Cigarette butts

[fal_762x51]

I smoke the death sticks, but besides the whole possibility of a fire, there is the trash aspect. Get a water bottle that's 1/4 full of water and just dump the butt in there and cap it. Granted the wife my call you redneck, but its better then littering the highways and torching a field.

[bubbagump]

What the hell is a cheese party?

Thats what I asked when I started working for the second PD. The first one didn't use that term.

It doesn't happen on every encounter...but it did happen to me once...and I will NEVER forget.

I was on park patrol detail and it was closing time at the park. I would always drive once through the parking lot and give everyone a verbal warning over the loudspeakers. Maybe a few horn blasts and some lights and sirens just to scare the couples off each other.

If they didn't leave after all that...I would start making contacts. This particular day, it was me, another park unit, and a parking enforcement unit. We made contact with the car.

The occupants were gettin it on. I'll never forget, it was a green mustang (90's), and it was a leather interior. When that passenger door opened and the girl got out (she was this cute, petite hispanic girl)...I was standing probably 6-7 feet from the passenger side door...and the smell was epic fail...SOUTH OF CHEESE...

Hence the term cheese party...

[jafount]

I remember I once stopped a college age girl who, as she was pulling over for me (I was stopping her for speed) she took a big drag of her smoke, then proceeded to pitch the remainder out into the traffic lane.

Should have seen the look on her face when I made contact with her. I told her I was stopping her for her speed but was only going to give her a warning, but that I would be citing her for throwing the cigarette butt out the window in front of me.

[six1nina]

i got a $300 ticket and had to do 8hrs of community service (which i had to pay $50 for) for ASHING my cigarette outside my window

[bill104]

I got a warning in the mail once two days after getting a ticket in the mail, all for littering, both letter and citaion said I was seen tossing a lit ciggeratte out of my 1989 chevy truck, in the Colfax area of California, both ticket and letter even gave time and date, only had two proplems with it all, I never drove a 1989 Chevy anything, and I have not been within 50 miles of Colfax in 8 years. to this day I have no clue how that happened.

[Khram]

I really enjoyed reading this thread. After seeing all the wildfires and starting to ride motorcycles last few years and meeting someone who got a huge fine, I have seen the light! I no longer ash cigarettes out the window or toss butts out though I rarely smoke and even less so in vehicles.

I really wish LE would step up enforcement of this when possible. I really get upset when driver in front of me is tossing flammable material out while I am out riding, I wear an open faced helmet.

Also once as a child I got burned on my face when some sort of cigar or cigarette debris blew in thru my parents open car window. Luckily it did not scar but I remember it to this day.

[gdun]

thanks to all all the LE's for enforcing these laws.
Littering really pisses me off, and if i become LE, I'd always write that ticket too.

[retired]

In all of my years in patrol, I never saw one driver throw anything out the window of their vehicle. I mean, I would have given them a ticket if I had because that is just a dirty habit and I would have like to have helped them break it with an expensive incentive if I could.

Either they knew I was around or I was always surrounded by clean people.

[Keith92555]

+1 on lit cigs and handicap violations. All LEOs should write these up every time. I can't stand litterbugs, with particular contempt for the ones throwing fire out their windows. Plus, I've had 7 surgeries on my knee and #8 is coming in Sept. It galls me to no end when I see a 20 y/o female in 4" heels parking in the only hcap stall and walk into the store, then I have to walk through half the parking lot to get into the store. LEOs, PLEASE make these knuckleheads your special project!

[retired]

Keith, when it was slow, I would always drive thru the shopping centers to check on handicapped violators. I always gave them a ticket if they weren't legit. That was one of my biggest vc violation peeves. I wish the dept. had given me a case of parkers when I retired. That might have been a problem tho since I live two counties over from where I worked.

I've had a number of surgeries also and when I was off work recovering, I had a temporary disabled placard. There were numerous times where I had to park in the North 40 due to some lazy and inconsiderate jerk that would park in a disabled spot.

[masstransit]

I know a motor LEO who arrested a guy for throwing a lit cigarette butt into the street. Not because he's bad *** (and I suppose he is). For some reason he has a genuine dislike for marijuana, and that's what the litterer tossed as he saw the motor LEO ride towards him, a marijuana roach. The motor took the butt in as evidence too.

FUD. this is barely a ticket in california.

[gn3hz3ku1*]

FUD. this is barely a ticket in california.

and he might be "sick"

[Vectrexer]

Great point about the cigarette butts. IMO as a citizen I would like to see that enforced more. On the road, on the street, anywhere that is public propoerty.

No kidding! While I don't mind the smoking so much, I would like to superglue the used butts to to the fingers of every ******* out there who thinks the stree is there person trashcan by tossing their cigarette buts out the window. These people are probably the same folk who don't sweep their lanes after some range time.

[masameet]

FUD. this is barely a ticket in california.

[Shrug] I gathered that the guy was carrying more than one mj cigarette. Hence the arrest.

[gunn]

No kidding! While I don't mind the smoking so much, I would like to superglue the used butts to to the fingers of every ******* out there who thinks the stree is there person trashcan by tossing their cigarette buts out the window. These people are probably the same folk who don't sweep their lanes after some range time.

+1. That is a fair enough punishment. Screw the tickets.... Just superglue their fingers!