SFist: Douchebags of the Week

eightslosh

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:28:19 -0800

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.

RinconHillSF

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:31:49 -0800

Can we just take a baseball bat to litterbugs useless heads?

crow_soup

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:41:25 -0800

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.

jacobe

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:32:07 -0800

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...

Elizabeth

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:41:40 -0800

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. Here's how it works: Get the license plate number, the make of the car, the spot where the littering took place, etc. Just like with the hotline to report smoking vehicles, a warning letter will be sent out to the registered owner. I hope San Francisco will do this soon!

QandA

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:37:01 -0800

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?

aj

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:16:41 -0800

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.

dolemite43

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:57:51 -0800

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.

Jas

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:48:09 -0800

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.

lovelylibrarian

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:34:46 -0800

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.

MalcoveMagnesia

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:31:15 -0800

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.

fsharp

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:50:27 -0800

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.

sangfroid826

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:23:35 -0800

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.

J

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:22:15 -0800

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!