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Originally Posted by Janszoon
Why wouldn't cigarette butts be counted as litter?
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They are, of course. All I said is that, as a non-smoker, I wouldn't expect people to hold on to a cigarette butt till they get to a bin. Also, you better make sure it's out or that bin is gonna go on fire. I said I don't like it, but I would see it as the lesser of the evils. It's ugly yes, but not so much as rotting food sitting in the street.
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Originally Posted by Exo
I've made it a habit now to save my butts and wait til I'm near a trash can. I just tear the excess ash and **** off the filter so that my pocket doesn't turn into a bowling alley ash tray.
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Well fair play to you, Exo. Going above and beyond.
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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
Even though its not a consumer goods byproduct another thing Trollheart failed to mention is dog ****. I think someone not curbing their dog is the worse, if you don't agree then definitely in the top five of littering offenses. Three things no one wants step into is dog ****, gum and broken glass.
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These are obviously bad too. I don't see as much of the dog**** these days though. I think people are beginning to, literally, clean up their act. Glass is bad, but if you drop a glass item I can see why nobody would hang around trying to clean it up. Chances are you would cut yourself. Also, I seldom see glass on the ground, unless a window has been broken, in which case it will be cleaned up by whosever window was broken.
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I would say banana peels too but you don't step into it, you step on it. And no one wants to step on a banana peel, if you slip on it it can put a serious hurting in you when you land on your arse.
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But the comedy value can't be overstated.
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Gum is pretty bad too cause unlike a half eaten hamburger, which could end up as a meal for a hungry stray down, or maybe a pesky badger, gum on concrete never goes away. Minus one point for dogs shutting on the curb, plus one point for taken care of that hamburger that annoyed Trollheart.
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Hungry stray + free burger = dog****. Don't see how that's a win. Nobody's gonna clean up the **** of a stray. And we don't have badgers here. Not in the cities anyway.
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I don't know why Trollheart didn't mention gum. You can pick up trash, you can sweep up litter, gum is nearly impossible to get rid of. Besides that little caveat, I think the OP was on point.
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I did mention gum, gave that a pass too. In 45-odd years walking on Dublin streets I think I've trodden on gum half a dozen times, plus there are now hefty fines for dropping gum. Ad campaigns and everything. Also, it was not an exhaustive or exclusive list in the OP; I was just giving examples.