm said:

A few weeks ago I was driving along and saw traffic ahead slowing and then weaving all over the road. When I got closer I could see it was an animal of some sort they were trying to dodge and cars coming from the other direction were approaching too fast and a squish looked imminent. When I got really close it was tragi-comedy. A fox cub had a McD's soft drink cup (those big beaker things) totally jammed over its head and was running randomly about in the road.

I stopped the car, all the time expecting the little blighter to be squished at any moment but when I got near the cub darted into bushes and down an embankment by the side of the road. I couldn't just go as I was sure the fox would just end up back on the road again at some point. It was so young it obviously didn't even have the wherewithal to claw the thing off its face.

So I then spent the next twenty minutes crashing around in brambles. Every now and again I would see the cub but there was a happy ending. Eventually I got fairly close and to my amazement it wandered right up to me and stood stock still. It really was as if it knew someone might help. Without a word of a lie I just reached down and grabbed the cup and pulled it off the cub's head. Cub then did a Tom and Jetty eyes bulging impression (I probably did the same) and then it just charged off.

I felt as good as I've felt in years and I bloody hate litterers!

And so you should