I Wish I knew Her Name

[rubicon]

I wish I knew the name of the woman who was traveling on Belvedere heading toward the Bonnybrook gate at about 8:45 AM today (6/1) in a dark blue EZ GO cart. I wish I knew her name because I would list it here and let people know that she apparently thinks so little of her fellow residents that upon finishing her apple she tossed the apple cord in the road.

This apparently is becoming common place on golf courses also. I watched as one guy ate a banana and threw the peel to the ground at Belmont and on another course found an apple cord . In both cases I played clean up and moved the trash to the trash. I even found peanut shells on the green at the par 4 on Sandhill.

[clekr]

My wife and have come to refer to these folks as "special people". They do not have to adhere to socital norms or rules like the rest of us.
Of course they especially do not have to rake sand traps or stop at stop signs.

[Cedwards38]

I wonder what they would do if we just confront them when we see them doing these types of things! Probably be indignant and tell us to mind our own business, but I wonder if they would think about it the next time they wanted to leave us their mess.

[LoveMyCat]

I wish I knew the name of the woman who was traveling on Belvedere heading toward the Bonnybrook gate at about 8:45 AM today (6/1) in a dark blue EZ GO cart. I wish I knew her name because I would list it here and let people know that she apparently thinks so little of her fellow residents that upon finishing her apple she tossed the apple cord in the road.

This apparently is becoming common place on golf courses also. I watched as one guy ate a banana and threw the peel to the ground at Belmont and on another course found an apple cord . In both cases I played clean up and moved the trash to the trash. I even found peanut shells on the green at the par 4 on Sandhill.

Give it a rest. Channel your anger into doing good for your fellow neighbor and world!

Apples are biodegradable, they are healthy to litter for plants, animals and the earth! It's science!

Throwing in a bag, is the real waste and litter! An apple comes from the earth for goodness sake!!!!!!

[JoMar]

Which comes to my continuing position that the community continues to spiral downward because neither management, their employees or us as residents will become involved. The rules are no longer important, the deed restrictions are rarely enforced and the residents continue to push the limits on what they can get away with. The roads have increased litter, the golf courses are becoming less pristine with almost no confrontations by Ambassadors or starters. Maybe when we see someone throw the apple core we could pick it up and follow the offender and return it, or if fear of confrontation just follow to get the address of the offender. Until we are willing to "police" our community, it will continue to decline.

[joldnol]

Give it a rest. Channel your anger into doing good for your fellow neighbor and world!

Apples are biodegradable, they are healthy to litter for plants, animals and the earth! It's science!

Throwing in a bag, is the real waste and litter! An apple comes from the earth for goodness sake!!!!!!

yep

[JoMar]

Give it a rest. Channel your anger into doing good for your fellow neighbor and world!

Apples are biodegradable, they are healthy to litter for plants, animals and the earth! It's science!

Throwing in a bag, is the real waste and litter! An apple comes from the earth for goodness sake!!!!!!

Then lets just take all our biodegrade trash and dump it along the road so our plants, animals and earth can thrive. That would reduce those real culprits, the bags, reduce our landfills and return all the good stuff to the earth. Maybe that's the environment you want to live in......I don't.

[LoveMyCat]

It's raining, relax. It may have been an accident and she may have meant to throw it in the grass.
It's not something worth getting something so upset at this lady, you post about it. Life is too short to worry and stress over the little things. People will clean it, they get paid for it and nature always cleans up what it puts out!
:)

[dave from deland]

Give it a rest. Channel your anger into doing good for your fellow neighbor and world!

Apples are biodegradable, they are healthy to litter for plants, animals and the earth! It's science!

Throwing in a bag, is the real waste and litter! An apple comes from the earth for goodness sake!!!!!!Dog poo is biodegradable also, so why do people get upset when other people let their dogs 'fertilize' their yard?.

[LoveMyCat]

I don't get upset, but I also don't have a poo poo outlook on life! :)

[dewilson58]

:popcorn:

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[Jimjane]

I actually confronted a person at the square the other night. The person tossed a cigarette butt on the ground just a few feet from a trash can. I asked the person to please pick it up and dispose of it the proper way. he did and said he was sorry. Cant say that will always happen, but it did in this case. If I see this again, I will handle it in the same way. Wish me luck.

