Windshield Tweets: Litter Bugs!
10/20/2010:
[Continuing the ORIGINAL Hoboken411 "Windshield Twittering" series...]
Windshield junk sucks; but do you need to litter?
Most of us hate the Windshield SPAM we all get. This week’s culprits are Carmina Limousine, and Zap Lube. Both business are NOT located in Hoboken – but have an indirect negative effect on the city they wish to do business with.
However, it’s my belief that since the windshield spammers are pretty good at putting the leaflets underneath the wiper blade (unlike the Hoboken Parking Utility who can’t muster up the energy) – that the car owners themselves are the ones responsible for just tossing them on the ground.
Just because you didn’t want the flier doesn’t mean you should make your own Hoboken neighborhood more disgusting. Just bring it in your car and toss it out in the proper receptacle!
C’mon, folks!
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October 20th, 2010 |
On my walk to the PATH today I witnessed at least three drivers toss these things on the ground.
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October 20th, 2010 |
Back when I had a car I would throw this garbage on the ground. Just because someone puts garbage on my car doesn’t make it my garbage or my responsibility to dispose of. Placing litter under someone’s windshield wiper is still littering and the people responsible should be held responsible. Maybe it would be less obnoxious if there were more garbage cans around town.
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October 20th, 2010 |
Isn’t it a shame how few cans there are? There should be cans on every corner. One Saturday a few years back, I drove through town and mapped the locations of cans (I sort of have a life…) and there were basically NONE back beyond Washington.
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October 20th, 2010 |
If I see ads of a business I particularly dislike, I will remove them from the sidewalk (and even gutters if I am feeling spry). Last thing I’d want is for them to eke out any advertising benefit from being the trash they are!
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October 20th, 2010 |
agreed, the people that put it on private property should have to clean it up. Not ME
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October 20th, 2010 |
OK, do you take junk mail that’s delivered to your house without asking and toss it on the street?
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October 20th, 2010 |
nah, dont want the mailman to go postal. as far as the flier guy, he shouldnt be touching private property
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October 20th, 2010 |
Not a crime to touch a car parked in a public place.
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October 20th, 2010 |
No, but the difference is that there is a garbage can in my house.
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October 21st, 2010 |
I have garbage cans on 3 of the 4 corners of my building and I am back off Wash. Holla!!!!!!
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October 21st, 2010 |
Me too!
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October 21st, 2010 |
You are lucky. One of these upcoming weekends, I should do another drive around. From what I recall, the area around 7th and Jefferson was pretty well-stocked. But some wards, like the one in the southwest, had practically none.
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October 21st, 2010 |
So it’s just you being lazy? Not that hard to respect your neighborhood, even if getting the flier wasn’t your choice.
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October 21st, 2010 |
And this little ward cried wee wee wee wee wee all the way home…
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October 21st, 2010 |
yes, entirely… placing garbage on my car doesn’t make it my responsibility to dispose of. I am not interested in your holier-than-thou attitude, if you don’t want garbage on the sidewalk, don’t put it on my car. It’s that simple.
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October 21st, 2010 |
Do you apply this philosophy to other situations? For instance, when it snows, do you not shovel your sidewalk since you didn’t ask for the snow? Or do you push it onto your neighbor’s sidewalk since it’s not your responsibility to care about it once it’s off your property? Just curious.
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October 21st, 2010 |
No, my decision making process is more fluid than what you are alluding to. However, my building shovels the sidewalk, so I don’t have to worry about that. Any other useless examples you’d like to ask me about?
I didn’t realize that everyone’s windshield also doubled as a community garbage can, no wonder we don’t need garbage cans around town. Let me know where you park, I’ll swing by there the next time I walk my dog so you can dispose of his waste in the proper way. Thanks neighbor.
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October 21st, 2010 |
As much as I hate having these fliers on my windshields, I’d rather that then the slice of pizza left on my hood one night.
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October 21st, 2010 |
I can’t believe how many people have the attitude that it’s OK to litter because somebody else put it there first.
I always through it in the nearest building’s garbage can, or throw it away when I get to work.
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