Social Distancing

[cromwell]

Cretins. And mucky cretins at that.

[medsec222]

Absolutely shocking. I can hardly believe we are such a grubby nation.

[JoM]

We’ve got the same problem here. We live next to a large area of common and woodland and, in normal times, can often walk for an hour or more and see no one.

However, you can guarantee that after every bank holiday there’ll be litter strewn everywhere by people who don’t know how to behave in the countryside and have no respect for it, and that’s what we’re seeing now....expect every day is like a bloody bank holiday. There’s a large pool from when part of the land was a quarry and there’s litter floating in that, more litter and disposable barbecues discarded around it and don’t get me started on the smell of weed that’s spoiling the usually fresh air.

[Workingman]

In all my life the message has been passed down for things such as camping, trips to the beach or for a picnic:

"If you can take it with you, you can bring it home."

It is so bloody simple. Put your empties, uneaten foodstuff and other litter in a bin bag, bring it back and bin it. It takes up less room on the way home than it did one the way there so should never, ever, be a problem.

[Suff]

We have seen this for decades in the Highlands. In Glenn Doll there was a walkers campsite, 50p a night, no vehicles allowed, bring your tent and stay.

Then the city youths heard about it, arrived by lift from the city with battery boom boxes, crates of beer and a majorly antisocial attitude. They left all their crap strewn all over the place on Sunday night.

A few years later the farmer, who ran the camp for walkers, closed it for good.

We also see more and more crap strewn on the mountains. We, like WM, were brought up with the bring it take it home mantra. We also instilled it into our kids lives.

Today even people who live outside the cities seem to think that cleaning crews roam the countryside to clean their crap up.

It would serve them right if it was not cleaned up. It might take a few years but they would be put off eventually. No point in fining them. Perhaps community service to clean the crap up. But that would require invasive monitoring and facial recognition and numberplate matching. Not a route I would like to go down.

[TheOstrich]

"If you can take it with you, you can bring it home."

Translated down here, judging by pictures on our social media, as "If you can't take it with you, put your disposable outdoor barbecue - still smoldering - into a town council rubbish bin at the back of Waitrose …"

Unbelievable!

[Kaz]

Cretins. And mucky cretins at that.

This!

[Workingman]

"But the town has teams cleaning up the streets, don't they? If I drop my half eaten kebab and follow through with a few pints of rejected Stella vegetable soup they have blokes in machines sweeping everything up and washing things down. What's the problem? It's what I pay my taxes for. Hic. It's time they got their act together and let me live my life. Wasters."

[saundra]

You an see our beautiful beach after a weekend there should be litter police and heavy fine them