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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, it's garbage day. My mom accidentally threw away a receipt she needed to return something and told me to go get it. While I was looking for it, a cop gave me hell for "stealing recyclables on private property." This all happened in my front lawn. FML
Today, I was walking through a rich part of the city and saw 2 dollars on the ground. I didn't pick it so people wouldn't think I was poor. FML
Today, I went to drop the garbage in the compactor as I left to do some shopping. I quickly put my handbag down on the side, threw the 'garbage' in the machine, watched it do its thing, and then turned round to find... the bag of garbage on the side. FML
Today, I was taking my dog for a walk and forgot a bag to pick up his poop, since it's illegal to not pick it up in my town. Right as my dog started to take a dump, a cop car drove by and continued to watch me as I was forced to pick up the poop with my bare hands. FML
Today, I watered a dying communal plant. I was fined $250 for littering. FML
Today, I tried to help my community by cleaning up a patch of waste ground covered in litter. Instead of gratitude, I was reported to the cops and issued with fines for noise complaints, trespassing, causing a nuisance, littering, harming wildlife, and about 15 other offences. Screw this community. FML
Today, feeling angry at the world, I threw a bottle, that had been clearly marked to be recycled, into a garbage can as an act of defiance. Minutes later, I guiltily retreated and spent the next few minutes with my entire arm stuck up the stinking ass of a city garbage can. FML
Today, the new security guard of my apartment building tackled me for "suspicious behavior" while I was taking a bag full of dirty kitty litter to the trash chute. He broke my arm and cause the trash bag to explode. When I got back from the hospital, I was fined for littering in the hallway. FML
Today, in a desperate attempt to get my business "out there", I dropped a few of my cards on a station floor. I got a call, even a quote. A $500 fine from the transit for public littering. FML
Today, I was on a walk when I saw a man dump a bag of trash into the creek. Furious, I shouted at him, and when he shoved me, I threw him into the creek. Later, I was arrested and charged with battery. FML
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earwig12 1
So walk the extra hundred feet. How is that a big deal?
burritobird 0
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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Comments (163)
Ambahh737 0
OH NO!!! 100 FEET???!?! I could never walk that far to help the environment.
ohhdamn 0
thanks #92.
Chandy_fml 2
I clicked both. 100 ft isn't that far but $200 is pretty steep when it wasn't yours in the first place. But once you started trying to do a good deed, you shouldn't have put the trash back on the ground. I've done road clean ups before, like on the part of the road that a school group I was in adopted (like that Adopt-a-Highway thing?). Never noticed how much trash was all along even a relatively small stretch of road before that, but there was a whole lot to pick up. It's kind of sad how much people throw out of their cars. Why don't they just keep a small trash bag in front of the front seat? I don't understand.
fmlfmlfml15 0
ok so you were WALKING THROUGH TOWN and u didnt wanna WALK the extra 100 ft??? and then u put it BACK DOWN??? ok does anyone (besides me) notice that these FMLs are just becoming stupid?
shardsofmetal 0
if you were "walking through town," why didn't you just keep on walking to the trash can? seriously...100 ft isn't that far...it's actually pretty close to have a trash can on a town street
Maszula 0
"The FML is that he got a ticket for somebody else's litter. How can anybody deserve to be punished for another person's crime?" because, as soon as the OP touched it....it became thier trash not the person that left it there to begin with, not the several people that walked past it with out even looking at it. it became the OPs trash
Djc1412 0
jackass
SirAndrew 0
You couldn't just put it in your pocket?
Seegtease 0
#99 Yes, legally, it became their trash. That doesn't mean it's not stupid. The OP has no more responsibility to throw it away than any other passer-bys, and ignoring it is just as bad if not worse. Of course, we all ignore other people's trash every day, so I guess we all deserve fines. For ignoring trash. Oh wait, that sounds stupid, because it is.
nushadow 0
The numbers speak for itself, YDI.