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)
24788 7
If your going to do something nice follow through with it. In most cases it would just be like why did you even care in the first place if you weren't going to follow through with it. Anyone mind telling me what YDI means?
ciaogirl 0
You Deserved It. hahaha(:
CaptainJellyBean 0
"You Deserved It"
Sweet_Dee 0
You lazy bum! 100ft is nothing.
24788 7
Thanks #12 - I should have known.
adelaide_evening 0
Right. The poster deserves it, not the ORIGINAL lazy ass who dropped it in the first place. I wouldn't want to look like an idiot carrying a dirty trash bag by my fingertips all the way down the street. What if the trash can wasn't even in the direction he was going? Give the person a brake and blame the person who dropped it in the first place.
RubixMonkey 0
But why pick it up in the first place. He did litter. He relittered.
patnix 6
Break* not brake
hugme 0
people are ******* assholes on this site. he deserves $200 for TRYING? you YDI clickers act like you are some perfect god who has the right to cast judgement on everyone else because of your own sheer flawlessness. hypocrites.
Killer_fel 15
No, he deserves 200$ for trying, and then giving up. 100 ft is nothing. He deserved it, and you know it.
spazz666 18
Actually, I regularly pick up any and all trash (things that won't decompose on their own) and will carry them around until I find a garbage can to throw them out in. Even if I have to wait until I get home. It's not that hard, all it takes is a little soap and water if your hands get dirty. The person who littered in the first place deserves a fine, yes, but OP might as well be that person for putting the garbage back down. I clicked "You Deserved It", does that make me a hypocrite? No. Do you know why? I don't put litter back down after I've picked it up because I have to walk a measly 100 feet to throw it out. I hate when I see people do this, and purposely walk over, pick up the trash they just put down and throw it out in front of them. Littering is a major problem, and in my opinion, anyone who isn't helping stop littering, or at least clean it up, is making it worse. ~End of Rant~
CaptainJellyBean 0
Let's get something straight here, said OP picked up the plastic bag with the intention of putting it into the nearest bin; only to discover it was a full 100 feet away (oh, the horror!), said OP put down the plastic bag after realizing this and walked off with a $200 fine. #16 you call that pathetic attempt at moral citizenship trying? Trying would be making the effort to walk within the vicinity of the bin. We're not judging without merit. He or she intentionally put the bag back down because they couldn't be bothered walking a mere 100 feet. And even if he or she wasn't going in that direction, they would had to have walked some distance to pick up the plastic bag; whether or not they were headed in that particular direction or not.
KittySaysMoo 6
MY BRAIN ASPLODE.
Jaywin 3
Dude...I walk more than 100 feet to check the mail. You lazy bum.
DiSab 0
Oh the humanity! Another 100 feet!! What torture.
adelaide_evening 0
I'd like to know if everybody else around here picks up every piece of trash they find lying on the road. If not, you're sooooooooo lazy! (sarcasm) How do you know they weren't in a hurry? Just because they started out with good intentions and then didn't follow through doesn't make them any worse than the hundreds of other people who walked by the litter and didn't do anything. FYI: They have people who get paid (or are doing community service) to pick up litter off the streets. It's not like the bag was going to stay there forever.
KitsuneNarutoKun 13
Our taxes shouldn't have to be wasted on paying people to pick up trash. If people didn't drop it, then we wouldn't pay for it. If we all picked up just one bit of trash, then MAYBE we wouldn't have to pay for it to be done instead