Streetalk: Wouldn’t Atlanta be a lot cleaner if you didn’t throw your cigarette butts everywhere?
September 25, 2007 at 8:10 am by Jeff Slate in Streetalk
Adam: The streets wouldn’t be any cleaner anyway. People throw McDonald’s cups and beer cans. If you want to be clean, you need to hire more people to clean streets. People throwing cigarette butts on the street is like spitting in the ocean. It’s not a good idea to do but there’s a lot more problems. There’s going to be cigarette butts. I think we can deal with it. Move out to rural Georgia if you don’t want cigarette butts.
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Jessica: I just don’t care. We’re not allowed to smoke inside. We can’t throw them in the trash ’cause you don’t want to light the trash can on fire. So what else are you going to do? They pay people to sweep the streets. I’m boosting the economy. I throw them out of my car. No one has ever said anything, but I’m kind of waiting for the day somebody does, so I can say “screw you†and drive on.
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Mike: I don’t litter. Some birds think they’re worms and eat them. It kills the birds. I see no reason to kill something unless I’m going to eat it. I have no interest in eating blue jays. And I smoke organic cigarettes with filters that break down into the soil, unlike some other cigarettes, where the filter will stick around for a very long time. Unless you throw your butts into the ocean. Then they will dissolve within two weeks.
September 25th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
I just don’t get what people don’t understand: Throwing a cigarette butt on the ground is littering. If you wouldn’t throw a cup or a coke can or something like that out your car window, then don’t throw a cigarette butt on the ground.
And for “I don’t care” Jessica, here’s an idea. Take one of the Bud cans you polish off every hour on the hour and put the butts in there. Your “smells like roses” backwash will put out the cigarette and then you can dump it in the trash.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
I think you’ve confused cigarette butts with chicken bones.
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Adams defeatist attitude just proves how ignorant and lazy people are. Mike is a spacey dope, but for whatever his reasons are (hey, I don’t eat blue jays either. la-dee-da) at least he knows better than to throw his disgusting habit into the street. As for Jessica, she’s a dumb, self-absorbed twat who has no accountability for herself. Just because she can’t live without something in her mouth, although on this occasion I refer only to cigarettes, that doesn’t mean the rest of society should live with her garbage on our streets. Hey Jessica, why not take some personal responsibility and just put the cigarette out on your forehead.