We’re staying at the holiday inn express at ingleside and rt 40. They gave me the Snitches get Stitches look as I watched in disbelief. I was born and raised just a few miles from here and hate seeing the city I love get trashed like that.

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The littering around here truly drives me up a wall. You can’t drive on any highway without seeing piles and piles of trash on the side of the road, not to mention random garbage in the parks that absolutely have trash cans. I understand we need more cans but I will carry trash with me for miles and just dispose of it at home if need be - never in a million years would it occur to me to drink a bottle of soda and casually toss it on the ground. It’s insane.

You see their mother wasn't in the car to take the trash to the can. Some people just can't grow up

I hate that shit with a passion. People are such shitheads.

Honestly, the biggest thing that grinds me gears is people throwing trash bags into the recycling. DPW just skips those cans then on both collection days because they can’t take plastic bags on recycling and they’re not in green cans for trash.

For as charming as the city is, it could be even more charming if more people simply gave AF about the city. Literally not trashing it is like the easiest thing to do. Much of the city is downright filthy.

If Brandon Scott were to go full throttle on an ongoing city cleanup effort and campaign, I would consider this a huge success for his political career and future prospects.

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That’s the county, but yeah. I once threw trash back into a person’s car window on MLK. Good times.

IT COSTS NOTHING TO USE A TRASH CAN

Sorry for all caps, but this makes me angry and sad and confused. Also, I picked up several pieces of garbage because if you’re gonna bitch, you better be willing to do something.

I'm just commenting to say I love your username

I see it coming out of the windows of expensive cars and SUVs and I see it on my own complex's parking lot. Probably the same fucker who never picks up his dog's shit.

I disagree. It is more like they don’t take pride nor ownership of their surroundings and are used to being a victim of circumstance where not caring about the greater good is the way to take care of yourself. It’s a deep rooted societal problem not a bunch of maladjusted individuals. They don’t feel a part of their location or community so have no qualms wrecking it.

There is so much trash where I live it’s disgusting. Property management doesn’t give a shit.

I see people not throw stuff away when right next to a trash can. Literally no more effort to use the can and they refuse

I have seen people that live on corner row homes Open the door and walk 10 feet and dump Trash in front of their houses by the storm drain. Blows my mind. Common practice to see people in cars open doors and dump. Such trash

Yeah I buy that reasoning for the people absent-mindedly dumping fast food wrappers in the gutter, but not for people who intentionally dump carfuls of trash like OP described. That's on a different level and speaks to a greater psychological dysfunction.

That’s it. The greater the sense of ownership of public spaces the higher the standard of acceptable behavior.

Tbf I live rural and have seen people throw entire trash bags out of their lifted trucks.

Shitheads are everywhere. There are more shitheads in cities, hands down. More people. More problems.

Right back at ya!

It comes down to how much someone cares about their neighbors and the city. I get that people care about Baltimore and that it is Charm City for a reason. However, the general "I am Baltimore" identity does not permeate the populous.

I like Baltimore, but I have my gripes. I come from Pittsburgh. Yinzers love their city. It's ride or die in that city.

I just wish Baltimore's citizens could trust each other a bit more. It would really help camaraderie. Baltimore has a lot of potential but it's gonna be tough to get people to care about each other.

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You just described maladjusted individuals

If you record them dumping trash you can report them and they will get fined. There was a cop or congressman on here a couple years back which helped move the process along. Don't know if you have a dash cam or not.

It's a way to say fuck the system.

The psa commercials against littering must not have reach Baltimore back in the day.

Did you pick it up?

I've seen people drop their carry out trash directly on the ground when they are 15 feet away from an empty trash bin. That culture is why certain areas of the cities are completely trashed.

Maryland and littering sadly go hand and hand. It's wild how many beautiful places are ruined by people wanting to get rofo boxes out of their cars.

I see your point, but let me pose a question:

If you’re traveling in a place you’ve never been and will never come back to, do you just throw trash on the ground? After all, you don’t have any connection to or “investment” in the place whatsoever.

I suspect the answer for the vast majority of people is “no”.

Sure, there’s a larger disenfranchisement issue in Baltimore, but there’s a lot of generally jerk behavior here and in the rest of the world as well.

I think there’s also a distinction to be made between people littering in already abused (“disinvested”) areas where we might see littering as a more expected behavior, given your critique, and people littering in otherwise “kept-up areas” (whatever that may mean and why) — I’ve definitely seen flagrant littering in both.

There’s also a decent amount of illegal littering in rural areas, but it’s just more spread out. Interesting research here.

I’d also like to take this moment to remind everyone that most cigarette butts don’t actually decompose quickly. Somehow most smokers (which was for many years practically a majority of Americans) take it for granted that tossing butts is totally fine. Not sure if this is related or not.

This shit really bothers me. However, it’s hard to see how folks would have respect for their environment when they are fighting for their lives due to abject poverty caused by failed systems all around them. Sure all the vacant houses don’t help either. There is just so much that needs fixing.

I wish I knew this when I watched the lady driving in front of me chuck all her McDonald's shit out her car window. I was stunned. I've seen littering in my day but that was so blatant.

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Every day, a husband and wife toss their trash from each of their cars into the street. Right there by their car or under the car they parked next to. Not to mention of their cars leaks large amounts of oil daily.

The vast majority of people I see littering are people in cars. And not junky cars. I saw my co-worker do this in front of our school where we work. And I know he makes more than 90k and has a master's degree. The issue isn't poverty... it's people being raised not to care at all about other people. And yes, he is an awful teacher, too. Not everything is poverty. People have to have a sense of responsibility and a little bit of moral decency. The government can't provide that.

There’s no pride on any level of the city

My guy…I love that interview. It means theirs still some yinzers left in the Burgh. But also coming from Pittsburgh like you said the pride levels mean very different things between these two cities. I would say Baltimore definitely has pride but it’s definitely more a tale of two cities if you will with that pride. Pittsburgh is a lot more of a collective pride.

People are Pigs!!!

I will never understand how people can litter and just carry on with their life. To combat this I’ve been picking up trash around my house every few weeks. I fill a bag each time and will continue to do so

I used to work in the city directly with residents. I remember showing up to a guys house for an appointment. He came out eating something in a styrofoam container. As we were talking he finished it and just threw it in the street. I just stopped talking and stared at him "like bro come on, really? You're in front of your own damn house.". God damn just have some common decency.

Pricks. They deserve an ashtray dumped in their window

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Nothing is everything but this is surely a piece of it. Don’t think can be denied. Also some people suck.

I recently honked at someone when I saw them dump trash at a red light around MLK and N Howard. They got out of their car and threatened to kill me. Love this city!