[TheVillageChicken]

Her name might be Eve.

[DougB]

Her name might be Eve.

Nah, Eve would have offered Rubicon a bite.

[virgind]

Yep just explain it away must be a politician. We have neighbors that when they have company they smoke out front and throw their butts on the street in front of our house.

[Uberschaf]

I got called a litter bug for dumping leftover ice on the road.Clean ice.From a cup.

[golfing eagles]

OK, I'm not a neat freak, but.....
Apple core---biodegradable, probably take 10-14 days to break down to "fertilizer", unless a critter eats it----then their "poo" would only take 7-10 days.
Banana peel---biodegradable, but how many weeks to disappear? And not as tasty for peter Rabbit
Cigarette butts-----months to years to "degrade"
And the best---peanut shells on a green----quite a while to break down, although the mower will get it the next morning In the meantime, I'm a pretty good golfer but I never learned to read which way a peanut shell breaks.
The first time I visited TV, I was amazed at the lack of litter---let's keep it that way--If I want litter, I'll move back to Bill Deblasio's NYC.

[CFrance]

Give it a rest. Channel your anger into doing good for your fellow neighbor and world!

Apples are biodegradable, they are healthy to litter for plants, animals and the earth! It's science!

Throwing in a bag, is the real waste and litter! An apple comes from the earth for goodness sake!!!!!!
"Give it a rest..." LoveMyCat, on another thread you upheld people's right to express an opinion and took people to task for objecting to what was said. Now you're doing the same thing. Rubicon has every right to express his opinion without being told to give it a rest.

Nobody has a right to order anyone else on this forum to do anything.

[sunnyatlast]

Yes, an apple core or banana peel is biodegradable.

But starting in 3rd grade, we were taught to not LITTER, not to pick and choose what would rot or be taken away by animals. We were taught "No Littering", period.

And we were held to that rule and highway laws all the way thru school and until.....

.....we got to the Me, Me, Me Era:

"It's all about me. If you don't like my litter, then YOU pick it up."

Problem is, we're not third graders. We're supposed to be grown-ups.

Opinion: Why you don't throw trash out the window - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/01/opinion/greene-lady-bird-and-litter/)

[CFrance]

Yes, an apple core or banana peel is biodegradable.

But starting in 3rd grade, we were taught to not LITTER, not to pick and choose what would rot or be taken away by animals. We were taught "No Littering", period.

And we were held to that rule and highway laws all the way thru school and until.....

.....we got to the Me, Me, Me Era:

"It's all about me. If you don't like my litter, then YOU pick it up."

Problem is, we're not third graders. We're supposed to be grown-ups.

Opinion: Why you don't throw trash out the window - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/01/opinion/greene-lady-bird-and-litter/)
:BigApplause:

[njbchbum]

"Give it a rest..." LoveMyCat, on another thread you upheld people's right to express an opinion and took people to task for objecting to what was said. Now you're doing the same thing. Rubicon has every right to express his opinion without being told to give it a rest.

Nobody has a right to order anyone else on this forum to do anything.

Thank you CFrance!

[DougB]

"Give it a rest..." LoveMyCat, on another thread you upheld people's right to express an opinion and took people to task for objecting to what was said. Now you're doing the same thing. Rubicon has every right to express his opinion without being told to give it a rest.

Nobody has a right to order anyone else on this forum to do anything.

You tell her, CFrance!

[CFrance]

I actually confronted a person at the square the other night. The person tossed a cigarette butt on the ground just a few feet from a trash can. I asked the person to please pick it up and dispose of it the proper way. he did and said he was sorry. Cant say that will always happen, but it did in this case. If I see this again, I will handle it in the same way. Wish me luck.
:coolsmiley: (But do you own a football helmet?)

[CFrance]

My opinion is that no one on the forum has the right to tell another person what to do or not to do. If Rubicon wants to post about what he perceives to be a wrong, that is his right without being told to "give it a rest."

Post you opinions; don't tell another person not to post theirs.

[Moderator]

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[vorage]

I agree that such things are biodegradable and landfills aren't the best place for them, but in an urban environment, it is still littering. If one feels strongly, one should take it home and compost it in one's own backyard.

[graciegirl]

I so agree with Rubicon and Sunnyatlast and CFrance on this issue.

