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Reminds me of the time someone I knew was chewing gum and spit it out their window.
They spit it right onto the COPS WINDSHIELD right behind them.
Long story short $500 littering ticket... OUCH.
I don't know what it is about Tennessee but we have a high percentage of the population that are slobs. I don't understand why they can't stand to retain their trash until they get to a garbage can or carry a small trash bag in their vehicles. Some people are blatant about it- I saw this pig woman one time on the crowded interstate just dump two or three bags of McDonalds trash out her window not giving two craps about it.
It is pretty clear that drunks (teenagers or otherwise) are driving the back roads drinking. I speculated the reason there is a lot of trash at that particular point is it is where the driver has to turn onto a two lane road. There is more chance of running into a cop on the two lane road.
read your original post.
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where you turn on to a two lane road and I guess the drunks like to get rid of empties and trash before they hit that road
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to call the Sheriff and tell them a drunk is regularly drinking and driving on my road in a particular make/model of vehicle.
I don't know what it is about Tennessee but we have a high percentage of the population that are slobs. I don't understand why they can't stand to retain their trash until they get to a garbage can or carry a small trash bag in their vehicles. Some people are blatant about it- I saw this pig woman one time on the crowded interstate just dump two or three bags of McDonalds trash out her window not giving two craps about it.
That's terrible, I will keep trash in my car until I bring a bag and dump it out. I will hold trash in my hand if I go somewhere until I find a trash can!
Good for the OP for picking up trash while on walks. I do the same thing here, always carry a Walmart bag with me. Especially at the local state park. I'm always picking up fishing line, floats, beer cans. And there's usually a large trash can a few feet away. For a state that's supposed to be so beautiful, there's a LOT of trash on the sides of the roads.
A few years ago while at 12,300 feet, hiking in a wilderness area I came upon some beer bottles and McDonald's wrappers. Seriously?
If this is a place where people tend to throw trash, over and over again, maybe if someone put a trashcan there, it would solve the problem?
I remember hearing a story about Walt Disney in a meeting soon after Disneyland opened, and staff were complaining that guests were cutting across certain areas of the lawns instead of staying on the walkways, and it was killing the grass. Mr. Disney decide that the guests were not at fault, the Disney landscapers were. He said that these guests who cut across the lawns were teaching the Disney staff where they'd neglected to put sidewalks. I propose that these "drunks" are teaching your town where they should have placed a municipal trash receptacle.
I write policies for my company, and conduct investigations when employees break rules. Sometimes I take Disney's approach and change a policy (as long as it's not something illegal or state-mandated). If a whole lot of employees keep getting in trouble for taking the same "shortcut" that means the company may have to change the procedure.
One example was: Any documents containing client/patient information can't be just thrown in the trash; they must be shredded. Documents with patient/client info also can't be left out on desks or tables. As Privacy Officer, I kept getting notified about problems in one location, where people kept finding patient info lying unattended on a table, or in an ordinary trashcan, unshredded. When I looked into it, I saw that they had their shredding bin (placed by a shredding company) way over on the other side of the building from where the staff worked and handled paperwork. Instead of walking across the building to put the documents in the shredding bin, the staff were just leaving them in the mailroom on a table, or tossing them in the ordinary trashcan. I stopped investigating the individual staff people, and instead got the shredding company, a vendor that my company pays, to move the shredding bin. Of course they complained at first, because their employees now had to walk farther, but it got moved. No problems with privacy of documents at that location ever since.
I guess what I'm saying in an admittedly longwinded way is get the municipality to place a municipal trashcan at that location, and make sure it gets picked up by the garbage men on their regular route. The town council might complain at first, but if enough residents go to a council meeting and complain, it might get done. Plan B would be buy the trashcan yourself (a metal one) and arrange to make sure it gets dumped every week. Many, of course not all, but many of these drunks will just throw their bottles and cans in the trashcan when they see it there, because it's right there.
Huh. Why not just say, "Litterers will be shot"? Fewer letters and no confusion. Oh well.
Unfortunately, the folks doing the littering could give a flying leap and i suspect most can't read anyway. The best solution as stated above is be a good citizen and pick up the litter. The barbarians will eventually pass on. Also, drinking a bottle of Jim Beam ensures a quick passage to the afterlife.
My solution would be to call the non-emergency line for the Sheriff's department, explain the situation, and ask for increased patrols in the area AND/OR attend a town council meeting and do the same. We have an intermittent problem with speeding near my home. When I notice it's ramping up, which is likely to happen soon now that Spring is on its way, I make a call, and a deputy finds a nice spot around the corner to do his paperwork. Works like a charm! I also like TracySam's ideas, but since the the bottles and cans might indicate drinking and driving, you should definitely notify law enforcement, too.
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