Smokers, the road is NOT an ashtray!

[sirwired]

It cheeses me off to no end to see smokers tossing their cigarette butt out the window. People that would never think of tossing a soda can out the window cheerfully toss their smoking debris out without a second thought.

Grr...

SirWired

[bhskittykatt]

Grrr! I HATE that! I remember a couple years ago, one of our guests tossed a lit cig out as they drove past and set one of our hedges on fire! It was next to the pool, too, and a bunch of the ash and extinguisher chemicals ended up in the pool and we had to close it until the pool people could come out and clean it up. So thanks, careless cig guy. Thanks a whole lot.

[mikoyan29]

I hate it when people do this. The state of MIchigan is not your f-ing ashtray people.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Before I met my wife she smoked. She stopped tossing the butts out the car window when one of them flew in the back window and burned her rear seat.

[Andara Bledin]

I sometimes catch smokers doing this, but more often it's people tossing their junk food litter out their windows!

The worst was a city worker in a city vehicle who was dumping a few bits of trash out of his window every hundred feet or so as he drove. He did this for the three miles I was behind him. If I wasn't alone in the car, I could have had his info and called in about it. I was pissed.

^-.-^

[ApolloSZ]

This pisses me off in general. I sometimes think I should start smoking then visit these people just to do it in their house.
Sadly I don't think my point would get through.

[Misanthropical]

I smoke and that chesses me off so BAD! We already get a bad rap, why do these a-holes want to make it worse? I wonder if they are the same people who when walking with their children, tell their children to just drop their candy wrapper on the ground?

Do their children grow up to leave their used condoms all over the ground? I swear I come close to throwing up when I see that!

[alcaholjunkie]

In my car I have a nice little tray of ash, Below the AC controls and radio that pops out, purpose built for hot ashes... what are them things called again? ^_^

There's no point at all to throw cig butts out the window -_- plus they risk having the hot ashed blow back in on them. (getting ash in you eye isn't nice, happens sometimes by just having the window open while going at speeds, lol)

well enough of my waffling. ^_^

/mmm waffles....

[XCashier]

I've ranted about that before. I used to live in Arizona, which is hot and tinder-dry most of the year, and all it takes is some moron driving down the highway, tossing a still-hot cig butt out the window to start a raging wildfire. So yeah, folks, use your ashtray. If your car doesn't have one, you can get one from any auto parts shop for a few dollars.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

We've had people bounced from the guest list of parties we've had for doing that. Who the hell comes over to someones' freaking HOUSE and LITTERS all over their yard?????

Whole group of non-smokers have a party at someone's house, we invite smoking friends over with the caveat that they smoke outside, and we all end up picking frigging butts out of the lawn the next day.

How the hell do they consider that that is not litter???

And another thing....I've seen these morons set the freaking GUTTER on fire doing this. I've seen them SET THE GUY BEHIND THEM"S CAR ON FIRE (nice grammar there, eh?). That's right, guy on his way to Pennsic sucked in the butt flicked from the car in front of him on the highway through his window and it set his back seat on fire. I saw the pics. How nice is that???

[50 mission cap]

Back when I worked at Tim Horton's...customers would throw cigarette butts out the window at the drive thru. One time the bushes caught fire and I had to go out and put it out!

Plus they threw there cups all over the place even though there were 3...count em 3...bins placed at various points along the drive thru lane.

[ApolloSZ]

On the funnier side, theres an ashtray in the back of the toilet doors in the airplanes our national airline uses..... which are all non-smoking flights.....

Go figure.

[Dreamstalker]

A couple summers ago, we were visiting a friend down on the Cape. On the way back, we see some tool toss a butt out their window into someone's front yard (dry season so it caught almost instantly, luckily there wasn't any wind that day). The guy sped off, but mom caught the license plate, I called it in and it was put out in time (I think the only damage was a few yards of burned grass, but there were trees that it could have spread to).

[BlaqueKatt]

So yeah, folks, use your ashtray. If your car doesn't have one, you can get one from any auto parts shop for a few dollars.

or use a soda can-free bonus from the soda

[MaseMan]

I want to give those people a friendly bumper tap whenever I see that happen. It really enrages me whenever I see it while I'm driving.