Some people are pigs.

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Ok, it’s not news that a lot of folks just don’t care. I went to a very well maintained county park this morning. It is always nicely mowed, trash hauled frequently, great shelter house and playground with restroom facilities. I ran my detector around the shelter and the tot lot. I absolutely gave up on trying to count the beer bottle caps. These were around 1” deep for the most part. Plenty of trash cans, but what the hell, throw it on the ground. I’d think they would appreciate having such a nice place to go. They are nothing but Advantage Takers, and they sicken me. I’ll get off the stump now. I did haul out some trash finds. Kind of offset their trash footprint a little.
 

I feel your pain. When I was a park ranger in Oklahoma, after a busy holiday weekend we would find all kinds of trash just left on campsites, sometimes bagged up or just scattered around. We asked some folks why they did that and they would say 'Well, y'all got people workin here who clean that up, don't y'all?' Yeah, because now we have to. As a State Parker Ranger collecting your camping fee, I get your home mailing address on the receipt. There was once an incident where some particular trashy campers went home and a couple of days later their boxed up trash got mailed to their home address. Took a little effort and cost a little bit, and not sure who would have done that.
 

people can be such pigs, I went to the beach Monday morning early and found dirty diapers and bags of trash in an area not 30 feet from a trash can. I don’t understand the mentality of some people, I do however feel sorry for the crew that was out there having to clean it all up.
 

I “delivered” a sack of garbage found in my timber years ago. The morons had junk mail with their name and address on it! I drove down their lane, laid on my horn, when they came out, I dumped their trash in the driveway. I never heard a word about it.
 

People that sorry probably were raised by parents that were not worth a damn. As the old saying goes, "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree". In my opinion, no respect, no pride and no class,
 

I have a park close to me that is practically blanketed with bottle caps and pulltabs, I don't even bother trying there anymore.
 

Ok, it’s not news that a lot of folks just don’t care. I went to a very well maintained county park this morning. It is always nicely mowed, trash hauled frequently, great shelter house and playground with restroom facilities. I ran my detector around the shelter and the tot lot. I absolutely gave up on trying to count the beer bottle caps. These were around 1” deep for the most part. Plenty of trash cans, but what the hell, throw it on the ground. I’d think they would appreciate having such a nice place to go. They are nothing but Advantage Takers, and they sicken me. I’ll get off the stump now. I did haul out some trash finds. Kind of offset their trash footprint a little.
Beer caps hell if you seen the local state park near me after the 4th of July you think a bomb wet off it’s disgusting trash Jair left dirty diapers just throw next to trash can zero respect for anyone or anything like savages.
Now that being said it gives the poor employees a steady stream of work cleaning up all of the trash the nice folks who visit from NYC for the day. For one reason or another to many people think it’s acceptable to just leave everything upside down not care in the world.
 

I found the beach parks littered beyond detecting capability.
Found diapers buried in the sand, as someone mentioned.
Trash can just a few feet away.
Then there's land owners who are just as bad.
One of my permission sites, so I can't complain.
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Man... let me tell ya... I volunteered at a major Island Park for over a year... to just pick up any garbage i saw laying or floating around...
I had a 25 pound a day average.
 

Also... one park was un-metal-detectable due to the amount of caps and pulls...
Until me... and determination to clear it.
And i found lots of good stuff during the process.
 

When I see trash dumped along rural spots I always sort through it to find a name and usually find one . I call the game commission and they make the people clean up the stuff and also fine them. Any little bit helps
 

I live in a lake community and walk my two dogs ( G, Shepherd and a Husky) every night rain or shine or dark. One of my paths has sloped woods on one side where a bear dragged someone’s garbage across to the woods to sift through for grub. It’s been a month and nobody has touched the trash- there it sits in full view of several homes. I believe it came from a house where there’s junk wall over the yard so I think it’s from their garbage, and if they keep their yard sloppy why would they clean garbage across the street in the woods. I really should call our community public safety to have them knock on their door and tell them to clean it up or get a fine. If I lived on the street I’d complain to P. S. Then if in a week it isn’t gone I’d clean it up myself. I’ve had a bear spread out my trash and I cleaned it up on the spot. I don’t like home organizations but you need them to go after the trailer trash types when they get out of line. It’s not the bears fault
When the out of towners come they throw beer boxes and empty cans and bags of fast food garbage out the car window onto the main roads. Their usually folks from NYC
 

I live in a lake community and walk my two dogs ( G, Shepherd and a Husky) every night rain or shine or dark. One of my paths has sloped woods on one side where a bear dragged someone’s garbage across to the woods to sift through for grub. It’s been a month and nobody has touched the trash- there it sits in full view of several homes. I believe it came from a house where there’s junk wall over the yard so I think it’s from their garbage, and if they keep their yard sloppy why would they clean garbage across the street in the woods. I really should call our community public safety to have them knock on their door and tell them to clean it up or get a fine. If I lived on the street I’d complain to P. S. Then if in a week it isn’t gone I’d clean it up myself. I’ve had a bear spread out my trash and I cleaned it up on the spot. I don’t like home organizations but you need them to go after the trailer trash types when they get out of line. It’s not the bears fault
When the out of towners come they throw beer boxes and empty cans and bags of fast food garbage out the car window onto the main roads. Their usually folks from NYC
It doesn't matter where one lives there's the places where folks just don't have any pride in there home's property.
I think it has always been that way.
It's like a piece of litter sitting in a park, 1 becomes 2 and so on.

In my little hamlet there's a few that just don't have any pride period.
Lived here for 10 yrs and in that time one place has had 4 clean up citations for the property.
We are taking about a little house, tarp on the roof, little shed (that actually sits over the lot line on somebody else's property.)
Yet I have seen twice a full dump truck loads of garbage been taken from the front yard.
The other clean ups has been 12ft box trailer loads, many pick up loads.
It's like a mold that just keeps growing-no matter what it can't be controlled.
Lazy, no pride, house was obtained from parents that moved away-so basically nothing invested into the home.

I still remember the other neighbour grumbling about the first big clean up. He was worried his property taxes would go up because the neighbour cleaned up his front yard. :icon_scratch::dontknow:

3 yrs ago 8 homes got the clean up notices-the township cleaned up one, filling a 40 yrd container, and a tow truck for the autos. This was a lot, not even a 1/3 acre in size.
 

Also... one park was un-metal-detectable due to the amount of caps and pulls...
Until me... and determination to clear it.
And i found lots of good stuff during the process.
Did you clean it all up using a sand scoop or a screwdriver?
 

Your right - a lot people are slobs !
Whenever I hunt any site I try to leave it cleaner than when I got there.
Also, you see more and more sites banning metal detecting because idiots go in with shovels and make a mess.
If you hunt with respect it's good public relations for the hobby and you'll probably be welcomed back again.
 

I “delivered” a sack of garbage found in my timber years ago. The morons had junk mail with their name and address on it! I drove down their lane, laid on my horn, when they came out, I dumped their trash in the driveway. I never heard a word about it.
I had that happen to me as well , but I handled it a bit different , I looked up their # and called them .I told them I had evidence of the crime they commited and I was going to give them until the weekend to clean a 1 mile stretch of roadway that I live off of or I was pressing charges . they were out there in 90* heat filling bags with trash the next day.
 

Did you clean it all up using a sand scoop or a screwdriver?
If i used a screwdriver the story would be in PRESENT sense... FOR...

I WOULD STILL BE THERE ! ! !

And that was 12 years ago :P ~~~
 

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