WHAT PEOPLE DUMP FROM CARS


 Things we have found and collected on the road, in ditches and roadside wet lands.

Beside the obvious: pop and water bottles; beer cans; liqueur bottles;  fast food packaging; take-out coffee cups and plastic lids; empty and sometimes full cigarette packages; cigarette butts; car tires and rims; .... We also have found:

  • garden furniture

  • the skeleton of a small pet dog in a garbage bag (almost right across the road from us)

  • part of a snowmobile

  • One very adult mag. in mint condition.

  • a shopping bag full of excrement of some sort. We left it, it was just too disgusting, but opened it so the content can decompose

  • Baby diapers. Several in the same spot on different occasions. Hmmmmm

  • Adult diaper ...hmmmm....

  • Neon light tubes

  • A full bathroom reno including shower stall, old piping, tiles, plaster, laths, wood, screen window, broken glass, lots of plastic, cabinet parts and much more. This was in a fantastically beautiful spot on Dunlin Line in Acton, Ontario, one of our local side roads. The "dumpers" almost had to look for the "ideal" spot to dump it. Nowhere else on the road could have been more beautiful. This was probably to save a $10 dumping fee at the local disposal site.
    We pondered; "You like something nice and beautiful in your house, but not out in nature..." We just don't get it, "Do you drive by and with pride think 'I did that!'?"
    We took home what would fit in the car and disposed of it properly by taking it to the dump. "And yes, we paid the fee for you."

Bathroom reno dumped at roadside
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

Another view of the dumped stuff with the pristine forest wetland behind.

Note the wetland in the background. As we moved the stuff frogs were jumping and we were accompanied by dragon flies. 
Some day this ought to become a criminal offence.

IF IT LOOKS LIKE IT DOESN'T BELONG - IT PROBABLY DOESN'T

 
 
 
 

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