Husband's just been fined for dropping cigarette butt!

GlynD

vyle wrote: »

I was taught you could get fined for littering (because it's a crime) back in primary school, and I left there in 1996.

I was also told it was illegal whilst in primary school and I left there in 1970.

lindens

Dropping litter of any kind out of your car is one of my biggest bug-bears. You're in a big tin can for goddness sakes. You don't have to hold onto the item , put it on the floor, in the ash tray, in the boot etc til you get to your destination - it's not hard.
I wish more people were fined - if a car infront of me throws litter out of the window i lean on my horn for about 20 seconds in annoyance.
Hopefully his fine will work as a deterrant and he will stop.

pmduk

They should use cctv evidence more often against litter louts,

zaksmum

What makes me mad with litter wardens is that they pick their mark. I saw an elderly lady approached by a PCSO and given a ticket for dropping a sweet wrapper, while the tattooed yob who chucked the remainder of his Chinese takeaway onto the pavement 10 feet away was studiously ignored.

I know it's all litter, but I'd rather see something done about the takeaway than the sweet wrapper.

custardy

zaksmum wrote: »

What makes me mad with litter wardens is that they pick their mark. I saw an elderly lady approached by a PCSO and given a ticket for dropping a sweet wrapper, while the tattooed yob who chucked the remainder of his Chinese takeaway onto the pavement 10 feet away was studiously ignored.

I know it's all litter, but I'd rather see something done about the takeaway than the sweet wrapper.

well theres an easy way not to be 'targeted'

mrputney08

Your OH just happened to be in the wrong place at the right time, unfortunate for you both, fortunate for the planet.

mumto2loves

a couple of weeks ago i was sat in a traffic jam and i opened my car door and tipped half a can of 'old' coke on the road (then put the can in the bin bag in my car) an old man beside me called over that i was littering and he should call the police and he will be writing my number plate down ..... :rotfl::eek:

reading this post though i wonder if i could have been fined if i'd been spotted!

mttylad

I usually keep a plastic shopping bag hanging over my gearstick into the passenger footwell to use as a waste bin when driving.

I dont smoke so my ashtrays are always clean.

zaksmum

mumto2loves wrote: »

a couple of weeks ago i was sat in a traffic jam and i opened my car door and tipped half a can of 'old' coke on the road (then put the can in the bin bag in my car) an old man beside me called over that i was littering and he should call the police and he will be writing my number plate down ..... :rotfl::eek:

reading this post though i wonder if i could have been fined if i'd been spotted!

I can't see how that is littering! A couple of minutes later there will be no trace of the coke on the ground.

Maybe the old guy thought you'd chucked the coke can, too?

Alex-Riley.

I'll make sure my step grandpa knows he always throws his fag end out the window