Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Challenging litterbugs - is it worth it?
Walking down the road, I see a plastic cup being thrown out of the window of a parked black Range Rover. I peered in and said 'aren't you going to throw that in a bin where it belongs?'
The youth inside said 'no', then 'you put it in the bin then'. I said 'no, of course not, I'm not your servant. I'll pick it up and put it back in your car though'.
He says 'go on then, do it' - so I pick it up, and he's ready to tip a cup of pink juice over me - so I ask 'are you really going to pour that on me?' and at this point his friend comes along and starts filming me and calling me a weirdo. Of course at this point I was so riled I instead threw the empty cup on his bonnet and marched off. He then drove along me, threw the juice at me from a distance, until I got to a crossing, at which point he made to turn into my path but waited - so I said 'I've got your licence plate number [XLG was all I had] I'll call the police if you drive into me' and the driver's girlfriend pipes up 'no I'll call the police on you! For throwing a cup on our car!'
At which point irritated drivers behind honked so much he drove off.
I really despair at the world sometimes. I see people throwing rubbish out of their cars every day. Does no one have a sense of civic responsibility anymore? Haringey looks like a dump because of selfish people like these three. If no one challenges them then things will never get better, or maybe this guy will be even more inclined to throw rubbish on the street to piss off other do-gooders like me?
God knows what they are going to do with the film clip of me...
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Permalink Reply by Toonite on
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Yes, scumbags unknown park up in our street, scoff their junk food and then open their car door, place the rubbish on the pavement and drive off. Makes my blood boil!!
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Permalink Reply by kotkas on
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A neighbour of mine smokes cigarettes on a daily basis in their car, parked in front of their property, and just tosses the butts on the sidewalk. At the end of the week there is a constellation of cigarette butts in front of their property! Boggles the mind!
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Collect them, pop them in a plastic bag and leave them on the bonnet after dark.
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Permalink Reply by Shar on
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Rubbish in our area really really gets to me. I'm thinking of launching a Cleaner Harringay campaign.
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Permalink Reply by warren miller on
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Pretty sure it's not as bad as Tottenham
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Permalink Reply by Rebecca Thomas on
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Well done you!! Wish I had the nerve to say the same, but sadly I don’t bother because the reaction you got is precisely what I would expect! It really irritates me beyond belief - more so when kids do it because then I just get annoyed at how their parents obviously raise them!!!
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What I find most satisfying, not to say satisfactory, is to take out my ever present pocket copy of Pope Francis's integral ecology, Laudato Si': care for our common home, and read two or three select paragraphs at the offender/s. This may not remedy their litterbug propensities or even educate them re Harringay our common home, but it elevates my moral high ground by at least a metre per paragraph, thus removing my person from their line of fire. Clearly a much more effective tactic than all those suggestions above, satisfying the real purposes of the OP and subsequent recommendations, while avoiding aggression and all 'Mammy-cussing' and not-so-subtle insults to girlfriends' low-level tastes. Hope this helps.
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One morning the big deposit of half-consumed junk food at our doorstep finally got to me, and I put this up. One can only ask nicely.
My notice on our door politely declining junk mail, cold callers and religious groups has been very effective, so let's see how this one goes. I'll report back.
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