Thunder trash

[Tyme2fish]

I just read an article about all the trash left behind at the Great Lawn and other sites. It's supposed to be a feel good story on how schools and organizations earn money by picking up all the trash.

I find the story to be depressing. Since when does a person bring items to a park and then just leave all the refuse behind. If you pack it in you can sure as heck pack it out.

Maybe the police officers that are posted at these venues can issue citations for littering and increase the government coffers instead of the government paying out money.

Oh, that's right. We have no personal responsibility anymore. Some one else will pick up my garbage and clean up after me. It makes me sick.

[mhall]

I agree....If you can carry it in, you can carry out what is left or just throw it in the **** trash can..................How hard is that.......COME ON MAN...

[DJD]

Its a sign of the times. We live in a world now that has little to no personal responsibility. To me... character of a person is what you do when no one else is looking. Meaning do you pick up your trash? Do you do the right thing when no one is there to see? In business, do you give the proper credit where is due? There are many more but you get the idea.
It's sad to walk down a pretty creek fishing and come across garbage or fish the back of a cove and see garbage or walk in a national park and find snack wrappers littered around. The sad part is it's prolly adults and not kids!!

[Tyme2fish]

Corydon,Indiana hosts three bluegrass shows in the summer in the courthouse square. I'll guesstimate the attendance at a couple of hundred people. I know this is not a comparison to the attendance at Thunder but allow me to continue.

Most of the audience are people of my age (ancient) and we bring in our lawn chairs,coolers,etc. I'm still amazed that after the show, there is not ONE PIECE of trash on the lawn. We pick up after our selves and leave the event as clean as when we arrived.

Respect for ourselves and the community.

[HURRICANEBOB]

I agree with you all.

Maybe as a start, next time before Thunder starts, an announcement comes on the speakers and says "We're taking a 30 minute delay to Thunder. We all want to enjoy the show, and none of us wants to be back here picking up a mess in the morning. So let's take 30 minutes and police up our areas around us".

The next morning, instead of the Mayor, and the news channels saying nice words about the volunteers who are there to get the leftover trash, the Mayor and New Channels ought be out being saying something like "Come on people, this is your town, you made a mess and you didn't respect our community or our riverfront. " Then interview a couple of the volunteers picking up trash, and coach them to start with "The people who were here last night are pigs and don't deserve to be citizens in my town".....then......"But I'm glad to do this to make up for there bad behavior so our city stays beautiful".

In the sky, at the next Thunder.....suddenly you hear this chilling radio communications: "Drone papa-lima-2-2, this is ground command 6-6.....can you confirm you have a clear shot at the dude in the red hat that just dumped the beer can......over" Gulf-Charlie 6-6, this is Drone papa-lima-2-2, affirmative, am I clear to engage?

I mean.....c'mom man.....y u dink dey call it THUNDER!

[RoadToad]

Agree 100%. If you pack it in, you can pack it out. And they do provide trash receptacles.

This reminds me of another pet peeve of mine - people who smoke, and consider the world to be their ashtray (this includes those who throw butts out their car windows). Cigarette butts are NOT bio-degradable.