What do you do when a Council Officer walks up to you?

Good god, smokers are vilified. Sorry but people who rant/council/preach about smoking - most have never had a smoking addiction.
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People who repeatedly choose to harm others should be vilified. I have sympathy for the victims, not much for the people who choose to harm or kill them. Drug addiction isn't an excuse for that, especially when there are several ways to take the same drug that don't involve harming others and scattering toxic waste everywhere, filthing the world up for everyone else.
 
Some threads go against the OP and you have sympathy, this one is a slam dunk. It's so obvious this thread was going to turn on the OP I'd go as far to say its trolling.

Littering... Such a scummy thing to do. Shows so. Much about a person
 
Some threads go against the OP and you have sympathy, this one is a slam dunk. It's so obvious this thread was going to turn on the OP I'd go as far to say its trolling.

Littering... Such a scummy thing to do. Shows so. Much about a person
Was following a car the other day, opened window, chucked out rubbish, closed window. Don't understand, keep it in the car till you are home.
Can't really think of any situation where littering is an option, if you can carry it until you consume the contents, you can carry it to a bin.
Like you say, it tells you a lot about a person...
 
Was following a car the other day, opened window, chucked out rubbish, closed window. Don't understand, keep it in the car till you are home.
Can't really think of any situation where littering is an option, if you can carry it until you consume the contents, you can carry it to a bin.
Like you say, it tells you a lot about a person...
These are the same people who just leave the trolley by the car in the supermarket car park and don't take it back.
 
These are the same people who just leave the trolley by the car in the supermarket car park and don't take it back.

I was about to put similar... Apparently you can tell what sort of attitude a person has by the way they leave their shopping trolley!
 
Was following a car the other day, opened window, chucked out rubbish, closed window. Don't understand, keep it in the car till you are home.
Can't really think of any situation where littering is an option, if you can carry it until you consume the contents, you can carry it to a bin.
Like you say, it tells you a lot about a person...

And that's why British streets are starting to look like Indian ones :(

I'd much rather money be spent on ceras to catch people doing this than going 3mph over the limit
 
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He didn't get in.. he called me behind/outside the gate and fined me there.. it was my first time and didn't know what to do.

Unforunately this gated residence didn't have these ashtrays or bins.. most of the neighbours who smoked, stubbed them out then put in their drains
My mum carries round an old metal sweet tin for this purpose. Stubs it out, lid is nice and tight. Works well.
 
I dislike littering as much as the next person, but I detest the surveillance society creeping in even more.

So the council is paying someone to observe smokers instead of cleaning the place up themselves and letting people walk the streets without being watched.

Where does surveillance end and freedom begin. Councils aren't exactly known for anticipating second-order consequences.

How about instead of employing a person to do that, a drone follows you instead. It could also be programmed for other tasks like crossing the road in non-designated areas, or looking at a woman for too long etc. That would be cost-efficient but we just need the technology to catch up.
 
I've never had to interact with one of these litter police but often wondered what's to stop someone just saying "you're not getting my details" and walking away?
 
I dislike littering as much as the next person, but I detest the surveillance society creeping in even more.

So the council is paying someone to observe smokers instead of cleaning the place up themselves and letting people walk the streets without being watched.

Where does surveillance end and freedom begin. Councils aren't exactly known for anticipating second-order consequences.

How about instead of employing a person to do that, a drone follows you instead. It could also be programmed for other tasks like crossing the road in non-designated areas, or looking at a woman for too long etc. That would be cost-efficient but we just need the technology to catch up.
You wouldn't need surveillance if people were not total scum in the first place.
 
Difficult one , yeah littering is bad, but down a drain, come on.
Also what legal powers do these officers have if you turn around and walk away, what would they do?
 
Down a drain, into the water way.

Somebody will enjoy swimming in that!

In all honesty I wouldn't be surprised if the sort of scrubs that are chucking their rubbish down the drain would equally happily just throw it straight in a river if that's where they happened to be.
 
worse things can end up there.. rat pee, human remains etc etc

Which is all biological, naturally decomposing stuff.

Conclusions​

According with previous studies (Novotny et al., 2011; Torkashvand et al., 2019), CBs are most toxic immediately after smoking, with inhibitory effects rapidly decreasing during decomposition. Noteworthy, our study revealed a second toxicity peak emerging at intermediate-to-late stage (two to five years), clearly indicating a long-term hazard posed by CBs discarded in the environment.


I will reiterate this again, anyone trying to justify throwing fag ends down the drains or on the floor is probably a knuckledragging pot plant. You have to be spectacularly stupid to not see the harm they can do.
 
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