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)
Musemusic88 0
Wow, YDI...I can't believe you couldn't be arsed to carry it another 100 feet..........enjoy your ticket
charbelfa 4
FYL! since u were trying to be a gd citizen !
Omg666_fml 0
What #4 said. You hypocrites.
Pointless 0
"I'll be a good citizen as long as it doesn't inconvenience me too much" Seriously? Walk a hundred feet. I think it's cool that you even bothered, since most people won't, but a hundred feet is not that hard to walk. I'm thinking YDI this one, but it was close.
kronk45 0
.....and you couldn't just walk the extra feet to the garbage can if you were intent on picking it up anyway? laziness. YDI
orig_isOverrated 0
wow, how lazy can you get? you must really have wanted to be a good citizen. YDI
phoenixxrisingxx 0
yeah, YDI. like, all the way. actions like that, and laziness like that are why our country is the fattest country in the world, and so over polluted. I mean, come on. I thnk I would be a little more sympathetic if it was like, a gum wrapper or something. But shit. wtf.
iloveericmaynor 0
100 ft is not far you lazy ass. this is why america is fat.
infantrygirl 0
100 feet isn't far at all. YDI for laziness.
tmlgurl 0
Many of you are saying this person didn't deserve the ticket because it was someone else's garbage and at least they tried. You can't 'try' to throw out garbage. You do or you don't. It would be different if they just thought about picking it up but didn't after seeing how "far" the garbage was (although that too would be stupid) but they actually picked it up and then put it back down. This means that they also littered just like the original person and therefore deserve the ticket. $200 is a pretty ridiculous amount, but that's a completely different issue. Also, nowhere in the post does it say the bag was filthy. Most plastic bags on the street are just from people who get them at stores and throw them away afterward. Therefore this person could have just put it in their pocket until they found a garbage can that wasn't out of their way. That's normally what you do when you make the conscious effort to pick up trash.