Submitted by accepteverything t3_122u0o9 in vermont
Yikes, taking a walk today was a real experience. Litter everywhere. I've lived in Vermont my whole life and have never known of anyone getting that $500 fine the signs warn us about. Do people actually ever get fined?
Edit: For all of you folks mentioning green up day, why wait? I picked up half a kitchen trash bag on that three mile walk down my dirt road today.
I came to the comments to tell this exact same story. Either we have the same friend or apparently Vermont high schoolers need to be more careful with their Gatorade bottles.
Both could definitely be true. You from the upper valley area?
Nope! Chittenden cty! Haha I guess it answers the question people do get ticketed for littering since this has happened at least twice.
Hah, I misread though you said Chittendan City…..all 25 of you
I assume the issue is enforcement. How often do litterers actually get caught in the act?
I'd assume most littering tickets are given when people throw traffic tickets out of their car window.
Sounds like you found a perfect spot for green up day!
Congrats!
Littering and?? Littering and???
Creating a nuisance.
and then we all went back to smoking cigarettes and
It's pretty bad and I just don't get it.
I agree with 'why wait?' I take my young nieces and nephews out quite often and we always start with a sweep of the parking area or fishing spot. They are proud to make it look better for the next visitors.
If there are cans, I redeem them and use the money to buy beer for them. Hopefully they'll see the reward and continue doing this when they get to high school.
Don’t know the answer to your question.
Where abouts?
Pretty sure other states are worse.
Volunteer for Green-Up Day, May 6.
I know a couple kids who got the fine in high school. Hard to enforce unless an officer sees them litter so I assume that’s why there aren’t a ton of examples
We wait for green up day for the free removal and internet points silly.
Yeah Vermonters litter like everywhere, but at least we clean it up once a year. Roadsides will look much nicer in 6 weeks.
I know a guy who was fined for flicking a cigarette butt on the ground... right on the outskirts of his driveway. This happened about.... oh 6 years ago now.
Green up day is soon. Yeah, there's a bit of trash out there. Grab some green bags and do something about it. 802!
Yeah they do. Once I saw a group of drunk kids knock over a trashcan in burlington while a cop was driving by. Cop gave them the option of either picking it up of fining them.
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Coachtzu t1_jdrtqjp wrote
Not sure if they still do, but a friend of mine in high school got pulled over and fined for tossing an empty Gatorade bottle out his window while driving. This was 13-ish years ago in a small town where the cops didn't have much else to do, but littler is definitely getting worse. As so.eone else suggested, volunteer for green up day.