Smoking and ciggy butts

[PrincessBandit]

Traveling home in the car from Papakura yesterday I was behind a woman in her car who flicked her ciggy butt out her window. I watched it slow-mo arc from her fingers up and over into my windscreen. As I pulled up next to her with my window wound down I called out to her "I'm glad I wasn't on my bike behind you as your cigarette butt just landed on my windscreen and I wouldn't have wanted it in my face". She looked somewhat taken aback and said "Oh, sorry" as she promptly took off round the corner.

It got me thinking. How many smokers here throw their ciggies out the window when they've finished with them? Years ago a friend of mine had a driver do it to him while on his bike and the smoldering butt started to burn his riding jacket. While I understand that many smokers might think a cigarette butt isn't a huge deal, especially compared to chucking cans, bottles and hamburger boxes out windows once empty, how many do it and under what circumstances? (Nah, I'm not going to report you to the litterbug police!) I'm just curious as to whether being a rider and therefore potentially being on the receiving end of someone's goobified ciggy butt in the face (or lap) makes a difference to how you dispose of them, if you smoke in your car.

[skippa1]

smoking is dirty and stinks

[oneofsix]

smoking is dirty and stinks

Agreed but they all seem to throw their butts out the window so Princess' question to the bikers that smoke has got me wondering too. Is it that being a smoker and not wanting to put up with the disgusting residue from your habit do you still do what most others smokers do and throw your burning butt out the window or being a biker do you think of the rest of us and use your ash tray for its intended purpose?

[Edbear]

Agreed but they all seem to throw their butts out the window so Princess' question to the bikers that smoke has got me wondering too. Is it that being a smoker and not wanting to put up with the disgusting residue from your habit do you still do what most others smokers do and throw your burning butt out the window or being a biker do you think of the rest of us and use your ash tray for its intended purpose?

Now I think of it, my car doesn't have an ash tray, and they now call the cigarette lighter socket a power socket as it doesn't have the lighter in it either. I wonder how the smoker's get on these days? :scratch:

Of course, smoking is nasty and should be banned from the Earth... :yes:

[george formby]

For my sins, I smoke. In fact I can roll a cigarette while txting, drinking coffee and eating a mystery meat pie as I drive.

I'm very conscious of my habit & generally dispose of my butts in a bin. I use the ash tray & generally carry a wee tin for my butts when I'm out & about so i don't leave them in the scenery. Does my head in living in such a beautiful place & their is so much litter everywhere.

[iYRe]

I've been hit in the visor a few times, and had one land in my helmet while bicycling past a truck once..

At 160kmh a cig hitting the visor makes a nasty thud..

[george formby]

I've been hit in the visor a few times, and had one land in my helmet while bicycling past a truck once..

At 160kmh a cig hitting the visor makes a nasty thud..

How did you work out the speed of the cig butt?


I reckon bees are worse.

[iYRe]

well, I only know how fast I was going..

probably works out at a difference of 70-80kmh..

yeah bees are worse..

[imdying]

Of course, smoking is nasty and should be banned from the Earth... :yes:

Yep, just like your two faced religion you god bothering piece of shit :yawn:

[Murray]

I think we should ban bee's

[george formby]

What about another poll option..

Would you rather get hit in the face by a bee or a butt?

[oneofsix]

What about another poll option..

Would you rather get hit in the face by a bee or a butt?

If the bee was flying away from you then it is the same thing. :confused:

[willytheekid]

I smoke...but never in da car!:innocent: (Its the missus car!...that carrys my kids around...a certain death sentance!!:crazy:)

Besides...I have MUCH better things to hang out the car window to scare you with :blink:
http://gifsoup.com/view6/4378893/condom-out-window-o.gif
Sorry...I get bored easy in car :confused: (BUT!...Ive stopped getting jealous and heaving rocks at ya's when Im forced to travel in the car now:2thumbsup...its progress:yes:)


-Have a safe xmas everyone!...:love:

ps:Whats the last thing that goes through a bee's mind as it hits your visor??

....its arse!

[george formby]

If the bee was flying away from you then it is the same thing. :confused:

Bee Butt, clever.

As I was making my coffee just now it came to mind an Albatross would be worse.

[Zedder]

Bee Butt, clever.

As I was making my coffee just now it came to mind an Albatross would be worse.

