Comments on: Or maybe it just rolls into a lake

By: Lisa paul

Lisa paul — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:39:54 +0000

George Kennedy already snagged the job.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:21:10 +0000

And guarded by a fat guy yelling, “What we have here is a failure to communicated.”

I applied. They weren’t hiring.

By: Lisa Paul

Lisa Paul — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:02:58 +0000

McGehee,

I, too, take odd comfort in seeing the orange jumpsuited teams from the SF Sheriff’s Work Program. Although it would be more satisfying, in a purely cinematic way, if they were in chains. And chanting. And guarded by a fat guy yelling, “What we have here is a failure to communicated.”

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:55:47 +0000

Around here, I think some of the trash comes from people who put it in the open backs of their pickups and then are AMAZED when they reach their destination and find that the trash has “magically” disappeared.

I have seen the fluid-physics of laminar air flow interacting with empty Sonic drink cups in the back of pickups on several occasions. Every time I was tempted to pick up the trash, chase after the person, stop them, and go, “Hey, you dropped this.”

We have an enormous litter problem in my town.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:40:16 +0000

Georgia, too, has CCW — but perhaps we’re more tolerant of litterers because it means we get to see our state prisoners doing something worthwhile now and then.

By: Closet Atheist

Closet Atheist — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:07:46 +0000

We have CCW and still the dipsticks (local and turistas) throw stuff out of windows, like lit cigarettes during a Burn Ban.

By: Jeffro

Jeffro — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:34:56 +0000

Yep, we can pack heat in Kansas too. If there is anything that would set us off, it’s out of staters littering. It’s like Dodge City all over again. The litter isn’t packaging, it’s ventilated tourists and shell casings.

By: Lisa Paul

Lisa Paul — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:55:34 +0000

Well, we were interlopers and we weren’t about to throw out any trash. Minnesota has a “conceal and carry law”. People were packing heat at public parks and swing dance venues. Who knows what they’d do to out-of-state litterers. Especially those in rental cars with Georgia plates.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:41:13 +0000

So if there’s any roadside debris, it’s from interlopers from out of state. I can believe that.

By: Brian J.

Brian J. — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:33:53 +0000

Wisconsin is also very clean. Both are northern states. Nine and a half months of the year, it’s too cold to roll down the car windows for any reason whatsoever. Of the other two and a half months, two are spent “up north” (aka at the cabin in the woods) and the other is what the locals refer to as “hot,” usually about 80 degrees, where the car air conditioning is on and they don’t want to roll down the windows.