"Gary" wrote in message ...

Dave Smith wrote:
>
> On 2017-12-27 10:38 AM, Gary wrote:
> > Nancy Young wrote:
>
> >> Annoying because no one's going to climb up there to get
> >> rid of it.
> >
> > She bothered to stop and take the picture.
> > Hopefully, she then put camera down and removed
> > all that trash. Bet she didn't though.
> >
>
> Reminds me of an incident at the local Y. I was walking across the
> parking lot and about 30-40 yards away there was a bunch of trash on the
> ground. It looked like someone had had a drive thru take out meal and
> dumped the bag, wrapper and cup on the ground. There was a couple
> walking past it and the guy made a big deal of it, pointing and
> gesturing and carrying on. Sure. Someone had been a real slob and
> dumped their garbage there and that was bad, but he was making such a
> big deal over it. Apparently it did not incense him enough that he was
> inspired to pick it up.

I do that all the time in my neighborhood. Walking trash down the
street to the dumpster, I'll stop and pick up debris as I'm
going. Why not? I heading to the trash anyway.
==

We have men patrolling our streets every day each with a bin bag and a long
stick with (kind of) tongs on the end they use to pick up rubbish. I was
surprised to see one today, trudging through the snow

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