I'm sure that I'm preaching to the choir here, but I just have to vent!
We had to travel to Iowa for a funeral, and arrived late on Sunday night. The county park was nearly empty and it was almost dark, so we set up just the essentials and went in to bed.
Early the next morning I found the most disgusting sight in and around the firepit. Garbage everywhere. I cleaned up a FULL grocery store bag worth of garbage. In the firepit: Two giant empty glass booze bottles, multiple corn cobs, multiple partially-eaten corn cobs, corn husks, plates, tin foil, partially melted plastic cups, and cigarette butts. Around the fire pit: 20-30 cigarette butts, USED BAND AIDS, more tin foil, plastic wrappers, corn husks, aluminum tabs from drink cans, more cigarette butts.
We were expecting our BIL and his family to arrive the next day, so I cleaned out the firepits of the two sites closest to us, and they were nowhere near as bad, but still had paper plates, plastic cups, cigarette butts, wrappers, etc.
Is it so hard to have a plastic garbage bag handy and toss your trash into it? I know that some people do burn their trash while having a campfire, but a lot of these things would never have burned- glass bottles??? Tin foil??
I guess the used band aids were the worst part of all *ugh* still grossed out by that one...
Please... if you have a habit of putting trash in your firepit, make sure it actually burns, and think of the people coming in after you!
OR maybe just use a garbage bag!!
Some people were just raised differently! Not long ago I was in a mall. Out in the middle they had these comfy chairs and at the foot of one was an empty yogurt cup with a spoon in it. Literally 15 feet away was a trash receptacle. It made my try to imagine who it was that could sit there, enjoying their yogurt within full view of a trash can, then set the trash on the floor and walk off. Not as bad as your situation, but I think cut from the same cloth.
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Worst we have ever had was in a state park here in Georgia. Folks left a smoldering fire that smelled terrible. When we went to extinguish it, we found a pile of dirty (poopie) diapers. Grossed us out.
Horsedoc wrote: Worst we have ever had was in a state park here in Georgia. Folks left a smoldering fire that smelled terrible. When we went to extinguish it, we found a pile of dirty (poopie) diapers. Grossed us out.
While traveling, we stopped at a roadside rest area to have lunch and when we approached the picnic table, there awaited us - two dirty diapers full of poop - sitting right in the middle of the picnic table, with a trash can nearby. One can only guess where the changing took place. Needless to say - we ate in the truck and quickly left. It is a "new world" alright!
We are park hosts at an Idaho state park.
It's not a lot of work but one of our few duties is to use "picker uppers" to clean out fire pits. 99 percent of the folks are great but you do get a few clods.
We had one a couple of weeks ago that put dirty diapers in a BBQ grill. That's pretty gross.
It was in a day use area and I didn't catch the sucker.
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Some people are just ignorant slobs, but occasionally the good guys win.
Around here the slobs favorite trick is to drive down a remote country road and dump their household garbage. More than once I've seen them doing it, and managed to get a license number and description of the car or truck and perpetrator. The really fun part is driving by a few hours later and watching the dumper in the ditch picking up every single piece he pitched under the supervision of the enforcement officer, just before he picks up his very expensive summons.
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