People who throw rubbish out of their car
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Just take a quick (safe) look outside of your car next time you stop at a slip road junction or roundabout etc.  Gaze into the verge and do a visual check on all the discarded items on the roadside.  The amount of rubbish left lying on the roadside in the UK is a national disgrace.

This morning is the closest I have ever come to a road/litter rage incident!  I was sat in stop/start traffic on the way to work, and was driving behind a car containing a young man and woman.  All of a sudden, the passenger side window came down and out was thrown a plastic sandwich box, drink can and several other items.  This makes my blood boil.  Absolute laziness at its worst and disregard for the environment and the surroundings that everyone has to live in.

Had the traffic not started to move I was most definitely about to leave my car and throw the litter back through the offender's window. Instead I had to content myself with keeping my hand on the horn, to attract attention to myself and them, making eye contact with the driver and letting them know in no uncertain terms what I thought.  I would not dream of doing this and cannot understand how anyone else can, especially so blatantly.  Do these people not have bins at home that they can deposit their litter into when they get there?  Or is that too much trouble?

Rubbish on the verge at the side of the road

Goodness knows what visitors to our country think of it.  Empty beer and soft drinks cans, fag packets, crisp packets, newspapers, drinks cartons, fast food containers etc.  I really wonder what goes through the mind of the person who deposits this rubbish into the verge.  Not much I would guess I suspect.  It's a reflex action that probably takes no brain power due to mental programming - 'whilst someone else clears up for me I don't need to worry about it'?

Mind you if the practice of dumping rubbish on the roadside was stopped, then the members of our society who get awarded 'community service' as a punishment would have nothing to do would they?  But hey, maybe it's the very people that carry out this mindless act of littering our public spaces that should be the ones that also get the task of clearing up their own 'work'.

By: Wendy Em & Noble Ox


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*Avi  01-Mar-2010 05:42

 
There seems to be a coincidence with people who smoke and eat junk food being too lazy to cook clean up after themselves or find a bin , sorry if you do these things but are one of the few who do clear up after yourselves .
*exhasperated  30-Dec-2009 14:23

 
It's the people who leave all their rubbish on the tables at Mcdonalds, Burger-king or KFC, after eating, they just get up and go, sometimes the rubbish is piled high, to me that is sheer bone idleness.
*Gainsborough lad.  17-Dec-2009 19:16

 
Miserablemoaninggit- I agree with you partly but you cannot generalise everyone as scum simply because they claim benefits. Theres scum in all social classes. I have seen some kids from well to do parents who are as ill-mannered and loutish as benefit scum families. I've also met very decent people who claim benefit.
*Dan  05-Dec-2009 13:48

 
I just saw this otherwise respectable middle aged woman finish off her fag in her car before tossing out the window onto the pavement in front of my house. She then gets out and visits her sister who lives just across the road. It makes me very angry to see such slovenly, disrespectful behaviour. My sister smokes and once whilst visiting me, she tossed her fag butt onto the road outside my house without a second thought. I had a right go at her and made her pick it up and bin it but they just don't realise how filthy and annoying it is, especially to non smokers. If I empty my rubbish bin on their lawns Im sure they'd have something to say yet their filthy habit is acceptable to them?
*Dan  05-Dec-2009 13:42

 
I was walking through the underground and a well dressed woman in her twenties decided to clean out her handbag - she threw out her newspaper, chewing gum wrappers and some other tat and kept on walking - If I'd been quick enough I would have run after her saying "oh, you dropped your newspaper, here you go" I have to agree with 'miserable' Some people just aren't taught not to litter - I've heard kids say 'well it's a job for someone else' - yeah, probably them one day!
*Charlie  20-Nov-2009 11:27

 
We are wasting our time with this gripe. Scum people will remain scum people all their lives. These basic lessons need to be learned as children. At the end of the day, we need massive and fundamental reform of the benefits system to stop children having children, who then go on to have children. They don't get the chance to learn, instead they just demand their 'rights', their benefits, their right to procreate, and perpetuate a cycle of scum behaviour. Sounds harsh, but it is true. If you don't believe me, then spend a few days riding on public transport - especially buses! - and your eyes will be opened. It is enough to sink into a pit of despair for the future of this country.
*miserablemoaninggit  16-Nov-2009 23:46

 
We live in a Me! Me!! Me!!! society. Litter, fag butts, chewing gum, anything goes. It's all down to poor attitude and non-acceptance of personal responsibility. What to do? Nothing.
*dobbo996  12-Nov-2009 14:15

 
Whatever happened to 'KEEP BRITAIN TIDY'? I'm sure Britain really WAS tidier during that campaign, and has degenerated into a rubbish tip since it ended. There is no message being sent out to the current generation that littering is bad. Hence, the problem.
*Litter Hater  09-Nov-2009 09:04

 
the council and police don't seem to be bothered about litter mess and general crime, I called the police after a group of 9 men were using the children's play ground as a drug smoking shelter, over 2 weeks I must have called them 12 times, nobody ever came, if they are not bothered about drugs they are certainly not bothered about litter
*L x  07-Nov-2009 23:47

 
I do agree with all that it is said, people have got selfish and this is another way of them showing that they only care for themselves. I wish that those cameras at traffic lights would be used to prosecute those people the same as if they were either parked in the wrong place or speeding. It is a health hazard, not only for the other car drivers but for pedestrians and it attracts vermin. Let's make more use of these cameras and I hope that people will think twice about littering if they face a fine . The councils needs to keep our roads and cities clean so why not make the litterers pay for the cleaners? Come on councils, here is another way of making money and one that we would all agree with!
*Clarite  07-Nov-2009 06:48

 
SCUM! Pure and utter scum! People's behaviour means that they are in the category of 'scum'. Scum behaviour = scum! It amazes me how people behave. I have witnessed families walking along - parents followed by children, and what do I see? Parents, having consumed their coca-cola, or whatever, casually discard their plastic bottle into the nearest shrub, or verge, and walk on regardless, with their little, easily impressed, ignorant children scurrying along behind them. SCUM people = SCUM behaviour. The planet is doomed by these ignorant, ill-educated, selfish, self-centred, self-obsessed, nasty little individuals. I despair!
*miserablymoaninggit  07-Nov-2009 00:06


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