monkey44
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One thing that's odd, in a way too. For some reason, people that smoke think it's okay to drop and step on butts or butt them out and toss them even if those same people generally clean up and don't toss trash ... for some unknown reason, the butts don't factor in and I sure can't figure out why.
Every time I see a person drop a butt, I wanna slap fat red finger marks on their cheeks ...
Monkey44
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tvman44
Southwest Louisiana
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We always leave out camp site as clean or cleaner than when we got there.
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trickyvic3
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We've been camping in one form or another since the early 70s and have seen it all believe me. Part of our tear down list is, and has always been to walk around the site and leave it the way we found it.
I always walk around with a trash bag and pick up anything I find. Walk over to the dumpster and get rid of it. Takes 2 minutes and it isn't going to kill me.
Nothing worse than pulling into a dirty site because of some low life laziness.
As another poster said, you have to wonder what their homes look like.
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Kittrell
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MichDoc wrote:Kittrell wrote:Steeljag wrote:Uneducated slobs..........are uneducated slobs ! Spit covered cig butts are everywhere.......... There are a lot of educated slobs out there also. They don't seem to dwell on hygiene and sanitation in the schools anymore. I was educated at the University of Science, Music, and Culture in San Diego, where they did teach such.
I never realized that one needed to be educated at the University of Science, Music, and Culture in San Diego to learn how to use common sense, and clean up after themselves. My mistake. Yes, people should be taught this at home and. Unfortunately they are not. I was taught at home and school. I smoke and put butts in my pack or pocket, not on the ground. I also pick up after my dog. Lack of education has nothing to do with it. That was my point. Upbringing has a lot to do with it.
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mockturtle
WA
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I always go around picking up trash someone else left behind. Lots of cigarette butts. I wear a plastic bag over my hand or a disposable glove. Just remember: If you have their cigarette butts, you have their DNA! 
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drhubka
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What is clean to one is still trashy to others. Like Clinton said "It depends on what is, is".
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rbobbitt
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Don't they know "DONT MESS WITH TEXAS" They should be fined
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Dog Folks
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I agree and thank with all those that pick up after themselves and others.
As a camphost I am still suprised that so many campers do not know that aluminum cans and glass bottles DO NOT burn in the fire ring!!
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FunnyCamper
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restlesswind wrote:FunnyCamper wrote:I have to say most state parks I visit are clean. Must be my Southern area cause truly I haven't been in total disgusting trashy state parks in my neck of the woods. In fact I see more cleaning than reverse.
but a good word to keep spreading. maybe the slobs will get the hint? 
Maybe it's because someone like MTPockets1 got there before you arrived.
well then MTP must have been on each and every site in the state park. because truly we walk, we observe, we look. MOST of ours is clean.
I do like others. before we leave while packing I am on patrol picking up even those annoying little straw plastic wrappers. I don't leave anything at my site. We smoke. All cigs go into the fire. When we leave NOT one butt is left. I pick them out and into the trash they go. AND honestly I have seen others do this. Patrol their sites all the time.
I guess some areas are more prone to slobbery than others ??
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Jarlaxle
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I was once read the riot act for leaving my trash (a cardboard box I put my trash in, with "TRASH" written on the side and the top taped closed) at my campsite when I checked out. When I checked IN, the guy told me to do just that (I recall his words were, "Bag it, tie the bag and leave it on the site"...not a bag, but I figured a cardboard box was close enough.) when I asked where the dumpster was.
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