Today, a guy in a fancy car tailed me for twenty minutes, just so he could take a picture of my license plate and tell me there's a $300 fine for flicking cigarette ashes out your window. 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, while sitting at a red light with my window down, the asshat next to me flicked his still-lit cigarette away. It landed in my car and wedged between me and my seat. It burned a hole in my shirt and my seat, and burned my back and hair. FML
Today, I was smoking in my car and flicked the butt… into the face of a cop on a motorcycle going the other way. FML
Today, I was tailgated by a car with his high beams on for an hour. Any time I changed my speed or lane, he would do the same. I finally managed to get away from him because a cop pulled me over and gave me a speeding ticket. FML
Today, while driving I saw a police car riding along next to me. Thinking about the news recently, I decided to give him a quick thumbs up and a smile to lighten up his day. He looks back, smiles, flips on his siren, and pulls me over for not paying attention to the road. FML
Today, I was pulled over by a motorcycle cop for speeding in a 25 MPH zone. As the cop was walking towards my car, I flicked my cigarette butt out of my window. So, the cop did me the pleasure of writing me two tickets instead of one. FML
Today, a cop almost rear-ended my car, slammed on the gas with no warning, swerved around me, flipped me the bird, then cut me off and then drove a full ten miles under the speed limit. When I changed lanes to overtake him, he pulled me over for road rage. FML
Today, the car in front of me was going slow and I flashed my lights and honked. I floored it and passed the car, flipping off the driver. Just as I went around the next corner, I got pulled over by a motorcycle cop. A few seconds later, the guy I flipped off drove by honked and waved. FML
Today, after driving a few hours late at night I decided to entertain the car tailgating me by not letting him pass. After doing this for 3miles, reaching 93MPH, I decided to let the car pass me. When I switched lanes, the car tailgating me light up in red and blue. It was a cop. FML
Today, I was pulled over by a cop and was fined $210 for making an illegal u-turn. When the cop finished writing my ticket and hopped in his car, he made the same u-turn. FML
Today, I quit smoking cigarettes. While driving to work, the car in front of me flicked his out the window, flying straight into mine. It set the bottom of my seat on fire. FML
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trollfaced 2
You should have used that time to get his license plate to report him for tailgating
WoolyWhoop 7
Should have slammed on the brakes and busted that fancy car.
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satanisthesavior 21
lol @ all the idiots here. For one thing, most cars don't come with ashtrays anymore, so there's no place to put the cigarette out. Also, pretty sure the filters degrade pretty fast, so really it wont hurt anything by flicking it out the window. And everyone who complains about second hand smoke: I'm pretty sure the exhaust from the car is 100x worse than the smoke from the cigarette. If you are close enough to inhale smoke from someone who is smoking in their car, you are close enough to inhale the exhaust too. And second-hand smoke is actually not as bad since the smoker's lungs would have filtered it slightly when they inhaled it. Not like it matters though, since you only inhale a tiny amount of smoke (unless you have your mouth right next to theirs for some reason). There's tons of carcinogens floating around in the air anyways, so the second-hand smoke isn't going to do much additional damage. Quit your bitching. I do my part to not smoke near people who don't like it. Just stay where you are and the world can be a nice, happy place without people bitching over shit that doesn't even matter.
marinebio 0
Well when you stand outside in public places where people walk by like outside stores or restaurants there is really no way to avoid the ******* smoke and crap that is killing you and the people around you.
satanisthesavior 21
Right, because cigarettes are the only thing killing you. Not the rest of the carcinogens in the air, or any other number of things that could kill you (infections, venoms and car crashes come to mind). Besides, everyone knows the leading cause of death is being born. Birth has a 100% fatality rate, 99% within 100 years.
downtime 13
Yeah well thanks for adding to it jackass. Self involved smoker logic at its finest. Maybe someone should just hit you with their car then cos hey, you were already slowly dying from the environment anyway, what's it matter if someone added to the problem? Stop breathing.
black6 1
You live in california don't you
THE_A_TEEN 28
Yeah, California is in the FML's location: Canada.
afropuffjake 9
Sorry but you got owned XD
manofthenorth 0
ok a get it don't throw your butts out the window because those things stay for quite a bit, but saying the ash is polluting, really? that's no different than having a fire. would you consider having a fire littering too?
FloTimmyKO 0
You should of break checked him and his fancy car.
quatty24bs 0
Unless he took a picture of u flicking the ashes or the cig he can't do shit unless he has proof otherwise it's heresy wouldn't hold up an any court if he tried
downtime 13
Yes 120, the church holds a strong stance against hearsay.
sevn29 0
That was extremely dangerous. Once someone gets that mad they aren't to far from violence. Sounds like you were lucky. It kinda ticks me off too when I see people smoking and littering. Mostly cause I have lost so many family members to cancer. Just because you smoke doesn't mean it's okay to just flip it out the window. Hope you learned from this. There are lots of crazy people out there and you never know when there going go psycho on you.
Candice0687 0
Tell him its a 150 dollar fine for using your cell phone while driving.
megan1rose 4
Lol at everybody bla'ing on about you smoking! If you smoke, you smoke! Flicking a butt out would be a different matter, however if I'm not mistaken a little bit of ash out of your window isn't going to do allllll that much damage! People need to look at the bigger picture here, the op had a guy following them, trying to get hold on their licence plate?? Seriously!! People need to reevaluate life slightly!!!! If it was a young girl late at night alone, and a older man was following her does she deserve to be scared cos she was smoking a cigarette??
downtime 13
The bigger picture? OK! An estimated 12 million smokers in the world, assuming the average is 1 pack a day, 1.2 grams per cigarette, assume a 50% ends up as ash, with the remainder being weight loss due to heat and the remaining butt, 20 cigarettes a pack, 12 grams of ash per day per person...so 144,000 kilograms of ash produced per day from smoking. Assume only half of this is in public as there are many people who are only social smokers, thats 72,000 kilograms of ash that gets littered worldwide daily. 26,280,000 kilograms of ash produced over 1 year. Now, what were you saying about it not being an issue? The bigger picture? Oh...right. A bit of ash isn't that bad...or something.
Discombobulated9 12
Ashes are biodegradable; so, luckily for us, the world won't be smothered in ashes. Actually, it's not illegal to flick ash from a cigarette because it's littering, but because it's a burning material that can cause forest fires. Flicking the butts of the cigarette is littering.
marinebio 0
You can get the money for the ticket by not buying the freaking cigarettes they are so expensive and if you saved all that money YOU might be able to get a nice car. You pollute the earth, waste money and kill yourself slowly by doing this.
Treig 3
Know what else is expensive, pollutes the Earth and kill people? Cars.
fthismess 10
And fancy cars don't have ashtrays. At least not any cars built in the last decade.
downtime 13
153, Very true! These are totally in the same ballpark too. One serves no purpose what so ever, the other is used daily as a means of transportation which, without it, the economy and society as we know it would come to a complete halt. Exactly the same.