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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Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
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)
sarahishh 0
Why can't you just walk the hundred feet? Just pure laziness.
cem2009 0
YDI!!! you should RECYCLE it anyway....
CCLemon 0
People are missing the point... it's a YDI because he's just as bad as the original litterbug. What if that same trash can was out of the way for the original guy too? I dont see how "I'm willing to throw stuff away as long as it doesnt take too much effort" and "I'm willing to be a good citizen as long as it doesnt take too much effort" are really that different. The litterbug probably would have thrown it away if there was a trash can right there, and the OP made that same decision.
07_MKV 0
What is wrong with you?? Lazy people all over, i bet if there was a McDonalds there in that 100 feet, u would have went there.
lobstar 0
For all who are saying he had no obligation, that is wrong. He had no obligation to pick it up in the first place, true, but as soon as he touched it the bag became his property and therefore it was his responsibility to dispose of it properly. It doesn't matter if he owned it for 1 second or 1 month, as soon as it entered his possession it was his, so by just throwing it right back down he is littering just as the original owner did. It's sad that stories like this will prevent people from picking up trash in the future. We all need to do our part to clean up :(
Turn1211 0
YDI because you picked it up.....Who the **** picks up random litter off the street
TurtleLG 0
100ft are you kidding me...? YDI
eschreib 0
# 33....loser...
Seegtease 0
Geez, you guys still don't get it. The point of the FML isn't WHY he didn't throw it away. It doesn't matter if it was 100 feet or 10 feet. The FML is that he got a ticket for somebody else's litter. How can anybody deserve to be punished for another person's crime? I don't know how much more clearly this needs to be explained.
lind_fml 0
you dummy. i go out of my way to pick up trash on my way home in order to save the earth we all live on, and you can't carry something 100 feet? its because of people like you that we are all going to have to learn to swim real real well.