More than a Norwegian Blue parrot I reckon.

[GSF]

I was heading home from Ardmore one day, shooting north up the motorway. I was coming up behind a old Camry station wagon which suddenly swerved into my lane, had to lay on the picks and drop back.
The guy straightened up and moved back into his lane, then the driver's door flapped open and a glowing ciggy butt flew out, I figure that he dropped it onto his arm or lap and got burnt, thus the sudden swerving around.

Scared the shit out of me. IMO smoking or eating while driving are just as bad as using a phone.

[Maha]

I hate that shit, I can generally smell it if someone is smoking in a car (even when we did smoked, we never smoked in the car) that I am behind. When that happens I look to pass asap to avoid the 'Butt Flick'.
Or.....if its on the M/Way, I move to another lane.

[Stirts]

Would you rather get hit in the face by a bee or a butt?

Well that all depends on whose butt really :shifty:

[unstuck]

I only smoke em down to the lettering, then give them to the kids to finish off so I dont have to despose of the butt.:devil2: Filthy little bastards better not be throwing them out the window.:mad:

[Zedder]

I only smoke em down to the lettering, then give them to the kids to finish off so I dont have to despose of the butt.:devil2: Filthy little bastards better not be throwing them out the window.:mad:

Nah don't worry, they're probably only collecting them and rerolling the dregs with weed man.

[unstuck]

Nah don't worry, they're probably only collecting them and rerolling the dregs with weed man.

Better not be my fucking weed.:ar15:

[Zedder]

Better not be my fucking weed.:ar15:

Yeah, kids today eh?

[pzkpfw]

I don't mind so much if people smoke (free choice and all that), as long as their smoke doesn't go up my nose; but I'm sick to flipping death of seeing their rubbish lying around.

I'd want to ban Coke too, if I saw as many empty Coke cans lying around. I'd even ban sex, if I couldn't walk through town without stepping on a condom, as it is now with cigarette butts.

Why do some people want to make the whole World their ashtray?

Bastards.

[Shadows]

I check if there's a bike behind me, and if there is, I hang my smoke out the window for while until it gets really hot and starts to burn my fingers. If the soft cock still hasn't passed me, only then do I flick it at him.

[mashman]

I sling 'em where and whenever I feel... however as they're rollies they're usually out before they exit the vehicle. And as the car is Mrs Mashies, the windows are allllllll fully open whilst smokin.

[Kickaha]

I was heading home from Ardmore one day, shooting north up the motorway. I was coming up behind a old Camry station wagon which suddenly swerved into my lane, had to lay on the picks and drop back.
The guy straightened up and moved back into his lane, then the driver's door flapped open and a glowing ciggy butt flew out, I figure that he dropped it onto his arm or lap and got burnt, thus the sudden swerving around.

About 30 years ago a friend of mine wrote his Mk1 Escort off in the Hundalees after dropping a smoke butt down the leg of his shorts

[george formby]

About 30 years ago a friend of mine wrote his Mk1 Escort off in the Hundalees after dropping a smoke butt down the leg of his shorts

Many, many moons ago in a land far far away a chap of my acquaintance drilled a big hole in the front of his hemlet, big enough to smoke a ceegar, ceegarettes burn out too quick on the motorway. As he reached the final few puffs on his stoogie the glowing red tip, almost a small coal, detached itself of said ceegar & lodged betwixt the lining of his helmet, which smouldered, & his right ear. The result was plaster casts, a wrecked bike & plastic surgery to his ear.
Thems was the days, every ride an event.
That was one of the incidents on the ton up ride to Silverstone. 100 miles in an our. None of the bikes had screens so all the lads had procured neck braces to ease the pain.
Nuckin futs & huckin filarious.

[mashman]

Many, many moons ago in a land far far away a chap of my acquaintance drilled a big hole in the front of his hemlet, big enough to smoke a ceegar, ceegarettes burn out too quick on the motorway. As he reached the final few puffs on his stoogie the glowing red tip, almost a small coal, detached itself of said ceegar & lodged betwixt the lining of his helmet, which smouldered, & his right ear. The result was plaster casts, a wrecked bike & plastic surgery to his ear.
Thems was the days, every ride an event.

