A Little Public Service

So I took today off from work and just had a relaxing day.  Around 4:30 I took my garbage out (I live in Mt. Vernon/Mid-Town, and must adhere to the draconian trash and recycling rules).  I realized that it was a beautiful day and I had a couple hours before the trash people would come, so I could pick up some trash around the area!

I often walk near the sort-of park like trees and brush that border I-83.  I decided to take some heavy-duty garbage bags that I have and clean up some of the trash that gets tossed into the brush.  I found lots of plastic bags, plastic bottles, and aluminum cans.  I also found this:

That's right, I found a donut tire on a rim.   I also learned that spiders of all shapes and sizes LOVE living under and in tires.  Pretty crazy.  Here are some other things I found:

• A half-full bottle of Ken's Caesar salad dressing
• 2 un-used condoms (still in the wrappers)
• An Adidas gym bag that was home to ~1,000,000 ants
• A piece of rebar (instrumental in transferring the ~1,000,000 ants in a gym bag into my trash bag)
• A couple dozen 24 oz. cans of Steel Reserve... I sort of wonder if there's not just a guy who follows a routine of buying a beer somewhere and just always finishing it in that block
• An empty bottle of prescription medicine from 2003  (seriously, if you're going to litter, why do it with something that has your name and address on it??)
• What was probably, at one time, a can for paint thinner or some other noxious chemical (it had a spout) - it had long since lost the bottom to corrosion and leaked any harmful chemicals into the ground

Honestly, though, I get that stuff.  I mean, you're walking along and you finish your beer or get tired of carrying your plastic Coke bottle with your chicken wing bones in it and you're sort of a douchebag, so you toss your trash in the brush.  

Here's what I don't get: I found lots of plastic bags with dog poop in them.  

Really?  You're going be responsible enough to take a plastic bag out with you when you walk your dog.  You're going to pick up the dog's excrement in this bag.  Once you've got all that dog poop cleaned up, you carefully tie off the bag (so the poop doesn't get out, I guess).  Then you toss the plastic bag in the brush and walk your dog back home.   This is something you do?

Seriously, if I hadn't found multiple bags of dog poop in the brush, I wouldn't have believed it.  Who is this person that's like "I can't leave dog poop in the grass for my neighbors to step it, it's better to throw a plastic bag on crap on public property!"  What is the rest of their life like?  Maybe they're very careful to lift the toilet seat before peeing, but then pee all over the stall?   They let you merge on the highway but then tailgate you for the next six miles?  They offer to pass the potatoes, but sneeze in them on the way?  They offer to get the next round, then come back with warm Miller High-Life Light?

Anyway, I think these people suck.  I can't decide if they're worse than people that don't pick up their dog poop.  It's gross and unsanitary.  It's bad enough that you live downtown so your poor dog has to poop on the same small strip of grass as 30 other dogs - for the sake of your dog clean up after it.  And the sake of consistency, don't turn around and litter with your bag o' poop!