Are there ever circumstances where it’s justified to throw litter from a car?

[AmyDances]

Every time I go out for a walk near us, I end up coming back pissed off. The verges along the roads are covered in litter – bottles, cans, fast food packaging, and I’ve seen dirty nappies. It’s even worse on the big roads. It’s disgusting and completely unnecessary.

I just don’t understand the mentality. Who thinks, “Oh, I’ve finished my drink, better lob the bottle out the window”? Or “I don’t want this bottle of piss / dog poo bag / dirty nappy in my car for a second longer so I’ll drop it for someone else to pick up.”

So, AIBU to think people who litter like this are just total cf? I just don’t know how they can have so little respect for their environment or other people who have to deal with their mess.

Maybe the income from the fines -and the reduction in litter picking needed - would cover the cost of the warden.

I fear this image may never leave my brain.

No, and it really annoys me. It's not even laziness, since it would be lazier to leave it in your car!

I watched a young girl outside our house the other day (maybe 10/11) - I was in my kitchen and noticed her behaving a bit weirdly - sort of just stood by a hedge looking all around her, waiting for people to pass. Once she felt nobody could see, she threw the wrapper she had in her hand in to the hedge and went to walk off. I stuck my head out and told her to pick up the rubbish she'd dropped and she did, but I then saw her go further up the road and do it again! So it was clearly a deliberate thing, was taking far more effort than just shoving it in the nearest bin.

That’s quite some autocorrect 😆

No excuses.
The CF's are sadly multiplying along with the shittiest drivers.

People who hate littler which is most of us - do you ever litter pick yourselves? I do the park and my street at least 4-5 times a week

If I was being kidnapped and wanted to attract attention?
Apart from that, no

No it isn’t.

I was at the McDonalds drive in one day and a cup comes flying out of the passenger window of the car in front. I was in a place I couldn’t really get out of the car. So when the chance arose I drove alongside the car to confront them. It was a gormless looking teen with his grandmother driving.

I asked what they thought they were doing and he needed to get out of the car and put the cup in the bin. They looked blankly at me. I said again, is he getting out or what? The gran said (without any disciplinary effect) “well I’ve told him” and SHRUGGED HER SHOULDERS. I told them they were a scruffy disgrace and I’d wait there until he got out and picked it up. And guess what, he did.

Lazy, scruffy git!

Why do people think the rest of us want to live amongst rubbish, even if they do?!

I live in Eryri and since covid, the place is getting messier and messier. Dirty bastards leaving their rubbish and bbqs, its ruining a beautiful place.

fuck off home with your rubbish . I dread to think what their houses look like.

I just don’t understand the mentality.

The same mentality as those who leave their shopping trolley right next to where they’ve disgorged its contents into their car, rather than walk the few paces necessary to leave them in a designated trolley bay.

The only thing I have ever thrown out of my car windows are apple cores onto an area of greenery I.e a hedge or an unmowan area of grassland

No there isn’t. The ones that frustrate me locally are McDonald’s drinks/fries lackets etc, I live over two hours from a McDonald’s, you’ve travelled all this way, it’s been in the car with you and suddenly you need to fling it out?! You couldn’t wait a bit longer to find a bin? Just selfish scum behaviour.

No excuse, ever. Only absolute low lives do it.

There is no excuse at all. People who do this are disgusting wankers.

No there’s not. Ever.

None at all!

I did once throw out a very small electrical item. that was smoking whilst on a busy duel carriageway.
Had to shout at DD to actually throw it as she was worried about littering!
That's a very rare thing to happen though, it wasn't dry like recently and I did flip the car round to see if anything had happened plus went past again a short while later but all ok just couldn't stop at that particular point.

I don’t get it either and it’s a filthy habit.

A young woman was parked in the street and as I got closer, she threw her empty takeaway drink cup out of her window. I picked it up and told her that the street wasn’t her personal rubbish bin and gave it back to her. She threw it out the window again and so I threw it right back in. She called me all sorts of names under the sun, I gave her my unimpressed look. She drove off, but didn’t chuck it out again (at least not where I could see it!).

Maybe if it was on fire and there was no way to extinguish it, and so the choices are to throw it out or explode in a burning inferno?

I hate littering, but the only excuse I can think of is if you've got a severe allergy to something and a passenger starts to open something that can kill you so out the window it goes..

Yes, I do. All the time. I live in a lovely part of town and it is depressing how much random litter there is when I walk around the neighbourhood and local park.

Yes, if you have something that’s caught on fire for some reason it would be a lot safer to throw it out than keep it in the vehicle. Of course you should then stop and sort it out properly but I wouldn’t want a fire in the car a second more than necessary. Maybe also if I were in a region of the world where someone had a grenade and accidentally triggered it in the vehicle, I would throw that out.

I have had litter snatched out of my hand, or fly out of the car in the wind. I’m talking car park tickets, or on occasion a carrier bag. I usually pick it up but on a couple of very windy days could see I just wasn’t going to be able to catch up with my rubbish. I was horrified and useless.
Some of the rubbish blows out of bins, too, so always make sure your wheelybin closes, and don’t add to an already overflowing public bin.

I can imagine driving off having left a cup shoes on the roof of the car too. We never found the shoe.

Obviously there is far too much rubbish to blame it all on wind and absent mindedness.

Unfortunately there must be plenty of people who thinks it's completely normal and are teaching their children to do the same.

I was wondering this myself, it's such a weird thing to do and there must be so many people who do it.
Maybe it's the same people who just seem to fill up their gardens with crap, just leave broken chairs by the front door etc, my eyes have been opened to this way of living recently and I find it so hard to understand.