Country lanes should always look like the one in the picture. Unfortunately, there are some people in this world (city folk usually) who think that any country lane just begs to have trash dumped on it.
It is beyond my comprehension (and that's a big word for me) why any human thinks that their trash would be more at home sitting beside a country road, than out in the city dump, where it would have the company of lots of other city trash.
Last week we found a recliner sitting near the turn-around for the school bus. Had it not rained all night on the chair, someone might have picked up the poor stray and taken it home. Instead, one of the men from the local hunting club jokingly put a "For Sale" sign in the seat of the chair. (There were no takers).
Not only do we find chairs, but couches, televisions, lamps, boxes of clothing, etc. If the people who do the dumping would only contribute a couple boxes of food, we could set up housekeeping for some homeless person.
If it were possible, I would mount cameras in the trees at all the tempting dump sites. I would find the "dumpsters" in their homes, then in the dark of night, when they were sound asleep, I would bring a truck load of the stuff I have to clean out of my chicken house and put it right at their front door. Then I would attach a note: "If I have to put up with your s---, then you have to put up with mine!"



posted by feywon
When we go hiking we not only pack out our own trash, if we see bottles and wrappers left by others we pack that out too. Furniture usually doesn't get left in the National Forests where we go, but some people find it too strenuous to carry out an empty soda bottle/can they hauled in full. Makes no sense to me. You come out there for the beauty why defile it????
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