Screws / Nails / Debris in the road.
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Just a little post really, brought on by something I did today, and have done quite a bit before.
If I'm walking next to, cycling along, or crossing a road, wherever it is, if I see something lying in the road that might get picked up in someone's tyre and cause a puncture, I pick it up and either put it down a drain, in a bin, or chuck it into a nearby hedge or something.
Reason being that, although it might not personally cause me a puncture, it might cause someone else to have a bad day and an unecessary cost, and I suppose I believe in the good karma of it, or something?
When I've done it whilst with someone else, they can't quite get why I've done it, as in their eyes, it's unlikely to benefit me personally, so why bother? But it takes me all of ten seconds to do it. And occasionally, it would be on a road I drive down, so maybe it HAS saved me personally - you never know!
I guess they could be right, and maybe it does put me one step on the road to becoming like one of those mad old tramps that goes around picking up fag butts?!
Anyway, anyone else do this?
If I'm walking next to, cycling along, or crossing a road, wherever it is, if I see something lying in the road that might get picked up in someone's tyre and cause a puncture, I pick it up and either put it down a drain, in a bin, or chuck it into a nearby hedge or something.
Reason being that, although it might not personally cause me a puncture, it might cause someone else to have a bad day and an unecessary cost, and I suppose I believe in the good karma of it, or something?
When I've done it whilst with someone else, they can't quite get why I've done it, as in their eyes, it's unlikely to benefit me personally, so why bother? But it takes me all of ten seconds to do it. And occasionally, it would be on a road I drive down, so maybe it HAS saved me personally - you never know!
I guess they could be right, and maybe it does put me one step on the road to becoming like one of those mad old tramps that goes around picking up fag butts?!
Anyway, anyone else do this?
ewenm said:
See this thread from today: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Yep I did see that, which reminded me to post.That thread though - deliberate scattering of pins? Some people need to get a life eh!
I once worked at a newly opened dealership that had been boarded up previously. Once all of the wood was removed there were still screws and nails everywhere even though it had all been "cleared up" two months ago.
I didn't get any thanks for picking up any I saw, in fact I couldn't get anyone to make the connection between nails and punctures.
I didn't get any thanks for picking up any I saw, in fact I couldn't get anyone to make the connection between nails and punctures.
I retrieved a sack barrow from the middle of the road on Friday.
It had clearly fallen off the back of a lorry/van who's driver had failed to shut door
properly.
It is actually the 2nd sack barrow i have gained this way
As for nails etc in the road.Have you seen the state of the average builders van ?
Stuff falls straight out of the gaps where the doors just don't close tightly[again]
It had clearly fallen off the back of a lorry/van who's driver had failed to shut door
properly.
It is actually the 2nd sack barrow i have gained this way
As for nails etc in the road.Have you seen the state of the average builders van ?
Stuff falls straight out of the gaps where the doors just don't close tightly
[again]Similar, but I have been picking up rubbish & sticking it in the bin if I'm out & about. Takes but seconds to do.
I was out with my girlfriend recently, Sunday stroll, all rather pleasant. There was a McD box on the roadside, so while talking I picked it up & shoved it in a bin.
Carried on talking, kinda did it on auto. Girlfriend was surprised.
Amazing how many people have the attitude of 'not my mess, not my problem'
I was out with my girlfriend recently, Sunday stroll, all rather pleasant. There was a McD box on the roadside, so while talking I picked it up & shoved it in a bin.
Carried on talking, kinda did it on auto. Girlfriend was surprised.
Amazing how many people have the attitude of 'not my mess, not my problem'
Waynester said:
Similar, but I have been picking up rubbish & sticking it in the bin if I'm out & about. Takes but seconds to do.
I was out with my girlfriend recently, Sunday stroll, all rather pleasant. There was a McD box on the roadside, so while talking I picked it up & shoved it in a bin.
Carried on talking, kinda did it on auto. Girlfriend was surprised.
