OT: Trashy Neighbors

[Hey Adrien!]

Time to stoke up the OT: Summer Threads.

Since April, like clockwork, every morning there is a discarded bag of McDonald's thrown onto our yard: large drink with mostly finished food items. Our house is on the corner of a 3-way stop sign, so the litterer is likely doing a trash dash out the driver’s side window, throwing the bag across the street onto our berm.

The aim of the discarder is remarkably Greg Maddux-esque, the bag usually resides within a two foot radius of the corner of our rustic style fence, mostly with not enough force to make it over the three-foot apex, but generally in the same area.

When it first happened, I was like who litters anymore?, but as the day passed and the routine remained, my anger morphed into general curiosity as it feels as if this is less of a mindless littering and more of a part of this person's morning routine. I don't take it personal anymore, but now I want to learn more of the backstory of this person's consistency.

 

[husky429]

I want vengeance on your behalf. I know some people getting out of a nickel right now who would be happy to extract said vengeance on your behalf for a modest price. Gofundme?

 

[superjohn]

My dad used to get so pissed off at the garbage on the side of the lawn, I would always go out to clean it up with him and what started as cleaning up our lawn/driveway always turned into cleaning the entire street and the street next to us. The whole time my dad complaining about these arseholes in their pickup trucks.

Me being a smartarse I would always make fun of him for blaming everything on "guys in their pickup trucks" when I knew the majority of it was guys in pickup trucks.

 

[jibsey]

I too cleaned up litter in the woods by my house. Culprit? Bear took a bag out of the trash can and he got it only 30 minutes after it was out just before pickup. I guess I can stand next to the can with bear spray…..

 

[Deepster]

I too cleaned up litter in the woods by my house. Culprit? Bear took a bag out of the trash can and he got it only 30 minutes after it was out just before pickup. I guess I can stand next to the can with bear spray…..

I live in bear country and see one in my yard/neighborhood every day. A spray bottle with ammonia will keep them off the garbage cans.

Or a really big can of tuna with antifreeze.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

 

[RuffRuff]

Look for an early onset diabetic.

If you want to f with them put a garbage can in that very spot with a giant picture of Ronald McDonald on it giving them the finger.

 

[prankster]

I dated a girl, years back, who insisted that it was OK to litter In a "nice" neighborhood . Her perspective was that, if your bag of McDonalds leavings ended up on the lawn of an upscale lawn, it would be properly disposed of, toot sweet.

On the other hand, toss the bag in some low class urban neighborhood, it becomes just one more piece of the increasingly large pile of crap that could go a year or more before being tidied up.

In some ways, her perspective is correct.

 

[Deepster]

I dated a girl, years back, who insisted that it was OK to litter In a "nice" neighborhood . Her perspective was that, if your bag of McDonalds leavings ended up on the lawn of an upscale lawn, it would be properly disposed of, toot sweet.

On the other hand, toss the bag in some low class urban neighborhood, it becomes just one more piece of the increasingly large pile of crap that could go a year or more before being tidied up.

In some ways, her perspective is correct.

You dated a girl? How about that???

 

[Fishy]

 

[DogMania]

I love the idea, but does anyone else think that that would result in a big pile of trash there as more and more people excited to see how they could do hitting the target?

Um, yes!

Just hearing about that idea, if implementated, makes me want to find out where you live, and throw my Five Guys bag...I have standards...at the target from at a minimum 3-Pt range, then give the three finger sign out the window regardless if I hit the target or not.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

I dated a girl, years back, who insisted that it was OK to litter In a "nice" neighborhood . Her perspective was that, if your bag of McDonalds leavings ended up on the lawn of an upscale lawn, it would be properly disposed of, toot sweet.

On the other hand, toss the bag in some low class urban neighborhood, it becomes just one more piece of the increasingly large pile of crap that could go a year or more before being tidied up.

In some ways, her perspective is correct.

I’ll take that as a compliment.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

I’ll take that as a compliment.

Don’t you live in Stamford or am I making that up?

 

[CL82]

I dated a girl, years back, who insisted that it was OK to litter In a "nice" neighborhood . Her perspective was that, if your bag of McDonalds leavings ended up on the lawn of an upscale lawn, it would be properly disposed of, toot sweet.

On the other hand, toss the bag in some low class urban neighborhood, it becomes just one more piece of the increasingly large pile of crap that could go a year or more before being tidied up.

In some ways, her perspective is correct.

I suspect you may have dodged a bullet, my friend.

 

[Yardigan]

I love the idea, but does anyone else think that that would result in a big pile of trash there as more and more people excited to see how they could do hitting the target?

only one way to find out?

 

[Devland]

I'm under the theory that 90% of litter comes from the lazy poeple who use drive through windows. They are too lazy to park and walk in, you know they're not getting out of their car to throw out trash.