Thinkin back I used to pop the chin strap up and ride down the road with a fag hangin out of my mouth... the first time I got burning ash in my eye was the last time I did such a silly thing.

[BMWST?]

Now I think of it, my car doesn't have an ash tray, and they now call the cigarette lighter socket a power socket as it doesn't have the lighter in it either. I wonder how the smoker's get on these days? :scratch:

Of course, smoking is nasty and should be banned from the Earth... :yes:

its an option...smokers package

[cc rider]

About 30 years ago a friend of mine wrote his Mk1 Escort off in the Hundalees after dropping a smoke butt down the leg of his shortsLucky it wasn't a bee... :eek:

[Akzle]

this one time. in band camp.
i saw a woman in some shitty little convertible chuck her ciggy but out the window at the traffic lights. i thought "that's not on", so i chucked my ciggy but in her window and drove off.

hilarity.

[Graelin]

Riding slowly passed a parked car and the cig but still burning was flicked out just missling my face in open face helmet. So in a moment of public spiritedness I stopped picked up what he had dropped and then dropped it still burning on his lap. His arms looked like windmills as I rode off.

[F5 Dave]

Well I've seen a ciggy burn through the pants of a CHiP motorcyclist, he was angry but he didn't pull the driver over as I think he was on his way to sort out Jon & Ponch's latest hoohaa. Can't remember the Chief's name. What a show.

no doubt I could google an old episode to find the incident, but that seems like a lot of work for a thread trol.

[madandy]

Around town, when near enough I get real close to 'em in the truck and blast the airhorns!
Fuckin littering faggers.

[Brett]

I hate people throwing their ciggie butts into the environment, they are bloody toxic and end up in our water ways etc. I look forward to the day that cigarettes are banned in NZ. (I am having a war with a neighbour at a property I have, he keeps flicking his butts still burning over into my yard, nearly had a fire there a few times when it has landed amongst flammable materials).

[ellipsis]

I hate people throwing their ciggie butts into the environment, they are bloody toxic and end up in our water ways etc. I look forward to the day that cigarettes are banned in NZ. (I am having a war with a neighbour at a property I have, he keeps flicking his butts still burning over into my yard, nearly had a fire there a few times when it has landed amongst flammable materials).

...why is he not in hospital yet...

[mashman]

...why is he not in hospital yet...

Obviously Brett keeps his flammables safe for that eventuality... although if that weren't the case :innocent:

[FJRider]

Every year here in paradise ... a roadside fire is started, and put down to a ciggie butt that started it ...

About 10 years ago ... one such fire took quite a few days to control (more to put out) ... and burnt a few thousand hectares ...

[mashman]

I hate people throwing their ciggie butts into the environment, they are bloody toxic and end up in our water ways etc. I look forward to the day that cigarettes are banned in NZ. (I am having a war with a neighbour at a property I have, he keeps flicking his butts still burning over into my yard, nearly had a fire there a few times when it has landed amongst flammable materials).

Sanctimonious fuckwank... I don't tell you how to live your life. Are they biodegradeable? Coz I think they might be :yes:... How fast do they break down as opposed to condoms or tyres or shopping trolleys etc... are you going to ban safe sex, riding and shopping because they pollute the waterways too? Mebee ya will. Filters in smokes is for amateurs anyway.

[Berries]

I gave up smoking in May after close to 30 years. I remember when I got my first car I used to take it out for a spin before I was legal just to have a fag. Chucked one out of the window and it wasn't until I got home that I smelt something odd. The butt had landed between the back seat and my brand new jacket and burnt the fuck out of both of them.

Have never used the ash tray in a car for its designed purpose. Always chucked them out the window. Always checked for riders as well having been on the receiving end. But then if you have your visor open at open road speeds what do you expect?


Thinkin back............
My zippo ran out of fuel once after stopping for a smoke in the middle of nowhere. Opened the petrol tank but it was too low to dip the zippo in without possibly dropping it. Cigarette would just reach though so dipped it in. Fuel soaked all the way up the smoke in about 0.003 of second. Went woof when I lit it and fell apart so quickly I couldn't light another off it. I nearly put the bike on its side to drain some petrol to light a fag I was that desperate.

[imdying]

I nearly put the bike on its side to drain some petrol to light a fag I was that desperate.You didn't just use the header pipes why?

