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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Top comments
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)
CaptainJellyBean 0
Well, no, I go out of my way to pick it up AND go through with it. :)
Altrown_fml 0
Are you that lazy not to walk an extra 100 feet? Wow.
shimmyya88 0
$2 per foot sounds fair
xoxo56836757xoxo 0
lol
DeeJayD 0
I guess that plastic bag was too heavy for you to carry a few hundred feet, huh? YDI.
blland 0
why aren't you lazy enough to not pick it up?
TheLonelyGoat 0
a la "Alice's Restaurant" lol... fined for littering...
Schoolcraft 0
A hundred feet? What? Thats nowhere. If the average step of a human is 2 and a half feet, then that would have taken you 40 steps. YDI
Maszula 0
The bags a trap....placed there so people just like you will help fill a policpersons ticket quota.
TheSmirkster 0
If it wasn't for the fine, I'd say YDI too. But seriously 200 dollars for a trash bag that someone else littered? And there are endless reasons as to why that garbage can wouldn't have worked for him. If he was on his way to catch a bus and the bus stop was closer than the can, the can was in the opposite direction and he had somewhere to be. there are more indeed, but come on, it wasn't even his garbage. Also, were you in residential? you could have just used someone else's trash bin.
An0nymous_ 0
this almost rhymes