Another reason to stop smoking

[TexasStooge]

PALMER, Alaska — Next time, Troy Woods III will probably watch his ash.

Woods, 24, was ticketed this week for littering after allegedly tossing cigarette ash from his truck window as he drove home from his graveyard shift as an electrician in Anchorage. He also was cited for driving with a suspended license.

An officer spotted the alleged flagrant flick because it was dark and a shower of sparks was visible bouncing off the road, according to Alaska State Trooper Mike Burkmire.

About a half-mile up the road Burkmire reportedly spotted Woods tossing the glowing tip of the cigarette, sometimes called the "cherry," from his 1992 Dodge pickup.

When confronted by the trooper, Woods reportedly presented what he thought was incontrovertible evidence that he didn't litter: the cigarette butt was still in his hand.

Nevertheless, the errant ash earned Woods a $60 ticket. He reportedly plans to fight the ticket and the citation for driving without a license.

[hunter84]

If I have to say so, that is one of the things that iritates me the most. when smokers think it is perfectly fine to just toss them wherever/ whenever. Good for the officer.
My daughters G.S. Troop had a May Day pickup on our school grounds after school one day and picked up more than 2000 butts. Discusting.

[JCT777]

Agreed, hunter. Too many smokers use the road they are driving on as their ashtray and their cigarette butt disposal, as opposed to the ashtray in their car. But perhaps they are the same people who throw empty bottles and cans out of the car window as well.

[Amanzi]

When I smoked I never ashed or threw the butt out of the window... Flagler county nearly burned down to the ground because of wild fires.. every where you drive there are still areas that have not recovered... to many reminders around of fire, to throw something that is alight out the window.

[Lindaloo]

Me either Bron!! It takes 7 years for a single cigarrette butt to decompose.

[Stormsfury]

I would be guilty of throwing my cigarettes out the window then ... I do it all the time ... however, about the other litter ...

Just take a look at my passenger's side floorboard for that evidence ... (I'd take a picture, but that would be downright embarrassing. )

[j]

There is absolutely NO excuse for throwing cigarettes out the window...PERIOD! IMO it just reinforces the appearance of said person being a "dirty" person.

When you get out of your car at say a WalMart parking lot and step on a big heaping pile of butts...I'm feeling like I'd like to commit murder. What in heaven's name, gives people the right to disregard another persons right to live filth free?

[Lindaloo]

I would be guilty of throwing my cigarettes out the window then ... I do it all the time ... however, about the other litter ...

Just take a look at my passenger's side floorboard for that evidence ... (I'd take a picture, but that would be downright embarrassing. )

LOL!! You sound like me. Every Saturday morning I have to go to the carwash to empty out the SUV. Then I vaccuum it out only to have to do it again the following Saturday.

[weatherlover427]

That is the cause of so many brush fires out here in California. Sometimes it's like we live in a tinderbox. :o You always hear about people flicking their cigarette butts out the window in brush fire season.