Inconsiderate bikers????....How about inconsiderate smokers?

[manual63]

When I was driving to work today, as semi-truck driver threw his cigarette butt out his window and onto my hood. It scared me at first because it made a big spark right in front of my view. I was like......what the FU#%!!!!! Yes, I drove up next to his window, honked and gave him the big bird.

I see people do this all the time. Not only do they throw out their butts on the roadway, but in parking lots, and near storefronts also. They even throw them on the ground within a few feet of an ash tray. I don't get it.

Smokers are rude, crude, and inconsiderate!!!!!!

My wife used to be one and I am soooooo glad she quit.

[SuperClydesdale]

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I *almost* want to become a cop just so I can write littering tickets to every jackass I see that throws cigarette butts out their car windows. Drives me freaking bonkers.....

Hey, I bet Gov. Pawlenty's "No New Taxes" pledge could be paid for by littering tickets to cig smokers.

mark

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[jkalla]

I read some study about the cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay and they noted that cigarette butts were the largest solid waste pollutant in the bay. The get carried off with the runnoff and end up in th ewaterways. The cellulose filters in cigarettes do not biodegrade readily.

I am particularly annoyed when I see people dump there entire ashtray out onto the street as they are stopped at a red light or in a parking lot.

[gopherhockey]

Originally posted by SuperClydesdale
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I *almost* want to become a cop just so I can write littering tickets to every jackass I see that throws cigarette butts out their car windows. Drives me freaking bonkers.....

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I second this... it is my #1 hate in life to see someone throw their cigarette out the window (usually to have it bounce off the hood of my vehicle in a shower of sparks..) I don't even care if I'm upsetting anyone by saying this, but these people have to be one of the lowest forms of life as we know it.

My dream? To run up behind a parked car where a person had just dropped their cig and flick it back into their car saying "sorry sir.. you dropped this!" (and then run, of course)

If I had an upside-down banana I'd give 3 or more of them to smokers that litter... I hope none of you are in this group.

Sorry for the rant...

BTW: to bring it back into topic of biking - I have noticed a lot of cigarette buts in the Lebanon parking lot. I assume these aren't bikers doing this... or at least I hope not.

[noise_is_life]

When I got to Lebanon tonight I saw a guy sitting on the ground next to his bike having a smoke, strange.

[qheuie]

ever had a cigarette butt land in your lap while riding a motorcycle? ouch. i hate that. happened to me once.

i also hate having to walk through a wall of smoke to get into a building because there are a group of smokers smoking next to a sign that clearly reads "no smoking within 50 feet of building"

i used to ride with a guy that SWORE he had to smoke a joint at the top of the trail because it made the ride down "more fun" .. scary. :etard:

[socrates]

Originally posted by noise_is_life
When I got to Lebanon tonight I saw a guy sitting on the ground next to his bike having a smoke, strange.

The gym I worked out at in OH had a ton of smokers going to it...it was so bad I couldn't work out next to them because of the smell (smoke smell not sweat smell)

[Tetreves]

I thought I would just mention that this is Silent Bob (my Avatar), and I am not a smoker....:etard:

[manual63]

I hate to inform you of this John, but a lot of bikers smoke. I know some who smoke before a ride so they can breath better........go figure......

[Rocky Mountain]

Suprsingly there was a study done many years ago that linked smoking with the lack of intelligence. Yeah, can you believe that? :crazy2: :crazy2: Funny thing there is laws to protect most of the morons out there that have no brains.

[Kingbozo]

Originally posted by manual63
I hate to inform you of this John, but a lot of bikers smoke. I know some who smoke before a ride so they can breath better........go figure......

Ever see thoe old pics from the Tour de France of the riders passing around cigs right before they hit the climb? Hillarious!

[manual63]

Yeah, the Penn in Richfield had one on the wall a while back. At the time, I noticed most of the mechanics had to take smoke breaks......I wonder who put the poster up?

[grizzly adam]

We had a guy on our team last year who took a smoke break during a race! Unbelieveable!

My wife too was once a smoker but knew that I wouldn't go out with her if she continued, so she quit.

I've also been freaked out by a bouncing butt - he he -
However, I don't think honking and flashing the bird is the appropriate response. What if there was a biker on the shoulder and the trucker swerved cuz you scared him with the horn and caused the biker to crash!! (it COULD happen....)

[Trevize1138]

I don't know if any of you here know Craig Andreesen, but he's an example of a smoking mountain biker who SMOKES the competition! :shocked:

During the off-season he's confessed to me to have a 2 pack a day habit. Back when I used to ride with him a bit it was the same pattern each season:

I'd kick his ass a couple times on a ride while he coughed and hacked and died. Then he'd quit absolutely cold turkey and by the end of the season was absolutely incredible. He routinely places in the top 10 of the rec class at the Thursday Buck races when he's off the cigarettes.

I keep telling him he could be an Olympic athlete if he just gave up smoking 365 a year ... but he loves 'em too much.

[zerpy]

Suprsingly there was a study done many years ago that linked smoking with the lack of intelligence. Yeah, can you believe that?


I find it interesting that when I was going to college, the classes with all the "liberal arts" students were full of smokers while my engineering classes would have one, on an off semester. The site for my current work place has about 200 people in it, most of them engineers. I think there are about 5 people that smoke in the whole building and most of them are administrative people, I can only think of one that is an engineer. And no, they can't hit the damn ashtray with their butts either.

The funniest one I remember is the nursing students in college. They would come out of their nursing classes and head right for the door in hoardes. Just about every one of them would light up, and yes right in front of a no smoking sign. One girl I knew that was in the nursing program told me that less than 10% of the nursing students were non-smokers. And these people are in the medial field, probably have some of the best first hand knowledge of what smoking does to you. They have to dissect lungs from smokers in their biology class.

And we let these people take care of us while we are drugged up...

[Trevize1138]

Originally posted by zerpy
I find it interesting that when I was going to college, the classes with all the "liberal arts" students were full of smokers while my engineering classes would have one, on an off semester. The site for my current work place has about 200 people in it, most of them engineers. I think there are about 5 people that smoke in the whole building and most of them are administrative people, I can only think of one that is an engineer. And no, they can't hit the damn ashtray with their butts either.

As a graduate of a liberal arts program, I can fully attest to the high ego/low intelligence factor inherant to the general populace of such a program. :)

Most people in liberal arts are talentless, brainless twits who think they can get by if they call themselves "artists" by doing the rough equivalent of splashing a can of paint on a canvas and saying it's "abstract." In general, the ones who continue on successfully tend to have the same mentality as successful engineering students: you gotta work your ASS off to get anywhere.

I fell somewhere in the middle of the two extremes :P. I knew I had to work my ass off to be very successful, and if I didn't work at all I'd get nowhere. So, logically, if I did a half-assed job, I'd get somewhere decent, even though it wouldn't be the pinnacle. :D

[Kingbozo]

"Lisa, if you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way."

Homer Simpson

[Trevize1138]

D'oh!