My kids would know better than to try that biodegradable comeback with me because I would tell them they were lazy.

Every girl scout was taught to "leave a place cleaner than they found it" and I too love, love, love the clean streets and stretches of grass without litter. It was the number one thing that sold me on this place.

I remember each June that we are beginning to have a lot of young visitors because I begin to see the plastic bottles along the edges of the streets and wrappers too.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, my grandmother said. Nothing yet happened in my life to change my mind on that.

Things are changing with each generation but I like our ways here in The Villages.

[HimandMe]

I wish I knew the name of the woman who was traveling on Belvedere heading toward the Bonnybrook gate at about 8:45 AM today (6/1) in a dark blue EZ GO cart. I wish I knew her name because I would list it here and let people know that she apparently thinks so little of her fellow residents that upon finishing her apple she tossed the apple cord in the road.

This apparently is becoming common place on golf courses also. I watched as one guy ate a banana and threw the peel to the ground at Belmont and on another course found an apple cord . In both cases I played clean up and moved the trash to the trash. I even found peanut shells on the green at the par 4 on Sandhill.

Actually I don't have a problem with an apple core. Squirrels will be dancing with delight at such a treat but, I walked through a new area where there were a few homes still being completed. The trash from the workers all up and down the street was disgusting. I'm not talking about a little here and there but garbage lining both sides of the street and even up and down Morse north of Osceola. I think the superintendent should step in and say something like anyone caught tossing garbage on the streets and caught twice has to hit the road. It really was that bad. Shame on you workers.

[CFrance]

I so agree with Rubicon and Sunnyatlast and CFrance on this issue.

My kids would know better than to try that biodegradable comeback with me because I would tell them they were lazy.

Every girl scout was taught to "leave a place cleaner than they found it" and I too love, love, love the clean streets and stretches of grass without litter. It was the number one thing that sold me on this place.

I remember each June that we are beginning to have a lot of young visitors because I begin to see the plastic bottles along the edges of the streets and wrappers too.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, my grandmother said. Nothing yet happened in my life to change my mind on that.

Things are changing with each generation but I like our ways here in The Villages.
I agree with not littering no matter what the material is. Your mentioning leaving a place cleaner than you found it jogs my memory... We were taught when you have compostable material but can't compost, bury it.

In any event, throwing it on the street is just not right.

[Wandatime]

Keep America Beautiful! Remember that commercial with the older American Indian looking at trash and a tear rolling down his cheek? I was a kid when that commercial played and it struck a chord in me. I never litter and always pick up litter I see on my walks with Bentley. Yes, other people's cigarette butts, apple cores, plastic bottles, etc. One bag for Bentley's waste and another bag for everybody else. I feel like if I am not part of the solution I am part of the problem.

[Skybo]

Apple seeds (along with cherry, peach, apricot, pear and plum pits) contain cyanide and can be toxic to small animals (or even larger animals if enough is ingested). Just because something "comes from the earth" or is biodegradable doesn't mean that it is necessarily good for wildlife or domestic animals.

[villagetinker]

Keep America Beautiful! Remember that commercial with the older American Indian looking at trash and a tear rolling down his cheek? I was a kid when that commercial played and it struck a chord in me. I never litter and always pick up litter I see on my walks with Bentley. Yes, other people's cigarette butts, apple cores, plastic bottles, etc. One bag for Bentley's waste and another bag for everybody else. I feel like if I am not part of the solution I am part of the problem.

Wanda, GOOD FOR YOU! The world (or at least The Villages) need more of you. You make a very interesting point, while I do not walk my cat (ever see a cat on a leash??) I will try to remember to take a bag with me when I walk for the mail etc., then I can police others trash, who are too lazy to thoughtless to use proper containers.:bigbow:

[Wandatime]

Wanda, GOOD FOR YOU! The world (or at least The Villages) need more of you. You make a very interesting point, while I do not walk my cat (ever see a cat on a leash??) I will try to remember to take a bag with me when I walk for the mail etc., then I can police others trash, who are too lazy to thoughtless to use proper containers.:bigbow:

Eh, don't make me out to be a saint. It is also a fabulous butt workout! Squat, walk, squat, walk. LOL!

