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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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)
hahaha6 0
Agreed, Lazy!
takran 0
#111: Except the OP was too lazy to do a good deed.
atomicmrpelly 2
YDI... You know you do... don't even pretend you want to FYL, you posted this because you feel guilty!
KosmoK 0
What? so like a cop somehow doesn't notice u pick it up but sees you drop it 2 seconds later? that makes sense......
nomo_fml 0
Not sure why everyone's giving this the "YDI", since I'm sure 99% of the people commenting would be just as lazy. And I bet all those people calling you lazy are so lazy themselves that they wouldn't bother to pick it up in the first place.
earwig12 1
#102 - Legally AND morally. While technically this trash is in part the responsibility of any person walking past, by picking it up, OP actively made himself responsible for that bag. Yes, blame goes to the original litterer as well, but once you have taken that initial step, you should follow through. And to all of you people saying that YDI posters wouldn't have picked up the trash, I think you're just assuming that because you wouldn't have. I go out of my way to make the world a little nicer all the time.
vampirerebel 0
I agree wholeheartedly. I have school books that are stain from me picking up a recyclable cup at school and sticking it in my backpack until I could find somewhere to compost it (the cups are specifically designed to compost) and it leaked, turning half my stuff orange. I don't care though, because recycling is that important
noName123456 0
wow the people on this sites are assholes
Kuroftw 0
YDI! I picked up a can on a hill near my house and walked 2 miles with it to the nearest trash can, stop being so lazy, it doesn't weigh anything.
meep64 0
oh wow, you couldn't walk the extra 100 feet? People like you disgust me
olhosverdes 0
i would walk a hundred feet to throw that piece of trash away....