Kansas women tossed her empty tea bottle daily from her SUV in same yard for 2 years.

[Liberal_in_LA]

glad she was caught. What nerve - tossing your trash in someone's yard every day


Kan. woman fined for repeated littering in 1 yard

A Kansas woman ticketed for tossing her empty tea bottles in the same yard nearly every day for two years insists there was no malice involved.

Green was ticketed after a man who lives about two miles east of her photographed her throwing empty tea bottles into the yard of his rural Leavenworth County home.

Green says the man's yard just happened to be where she finished her tea each time. She also told the judge that if she had to do it over again, "of course, I wouldn't do it."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/07/16/national/a161510D56.DTL&tsp=1

The bottles first started appearing in his yard about two years ago, quickly increasing in frequency from one or two a week to almost daily, Bukaty said. He first called the sheriff’s office to file an informational report early this year after logging the appearance of the bottle from 1 to 3:30 p.m. daily.

He made a second call in April after he captured Green on camera throwing the bottles from an SUV, Bukaty said. What he saw and got on film only increased his suspicion the bottle thrower was acting on a grudge, he said.

“I felt like someone was targeting me,” he said. “The way the bottles were right there by my mailbox and the way the driver would stop or slow down to throw out the bottle.”

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“Who throws a bottle out the same place, everyday?” he asked. “Who litters on Earth Day and Easter?”

http://www.basehorinfo.com/news/2011/jul/15/rural-leavenworth-county-woman-fined-1000-litering/

[aquart]

1. Please. She was stupid enough to drink bottled tea.

Which means she was too dumb or too lazy to boil water.

[Aerows]

55. I make brewed tea every single morning

I can't stand soft drinks, and like my tea unsweetened. It's like Christmas when I'm thirsty and happen to find a store when I'm out and about that has unsweetened iced tea. When I was a kid, they didn't even sell bottled water. I used to just sit around thirsty until we either got somewhere on a road trip, or unless the gas station we stopped at had a water fountain.

The problem is that it can be very difficult to transport.

Weird quirk, I know, but I've never liked sweet drinks at all. I was the kid that would trade you a soft drink for a glass of plain milk.

[aquart]

57. Brewed, unsweetened iced tea is very hard to find.

Restaurants will have it but take out places, not so much. And it's usually basic black. My favorite iced tea used to be lapsang soochong but now I'm all Twinings' Lady Grey.

But that bottled crap? I can't understand even touching it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Sounds pretty strange to me...

Who would do such a thing, indeed?

I think she was targeting him.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. There was something definitely going on with her.

before I read the article, I thought it must be a jogger tossing her bottle as she jogs. But she's in an SUV, throwing the bottle in the same yard took planning.

[JVS]

17. Planning or OCD

[pitohui]

42. the victim thought so too, even the police did

he mentions that the sheriff wanted to know who he got mad at him, to cause this -- the usual small town "let's blame the victim" crap -- he had to do his own detective work and set up his own video to catch the creep

in fact, at the end of the piece, it suggests that the victim is still genuinely baffled that someone would trash his yard like this for over two years since he still doesn't know where he would have previously encountered this woman and she is just making it's some weird coincidence and oh, she has "impulse control issues"

weird weird weird -- i would keep the video cams up for awhile if i was this guy, just in case the crazy lady comes back

[eppur_se_muova]

3. SUV's not big enough to haul an empty bottle around? Who knew? nt

[Kennah]

7. Only the driver's empty head

[Kennah]

4. Wow! She was driving an SUV? I'm shocked, not.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. lol n/t

[Raine]

23. You don't have to drive an SUV, you don't even have to drive a car you an walk and be a pig.

I live near a high school and the kids walk past and leave a continious trail of trash and garbage. Often I wonder if they are taught anything at all in school about the consequences of fouling the environment. :mad:

[madmom]

40. I too live near a school and am constantly picking up candy wrappers and

even school papers out of my yard. What's worse is I'm very near the football field and during the "season" I'm picking up styrofoam cups and sandwich wrappers and all kinds of trash that blows over from their concession stand.:mad:

[provis99]

8. it would have been great

if he filmed her every day doing that for two years. How much would she have to pay on 700+ incidents of littering?

