I get heavy into fire safety. Fought one with a homebuilt Power Wagon and our big F800 800 gallon pumper. Btw, for those of us in the PNW, things are looking dire with the DNR calling for an EMERGENCY Burn Ban starting 4-10-20, unheard of, and after yesterday freakish winds, I wouldn't even be typing this right now if they hadn't.
So a few years back, when I was actively buying a lot of fire gear, I bought a wildland backpack from a Fire Police Chief in the big city next door, and he's got the bid red truck in his driveway, and we get to talking about aholes who start fires and he says he "writes multiple tickets everyday to people who toss their butts when he's in their rear view mirror". Big red truck, says Fire Dept all over it. You don't even want to now the price of the ticket, pretty stiff, I think it was $375 five years ago.
Einstein said there two infinite things, the universe and human stupidity, one being unfathomable, and the other quite calculable but somehow without limit.
Also, people who litter.
Hey, can we start a thread on pet peeves? ;-[}}
We live 12 miles from town, in the middle of the beauty that is the creation, and when you see a bag of crap on the side of the road like that, it's so out of place, you can't just drive by. That wouldn't be right. You have to pick it up and restore the beauty.
When hunting season opens, gunshots here and there way too close, weird pickups full of city slickers in camo casing your place, and they leave fast food trash everywhere they park and eat. As well as a few shot up does by the side of the roads here and there. Smells real nice later, in the summer.
Back in the 90's I lived in the city on a busy thoroughfare but I took nice care of my yard and sidewalk, and there was routinely an exploded bag of leftover hamburger, fries, ketchup and tartar sauce covered in tiny black ants in the curb, a daily present.
One day I'm talking to my 20 something yr old neighbors Bill and Anisa, while I'm cleaning the gutter and I said "who in the fk tosses their fast food sh*t out of their car like this?" and she says without a missing a beat "I do" with a huge and gorgeous smile.
I give up.
I've given up on people such a long time ago...