 

[Northbound]

I live in a rural area with a lot if working farms nit gentlemen farms. A friend had repeated in incidences of someone in the corn field. Some long boards with large spikes hammered in and flipped over stopped that quickly.

Maybe this approach -

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Don’t you live in Stamford or am I making that up?

Close, Norwalk.

 

[UCTitleTown]

I had trashy neighbors. When they moved out (house got foreclosed), they left an old refrigerator in the driveway. I'd never seen a cockroach in my life. The house must've gotten fumigated and the cockroaches fled to my house! I had to call an exterminator. Hated those neighbors.

 

[husky429]

I'm under the theory that 90% of litter comes from the lazy poeple who use drive through windows. They are too lazy to park and walk in, you know they're not getting out of their car to throw out trash.

Does anyone actually go inside fast food restaurants any more? I used to go to a Mcdonalds playscape with my grandfather but you never see things like that any more

 

[david]

I'm under the theory that 90% of litter comes from the lazy poeple who use drive through windows. They are too lazy to park and walk in, you know they're not getting out of their car to throw out trash.

I went to Dave's Hot Chicken in Newington the other day. I walk in and I'm 3rd in line so I place my order. Took them 45 minutes because there was at least a dozen uber eats, door dash and online orders ahead of me. I watched the same door dash driver walk in, grab food and leave, then come back 20 minutes later, grab food and leave.

 

[Scoe]

Does anyone actually go inside fast food restaurants any more? I used to go to a Mcdonalds playscape with my grandfather but you never see things like that any more

I usually try and go in because my order has been screwed up more often in drive thrus. I like the face to face communication better. If I'm driving with a group of people rather just go to the counter and everyone just tells the cashier what they want. If I'm by myself and it's just coffee then that's different. Delivery I will never do.

 

[Scoe]

I went to Dave's Hot Chicken in Newington the other day. I walk in and I'm 3rd in line so I place my order. Took them 45 minutes because there was at least a dozen uber eats, door dash and online orders ahead of me. I watched the same door dash driver walk in, grab food and leave, then come back 20 minutes later, grab food and leave.

Yikes, just sad times we live in. Not saying im not lazy but I haven't gotten down online orders and refuse to learn.

 

[husky429]

I usually try and go in because my order has been screwed up more often in drive thrus. I like the face to face communication better. If I'm driving with a group of people rather just go to the counter and everyone just tells the cashier what they want. If I'm by myself and it's just coffee then that's different. Delivery I will never do.

Drive-throughs down south are the worst when I visit my in-laws. People won't stfu and just talk about anything under the sun.

 

[superjohn]

Does anyone actually go inside fast food restaurants any more? I used to go to a Mcdonalds playscape with my grandfather but you never see things like that any more

I only go for the playscape.

 

[VanDunk]

You mean you didn't find it funny like these guys? People need to lighten up.

Definitely wasn’t funny at the time. I was 16, it was my parents car and of course when I saw the bag I aimed for it. Lesson learned.

 

[M.S.G.]

Phew, I’m not the neighbor

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Well, he's dead now.

And I won't tell you about the tuna can with antifreeze to keep the neighbor's cat out of his tomatos.

You pull some spit like this in 2025, and ANYONE finds out, it will go up on the town Facebook group, and you will be the target of all kinds of retaliation. And you will deserve it.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

My advice: get security cameras around your house. A system is not that expensive, and they will come in handy a few times a year. My top 3:

1) the time my wife was about to accuse me of misplacing her favorite pool float and it turned out a bear had fished it through the fence and run off with it,

2) proof that the town plow had not just knocked over my mailbox, but totally annihilated it.

3) multiple times my wife or I have been able to say to someone “let me know what time your person stopped by and I will check the camera” when we suspected shenanigans. My neighbor got a $600 landscaping bill cleared saying this. The landscapers had stopped by, ate lunch in his driveway for an hour, did whatever work they needed in 30 minutes, then hung out in the driveway for a while longer before leaving and billing my neighbor for hours of work. All on camera while my neighbor was at work.

 

[Deepster]

You pull some spit like this in 2025, and ANYONE finds out, it will go up on the town Facebook group, and you will be the target of all kinds of retaliation. And you will deserve it.

Yeah. Well, like I said. He’s dead. Been dead for like 15 years.

 

[dennismenace]

I'm under the theory that 90% of litter comes from the lazy poeple who use drive through windows. They are too lazy to park and walk in, you know they're not getting out of their car to throw out trash.

I once asked someone I was riding with in his car why he threw litter out the window and his explanation was that he did not want that trash in his car. So he looked at it as a choice. Either inside my car or somewhere else (either/or). My precious car (and my self image). It is better to just throw it out and my car and image are restored to pristine. I'll feel good about myself and my car; the hell with everyone else.