October 1, 2007
Douchebags of the Week
See this picture? Well, it's supposed to be of a grey Ford Taurus taken by our camera phone, but as you can see, it didn't come out. What this picture is supposed to show is the license plate # of a car with two people in it who, while stuck in traffic on 6th street, rolled down the window and dumped off the entire contents of some fast food trash onto the street. Right there. In plain day light. Just like that. Seriously, what the f---? What the hell makes somebody think that's right? Don't they know that Woodsy the Owl says they should give a hoot and don't pollute?
And yes, we guess we could have gotten out of our car to pick the garbage back up to dump off, but, well, first of all, iyick, and we were late for a movie anyways so didn't want to waste anymore time. Actually, we were so gobsmacked by the whole thing we were too stunned to do anything.
Also, like a month ago, we were stuck in traffic on the 101 when some guy in a pickup truck rolled down his window and threw out an empty Coke can. Again, what the heck? We started to give the guy the finger for doing something just so wrong but decided against it when we realized that giving the finger to a guy in a pickup truck might not be such a good thing.
Anyways, since we weren't able to do something to both people at the time, we'd like to take the time to say this-- y'all SUCK.
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Douchebags for sure. Just like the folks that get Popeyes at the shack down the street, eat their chicken while sitting in their cars, then leave the bags by the side of the road, EVEN THOUGH THERE IS A TRASH CAN LESS THAN 50 FT AWAY!
On first glance I was absolutely sure this was going to be a post on the suicidal imagination of Mark Rothko.
That'll teach me to ignore the text.
I saw something similar while driving along Highway 1 between Muir Beach and Stinson Beach. Some guys in a brand new Mercedes chucked a whole tray of McDonald's out the window and down the hill, while trolling along looking over the ocean.
It was just astonishing that people feel totally fine with that.
The Popeye's at 22nd and Mission is ground zero for this attitude. People are constantly screaming and yelling at their kids while tossing their half-eaten chicken dinners and mega-sized cokes all over the cars & sidewalks outside. Some people even feed the pigeons INSIDE the restaurant, but that's a different subject.
Not everyone saw the tv commercial of the crying Indian when they were little.
I see people throwing stuff out of the windows of MUNI buses all the time.
Agreed with fsharp: They do need to bring back the memorable crying Indian public service ad.
Yeah, that totally upsets me too. It wouldn't even occur to me to do something like that. I'm one of those crazy people that runs after her napkin when she drops it and it starts blowing away on a windy day...
UGH.
They must be related to the mother I saw on the 22 Fillmore telling her children to throw their burger king trash under the bus seats. I weep for the future.
I saw this happen two weeks ago at the intersection of california and divisadero. This Cadillac Escalade was sitting at the light and the driver door opened and a big bag of McDonalds fell out on the street.
I thought I saw this type of behavior happen a few times one some Wire episodes.
Nothing will happen until guys like this get tickets for littering AND THEN DON'T HAVE THEM DISMISSED. Any chance of this ever happening in SF? Hahahaha.
This is pathetic, but not surprising, in a city where you see public urination and sh**ing go unpunished. I wonder when the line will be crossed when people say enough is enough?
A friend once tossed a cig out her window at a stoplight. She didn't notice the cop until he turned on his lights. BAM! $1000 fine. I LOLed.
Santa Clara County just established a litterbug hotline. To file a report, send an e-mail to stopvehiclelittering@sanjoseca.gov or call (408) 277-4111.
I hope San Francisco will do this soon!On Saturday I was on the corner of 9th & Mission when a car filled with young 'Love Festers' did the same thing. Some friends that I were with calmly walked over, picked up the two plastic bottles they had thrown out the window and offered them back to the individual that threw them out. They took them back into the car, drove a few feet (the traffic was horrible!!!) and threw them out the window again.
They were young, and in my bias and stereotyping opinion... not from the city...
I see it every day, everywhere. At times I'm filled with enough horror to actually do something, say something, be vocally annoyed and beyond pissed, and other days I just rage in a sort of resigned silence because I just don't have the energy to raise other people's kids, some of whom are 15 years past adolescence. I pick up trash because ignoring it bothers me.
Can we just take a baseball bat to litterbugs useless heads?
BOOO LITTERING!!!
What is this, jonfromsfist.blogspot.com? How about picking someone remotely newsworthy as the Douchebag of the Week?
You should check out BeyondChron if you don't know about any of the legit DotW candidates.