[Northerner52]

Dog poo is biodegradable also, so why do people get upset when other people let their dogs 'fertilize' their yard?.

Actually Dog Poo is pretty bad! Read on....
Dog feces can carry a host of disease and worms -- including heartworms, whipworms, hookworms, roundworms, tapeworms, parvovirus, giardia, salmonella, and even E. coli. This is why it’s imperative to clean it up after Fido does his duty.


The Scoop on Poop: Facts and Fiction About Disposing It (http://m.petmd.com/dog/care/scoop-poop-facts-and-fiction-about-disposing-it?utm_source=AnimalRescueSite&utm_medium=GreaterGood&utm_campaign=DangersofDogPoop_GreaterGood)

[CFrance]

Actually Dog Poo is pretty bad! Read on....
Dog feces can carry a host of disease and worms -- including heartworms, whipworms, hookworms, roundworms, tapeworms, parvovirus, giardia, salmonella, and even E. coli. This is why it’s imperative to clean it up after Fido does his duty.


The Scoop on Poop: Facts and Fiction About Disposing It (http://m.petmd.com/dog/care/scoop-poop-facts-and-fiction-about-disposing-it?utm_source=AnimalRescueSite&utm_medium=GreaterGood&utm_campaign=DangersofDogPoop_GreaterGood)
The operative word there is "can." Actually, you would find more of that from wild animal feces or strays than you would find coming from the pups around TV. We all keep our dogs vaccinated, clean, and away from eating strange, unidentifiable objects.

But that's not to say we shouldn't pick up after our dogs. Just saying that passing by a pile of poo probably won't give you or your pet an illness.

[er9027]

I agree, food products like this are LOVED by birds and other animals...No harm, paper products, etc. will not be consumed !!

[beachx4me]

Keep America Beautiful! Remember that commercial with the older American Indian looking at trash and a tear rolling down his cheek? I was a kid when that commercial played and it struck a chord in me. I never litter and always pick up litter I see on my walks with Bentley. Yes, other people's cigarette butts, apple cores, plastic bottles, etc. One bag for Bentley's waste and another bag for everybody else. I feel like if I am not part of the solution I am part of the problem.

Emphasis on the word "remember ". They had all kinds of "do not litter" campaigns. It was kind of drummed into us. Unfortunately, you see very little of this any more, and if you don't have parents passing this on - well we see what happens. A phrase from back home is "a lack of home training".

[Topspinmo]

Emphasis on the word "remember ". They had all kinds of "do not litter" campaigns. It was kind of drummed into us. Unfortunately, you see very little of this any more, and if you don't have parents passing this on - well we see what happens. A phrase from back home is "a lack of home training".


Like " Don't Mess with Texas" The big sign when you enter Texas.

[KeepingItReal]

My opinion is that no one on the forum has the right to tell another person what to do or not to do. If Rubicon wants to post about what he perceives to be a wrong, that is his right without being told to "give it a rest."

Post you opinions; don't tell another person not to post theirs.

:BigApplause:

[Barefoot]

Yes, an apple core or banana peel is biodegradable. But starting in 3rd grade, we were taught to not LITTER, not to pick and choose what would rot or be taken away by animals. We were taught "No Littering", period.

And we were held to that rule and highway laws all the way thru school and until..........we got to the Me, Me, Me Era:
"It's all about me. If you don't like my litter, then YOU pick it up."

Problem is, we're not third graders. We're supposed to be grown-ups.

Opinion: Why you don't throw trash out the window - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/01/opinion/greene-lady-bird-and-litter/)

:agree: Trash is trash, be it a banana peel or a paper cup.
It's a simple thing --- we are all responsible for the garbage we create!
Take it home with you and dispose of it properly. Please don't leave it behind for Wanda to pick up.

[LoveMyCat]

Actually Dog Poo is pretty bad! Read on....
Dog feces can carry a host of disease and worms -- including heartworms, whipworms, hookworms, roundworms, tapeworms, parvovirus, giardia, salmonella, and even E. coli. This is why it’s imperative to clean it up after Fido does his duty.


