Is this why they're called "buttheads"?

[Megg]

Here in SoCal, it's a felony to throw a lit cigarette out the window. Bad, bad BAD! Fires here burn for weeks and kill people. I hate inconsiderate assholes - I'm a smoker, but I NEVER throw my butts. How rude! You could hurt someone.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Here in SoCal, it's a felony to throw a lit cigarette out the window. Bad, bad BAD! Fires here burn for weeks and kill people. I hate inconsiderate assholes - I'm a smoker, but I NEVER throw my butts. How rude! You could hurt someone.

Here in Wisconsin (at least up nort' dere hey), there is an extreme drought going on, and accordingly there are burn bans for the driest areas.

Although it rained most of this afternoon and evening. But still, what kind of a dirtbag just flicks his/her butts wherever they please?

[mikoyan29]

People throwing their cigarette butts is one of my hot buttons...

Assholes... the lot of them

[Andara Bledin]

I actually chewed out one of these butt-heads (harhar) a week ago last Friday.

We were just arriving out our thrice annual gaming convention, and I'd parked outside the door where I was going to be unloading all of my stuff. While I'm standing there waiting for someone to open it for me (I later found out that there's a non-obvious latch I could have used), this douchasaurus wanders over and flicks his cigarette butt into the flower bed, past the standing ashtray.

I like to lie to them and claim to be another smoker when I chew them out and say things like, "it's assholes like you that make the rest of us smokers look bad, dipshit." I doubt it does much good, but I suspect they'd listen to a fellow smoker before they'd listen to a non-smoker.

^-.-^

[smileyeagle1021]

If memory serves, the worst fire in London Tube history was caused by a smoker dropping a cigarrete on the escalator and it catching the oil on the tracks on fire which from there was all over.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Ugh. I loathe people throwing their butts out their car windows; I've had a couple hit my lid before when I've been riding my motorbike, and one hit my chest and send up sparks. That seriously freaked me out. O.o Yeah, I was wearing my synthetic bike jacket at the time, but still.

[greek_jester]

If memory serves, the worst fire in London Tube history was caused by a smoker dropping a cigarrete on the escalator and it catching the oil on the tracks on fire which from there was all over.

A few years back at King's Cross I saw a woman snatch a cigarette out of some guy's mouth just after he lit up, stomp on it, then scream in his face that she'd survived the King's Cross fire & she wasn't going to live through another one because some nicotine-whore couldn't go 10 minutes without his fix. I have to admit, I was expecting her to get thrashed, but he kind of went grey & slunk off.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I would have smacked her head for that; that's just overreacting. -.- I was bullied at school, but you don't see me going around assaulting random teenagers.

[RayvenQ]

I like to lie to them and claim to be another smoker when I chew them out and say things like, "it's assholes like you that make the rest of us smokers look bad, dipshit." I doubt it does much good, but I suspect they'd listen to a fellow smoker before they'd listen to a non-smoker.

^-.-^

I actually sometimes do that, though they don't always listen.

As for me, if I'm out and about and smoking, and there is no ashtray aroound i do this: Pull the hot coal out, drop it onto a solid, unburnable surface and stamp it to oblivion and put the actual butt in my pocket.

[Jay 2K Winger]

We've had two mulch fires at the wholesale club, both caused by cigarette butts. One of them (the more recent) wasn't too bad, I managed to stomp it out with a couple of firm dousings of water.

The other caused smoke to seep under the foundation of the club and into the store, which resulted in our calling the fire department and evacuating the store.

[Arcade Man D]

I would have smacked her head for that; that's just overreacting. -.- I was bullied at school, but you don't see me going around assaulting random teenagers.

I'm pretty sure that smoking is banned inside the London Tubes, so I wouldn't say it's quite as much of an overreaction.

[Exaspera]

I'm pretty sure that smoking is banned inside the London Tubes, so I wouldn't say it's quite as much of an overreaction.

It is. And the wooden escalators have all been replaced, except for one, I think. I was just riding them last week, as a matter of fact! Still getting over the jet lag.

[Sparky]

True? I don't know, I read it in Ann Landers and it was years back -- some guy wrote in that a cigarette butt thrown from a car landed in the groceries in the back of his DIL's pickup truck, starting a fire. She pulled over and was trying to put the fire out when a can of bug spray exploded, burning her quite badly.