Posted on 07/06/2005 5:59:32 PM PDT by Coleus
I know. Just trying to lighten things, and people, up.
Man, don't we have more important things to haggle over?
I learned that in the military about 35 years ago.
But everything is biodegradable - it's just a matter of how long it takes to degrade.
Ice cubes on a hot summer day are probably the quickest.
My guess is that either the trooper is a nicotine nazi or that he wanted to stop the car and needed a pretext. I was stopped once, and the cops kept asking me questions. They weren't satisfied with my answers, so they kept saying, well couldn't it have been this way, until I said well, maybe it could have. I got a 130 dollar ticket for "not signaling a lane change" in the middle of the night out on a West Texas freeway. When I got home and looked up the law, it turned out that they could not cite me the way that I was talking to them, which is why they just kept badgering me to change my words a little bit. That left the opening for them to give me the ticket, and 800 miles from home, no real chance to fight it.
I absolutely agree! They are inconsiderate pigs.
"The fire thing is real, and again I say, provide ash trays, it's the only answer that makes sense."
Buy one of those very cheap little bean bag type ashtrays and set it somewhere on your console.....problem solved
And I'll bet you do not ride a Harley. Prove me wrong.
FTW. You should know that acronym.
Spare me your self righteous indignation.
Actually, the filter is biodegradable. It is made out of cotton. It just takes a little while to degrade.
Of course if you want to get technical, everything is eventually biodegradable!
FWIW, this is what I do. I flick off the cherry (oops, I guess that's littering) and put the butt in my back pocket. Often I forget to remove them when I wash my clothes and find clean cigarette buts in the washing machine after I'm done!
One more thing, I guess they should outlaw june bugs and stinging rain, since you are the "tough" biker.
Locally, about 5 years ago, a 16 year old girl swerved hard to avoid a small limb that had blown in the road. Her inexperience cost her her life. She could have easily run over it.
You are correct.
But, that NJ cop would probably get you for that too. I'd bet an ice cube could crack a windshield!
A butt, NOT the ashes! The ashes are not lit. I can see a fine for throwing the butts out. This was not for that.
Not really. As a taxpayer I'm tired of paying to put out fires due to people flicking ashes and butts out windows. It's just not wise to do so not matter how handy you may think it is.
As a resident of Los Angeles for almost 60 years I can tell you about horrendous fires that have taken large areas of the dry chapparel that covers the ground out here.
We used to have terrible fires every few years but fire prevention has improved in time ... including fining people who think they should be able to anything they want.
So, your hobby is walking along stretches of roadway, both state and federal observing and counting cigarette butts.
You need to google and type in "new hobbies" or "how to stay the hell out of other people's business."
or would I have to live in Jersey to understand?). >>>
you'd have to live in Jersey to understand. Term used by the shore people for us up north and in NYC.
If he threw a lit cigarette out the window he deserves the ticket, but if it is just ashes - BS.
I'm a smoker and will not tolerate tossing cigarettes out the window.......I have stopped my car and made a passenger get out and pick up the butt they had just tossed out the window.
The heat shields around the modern catalytic converter prevent most of the heat inside it from having impact on the grass..
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