[pzkpfw]

Sanctimonious fuckwank... I don't tell you how to live your life. Are they biodegradeable? Coz I think they might be :yes:... How fast do they break down as opposed to condoms or tyres or shopping trolleys etc... are you going to ban safe sex, riding and shopping because they pollute the waterways too? Mebee ya will. Filters in smokes is for amateurs anyway.

In-between banning and free-for-all, there's the possibility of simply being a decent human being - and being careful where one disposes of ones shit.

(Freedom comes with personal responsibility, though it's typical of the left wing/socialists to think freedom means just for them.)

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/7366547/Wellington-smokers-ignore-bins-to-toss

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/business/7078826/Smoking-ban-could-help-Wellington-businesses

http://forum.forestandbird.org.nz/topic/butt-butt-butt-just-stop-it-cigarette-butts-are-killing-our-seas

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/8068837/Cigarette-butts-set-cafe-alight

http://www.bayofplentytimes.co.nz/news/flicking-a-cigarette-butt-outside-came-back-to-hau/1188352/

http://www.whakatanebeacon.co.nz/cms/news/2012/03/art100011339.php


etc

Smoking's a choice. Disposal is a choice too.

[mashman]

(Freedom comes with personal responsibility, though it's typical of the left wing/socialists to think freedom means just for them.)


It does indeed and until people start using theirs correctly, I'll do what the fuck I want and you can lump it, I'm in with the in crowd.

:rofl:@left wing/socialists thinking that freedom means just for them, as some wise sage once said to me "In-between banning and free-for-all, there's the possibility of simply being a decent human being".

[pzkpfw]

It does indeed and until people start using theirs correctly, I'll do what the fuck I want and you can lump it, I'm in with the in crowd.

:rofl:@left wing/socialists thinking that freedom means just for them, as some wise sage once said to me "In-between banning and free-for-all, there's the possibility of simply being a decent human being".

Your posts are so full of self-contradiction, it's amusing you think I'm doing that.

[mashman]

Your posts are so full of self-contradiction, it's amusing you think I'm doing that.

I have to admit that it was a very very poor attempt at a troll... my head just isn't in the game at all today. However I do see the hypocrisy in my posts, hard not to when just about every single thing that takes place on this planet goes against my wishes... that and just about any post anyone makes on the internetz is looked at from their individual perspective, with their slant on who or what is making the comment in what context etc... meh.

I agree with your post. Perhaps there should be more ashtrays on the street, perhaps attitudes towards smoking should be less contemptuous and more accepting. Then again in this day and age intolerance gives one righteous powers to deny that another person should be allowed perform a given act. It's hardly surprising that that gets met with a get fucked.

[ducatilover]

I put mine in the ash tray when I'm in the cage, so nobody can have a whinge.

Littering is for the Devil. :yes:

[DEATH_INC.]

I put mine in the ash tray when I'm in the cage, so nobody can have a whinge.

Littering is for the Devil. :yes:
It's amazing how many butts are at the traffic lights in jafaland. Have a look out the window next time you pull up at some...

[Berries]

You didn't just use the header pipes why?
My first thought was to refill the lighter with petrol. One thing led to another.

Doh.

[ducatilover]

It's amazing how many butts are at the traffic lights in jafaland. Have a look out the window next time you pull up at some...
I hate Jafaland... I noticed last time I was up that the streets were dirty, but I live in the wops, so everything is crowded, stinky and dirty

[ellipsis]

I hate Jafaland... I noticed last time I was up that the streets were dirty, but I live in the wops, so everything is crowded, stinky and dirty

...every place has one...the further north in England you go an unregulated, much like here, hate of London and its inhabitants prevails...it's a healthy but pointless exercise...

[schrodingers cat]

... hard not to when just about every single thing that takes place on this planet goes against my wishes... .

Has anyone ever pointed out to you, that if everybody around you is a fucking wanker etc, it might not be them...?

