This is actually a bitch about something that happened last year, regardless I still think it is bitch worthy.
Last summer I took a trip to PEI and I was on the ferry from Pictou to Woods Island, there was some tween girls sports team there (volleyball or maybe baseball), anyway most of them where drinking slushies from plastic cups and one of them (possibly by accident) dropped their cup into the Northumberland strait. So they all thought this was so funny and the rest started to “accidentally” drop their trash into the water and giggle about it. I made a comment somewhere along the lines of “how about I throw one of you in the water so you can clean those up?” This was followed by a chorus of “OMG!” “like I can’t like believe he like said that!”
I am pretty sure that some of their parents where close by, if not right beside them, and did nothing to stop this. —Not a Tree Hugger Yet, But Getting There
This article appears in Sep 1-7, 2011.
Good for you for speaking up. Children need to be taught. I was riding my motorbike in Bayers Lake last summer and some kid was throwing his Mcdonalds garbage out the window of the family car while his parents were driving. I kindly let them know that they their kid was littering and they promptly stopped him.
It’s so ridiculous that someone could do that and not know they were a total asswipe.
As a proud Redfoot by birth (born and raised in PEI), I declare this a valid bitch. I have seen this happen countless times before on this ferry crossing and the old one that used to run from Borden to Cape Tormentine, NB. AND not just by kids, either. Accidents happen. I get it. I have lost more than one hat over the side on my trip across the Strait. But when it’s obviously blatant, ignorant behaviour like this, then it pisses me off to no end!! This is MY HOME you’re polluting, you fucktard. All because you are too Goddamned lazy to walk the 10 feet from the guard rail to the garbage cans that are ALL over the boat. I have always felt that they should have someone onboard each crossing that simply polices this type of behaviour. You want to be lazy and throw your trash overboard? Wonderful! Here’s a $250 ticket for littering, payable when we dock or before you go to leave the Island. No payment? Sorry, you can’t leave the Island by boat because your ferry access is denied until payment is received in full. I know, it’s horribly impractical and would never be implemented. So, I would have done what you did, OB, and say something to the offender(s). And if they were kids, like in this case, I would be going right to the parents. (not that it would probably make any difference) People are oblivious to what the various plastics do to our waterways. Fish get caught up in the plastic thingys that hold the beer/pop cans together, expensive fishing gear gets fouled, sea birds ingest this shit thinking that it’s food and then die a slow, agonizing death due to starvation because their digestive tracts get blocked, and finally, it gets washed up on the beaches, where these people will most likely be spending at least some of their time to visit. It’s just plain ignorance.
this one’s for you clint http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STv0sBwo6Do
Some douchehat threw a glass bottle out their car window the other night on Fairfax when I was walking by.
There are assclowns all around us, guys. 🙁
pei’ers call themselves “redfoots”. News to me, but I’m still suprised that ‘SOCIALABLE’ is a tradition and that in my youth we called pong hockey ‘hurley’ or some such bullshit, even though I’m sure we called it hockey no matter what road, pond, or rink we played it on.
Redfoot is an old Island-ism. Not used very much anymore. If you have ever spent a summer going barefoot over there, you’ll know where the term came from.
Sociable seems to be more of a NS thing, although it IS used all over Atlantic Canada.
what are you doing walking in fairview?
you were packing a shiv right?
what the fuck else would you expect from a bunch of snot nosed little brats.
OP, just be glad they didn’t spread their legs and try to shoot out their tampons into the water.
karma has a way of cycling back around. Give these chicks about 5 years. THEY’LL be trash dumped overboard soon enough. Chicks like that always are.
“Give these chicks about 5 years.”
Wrong. Maybe her next lifetime instead. Unless she dies in the next couple years and has a rebirth on the fifth year.