This Bears Repeating
©2016 C. Henry Martens
I read with interest the article Kari published last week about trash around the lake she uses with her walking path. I found so many things within the text to be common to my own experience. So bear with me, because I want to speak directly to the idiots that trash the world they live in.
First off, this will not be a politically correct diatribe. I consider the perpetrators of littering to be one of the lowest forms of life. They inhabit the same place in the gene pool as child molesters and serial killers. The one thing they don’t share with the molesters and killers is a brain.
There is a common thought in many of their minds, that thought being that they own the places they trash because it is “public land.” That thought is correct, but ownership is shared with me and anyone else reading this article. If you chose to drop tires and baby diapers, spent shotgun shell casings and beer bottles on my property, please be good enough to leave your address behind so that I can collect it and dump it on yours.
I have to say that these people are not just stupid in their lack of respect for our common ownership… they are also too stupid to understand what they are doing to themselves. Without fail the places they target most are the most beautiful of the places in the out-of-doors. They find a pristine valley or a beautiful spring, something that is attractive to THEM, and they drop their tailgate and unload. They don’t stop to think that the reason they are IN the valley is because they thought it was beautiful. That the reason they sought it out was because they were looking for a “nice place.”
Then, to aggravate and magnify their stupidity, they don’t find a pile of refuse already deposited and dump on top of it. NOooooo… they have to find another spot, unsullied, and create a new pile.
I live in a small town with a public land fill close by. The land fill is open six days a week, and is FREE of charge. The three beautiful hiking sites that my wife and I find trashed continually are all within the same relative distance as a FREE facility that disposes of garbage, and employs people in order to do it.
Speaking of facilities… this is a valley filled with gun ranges. I use them myself, so I know that there are great places to shoot skeet without leaving clay pigeons and shell casings all over the landscape.
We go out into the outback often, and one of the places we go fairly often is used by a bunch of partiers. As stated before, they found a really beautiful spot to entertain themselves. Against a bluff of interestingly formed rocks, topped by some of the most beautiful old and twisted cedar trees, they have left a once pristine meadow full of garbage. The last time we went there, the tracks of four wheel drives led up through the rocks to the top of the ridge, and the trees had been chained and dragged down to feed the fire. One was still smoldering, completely whole with the roots and still green branches intact, threatening had the wind come up to consume the rest of the area.
I tell myself that I would like to catch them in the act. But you can’t cure stupid.
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I read with interest the article Kari published last week about trash around the lake she uses with her walking path. I found so many things within the text to be common to my own experience. So bear with me, because I want to speak directly to the idiots that trash the world they live in.
First off, this will not be a politically correct diatribe. I consider the perpetrators of littering to be one of the lowest forms of life. They inhabit the same place in the gene pool as child molesters and serial killers. The one thing they don’t share with the molesters and killers is a brain.
There is a common thought in many of their minds, that thought being that they own the places they trash because it is “public land.” That thought is correct, but ownership is shared with me and anyone else reading this article. If you chose to drop tires and baby diapers, spent shotgun shell casings and beer bottles on my property, please be good enough to leave your address behind so that I can collect it and dump it on yours.
I have to say that these people are not just stupid in their lack of respect for our common ownership… they are also too stupid to understand what they are doing to themselves. Without fail the places they target most are the most beautiful of the places in the out-of-doors. They find a pristine valley or a beautiful spring, something that is attractive to THEM, and they drop their tailgate and unload. They don’t stop to think that the reason they are IN the valley is because they thought it was beautiful. That the reason they sought it out was because they were looking for a “nice place.”
Then, to aggravate and magnify their stupidity, they don’t find a pile of refuse already deposited and dump on top of it. NOooooo… they have to find another spot, unsullied, and create a new pile.
I live in a small town with a public land fill close by. The land fill is open six days a week, and is FREE of charge. The three beautiful hiking sites that my wife and I find trashed continually are all within the same relative distance as a FREE facility that disposes of garbage, and employs people in order to do it.
Speaking of facilities… this is a valley filled with gun ranges. I use them myself, so I know that there are great places to shoot skeet without leaving clay pigeons and shell casings all over the landscape.
We go out into the outback often, and one of the places we go fairly often is used by a bunch of partiers. As stated before, they found a really beautiful spot to entertain themselves. Against a bluff of interestingly formed rocks, topped by some of the most beautiful old and twisted cedar trees, they have left a once pristine meadow full of garbage. The last time we went there, the tracks of four wheel drives led up through the rocks to the top of the ridge, and the trees had been chained and dragged down to feed the fire. One was still smoldering, completely whole with the roots and still green branches intact, threatening had the wind come up to consume the rest of the area.
I tell myself that I would like to catch them in the act. But you can’t cure stupid.
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