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Originally Posted by Warren Kiefer
While walking our therapy puppy this morning (yep, I had poop bags) I picked up a couple pieces of trash that obviously had been thrown from a golf cart or vehicle. I came to realize that it is not all that uncommon to see trash along our streets and roads in todays world. I recall that not too many years ago seeing a beer can or styrofoam cup along a Villages street was indeed rare. And it's not all the dirty work of outsiders, have a look over the edge of the wooden bridge where Morse meets route 466. You will see trash that was probably thrown there by residents from their golf carts. One of the items I picked up today was the creative work of someone. It was a large Circle K styrofoam cup with a lid and straw. As I picked it up I could detect something inside the cup. The cup was only a disguise for a beer can, the straw was actually inserted in the beer can and would keep anyone from knowing that the driver was in truth drinking a beer while driving.
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I wonder if the issue is a belief of "entitlement" versus understanding that curteousy should know no boundaries? If you examine any population, consider the bell curve and apply it to pretty much each situation. There are some people who are proactive (and hopefully appreciated!) and help keep the area looking so nice, there are most of the people who don't litter but also aren't proactively cleaning up debris, and then there is the lower end of the bell curve where the litterbugs reside. Change this to a "poop" thread, bad driving, unsafe golf cart use, or other "hot topic" and it is the same thing.
Hopefully as we post, and rant, it is an effective outlet for our frustrations. I can't say that I am surprised at some of the "antics" we see and read about, it is just disappointing and sad that people may change, but behaviors do not.