[Divine Discontent]

9. that would have been the ultimate embarrassment and fine! she clearly was mad at him for something,

probably as minor as pulling out in front of her accidentally some day or such juvenile grudge. What an odd action to do for so long!

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. $1200 fine is pretty substantial but she probably should have been fined more

because her behavior borders on harassment or stalking

[Dept of Beer]

12. She'll have to cut back on her tea fund now.

[TheMadMonk]

20. Collect them, print them. Fine her and in the best American traditon...

...hit her with a fee for the forensics. Round here that would be about 350k total for her little spree.

[elehhhhna]

30. I'd have collected about 600 bottles and put hem in her yard. All together. With a sign.

Maybe a sign in front of my trashed yard, like "Hey! Fall out of that SUV then ALL the trash will be ont he ground!"

[KurtNYC]

38. she paid $1200 for 4 counts... so $210,000 n/t

[tammywammy]

10. Of course she won't do it again, she was caught. n/t

[TwilightGardener]

13. Good God, I have the same problem. I live along a rural road, and you would not believe

how many people like to throw shit (usually beer bottles) onto rural roadsides. Someone a few weeks ago actually PARKED in my yard (tire tracks and all) and disposed of used napkins, beer cans, and cigarette butts while they were there.

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. In the city, people park on streets, eat in their cars, then place the trash on the ground,

drive off

[DBoon]

19. That's nothing

used condoms on Sunday morning are a real joy...

[Morning Dew]

22. And diapers. Change the baby, toss the diaper in the parking lot.

What the hell are they thinking?

[theHandpuppet]

28. Worse, dirty diapers left in shopping carts at the grocery

Believe me, it happens and it's sickening!

[Liberal_in_LA]

45. I've seen women do a one handed diaper change. Take off old one, slip on new. DONE!

no hand washing after. rollup the diaper, stick it somewhere, continue shopping with dirty diaper hands touching products and cart and money and counter.

[Liberal_in_LA]

44. yep. also top off the car oil, leave the bottle. Often a garage bin in nearby

[seabeyond]

15. i have the same thing. gotta believe cause i am a corner lot. pisses me off havig to clean up glass

off the sidewalk and grass from a tossed bottle

[TwilightGardener]

31. Yep, mine's a corner lot, too. That definitely has something to do

with it.

[pipi_k]

53. It's disgusting....

I'm rural too.

Every Sunday we go to breakfast down in the little town. And every Sunday along the roadside are the beer bottles and cans and other trash people just heave out of their vehicles.

And it's not like we have to pay to get rid of the stuff at the dump. Recyclables are free. But people are either drunk on a Saturday night, or they're lazy bastards.

[joshcryer]

16. People are creatures of habit.

Every weekend I can get free beer because these drunks leave their beer sitting beside a bush here. I usually pick it up so the kids don't grab it and try to drink it or whatever.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

18. Has the dingbat ever heard of recycling? Or is she an effing tea bagger (pun intended)? n/t

[WinkyDink]

21. One of my neighbors is right now BURNING A HUGE WOOD FIRE IN HIS FRONT YARD.

He also has a couple junker vehicles on his property.

Another neighbor just shot illegal fireworks into the air.

Three others (adult males) have trespassed not only through my yard, but one came right up to my patio door (which is RIGHT where my computer is; kinda SCARY), and, when I ran out in confrontation, said, "I was chasing a squirrel."

I hate my neighbors.
P.S. This is a suburban development of 4 br/2 1/2 ba homes, more than a few with in-ground pools.

[Obamanaut]

27. My neighbors are your neighbors' opposites. We live on a dead end road,

with 4 acre lots.

The guy in the house across the street built an elderly-friendly house so his mother could live with him when she sold her place and his siblings didn't have room for her. He bought the lot and started construction as soon as she put her own house up for sale. She uses a walker to get around.

The same guy has a deer feeder in his yard, and a motion activated camera, and gets some really good photos of different animals in the yard.

The guy next door put up a really good fence, with a huge gate on our side, large enough to accomodate a good size truck. I asked him what was the gate for, he told me it was so I could get into his veg garden more easily. He is home only on weekends. He also bought one of the lots across the road, and is now building an elderly-friendly house for his parents. I mow his yard from time to time in exchange for the vegs we get.

