We've recently had some heavy rains here on the Middle River, which has, predictably, flushed a lot of dead grasses and branches from the shoreline.
Unfortunately, it has also flushed paper towels, candy wrappers, plastic bottles, and about a billion cigarette butts (why is it that a normally responsible adult that would never, ever throw a candy wrapper out a car window seems to be just fine doing the same with a lit cigarette?) into the waters of the Middle River and, hence, into the Chesapeake.
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| I mean, really. . . . |
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| Leaves and straw I get, but cigarettes, disused fenders. . . . |
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| . . candy and chip bags. . |
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| . . .and of course the ever popular oil slick. . . |
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People, please have a care. Everything, EVERYTHING you toss by the roadside, in the weeds, in the gutter. . . all of it eventually makes its way into the bay. The bay is not your mother. The bay should not have to clean up after you.
Sheesh.
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This is something I have tried to convince people of for a long time. Alas, people are worse than pigs.
ReplyDeleteI must confess, every time I see somebody throw a cigarette butt out a car window, I want to pick it up, run over to them, and say "HEY you dropped this!" We've got to stop fouling our own nest.
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