Some smokers just astound me...

[YellowRubberDuckie]

And no this isn't flamebait.
Tonight I was sitting in my car for a few minutes on my phone after I pulled into my spot in the parking garage. Around the corner comes this idiot in a mustang convertable, chatting on her cell phone, smoking a cigarette. Before she cuts around the corner to come park beside me a couple spots over, she throws the cigarette out, still glowing. IN A PARKING GARAGE. Which is on the first three levels of a 24 story apartment building. Does she not understand that she's not the only person that lives here? Does she not care that someone who doesn't make near enough money has to clean up after her shit? Sure she pays rent, but that does not give her the right to treat our home as an ashtray.
People flip out when others litter, why do those same people think it's ok to flick a cigarette all over the place? Fucking pisses me off. :grr:
Duckie

[texas1928]

1. She is testing for gas leaks.

Before she parks.





























:hide:

[huskerlaw]

2. Not to mention

it's a fire surrounded by lots of gas tanks.

Brilliant. :wtf:

[Omphaloskepsis]

39. Please see...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_episodes:_Specials

Go down to.. Special 7 — "Hollywood on Trial"

To help out:



It is possible to ignite a pool of gasoline using only a cigarette: Partly Plausible


A cigarette has the potential to light a pool of gasoline but just doesn't have enough sustained heat. Gas ignites between 500 °F and 540 °F, the cigarette at its hottest was between 450 °F and 500 °F but only when it was actually being smoked. An ignition is very improbable.

[azmouse]

3. It's a safety issue too.

Lots of oil and gas around. Kaboom!

[Deja Q]

4. Now as everybody knows, smoking is ungodly and immoral.

:blush:

People are stupid. Even self-absorbed as I can be, I put things in their proper place and am nice to people in public. Most people in public don't care about their effect on others and resort to doing things as you said, hogging grocery store aisles, and much more...

It's a funny ol' world.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

9. I completely agree with you.

I hate inconsiderate people in general....but some of these smokers are the worst. Like I can't go into the mall without gagging because there are people gathered around the entrances on the lower level, despite the 25 feet from the door law that went into effect that no one fucking wants to enforce. :grr:
Duckie

[joneschick]

5. I'm with you

any littering annoys me, but damn, those cigarette butts really do not magically disappear just cuz they're not piling up in yer ashtray. And a lit butt in a parking garage, perhaps rolling under a car that happens to have a leak.......?

[GOPisEvil]

6. So, she'll put smoke into her lungs, but not keep the butt in her car?

What, your lungs are less important than your car? That's intelligent.

We won't even get into how stupid it is to toss a butt out of your car when it's hot, dry and windy...

[huskerlaw]

7. I'd love to see her do that here

on Mulholland Drive...
in front of a cop...

:evilgrin:

[GOPisEvil]

10. Some people deserve a good beating...

:evilgrin:

[huskerlaw]

12. it would be extra special

if she happened to do it in front of the sign that threatens you with decapitation if you toss a cigarette in the canyons.

...or maybe it's public stoning. I'll have to check next time I drive over the hill...

Either way, good times and fun to be had by all!

[GOPisEvil]

14. I'd like to see a good tar and feathering...

...or a draw and quartering...

[huskerlaw]

17. Well, with the LAPD

you never know...


;)

[GOPisEvil]

19. Especially if the perpetrator is...

...not white.

;)

[huskerlaw]

20. This is true

have you seen Crash?

The things they do to you if you drive an SUV while black in Studio City... :scared:

[GOPisEvil]

22. DWB in an SUV then tossing out a cigarette?

:scared::scared::scared:

[ThomCat]

8. Littering is my biggest problem with smokers.

I don't care if someone wants to self-medicate with nicotine and poisons, but don't leave your butts around.
:grr:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

13. I don't care if they do it either...

Just don't ruin my air and my environment.
Duckie

[RebelOne]

26. I am a smoker and always use my car ashtray,

so I am not guilty of littering. In fact, I am very careful about throwing any cigarette butts on the road, mainly because if a police officer sees it, you could be fined for littering.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

27. You're considerate.

Not so many people like you around.
Duckie

[XemaSab]

41. In California

Littering would only be the beginning of your problems.