[unstuck]

When I was a dirty little oik running around auckland in the early 80s, we would think nothing of spitting on the footpath, vomiting or pissing in doorways and alleys, throwing ciggy butts anywhere and anywhere, and just generally making a big mess. Now I get fucked off when I go up there and see Asians and pakis doing the same. What a fucken hypocrite, no wonder our society is so fucked up. :Punk:

[ducatilover]

we would think nothing of spitting on the footpath,
This is one I don't understand. How is that going to kill people? :facepalm: If one licks the foot path, they deserve AIDS

[unstuck]

This is one I don't understand. How is that going to kill people? :facepalm: If one licks the foot path, they deserve AIDS

Dunno, done it heaps myself back in the day. Cant stand it now.I hate standing in a big green slimey hoick. :shutup:

[mashman]

Has anyone ever pointed out to you, that if everybody around you is a fucking wanker etc, it might not be them...?

Yup... although it's interesting to see how you translated my in such a negative way and please, carry on putting your words in my mouth if it makes you feel better. I'm not narcissistic enough to measure the people of the world by my yardstick, just their actions <_<. Fuckin wanker.

[schrodingers cat]

Yup... although it's interesting to see how you translated my in such a negative way and please, carry on putting your words in my mouth if it makes you feel better. I'm not narcissistic enough to measure the people of the world by my yardstick, just their actions <_<. Fuckin wanker.

Vindicated

[mashman]

vindicated

doh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[schrodingers cat]

doh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If it were a spot of rain on your visor you'd be a dick to assume straightaway that there will be surface flooding. But when it is belting down all the fucking time, same old same o, you'd probably be right to think - 'My, its raining'
And on KB old chum, you pour.

Now fuck off back to la la land

[mashman]

If it were a spot of rain on your visor you'd be a dick to assume straightaway that there will be surface flooding. But when it is belting down all the fucking time, same old same o, you'd probably be right to think - 'My, its raining'
And on KB old chum, you pour.

Now fuck off back to la la land

That's such retarded 2 dimensional fucked up logic. Whilst you may have a point, you've inferred that that spot of rain isn't the end of a deluge and that there may well indeed be surface flooding. You have a right to choose to ignore anything you like in this world. Please continue to do so with me, it's not like I'm holding a gun to your head. So what's your purpose here? A self congratulatory wankfest? A wee shot at feeling superior? I'm missing your point... the second part of your analogy was just too smart for me.
This is KB chum, you're still a wanker.

Kiss my dangly chuggies.

[mashman]

Sanctimonious fuckwank... I don't tell you how to live your life. Are they biodegradeable? Coz I think they might be :yes:... How fast do they break down as opposed to condoms or tyres or shopping trolleys etc... are you going to ban safe sex, riding and shopping because they pollute the waterways too? Mebee ya will. Filters in smokes is for amateurs anyway.

I stand corrected on the above. 10 - 15 years it takes for them to breakdown and they are not classed as biodegradable. Learn something new every day.

[bosslady]

golly, that was very brazen of you OP. Personally while I wouldn't have been impressed, I don't tend to sweat the small stuff, I wouldn't have thought much of it let alone pulled up by someone and said something, not my style unless it were life or death or something... guess she'll think twice next time... actually no she probably won't :laugh:

[PrincessBandit]

golly, that was very brazen of you OP. Personally while I wouldn't have been impressed, I don't tend to sweat the small stuff, I wouldn't have thought much of it let alone pulled up by someone and said something, not my style unless it were life or death or something... guess she'll think twice next time... actually no she probably won't :laugh:

You're possibly right, in that she may or may not stop her filthy ways of chucking her goob laden, smouldering firestarters out her window. My point is more that smokers who throw their cigarette ends out the window tend not to give any thought to where they could land, being more intent on simply throwing their rubbish out the window rather than keeping it in their car to dispose of later.

I sure hope you don't end up with a smouldering butt in the face :eek: next time you're behind a smoker who thinks nothing of flicking it (and btw, intention has nothing to do with consequence) out their window.

[bosslady]

You're possibly right, in that she may or may not stop her filthy ways of chucking her goob laden, smouldering firestarters out her window. My point is more that smokers who throw their cigarette ends out the window tend not to give any thought to where they could land, being more intent on simply throwing their rubbish out the window rather than keeping it in their car to dispose of later.

I sure hope you don't end up with a smouldering butt in the face :eek: next time you're behind a smoker who thinks nothing of flicking it (and btw, intention has nothing to do with consequence) out their window.

I hope so too! or not, I mean. I agree, there is no thought, it's just not something I feel strongly about but can see why people would. I guess it's like honestly I just don't give enough of a crap I guess and jerks are always gonna be jerks eh.