to shout at litter throwers

[whomovedmychocolate]

Apparently it's 'none of my business'

I shouted at four people in five minutes today. I did try saying politely 'oh you've dropped something' and only shouted when they said 'I don't want it anymore'.

I so wish I could vomit at will so I could chuck up on them because 'I don't want my lunch anymore'.

Where do people get this idea that litter is someone else's problem?

YANBU. I feel exactly the same tbh.

YANBU but do be careful, I frequently honk my horn but am a bit scared to say anything these days.
My mum reproached a well dressed man in his fifties last week, in our nice village. He told her to 'eff off, stupid cow'

YADNBU

although Hugh is right about being careful...

Yay! Someone else who does it! YADNBU.

I don't tend to shout at them, I just tend to make loud comments to the world in general.
I did get a very nasty look from a man coming out of a shop with a packet of cigarettes, he took off the plastic wrapping and dropped it. He'd JUST passed a bin outside the shop. I very loudly said 'Oh, that's right, you just DROP it there, don't bother with the bin that's RIGHT behind you.' While giving him the evils (I do that well). If I wasn't a 21 year old woman I think he'd have thumped me :)

I have also been known to make eye contact and slowly walk to their litter, pick it up and put it in the nearest bin (best if you can maintain eye contact). Most people do look ashamed at this point, and it's less confrontational.

I have been known to pick up dropped item run after them shouting "excuse me, sorry" then smile very sweetly as I hand back item saying "I think you dropped this".

9 times out of 10 person is too dumbfounded to do anything other than shove item in pocket and mutter in embarresed manner under breath.

My friend was stopped at some traffic lights, when the driver in front threw a cigarette box out of the window. She got out of the car, picked it up and shoved it back in at him through his driver's window and told him he was a filthy bugger. I wish I was that brave, I normally just tut.
YADNBU.

It really riles me to see parents doing this when out with kids though. How the hell are kids expected to learn to put rubbish in the bin if their parents are tossing things aside willy nilly.

And I am not in the slightest bit intimidated by someone telling to to fuck off. I will just say very loudly 'oh did you tell me to fuck off after you dropped the litter did you - how very nice of you, would you care to pick it up now?'

i frequently embarrass dd by shouting at the teenagers who throw their lunch stuff on the ground. i make them pick it up.

I had a bit of a pop at two chav delightful young women who were sitting on the grass verge in our village, scoffing kebab meat and chips out of those polystyrene trays for hoying the trays onto the footpath when there was a bin within TWO fucking metres of them.

I suggested that maybe if they burned off some calories by walking to the bin then perhaps their BMI wouldn't be off the richter

Good for you cerealoffender - I do too! I am thinking of carrying little flashcards with pictures of bins on to hand out to the stupidest in case they missed that day at school because they were being hit with the idiot stick

Yes good on you! I was up a beautiful mountain in Wales when a very angry young woman stormed past me with an armful of litter...she went up to a parked car and thrust it throug their open window saying "Yours I think" I howled!

I go and give it back to them (smiling nicely "oh you dropped this").
They're usually stroppy school boys.
They stand there with their arms crossed pretending they can't see/hear me.
Their friends piss themselves laughing over the road.
My colleagues think I am going to get stabbed if I keep this up...