The Scoop on Poop: Facts and Fiction About Disposing It (http://m.petmd.com/dog/care/scoop-poop-facts-and-fiction-about-disposing-it?utm_source=AnimalRescueSite&utm_medium=GreaterGood&utm_campaign=DangersofDogPoop_GreaterGood)

Now that's a point! :)!
Xoxoxo

[LoveMyCat]

:BigApplause:

I can post what I want too! Yawn!
:)
I can also leave a healthy, non-invasive suggestion; be happy, relax, make lemonade from lemons ;)

[Barefoot]

I can post what I want too! Yawn!

I can also leave a healthy, non-invasive suggestion; be happy, relax, make lemonade from lemons

Your suggestions are very helpful.

[LoveMyCat]

Emphasis on the word "remember ". They had all kinds of "do not litter" campaigns. It was kind of drummed into us. Unfortunately, you see very little of this any more, and if you don't have parents passing this on - well we see what happens. A phrase from back home is "a lack of home training".

Amen!
You are a blessing! :)
I clean up after people too!

[Bay Kid]

Trash is trash.

[rubicon]

It is encouraging to see the majority viewing this woman's action as irresponsible. Clearly the manner in which her arm moved demonstrated she intended to toss it. We were going in opposite directions and she was moving quickly. I had an urge to turn around but well the thought of chasing down an apple thrower was a bit too much. If we were both walking that is another matter than ....well you know

In this same vein it is concerning that some made light of this incident. Perhaps they view it as an overreaction. If people do not speak up as time passes and people move in and out the landscape will change for the worse unless government enforces the rules.

The act this woman created may seem minor to some but the thinking behind that act is disturbing and very disrespectable.

I lived in a city where they mixed the prices of homes because of their giant integration plan. Some homes expensive like ours and a few inserted at half the price. We found a neighbor two doors down who purchased his home at half the price was burying his garbage in his back yard and was drawing nasty critters.

We have people from all over the country and from foreign countries so it is a very unique and wonderful mix. It will take strong government to enforce the rules we all agreed to. It will take residents respect for themselves and for their neighbors to ensure government does its job thoroughly.

Personal Best Regards:

[Bonny]

Trash is trash. I don't know too many animals here that would eat a banana peel so I guess we would have to look at it for about 14 days til it breaks down.
It's just as easy to take it home and throw it away. If someone wants to fertilize, then they can put it in their own yard.

[CFrance]

Trash is trash. I don't know too many animals here that would eat a banana peel so I guess we would have to look at it for about 14 days til it breaks down.
It's just as easy to take it home and throw it away. If someone wants to fertilize, then they can put it in their own yard.
In fact, it takes two years for a banana peel to disintegrate.

Hikers: eat bananas (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/sep/24/bananas-litter-hikers-mountains-scotland)

[sunnyatlast]

In fact, it takes two years for a banana peel to disintegrate.

Hikers: eat bananas (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/sep/24/bananas-litter-hikers-mountains-scotland)

Not only that, but anything rotting along a street or roadside attracts vermin, regardless of whether they eat the litter or not.

All it takes for this beautiful, clean place to start looking "third world" with rats populating more, is for a few more dozen residents to throw their "biodegradable" waste along the street, sidewalk or roadways while claiming to be more righteous friends of the environment.

It's not only lazy, but ignorant behavior.

[Miles42]

A slob is a slob, there are no boundrys for one. Wonder what the inside of their sty looks like.

[Walter123]

The sky is falling! OMG>

[dewilson58]

I'll take a guess................Betty.

[graciegirl]

I'll take a guess................Betty.


Betty Boop?

Apple Betty?

Betty safe than sorry?

Here's a tip, Don't Betty on the horses?

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....I wish I knew her name. Takes a while.

[TheVillageChicken]

I wish I knew the name of the woman who was traveling on Belvedere heading toward the Bonnybrook gate at about 8:45 AM today (6/1) in a dark blue EZ GO cart. I wish I knew her name because I would list it here and let people know that she apparently thinks so little of her fellow residents that upon finishing her apple she tossed the apple cord in the road.



How is she going to charge her Apple without the cord?

[DougB]

Don't Be a Litterbug

Don’t be a Litter Bug | 1Funny.com (http://1funny.com/dont-be-a-litter-bug/)

[graciegirl]

Don't Be a Litterbug

Don’t be a Litter Bug | 1Funny.com (http://1funny.com/dont-be-a-litter-bug/)


I loved it. Doug bee.