Amazing how many people have the attitude of 'not my mess, not my problem'
I was out with my girlfriend recently, Sunday stroll, all rather pleasant. There was a McD box on the roadside, so while talking I picked it up & shoved it in a bin.
Carried on talking, kinda did it on auto. Girlfriend was surprised.
Amazing how many people have the attitude of 'not my mess, not my problem'
Nice one.Actually in addition to the road debris, if I'm out Mountain Biking along some lovely rural trails and I see a beer can or some small bits of rubbish I can easily pick up and transport on a bicycle, then I do so and deposit in a bin later.
Some people might treat our beautiful countryside with contempt
but I don't!Kays vRS said:
I do this too. I also move toads if they're crossing a road as I don't like the thought of them getting squashed 
Aww Actually I was driving along recently one night, when I braked to a stop. My girlfriend looked at me for an explaination, and I said 'look! there's a frog in the road!'I got out, and encouraged Mr. Frog along until he finally hopped his way into the undergrowth and continued hopping away from the road!
Hate seeing squashed wildlife
Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
Some people might treat our beautiful countryside with contempt but I don't!
I went for an 18 mile walk in the pleasant English countryside recently. A perfect spring day. but I don't!I was thinking of PH when we went down a half mile farm track to a field with foot deep muddy wheel marks - I commented that you'd need a good landie to access it.
At the end of the track in a field was a massive pile of kitchen debris, old clothes, and black bags, food waste and so on. Quite incredible that someone had gone to the effort to ruin a lovely part of the UK countryside.
I simply cannot understand this mentality. How can you live with yourself dumping a couple of tonnes of s
t in pristine countryside? Bizarre. Waynester said:
Similar, but I have been picking up rubbish & sticking it in the bin if I'm out & about. Takes but seconds to do.
I was out with my girlfriend recently, Sunday stroll, all rather pleasant. There was a McD box on the roadside, so while talking I picked it up & shoved it in a bin.
Carried on talking, kinda did it on auto. Girlfriend was surprised.
Amazing how many people have the attitude of 'not my mess, not my problem'
The benefit of wheelie bins in towns is that if there's rubbish on the street there's almost certainly a house with the bin out front within a few paces. I was out with my girlfriend recently, Sunday stroll, all rather pleasant. There was a McD box on the roadside, so while talking I picked it up & shoved it in a bin.
Carried on talking, kinda did it on auto. Girlfriend was surprised.
Amazing how many people have the attitude of 'not my mess, not my problem'
If I see something in the road and I'm on my own (I have had to explain myself too many times to passengers) I move it... bricks, hedgehogs, rubbish bags, trolleys, dead cats (I always imagine little Jonny waking up and seeing his pet smeared across the road for the next week, if its at the side he can at least bury it)etc etc
But I'm odd
But I'm odd
Hairy Bob said:
If I see something in the road and I'm on my own (I have had to explain myself too many times to passengers) I move it... bricks, hedgehogs, rubbish bags, trolleys, dead cats (I always imagine little Jonny waking up and seeing his pet smeared across the road for the next week, if its at the side he can at least bury it)etc etc
But I'm odd
Or as I have told friends "imagine if that rubbish bag made a car swerve into a crowd of people!"But I'm odd
Quite right though, I'm the same.
When I'm walking and I see a bottle etc in the road I'll always move it to the pavement/hedge/bin etc. Driving I'll do so if it isn't busy, at the end of the day I'd want someone else to clear it to be honest though I reckon it doesn't even occur to 90% of people, whether that's just due to age or area I don't know.
to be honest though I reckon it doesn't even occur to 90% of people, whether that's just due to age or area I don't know.I ran over a set of ladders in the outside lane of the M5 once. Hit at around 75mph after they shot across the carriageway fired from underneath a truck in lane 1. Quite an experience. My mate thought I was mad dialing 999 to report the obstruction. Car was a hired Volvo xc60. Went over them like a champ
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