Fined for chucking a apple into a hedge

AshD93 · 7 Oct 2012 at 06:54

On this basis, is feeding ducks bread littering?

Spektor · 7 Oct 2012 at 07:29

AshD93 said:
On this basis, is feeding ducks bread littering?

On that basis leaves falling onto the street from a tree on your property is littering.

robj20 · 7 Oct 2012 at 08:10

And yet people that do this dont get fined.

theleg · 7 Oct 2012 at 09:12

AshD93 said:
On this basis, is feeding ducks bread littering?

No.

bloodiedathame · 7 Oct 2012 at 11:43

The irony is that it all ends up in landfill anyway.

Tachyon · 7 Oct 2012 at 12:50

Combat squirrel said:
Lol at people saying its littering - what idiots, that's like saying the apple tree in my garden litters....because it drops apples on the floor

As dumb as they come. How you even think it's the same, the mind boggles.

Amp34 · 7 Oct 2012 at 12:57

Hamster said:
I don't want to use my car's ashtray as the car will stink of smoke and I don't like seeing cigarette butts on the street. It also baffles me when people flick their butts on the pavement when there's a bin withing a few steps from them.

I always carry one of these with me:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-Portabl...les_Tobacciana_Smoking_LE&hash=item20cb5025af

Completely odourless when sealed. Won't fit an apple core though unless the apple is tiny.

You've just been smoking in your car... It's going to stink of smoke anyway no matter whether you store the butt in the car or throw it out the window...

Amp34 · 7 Oct 2012 at 13:16

Balddog said:
almost sterile? its outside

but ok.

Ill do it in the orchard, right under the tree..ill take a couple that are about the same size and place them on the ground where they'd have fallen.

It's still way above ground level and not touching dirt meaning most microbes, spores and insects/creatures can't reach it. Next to the tree sounds fine though.

Substance · 7 Oct 2012 at 13:27

People are saying it's biodegradable but I bet he didn't think twice about that when he threw it, He just lobbed some food out of his car window and drove on, It was only once he got the fine and whined about the £50 to his solicitor that they came up with this excuse,

I say it serves him right that he ended up with the £250 to pay, he should have just paid it in the first place instead of saying "I forgot"

[DOD]Asprilla · 7 Oct 2012 at 13:30

The guy littered. Can't do the time then don't do the crime.

There's something pathetic about folks who break the law and then whinge about it when they get a slap on the wrist.

aln · 7 Oct 2012 at 13:55

millsy888 said:
That's how i understood it. It was more by chance that they were fined. Where as, the bus shelters in my home town are a continuous problem. It literally stinks of cigarettes, with the floor covered in cigarette ends. Never seen a council employee do anything about it, or anyone get fined.

Lets be honest though. A group of smokers would probably beat the guy to death, especially if he's doing something that'll disrupt their quest to cancer. Selfish, disgusting, rotten people them smokers are.

Deleted member 77746 · 7 Oct 2012 at 13:56

aln said:
Lets be honest though. A group of smokers would probably beat the guy to death, especially if he's doing something that'll disrupt their quest to cancer. Selfish, disgusting, rotten people them smokers are.

More rotten than the apple thrower?

Nitefly · 7 Oct 2012 at 13:59

I will personally visit everybody's house that agrees with the fine and serve on them a full theatrical people's elbow.

[DOD]Asprilla · 7 Oct 2012 at 14:05

Nitefly said:
I will personally visit everybody's house that agrees with the fine and serve on them a full theatrical people's elbow.

You must be the people's champion.

Hamster · 7 Oct 2012 at 16:54

bledd. said:
That looks daft, just give up. You'll be thankful for it.

Didn't buy them for how they look but can't really argue that smoking is a stupid habit.

Amp34 said:
You've just been smoking in your car... It's going to stink of smoke anyway no matter whether you store the butt in the car or throw it out the window...

Car doesn't smell at all. I open all the windows when I smoke, hold the fag outside the window and leave the windows open for a while after smoking.

yer_averagejoe · 7 Oct 2012 at 17:14

could have hit a cyclist. plenty of cyclist have been injured by people throwing junk out of their cars

Amp34 · 7 Oct 2012 at 17:20

Hamster said:
Car doesn't smell at all. I open all the windows when I smoke, hold the fag outside the window and leave the windows open for a while after smoking.

All I'll say is have you asked a non smoker that (that doesn't live with you)?

Hamster · 7 Oct 2012 at 17:25

Amp34 said:
All I'll say is have you asked a non smoker that (that doesn't live with you)?

Yes, many times. I'm not trying to kid myself!!

ptneps · 7 Oct 2012 at 17:41

UncleRuckus · 7 Oct 2012 at 18:12

Amp34 said:
All I'll say is have you asked a non smoker that (that doesn't live with you)?

Wow you really have issues with smokers! Did you try smoking at school and all the cool kids tell you to jog on or was it cigar burns from the late Jimmy Saville?