blas is angry!

[blas87]

And this time, not at men!


My future room-mate and I went to the beach today, and we'd gone yesterday as well. It's a public beach, but it's pretty secluded. You have to take a walking trail and walk across the train tracks to get there. I'm extremely picky on swimming in lakes, they have to be crystal clear and have no gunk in them. This lake passes the blas test (and trust me, not many lakes/rivers in the area I live in are very clean).

I was relaxing, sunbathing (well, actually, sunBURNING), when I noticed a family of people get up and leave. And they forgot to take their 6 or so empty cans of beer, 2 empty bottles of beer, and 2 empty packs of cigarettes with them!

Honestly, how hard is it to bring a bag with you to the beach if you're going to drink pop/beer/whatever and throw your garbage in the bag? Even if you bring a cooler, set the empty cans next to it, and then put them in the cooler when you decide to leave!

I'm disgusted that people are littering at that beautiful beach. What if the wind took those beer cans into the water? Someone could cut themselves! Not only that, litter is disgusting! No one is going to want to dig in the sand and find empty beer cans! Imagine little kids digging in the sand and cutting their fingers on them!

When you walk through the trail on your way in/out, you can also see lots of empty bottles of booze, socks, etc etc........

I think I should bring an extra garbage bag with me next time, and pick up litter on the beach and walking trail.

People disgust me.

[Broomjockey]

I agree. I love that old saying "Take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints."

[stickycoins]

It doesn't matter where you are, littering is littering. I get on the kids at my store every day about throwing trash in the parking lot. Trash cans are about 10 steps away from the door but they still just rip, eat and drop. No home training.

[Binky]

I agree! I remember when I was little we went to a park, and down my the lake there was tonnes of junk!..undies, socks, packaging, you name it it was there! sooo grose, and this is a park where little kids play! I was maybe around 11...and I was with my little sister and a next door neihbour...we actually went around with plastic bags and picked it all up...we had about 3-4 bags full EACH...was sooooo grose...I just don't understand people!

I would have told those people (if you had nioticed what they were about to do) to pick up thier stuff because you don't feel like walking over their rubbish!

[One-Fang]

That peeves me off too. Littering up a parking lot is one thing, it's rude and selfish but at least yes, there is someone who will be made to clean it up as part of their job. But who the heck cleans up nature? Nobody. So it always irritates me far more when people can't pick up after themselves in wilderness type areas.

I definitely would have said something at the time. "Excuse me, you forgot to take your trash out with you".

[Misanthropical]

We have a swimming pool here that you can only to to if you live here and you pay extra for the passes.

Every day, the poor lifeguard has to pick up all the trash that the people leave. It's not small amounts of trash either, I'm talking about paper plates, soda cans, cigarette butts, and even dirty diapers! :eek:

He actually thanks my family for throwing our garbage away when we leave.

There are garbage cans all over the place, so it's not like a person has to walk more than 10 feet to get to one.

There is a park across the street from us that no one can take their small children to, because the teenagers trash it every single day. A memo was sent out to the parents of these teenagers, but of course, it didn't help any.

[Knightmare]

That pisses me off too. I have to clean up people's trash daily at work. People are slobs. I am not your mommy; clean up after yourself. I never catch the people at it, either. They'd get an earful if I did.

I am teaching my 2 1/2 year old daughter how to clean up after herself. She's getting too good at it. When she is done eating, she takes her plate right to the garbage. Sometimes, she will take MY plate to the garbage, even though I am not finished eating. LOL But she does like to throw things away. It's a game to her.
Hopefully she will remember in her teen years to clean up after herself.

[XCashier]

I am teaching my 2 1/2 year old daughter how to clean up after herself. ...But she does like to throw things away. It's a game to her.
Hopefully she will remember in her teen years to clean up after herself.
I'm sure she will. My parents taught my brother and I to respect nature, to not litter, and leave the place looking better than you found it. We've done that all our lives, still do. And it does irk me when stupid, lazy slobs throw their garbage everywhere. I go to the woods to see flora and fauna, not dirty diapers and food wrappers! :mad:

What's worse is that irresponsible idiots throw their still-hot cigarette butts out their car windows while driving down the highway. This is the desert, the grass and wild plants are tinder-dry and the fire danger is extreme. All it takes is one carelessly-discarded cig butt to start a raging wildfire! Thousands of acres of land burned, homes destroyed, resources consumed, possibly even lives lost, all because some knuckle-dragger can't be bothered to use his ashtray! :pissed:

[Slave to the Phone]

What's worse is that irresponsible idiots throw their still-hot cigarette butts out their car windows while driving down the highway. This is the desert, the grass and wild plants are tinder-dry and the fire danger is extreme. All it takes is one carelessly-discarded cig butt to start a raging wildfire! Thousands of acres of land burned, homes destroyed, resources consumed, possibly even lives lost, all because some knuckle-dragger can't be bothered to use his ashtray! :pissed:

Quoted in full because it needed repeating.

Cigarette butts are my biggest peeve. I'm a smoker and I'm constantly b****ing people out for leaving butts on the ground. Not only is it unslightly, birds and small animals eat them. They can't poop them back out, so they starve to death or die of nicotine poisening.

My SO took my pachinco balls away because if I see someone toss a butt out of their car window, I pass the car and drop pachinco balls in front of the car. Now I have to use marbles and they tend to shatter by the second bounce :(

[April]

I cant STAND litterers. I refuse to allow my children to do it, and they would be in a hell of alot of trouble if I ever caught them. There are trash cans EVERYwhere now days. Even if thier isn't, it isn't that hard to keep a hold of stuff. I've been known to come home with pockets full of bits of trash (candy wrappers, bits of plastic, whatever) because there wasn't a trash can handy so I shoved it in my pocket

[protege]

What pisses me off, is that I'll be driving through certain areas of town...and see some idiot throw trash out of their car. Just the other day, I saw some jerk in a red Ford pickup throw his McDonald's bag onto the street. These people (and I know this guy lives there...I've seen that POS truck parked along the street many times) will then complain to the media (usually the newspaper or TV) about how "dirty" their neighborhood is. Uh, anyone wanna guess why that is?

Sorry folks, this just annoys me no end.

[BunnyJas]

I hate litterbugs!! I've seen these lazy idiots at the beach leave their trash and 8x out of 10 there is a garbage can no more than six feet away from them. My parents taught me from early on to throw away my trash and never just leave it. It's just something that civilized people do.