Miscellaneous: Today, I was walking through town when I saw a plastic bag on...

By fml - 25/04/2009 01:55 - United States

Today, I was walking through town when I saw a plastic bag on the ground. Trying to be a good citizen, I picked it up, intending on throwing it in the trash. When I looked up, there wasn't a trash can for another hundred feet. So I put it back down. Now I've got a $200 fine to pay for littering. FML

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earwig12 1

Saturday 25 April 2009 9:04

So walk the extra hundred feet. How is that a big deal?

burritobird 0

Saturday 25 April 2009 9:06

a plastic bag doesn't weigh anything and it wouldn't have taken any extra effort to walk the 100 ft. your laziness disgusts me. you completely deserved it.

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earwig12 1

Saturday 25 April 2009 9:04

So walk the extra hundred feet. How is that a big deal?

imthestory 0

Friday 23 April 2010 4:49

wow it's 100 feet, you would probably walk ten times that to get to a mic dicks

ChelseaAnn08 0

Saturday 25 April 2009 9:05

You can't walk the extra 100 feet? YDI.

burritobird 0

Saturday 25 April 2009 9:06

a plastic bag doesn't weigh anything and it wouldn't have taken any extra effort to walk the 100 ft. your laziness disgusts me. you completely deserved it.

mojo_jojo 0

Saturday 25 April 2009 9:07

He was probably holding it by the very tip of his fingers to keep from getting anything nasty on him, but then he looked like an idiot and the wind kept threatening to blow it in his face. That'd be a good reason to not walk a hundred feet.

Asyuz134 0

Saturday 25 April 2009 9:07

umm yeah ydi lazy... Ill be a good citizen so long as i dont need to put forth effort... lord...

ElsBells 0

Saturday 25 April 2009 9:11

That makes you just as bad as the original person, too lazy to walk to 100 feet to throw it away. If you're going to pick up litter, just throw it out! YDI!

CaptainJellyBean 0

Saturday 25 April 2009 9:13

Unless at that very moment you spontaneously broke both your legs, I don't feel there's a good enough reason you couldn't have just walked the grueling 100 feet to that bin. YDI.

Darcon 8

Sunday 10 April 2011 3:10

tbh, you never know what could have happened to that bag.. bunch of hobos cud have masturbated in it, or something

sBqOuMaBd 9

Saturday 25 April 2009 9:14

Lazy POS... should have just took it to the Garbage pail... you deserved this one..

ambisaurus 0

Saturday 25 April 2009 9:15

if you could see the trashcan why couldnt you just walk over there? i mean i could understand if there werent any trashcans anywhere but come on it was like right there