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Letter — Pick up your litter!
Now that the political “season” is over in Canaan, I’d like to bring up an unglamorous item. I speak of the matter of litter on Peaceful Valley Road. It has been mentioned at a few town meetings. I use that road to hike, bike, haul trash, get the paper at the B-3 exit and put in a few political roadside signs. I see the sides of that byway a good deal.
Since latter 2007, I’ve discerned that specific trash — which I’ve voluntarily retrieved — is really the dirty doings of a very few people. It only takes a small clump of slovens to mess up any public space. Commuters use this road plus Frisbee Street. On “dump days” many townsfolk use both of those roads.
To date (as of Nov. 5), I’ve counted 221 six-pack beer litterings (ca. 1,100 bottles) all prepped the exact same way. I’ve found one goat feed sack, one rabbit feed sack, three filmy unused bags and a modest amount of light construction waste from what may be two different and uncovered pick-ups. Rounding out the picture is one light green pack menthol-loving smoker, a once-a-week “McD” fast-food waste-flinger and the very random coffee cup, iced tea can or water bottle, etc.
Canaan town officials know of the beer six-pack flinger and they contacted the county sheriff last year. I can add the details about this one HUGE SLOB. He (I say it’s a man) keeps all his bottles in their cardboard container with the bottle caps and in the always-tied plastic bag. The sixth bottle he keeps and throws out later (I’ve found those too). Long necked bottles don’t spill in a car. He must never bring home any trace of his drinking. Sometimes he even leaves an unopened bottle in his “litter-package.” He never slows down or stops to sling out his bag of beer-waste.
This entity always flings away from peoples’ homes, onto the north sides of Peaceful Valley Road and Frisbee Street, the south side of New Concord Road, (east of the Sayre’s Hill Road Bridge) and onto County Route 5 (West side) on the way up Mercer Mountain. Sometimes he doesn’t do this long drunk-driving loop of his and goes straight up Route 5 after exiting Peaceful Valley Road.
So, we have one massive beer-bottle-et-al litterer (Billy “Burpboy” Blottomun?), one fast food slob (Mickey D. Oinkoink?), a pair(?) of uncovered pick-ups (by the No-Tarp twins?), “Mr. Menthol” and his light green litter, plus the ho-hum assortment of to’n’fro working folks flinging their few coffee cups, water bottles and iced tea cans, etc.
All police should note that I had to get rid of all the bottles, cardboard and plastic bags from the beer litterer. I did retain, however, the unopened bottles and ALL the bottle caps. He does his damnable deeds sometime after 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.
What can YOU do? Well, wherever you live, if you see crud flung by a lazy slob near, in front of or on your road frontage or near your mailbox … pick it up ASAP! It might be thought to be YOUR mess and litterers prefer to toss their waste where there is already some visible. Don’t be a victim. Take charge!
Also, if you know anyone who drank Heineken up to 2007, then switched to Coors Light up until early 2009, then glugged down Miller 64 until September 2009 and is now guzzling Coors Light again, he might be this Billy “Burpboy” Blottomun! Show him this letter. Maybe he’ll even throw in the towel and get off the sauce.
W. Andy Meier
Canaan
Since latter 2007, I’ve discerned that specific trash — which I’ve voluntarily retrieved — is really the dirty doings of a very few people. It only takes a small clump of slovens to mess up any public space. Commuters use this road plus Frisbee Street. On “dump days” many townsfolk use both of those roads.
To date (as of Nov. 5), I’ve counted 221 six-pack beer litterings (ca. 1,100 bottles) all prepped the exact same way. I’ve found one goat feed sack, one rabbit feed sack, three filmy unused bags and a modest amount of light construction waste from what may be two different and uncovered pick-ups. Rounding out the picture is one light green pack menthol-loving smoker, a once-a-week “McD” fast-food waste-flinger and the very random coffee cup, iced tea can or water bottle, etc.
Canaan town officials know of the beer six-pack flinger and they contacted the county sheriff last year. I can add the details about this one HUGE SLOB. He (I say it’s a man) keeps all his bottles in their cardboard container with the bottle caps and in the always-tied plastic bag. The sixth bottle he keeps and throws out later (I’ve found those too). Long necked bottles don’t spill in a car. He must never bring home any trace of his drinking. Sometimes he even leaves an unopened bottle in his “litter-package.” He never slows down or stops to sling out his bag of beer-waste.
This entity always flings away from peoples’ homes, onto the north sides of Peaceful Valley Road and Frisbee Street, the south side of New Concord Road, (east of the Sayre’s Hill Road Bridge) and onto County Route 5 (West side) on the way up Mercer Mountain. Sometimes he doesn’t do this long drunk-driving loop of his and goes straight up Route 5 after exiting Peaceful Valley Road.
So, we have one massive beer-bottle-et-al litterer (Billy “Burpboy” Blottomun?), one fast food slob (Mickey D. Oinkoink?), a pair(?) of uncovered pick-ups (by the No-Tarp twins?), “Mr. Menthol” and his light green litter, plus the ho-hum assortment of to’n’fro working folks flinging their few coffee cups, water bottles and iced tea cans, etc.
All police should note that I had to get rid of all the bottles, cardboard and plastic bags from the beer litterer. I did retain, however, the unopened bottles and ALL the bottle caps. He does his damnable deeds sometime after 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.
What can YOU do? Well, wherever you live, if you see crud flung by a lazy slob near, in front of or on your road frontage or near your mailbox … pick it up ASAP! It might be thought to be YOUR mess and litterers prefer to toss their waste where there is already some visible. Don’t be a victim. Take charge!
Also, if you know anyone who drank Heineken up to 2007, then switched to Coors Light up until early 2009, then glugged down Miller 64 until September 2009 and is now guzzling Coors Light again, he might be this Billy “Burpboy” Blottomun! Show him this letter. Maybe he’ll even throw in the towel and get off the sauce.
W. Andy Meier
Canaan
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