Someone confused this clump of sea oats with a garbage can. Too bad. The garbage can was only 20 paces away.
By David McRee of BlogThe Beach.com
What does the act of littering say about the one who does it?
Littering is a personal choice. It’s not one of those social activities like smoking dope or getting drunk, where peer pressure plays a role. It’s just an act of pure selfishness. A lack of respect. A sign that somewhere, somehow, deep within that person’s brain, something just hasn’t developed properly.
We took a walk on St. Pete Beach this morning, near Upham, picking up plastic bottles and aluminum cans along the way and depositing them in one of MANY trash cans placed conveniently on the beach. Then we came upon the above pictured clump of sea oats. From this tiny clump we removed 7 aluminum beer cans and 5 glass beer bottles. Bud Light and Heineken if you must know.
The trash can was only a few feet away.
It saddens me that I share the beach with people who would do this.
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Hi David, I agree with you completely! There is no excuse for this type of behavior. I see this all the time and I will never understand how people can do this. I live on a street that gets quite a bit of traffic and there is rarely a morning that I can walk out front and not find garbage that people have thrown from their cars onto my lawn. Why? I just don’t get it.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting Rhonda.
I’m reminded of the time I was riding in a cab down in the West Indies in 1979 after a day in the capital city shopping and doing errands. The cab was crowded with people returning to their small towns from shopping in the city. One man took his new pair of shoes out of the box, put them on, and then threw the entire box, lid, and paper right out the window onto the highway! Later, after he left the cab, several other passengers, realizing that I was a foreigner, apologized for his behavior. It’s definitely a worldwide problem.