If we don't have contact with one of our daughters at least every other day, they will text the guy across the road and he comes to check on us.

There are five lots on each side of the road, with houses now on nine of them, It's a good place to live.

Kids ride scooters, bicycles, and skate on the road.

[Liberal_in_LA]

56. Seems like nice communal living. everyone looking out for each other

[Liberal_in_LA]

46. country folks new to suburban living?

[quaker bill]

24. At my place it is beer cans

the same brand and size of really cheap beer, in pretty much the same place, several cans a week. I recycle them.

[B Calm]

25. Same thing here, but it's always Bud Light cans.

Our new neighbor who lives down the road invited us to a fish fry this summer and drinks a lot of Bud Light. . .

[Liberal_in_LA]

52. CSI would do some fingerprinting or DNA matching...

:-)

[proud2BlibKansan]

26. I told him I was sorry

:hide:

[PoliticAverse]

29. "$1,200 plus court costs — the minimum amount for first-time offenders."

Shouldn't that be "_maximum_ amount for first-time offenders" ?

[Ikonoklast]

36. No, the 'maximum amount' may be much higher.

Depends on the amount of littering, I suppose.

[WatsonT]

32. The mandatory penalty for littering should be community service

picking up trash on the side of the highway. Maybe a day for each count.

[MH1]

33. What you said!

Except I think even the first offense should involve at least 4 days of litter picking up. (A month of Sundays. Or Saturdays). Because if someone is caught littering, you know it isn't their first time and wouldn't be the last unless the message is really drilled home.

Throw in having to watch a propaganda film showing home values where there is trash all over the street vs. where there isn't. Ending with "what the fuck were you thinking?"

(And this should apply to cigarette butts also. Maybe doubly, because they're even grosser to clean up.)

[Liberal_in_LA]

50. +1000

[SpiralHawk]

34. TeaBagger (R) Family Cesspool Values. As usual.

Skanky up the wazoo.

[treestar]

35. What a strange thing to do

I'd keep it until I got home and throw it away there. Wouldn't even occur to me to throw it out the window.

[tammywammy]

37. That's exactly what I was thinking. n/t

[slackmaster]

39. I recycle all beverage containers

Ones that don't qualify for California Redemption Value go in the general recycling.

[Liberal_in_LA]

49. On my way, into stores, I carry lil bits of car trash and bottles - toss it in the can outside the

door. No reason to make my trash someone else's problem

[booksenkatz]

41. Try living on a corner. Picking up other people's filth is part of my daily routine!

I live on a corner in a typical subdivision, with stop signs at both ends of the property. I've had everything thrown into my yard that you can imagine -- the usual cigarette packs, fast food cups, coffee cups, beer cans. But quite frequently I get plastic bottles full of piss or tobacco juice or God-knows-what. Dirty diapers. Used tampons. And this is an otherwise nice middle-class neighborhood! This is how my nice, friendly neighbors treat my yard -- I can't imagine what kind of garbage strangers would dump onto it! I don't get the mindset that treats the planet that way, much less someone's yard.

[Liberal_in_LA]

47. Never thought of this...that corner folks got the shaft.

[dionysus]

43. reminds me of the time i helped a guy whose car was on fire

i get a knock on the door one day, there's this agitated man at the door.
"hose! hose!"
"what?"
he points behind him. there's a brand new suv with smoke coming out from the hood.
"oh, you need to use my hose! sure"

so i unspool the hose and turn the water on for the guy. when he pops the hood, there's a small fire and he puts it out. i go back inside.

not only did the guy not thank me for using the hose, while he was waiting for the towtruck, he and his passenger cleaned out every piece of garbage in the car and left it on the edge of my lawn!

what a way to say thanks...

[Liberal_in_LA]

48. *ssholes!

[Liberal_in_LA]

51. Any owners of open bed trucks out there? I've seen folks toss trash into the back of ur trucks

[Aerows]

54. Mmm Lipton Pureleaf unsweetened

No, it wasn't me, but that is pretty good for bottled unsweetened iced tea. That's the only way I'll drink tea, and it's great to find it in a convenience store.

She's either pretty damned OCD or has a grudge if she chucks her empty tea bottle out of the window every day. At least leave a full, unopened one every now and then for the guy on his porch as an apology *grin*.