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)
maggieislemons 0
lazyass.
r37s4090Xl7N 0
That will teach you to follow through. YDI.
zoomster 0
oh let our OP be, maybe he was in a rush and didn't have the time to go out of his way.. Most people would have ignored this plastic bag and gone about their business, at least he tried.
AK 2
#24 - You mean picking up the plastic bag in the first place wasn't "out of his way" already?
Fraggle 0
how is picking up a bag, rather than contributing to a big problem 'being a good Samaritan'?!!
cartering 0
100 feet? that's about 30 steps if your 5'3
_FUCKyourLIFE_ 0
if you were walking that way anyway whats the big deal about walking and extra 100 feet? it would have been more effort to lean down to put the bag back on the ground that it would have been to drop it in the rubbish. YDI, im glad you got caught. Wtf #16.. why did he even bother trying if he couldnt follow through.
Seegtease 0
What the hell is wrong with all you people saying YDI? If somebody walked by garbage, nobody would care. We're not all on litter duty. But if somebody picks it up, and sets it back down, suddenly you all feel they deserve a 200 dollar fine for that. That doesn't even make sense. Who cares what the reason was? The OP had no obligation to even consider picking it up to BEGIN with. Gosh, you people are ****** up.
Killer_fel 15
Were not ****** up, you are, he deserved it, 100 ft isin't far. It's not considered trying if you give up without doing an effort.
Shenmue 0
You deserve the fine for picking it up in the first place LOL
Qeynos 0
200$ fine for someone elses garbage sucks