Ciggie butts

[Gubb]

I'm not a smoker, and I do find it a little disgusting, but hey, whatever floats your boat, as long as I don't have to deal with the smoke in my face i'm fine.

I'm also not a fan of litter, but when I sit behind cars, and watch the driver flick a lit ciggie butt out the window, this really disgusts me.

DO YOU NOT HAVE ANY RESPECT?!?

So I was sitting beside a sparkly-new Beemer 320 something at the lights today, and the driver flicks her ciggie butt out the window window towards me, it hits me in the jacket. I proceeded to put the bike on it's stand, pick up the butt, and threw it back through the driver's window.

The look on the woman's face was absolutely priceless as she panicked to pick up the lit butt from her new upholstery. I figure if it's good enough to be thrown out the window, it's good enough to be thrown back in.

As I got back on my bike, I heard a toot from the van behind me and the two guys were pissing themselves laughing, and gave me a thumbs up.

Seems i'm not the only one that disapproves.

[MyGSXF:Me]

So I was sitting beside a sparkly-new Beemer 320 something at the lights today, and the driver flicks her ciggie butt out the window window towards me, it hits me in the jacket. I proceeded to put the bike on it's stand, pick up the butt, and threw it back through the driver's window.The look on the woman's face was absolutely priceless as she panicked to pick up the lit butt from her new upholstery. I figure if it's good enough to be thrown out the window, it's good enough to be thrown back in

hahahahaaaa.. ferkin awesome!!! on ya!!!!

Ciggy butts lying around everywhere are ferkin disgusting!!!!!!!!!!!

[Number One]

totally agree with GSXF ...that dirty beemer driving biarch probably thinks her shit don't stink too! Effin awesome you got balls and good on ya I would've probably been a big girls blouse and just swore in my helmet loudly and flipped her several birds

[C_A]

awesome. will tkae the same attack.

closest i've had is one go through my fornt wheel whilst stationary.

'tis yuck

[davereid]

Like the sign says in the dunny at my favorite watering hole :

"Please don't throw your cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them hard to light"

[Hitcher]

Cigarette butts, due to the nature of their construction, do not easily biodegrade. Smoking is an unhealthy and filthy addiction. Its practitioners indulge in denial on a range of levels, so why shouldn't the disposal of butts, ash and smoke be included in this?

[skelstar]

Awesome... glad its not another whinny thread about being victimised and what should we do blah blah. A well deserved green bling coming your way.

[xwhatsit]

Somebody here once claimed to have done this at speed -- caught it in their glove on the motorway, then tossed it back through the window. I've often wanted to do the same, but my hand/eye coordination is piss weak.

Don't have a problem with smoking at all, don't mind second-hand smoke or people smoking around me whatsoever, but cigarette butts being tossed out the window (or dropped in the street and stood on) is pretty shit in my book. There seems to be a tolerance for it that people don't have for people who, say, spit gum onto the footpath, or toss soft-drink/beer cans out the window at the lights.

[cheese]

LOL fuck mate you are a legend. That is pure gold. Green bling!

[MyGSXF:Me]

Smoking is an unhealthy and filthy addiction. Its practitioners indulge in denial on a range of levels, so why shouldn't the disposal of butts, ash and smoke be included in this?

Yep.. tis interesting & sometimes scary stuff when ya reeeeally look into just "what is" behind addictions!!! denial is a powerful tool!!!

[Grub]

On Tuesday morning half way down Ngauranga Gorge, the passenger in a Kone Lifts service vehicle flicked her ciggy butt out the winda and it just missed my leg.

Hmm I thought, that is a work vehicle and therefore a "workplace" under the Smokefree Act. So I rang their GM Human Resources and potted them.

Seems I was right, it IS a "workplace" and the woman was most interested to have a wee chat to the employee

Nothing like a successful stir on a Choosday

[Storm]

Grub and HG- you're both legends. Well done for not just watching shit happen and doing nothing.Hopefully there's now two slightly more considerate smokers in the world

[MisterD]

I think I remember hearing that something like 60% of all litter is smoking related...bloody well done on some effective direct action.

[Cache Wraith]

Good one. A mate of mine did the same thing many years ago. He was walking across a pedestrian crossing and someone tossed a butt from a car window onto the crossing. He casually picked it up and tossed it back into the car. Priceless. If people want to smoke, that's really none of my business if they want to commit a long gradual suicide, but it disgusts me every-time I see butts lying around, particularly outside entrances to buildings. Smokers are oblivious to the fact many people who choose not to partake in such a stupid pastime find it gross that what they have been sucking on in their mouths ends up lying around where we have to walk. I understand that smoking is an addiction and not easily kicked, but that doesn't give smokers the right to be so inconsiderate of others. The smokers who flick butts from their cars while sitting at lights and driving must think they are so cool, as they have mastered the art of doing it so nonchalantly. I actually feel sorry for them, because far from being cool all they are doing is lining their lungs with black tar. May as well ride without a helmet while sitting backwards on their bikes, it's likely to have the same end result as smoking.

[Gubb]

Well, hopefully she learned her lesson. I suspect that from the reaction I got from the guys in the van, it won't be the last time I do it.