Consider this: people who start fires here, even accidentally, are liable for the cost of putting it out.



On edit: The Oakland Hills fire (shown) did 1.7 BILLION in damages.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

11. That's one of my pet peeves.

What I really hate, is when I'm stopped at a red light, and the driver next to me decides to empty his fucking ashtray on the
fucking road... :grr:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

15. Someone emptied theirs at the exit to our garage...

We have selfish pieces of shit living in this building and I'd really love to beat the crap out of them.
Duckie

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. If I knew where they lived

I'd mail their trash right back to them. It'd be worth the postage.

[devilgrrl]

16. That's outrageous, why didn't you say anything?

She deserves a slap upside the head!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

23. I told the apartment manager...

Which is better. :evilgrin:
Duckie

[devilgrrl]

36. Hope the manager lets her have it...

that is crass. :mad:

[GirlinContempt]

21. Have you ever seen her flip out over litter?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

24. No...THAT was just an example.

I don't know her.
Duckie

[GirlinContempt]

28. Oh, ok

You kinda made it sound like she had with the "people who flip over litter but..." thing.
So my advice is useless :D

[ghostsofgiants]

29. Littering is not cool, you guys!

[GirlinContempt]

30. Ponce DIED because of litter, you guys

come you guys, pick up your trash you guys

[ghostsofgiants]

31. You guys suck.

:D

[GirlinContempt]

32. You guys

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

25. I smoke and drive a convertible

I keep a water bottle in my car and put the cigs out in that. I agree. Tossing any trash out the window is shitty

[Jed Dilligan]

33. Not quite as bad as the time I saw a female firefighter in uniform,

piss drunk, smoking while she gassed up her car.

[everythingsxen]

34. As a smoker...

people like that annoy me. I try to respect other peoples stuff and do my best to not have other people breathing the toxins I am. I really wish though that non-smokers and governemnt agencies would relize that people who smoke are addicted and not going to give it up (in general), so they need to allow smoking "inside" buildings in the form of smoking areas that are essentially air-tight with air circulating from the outside and venting to someplace convenient.

[Oeditpus Rex]

38. I'm a smoker, and I don't agree with that

I don't want to go back to smoking inside because it would lead to more complaining. If the smoke itself isn't bothering them, the Smoke Nazis will find other things, and in your scenario they'd bitch about "preferential treatment" — and I couldn't disagree with them. I also don't want businesses to have to incur that expense.

All I want are reasonably comfortable places to smoke outside — away from entrances, but with some shield from inclement weather and with ash trays, for chrissakes.

[Floogeldy]

35. I drove by your house yesterday!

I honked. Did ya hear me? ;)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

40. You are hilarious!

What time?

[Floogeldy]

42. Oh, about three o'clock in the afternoon.

Had to go to the courthouse.

Nice building! ;)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

43. I was at work.

So I probably didn't hear it. But if you drive by after business hours, you could probably honk or something and get out and I could wave or something.
Duckie

[Oeditpus Rex]

37. This isn't a smoking issue

It's a slob issue.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

44. It IS a smoking issue.

She was flicking a cigarette. Duh.

[Oeditpus Rex]

45. She could've just as easily been flicking a popsicle stick

Are you going to tell me people do this only with cigarette butts, or that all smokers do this?

It's about littering, not smoking.

[khashka]

46. I agree with OR

This is not a smoking issue - it's about idiocy. Smoking, driving, on her cell? Idiocy.

Nothing to do with smoking, everything to do with being a idiot.

Some of us smokers (knowing it offends people) try very hard to be polite and do the best we can. I'd like a little credit. It's not really a smoking issue, it's a selfishness issue....

Khash.