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Open letter to Trash Lady - DTisme - 05-21-2017
Dear lady who lives down the street,
You're not fooling anyone. We all know who it is who throws their junk food boxes, bags, leftovers, drinking cups, receipts, etc. out their window on their way home. Taco Bell, Jack in the Box, McDonald's, Burger King. Almost every day. For YEARS. Sometimes there is even junk mail thrown in. Which is addressed. Which is how your neighbors know who the culprit is.
I pick up your discards when I walk by, bc I don't want to look at it another second, but if you still see your rubbish by the time I happen by, it's bc it's covered in thousands of ants. I am not getting stung by fire ants just bc you have no respect for your neighborhood or neighbors. I hear another neighbor throws it into your front yard. Not my style, bc I hate altercations, but I get their frustration.
Why in God's name do you do this? Do you have that much disdain for the rest of us?? Do you feel it's up to others to clean up after you? Do you treat your family this way?
Theory among your neighbors is you don't want your husband to know you're eating crap on the way home. That's ok with me. I get it. But please find a trash can somewhere between your job and your home. Put a trash bag in your car. Whatever. Just find a way to keep it away from the rest of us.
Sincerely,
Your neighbors
RE: Open letter to Trash Lady - leilaniguy - 05-21-2017
I own a lot in "The Beaches"! Is this where this Mess is,, by any charnel?
RE: Open letter to Trash Lady - Carey - 05-21-2017
When we first moved here, we helped with a lava tube cleanup in O`okala... a lava tube filled with years of household garbage (including parts of the house & cars) Matson container full..
Interesting to note... there was a lot of mail... including credit cards
The community police that was helping was working to see if the owner of the mail & credit cards could actually be billed...
Never did find out what happened... but thought that would be a fine solution (pun intended)
RE: Open letter to Trash Lady - kimo wires - 05-21-2017
Its not just your neighborhood.
Disrespectful Jackasses all over da place.
Could be mental illness.
Or just never taught right from wrong.
We have a Drug house on our road.
They supplement their income by doing Burglaries or "Burgs" as the Popo likes to call em'.
Everyone on the street knows who's doing it.
All the neighbors have made police reports.
They can't , or won't, do anything about it.
So I would gladly trade my neighbor for yours.
RE: Open letter to Trash Lady - EightFingers - 05-22-2017
I would have left off "Dear".
RE: Open letter to Trash Lady - leilanidude - 05-23-2017
Send a letter with pictures, to the house, addressed to the husband...
RE: Open letter to Trash Lady - DTisme - 05-24-2017
leilaniguy, it's lower HPP. Will think about a letter.
kimo_wires: I hear you - we had issues with that in the past. Luckily, the losers moved on.
EightFingers: Ha! You are definitely right on that one.
Thanks, all, for listening to my rant. Had to let it out!
RE: Open letter to Trash Lady - Carey - 05-24-2017
DT... I thought about this yesterday, after seeing a sign in HA that read "Take ur trash to the dump!" that had a few pieces of trash tacked & painted on...
Maybe, if you make up similar sign, with the first name on the mail... with pieces of the trash tacked on... (mail & junk food containers...) that might do the trick...esp if one is posted at the beginning of the street & another at the utility post closest to the suspected trasher...
It might be easier to stay anonymous than sending a letter... as one probably would not want to create personnel issue with this family
RE: Open letter to Trash Lady - DTisme - 05-24-2017
I like this idea. Thanks!
RE: Open letter to Trash Lady - terracore - 05-25-2017
When I lived in NE Portland, literally next to a crack house, one of the customers chucked an empty 40 ouncer out their car window, leaving broken glass right in front of our driveway. We went out there and made them clean it up. It was a risky operation, and I was backed up by a few friends and a rottweiler, but it set a precedent in the neighborhood. Of course, I'm older and wiser now, and it takes a lot longer to heal than it used to, so I wouldn't do that anymore, but in the last few years I've chased drug users off of 40th and have generally adopted the attitude that if you want somebody to stop a particular behavior, the first course of action is generally to confront them directly and request it. It's usually uncomfortable but so long as you go into the situation with empathy and logic, the outcome is usually in your favor. Of course, these things don't always turn out all rosy. There could be retaliation of some sort. You have to be willing to deal with that potential. We recently trapped a neighbor's cat and took it to the humane society, and then we told the owners about it. The cat was so sick the humane society euthanized it, and now we're the asshats that "killed their cat". We wouldn't hesitate to do it again.
eta: added "the owners"