Miscellaneous: Today, I was walking through town when I saw a plastic bag on...

By fml - 25/04/2009 01:55 - United States

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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earwig12 1

Saturday 25 April 2009 9:04

So walk the extra hundred feet. How is that a big deal?

burritobird 0

Saturday 25 April 2009 9:06

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.

Comments

CaptainJellyBean 0

Saturday 25 April 2009 13:09

Well, no, I go out of my way to pick it up AND go through with it. :)

Altrown_fml 0

Saturday 25 April 2009 13:12

Are you that lazy not to walk an extra 100 feet? Wow.

shimmyya88 0

Saturday 25 April 2009 13:42

$2 per foot sounds fair

xoxo56836757xoxo 0

Saturday 27 March 2010 17:10

lol

DeeJayD 0

Saturday 25 April 2009 13:48

I guess that plastic bag was too heavy for you to carry a few hundred feet, huh? YDI.

blland 0

Saturday 25 April 2009 14:20

why aren't you lazy enough to not pick it up?

TheLonelyGoat 0

Saturday 25 April 2009 14:47

a la "Alice's Restaurant" lol... fined for littering...

Schoolcraft 0

Saturday 25 April 2009 15:42

A hundred feet? What? Thats nowhere. If the average step of a human is 2 and a half feet, then that would have taken you 40 steps. YDI

Maszula 0

Saturday 25 April 2009 15:50

The bags a trap....placed there so people just like you will help fill a policpersons ticket quota.

TheSmirkster 0

Saturday 25 April 2009 15:54

If it wasn't for the fine, I'd say YDI too. But seriously 200 dollars for a trash bag that someone else littered? And there are endless reasons as to why that garbage can wouldn't have worked for him. If he was on his way to catch a bus and the bus stop was closer than the can, the can was in the opposite direction and he had somewhere to be. there are more indeed, but come on, it wasn't even his garbage. Also, were you in residential? you could have just used someone else's trash bin.