Trespassers

[cqaigy2]

Every time you see someone toss a cigarette butt out a car window, or the cellophane wrapper from a pack of smokes, you can start there. No respect for public places, let alone private property.

That's something irksome out west in the summer time, people throwing or tapping their cigarettes' ash out the window.

 

[John_Mc]

Every time you see someone toss a cigarette butt out a car window, or the cellophane wrapper from a pack of smokes, you can start there. No respect for public places, let alone private property.

That's been going on for generations. One of my brothers favorite responses when he was behind someone at a stop light who did that was to pick up the butts, knock on their window, and when they rolled down the window to see what he wanted, he would toss the butts inside and say, "here. I think you dropped these."

 

[Jstpssng]

That's something irksome out west in the summer time, people throwing or tapping their cigarettes' ash out the window.

I remember going for a ride one spring day 50+ years ago with 6 of us in the back seats of the station wagon while my mother, father and one of his friends sat in the front. After watching his friend toss a cigarette out the window I looked back before we got out of sight, then said
“There’s a lot of smoke in the road back there.”

My father’s friend said “I just threw a cigarette out.”

That was my point. I can’t imagine that a fire started that quickly yet have always wondered.

 

[tradosaurus]

I had planted about 100 blueberry bushes and was enjoying the berries a few years later. One day, I came out and someone had run over the 6 foot tall plants, and destroyed them! I followed the tracks back to my neighbors place and called him. Apparently his kids (grown adults) had brought their friends and atv's and went riding. He had given them my cell # and told them to get permission. They didn't...
He chewed them out for 15 mins so loud I could hear him at my house. He offered to make them pay, or better yet make them buy full grown bushes and replant them, but I told him not to worry about it. (He is too good of a neighbor!!)
David from jax

They should have definitely paid something. Otherwise the adult miscreants won't learn.

 

[IndyJay]

They should have definitely paid something. Otherwise the adult miscreants won't learn.

Absolutely, a "learning opportunity " was lost here.

 

[ponytug]

That's been going on for generations. One of my brothers favorite responses when he was behind someone at a stop light who did that was to pick up the butts, knock on their window, and when they rolled down the window to see what he wanted, he would toss the butts inside and say, "here. I think you dropped these."

I remember going for a ride one spring day 50+ years ago with 6 of us in the back seats of the station wagon while my mother, father and one of his friends sat in the front. After watching his friend toss a cigarette out the window I looked back before we got out of sight, then said
“There’s a lot of smoke in the road back there.”

My father’s friend said “I just threw a cigarette out.”

That was my point. I can’t imagine that a fire started that quickly yet have always wondered.

I once saw someone drop a lit cigarette at a (red) stop light. The guy behind him leapt out and tossed the cigarette back into the smoker's car. I seem to recall a certain amount of chaos in the smoker's car...

 

[John_Mc]

I once saw someone drop a lit cigarette at a (red) stop light. The guy behind him leapt out and tossed the cigarette back into the smoker's car. I seem to recall a certain amount of chaos in the smoker's car...

Exactly what my brother was doing. Nothing like a ruined seat cover to teach someone the error of their ways

 

[Jstpssng]

I once saw someone drop a lit cigarette at a (red) stop light. The guy behind him leapt out and tossed the cigarette back into the smoker's car. I seem to recall a certain amount of chaos in the smoker's car...

When I was pumping gas after HS I watched a woman toss a cigarette out her window as I was filling her tank. I called her out on it but it was obvious she didn't care.

 

[ponytug]

When I was pumping gas after HS I watched a woman toss a cigarette out her window as I was filling her tank. I called her out on it but it was obvious she didn't care.

That's just crazy dangerous...

 

[Jstpssng]

That's just crazy dangerous...

There was another occasion when one of our regulars was smoking a cigarette while I filled his tank, and tended to other customers. The nozzle didn't kick off and when his tank filled, started spewing gas all over the ground. He yelled to me, and later admitted that he was reaching over to shut it off when he realized that it wasn't the smartest thing to do.

I also got second degree burns that year when somebody opened their radiator cap just as I was walking past, spewing the cap and antifreeze all over the yard... and my face.
I'll bet that you didn't know that pumping gas could be so dangerous!