Spot fines for smokers

[Minimeister]

Seems a few people have been hit with 80 quid fines for dropping fag ends on the pavement. Not like there's many ash trays around for people to put them out in and not the kind of thing you'd carry around till you seen a bin. Is this justified or would you rather your tax money go on something else than a grass's wages standing about waiting for someone to drop a cig?

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

Saw a lad getting a ticket a few weeks ago in New Brighton for (allegedly) dropping a ciggy butt.

What I don't get is why they don't class the ciggy ash as litter?

 

[The Cowboy]

Seems a few people have been hit with 80 quid fines for dropping [Poor language removed] ends on the pavement. Not like there's many ash trays around for people to put them out in and not the kind of thing you'd carry around till you seen a bin. Is this justified or would you rather your tax money go on something else than a grass's wages standing about waiting for someone to drop a cig?

What?! There are cig disposal things on the side of countless buildings, and on many lampposts too.

Stub it out on a wall, throw it in the bin. Can't find a bin? Stick it in your pocket, it's your litter, you deal with it.

 

[Ashtonian]

i agree, it is rubbish and a collection of them building up is still as bad as emptying your linch box on the floor.

Keep fining them i say, until they learn to dispose of them correctly.

 

[Baines' left foot]

BUT THERE WASN'T ANY CHEWING GUM BINS ANYWHERE SO I SPAT IT ON THE FLOOR WHAT ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO DO EFFING TOR-EEEZ!

 

[GlosBlue]

Saw a lad getting a ticket a few weeks ago in New Brighton for (allegedly) dropping a ciggy butt.

What I don't get is why they don't class the ciggy ash as litter?

Ash is biodegradable but the filters in the butts are not.

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

Ash is biodegradable but the filters in the butts are not.

Paper's biodegradable - but you can get fined for dropping it!

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Meh, glad we're clamping down on littering to an extent really

I do think there needs to be more bins though

 

[Ashtonian]

Meh, glad we're clamping down on littering to an extent really

I do think there needs to be more bins though

Think the lack of bins is more to stop people putting home made bombs in them though

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

Meh, glad we're clamping down on littering to an extent really

I do think there needs to be more bins though

Needs to be more people using them, more like. Only last week in town I seen some lazy, bone-idle bastid drop the paper from his pie/pasty, not three yards from a bin. Not cool.

 

[dead_soft]

Is this justified or would you rather your tax money go on something else than a grass's wages standing about waiting for someone to drop a cig?

May be a slightly weighted question, that

 

[GlosBlue]

Paper's biodegradable - but you can get fined for dropping it!

True! No answer to that!

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Think the lack of bins is more to stop people putting home made bombs in them though

Probably more to do with costs

You have more bins to fill, then you have more bins to empty

 

[Fresh Prince of Belle Val]

Littering of any kind is deplorable. Something this city is terrible for. I've had many a scally start on me for pulling him up about littering. It's the arrogance I can't stand.

 

[COYBL25]

Littering of any kind is deplorable. Something this city is terrible for. I've had many a scally start on me for pulling him up about littering. It's the arrogance I can't stand.

Spot on, litter is litter and should be put in a bin or kept until one can be found.

I've had similar experiences when I've pulled someone about dropping stuff. The City centre at the weekend is a disgrace. Imagine how much money the council would save if they didn't have to employ all night crews to clean up every weekend.