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To have been visibly irked by this?

52 replies

Only1scoop · 01/07/2014 09:13

Yesterday we took our dd to a local theme park.

Parked car early morning....Car park is grassy and manicured with plants and grass.

The park is kept generally pristine with employees constantly picking litter....sweeping etc....

Had a great time returned to car....

Cars all parked in lines.... As we approached ours I saw the car next door throw about 3 things from the window.

A bulging soiled nappy
An empty wipe pack
Various wrappers

I said loudly 'think you've dropped something' they carried on reversing and just laughed.

As we packed up car ....the litter pickers came around and I pointed to the pile and said 'not ours....awful what people leave for you to find'

'Its about the tenth nappy in this car park today....we are used to that ....get far worse' Blush

I started a mini rant. Dp agreed was vile but not worth getting annoyed over.

AIBU to get visibly annoyed about this. Do any of you?

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mrstiggy · 01/07/2014 12:12

We tend to throw things like banana skins or apple cores deep into bushes when we are out, but absolutely nothing like wrappers or rubbish. My kids are also well aware that dropping rubbish is vile also and always put it in their pockets until we find a bin. The disrespect some people have for their own surroundings is just awful and makes me cross also. You are certainly NBU to be annoyed about people like that.

TruJay · 01/07/2014 13:32

Nothing worse than a litterbug, where i live there is quite a lot of litter, one major reason is the grammar school down the road. The pupils go to the Tesco express while walking home and just chuck everything on the floor. I am seriously considering contacting the school to complain, it looks dreadful and i just cant understand parents that do not teach their kids not to litter.

One thing i was baffled by as a child though, was walking home from swimming with my friends and had finished my drink and there was not a 'public' bin in sight but as it was bin day, all wheelie bins were out ready for collection so i just popped my can into one as i was passing. The lady at the house came out and told me off asking me NOT to put rubbish in her bin Confused i just said would she rather i threw it on the floor??? I still never understood why it was such an issue for her?
I'm happy when the passing kids use my bin instead of the floor for their rubbish

goldopals · 02/07/2014 12:12

I detest litterbugs. I used to work at Maccas picking up the rubbish early in the morning after Friday and Saturday nights. I would start at 4am and would finish picking up rubbish after 5:30am. I had to walk at least 3 blocks to pick up rubbish.

ComeHeather · 02/07/2014 12:16

Can't bear littering. It's so bloody arrogant to assume there is someone whose job it is to pick up your rubbish because you are too lazy to put it in the bin or take it home.

It makes me really judgy...I always assume the person littering is really selfish and thick and lazy.

ComeHeather · 02/07/2014 12:18

Tho like mrstiggy I don't include in that apple cores chucked in hedgerows which I do when I am walking the dog!

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Only1scoop · 02/07/2014 12:21

After reading feel better knowing my J pants were not alone.... Grin

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Eve · 02/07/2014 12:21

glastonbury litter:

glastonbury

Titsalinabumsquash · 02/07/2014 12:24

I posted about the Glastonbury litter yesterday, I was Shock at the pictures.

My Mum was the litter police when we were growing up, I saw her sprint down the road after a group of teenagers to tell them they'd dropped their rubbish.
I wouldn't like to sit in a park or similar surrounded by rubbish so I wouldn't leave any for other people either.

What happened to human decency and treating others how you want to be treated. Angry

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Only1scoop · 02/07/2014 12:45

Apple cores in passing foliage are perfectly acceptable IMO

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Original poster
Only1scoop · 02/07/2014 12:57

Blush Glastonbury Angry

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Itsfab · 02/07/2014 12:58

TruJay definitely phone. The school will deal with it. I drive past a secondary school to collect my primary aged children and a couple of times felt the need to phone the school to report the children's behaviour but as yet I haven't found the name of the school so can't.

Do people who drop litter still get fined?

It was a big thing as a child to not drop litter and my children are not allowed to drop litter, ever. I go mad when they do it in my garden, I certainly will not allow them to spoil anyone else's.

Public bins seem to be on the decline but still no excuse.

Eve · 04/07/2014 09:34

Glastonbury litter is shocking isn't it.

MidniteScribbler · 04/07/2014 09:45

Please don't throw apple cores out. I've had to have one removed from my dogs intestine after she got one on a walk in the bush. Selfish, lazy, arrogant twats cost me $2000 and almost cost my dog her life.

ComeHeather · 04/07/2014 10:09

Sorry to hear that midnite. My dog would crunch up an apple core like any other food so I thought it was a low risk.

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Only1scoop · 04/07/2014 10:12

Midnite that is awful....Hmm

It's something I wouldn't think twice about normally

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Flipflops7 · 04/07/2014 10:15

YANBU at all, in the slightest.

sugaryonthesurface · 04/07/2014 10:16

I detest littering.I will quite happily question anyone who is with me that drops litter and I dont care if they get embarassed about it. I hate the attitude that a litter picker will pick it up.What a lazy and disrespectful attitude!!Do they walk around their house dropping litter on their carpets too? To me its the same thing.If you wouldnt do that at home then why do it outside?

JoeyMaynardsghost · 04/07/2014 11:14

We have a Mcdonalds just up the road from us and we (and my neighbours) are always removing their debris from our drive/garden/flower beds/verge from people that have finished their food and dumped it. Every bloody day!

That and the woman who walks her dog on the other side of the road, lets it crap and then just walks off leaving the steaming turd. Well she did until I started lurking behind the window at the right sort of time and just walked out with a camera one day and took her photo - she didn't say anything but if she sees me in the garden, she does now clear up her dog's turds!

She does look every time!

I am that nosey neighbour. Grin

hellsbellsmelons · 04/07/2014 11:21

Drives me insane.
I always say something as well.
Only 2 weeks ago some awful family just put the litter on the pavement as we were walking past.
Both myself and OH told them what for.
They still left it though. Scumbags.

And I agree about fag butts as well. And I'm a smoker.
It is litter and it's horrible to see so many as most people really don't care.

Nerf · 04/07/2014 11:31

Apple cores and banana peel look horrible though while they are decomposing. Why not take it back and chuck it in the recycling?

thornrose · 04/07/2014 11:34

I recently learned about ocean gyres. I had no idea so much litter ends up in the sea and how terrible it is for marine life! Blush

I was already very anti-littering but I'd never really thought deeply about the reasons why it is so bad!

KERALA1 · 04/07/2014 11:46

I was on a date with a man who dropped litter first and last date

PinkSquash · 04/07/2014 11:58

I wouldn't throw anything out other than in a bin. Used food is a huge problem where I am (seaside town) due to seagulls and rats.

Don't get me started on disposable bbqs left on beaches/in bins. Asses.

The Glastonbury pictures are shocking.

Fluffyears · 04/07/2014 12:30

I was going out with someone and after a few weeks he came to pick me up, stopped car and as I opened door to get in he chucked his rubbish out. I looked at him in horror shut the door and walked away...dumped!

Tentedjuno · 04/07/2014 13:08

I don't know whether this applies everywhere, but our local McDonald's has a 'Litter Team' who pick up their very recognisable droppings. When there is a noticeable amount, I ring them and ask them to send out someone to deal with it.

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