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MAD AS HELL!

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GatorChaser

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We rode from 50 to Lone Cabbage Saturday to eat supper. I can't believe the trash and broken bottles we saw at every spot, Catfish, Paw Paw, House on the hill, where covered with cans and broken bottles everywhere. I'm not sure who enjoys trashing our awesome waterways but man it needs to stop. This is the very reason why ranchers and local authorities put the hammer down on using theses areas, and the good folks are the ones to suffer. The people doing this don't give a rat's a-- because they will just move on and do it else where. Alot of people have grown up on this river and there kids have done the same. Carry a trash bag and clean up after yourselves and everyone will be able to enjoy the waterways we all love. Oh yea, since the water is down now we saw approx 200 4-wheelers burning it up. They had coolers on everyone. Hope you guys keep it clean while the water is low. Come on Rain!
 
Fact:Gator, When we had our clean-up on the 13th,we collected 3 tons of trash between 46 bridge and basically Stone Bridge.Thats not a large area. :( It's diffenetly getting out of control.Bear in mind that was only a 4 hour clean-up and mainly on the eastern bank.
 
You see the same thing south of lone cabbage, I always wind up bringing back more than i took!!, defenantly a new breed on the river !!!:twisted:
 
I vote for a clean up in the area. If we get the word out I bet the clean up would do two things. Get the area clean up of course and raise awareness of littering

Geoff
 
Great idea! And maybe some of the locals who get out there alot could pass out flyers to the 4-wheelers and other boaters to invite them to help with the clean-up. If this is gonna happen, we need to do it quickly, while the water is down.

Too bad that these clean-up projects just reward the trashers for their bad behavior. Almost like telling them "go ahead and dump all your garbage out here, then we'll have a big party and clean up after you!"

I wish they made a pesticide that would work on LITTERBUGS!!!
 
Some of these new air boaters ain't cut from the same cloth. I get scared coming back in because I pick up allot of cans everywhere I go If I get pulled over FWC their gona think I drank 5 cases of beer when they look in my boat. One thing that also get's me in trouble allot is my wife will chew somebody out for throwing their trash on the ground. I'm lucky the area I run still consist of good people I have noticed less trash in my area then about any other. I must also admit the air boaters in Kissimmee keep their area clean also. My opinion is only 80% of today's air boater really get what it's all about.
 
Maybe if we get signs made up saying "IF YOU BRING IT TAKE IT BACK WITH YOU! PLEASE DON'T LITTER!" You can get signs like you for advertisement on the side of the road 36"x36" pretty cheap price.
 
Would probally just be another target for themto shoot at like the did to all the campsite signs on Winder. :evil:
 
hmgm123":2owdfkaq said:
Maybe if we get signs made up ......
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Your hear't in the right place Geoff, but it would have no effect. Sadly. Those roadside plastic signs would be part of the litter after the first summer wind storm. You're right about regular signs getting shot up. And even signs at access points like ramps or wherever the parking areas for the 4 wheelers are... Our society has developed the ability to TOTALLY IGNORE them. :(

Many fishermen toss their trash into the water, because "it's gone" out of sight.... till the water is down. They justify it to themselves as they are creating an artificial reef or habitat. A sad excuse.

Some trash is mindlessly discarded. Some is dropped out of laziness for carrying it back in. Some feel that they are "keeping a mexican employed".

Community Service.
With those words, our government & society has made it feel like it's a bad thing. Do it for punishment, and NEVER do it again. We see prisoners and DUI people cleaning the side of the roads. We think "we're above that".

I wonder if some of us could make our boats available to the Gov't run Community Service programs and haul some DUI people (etc.) out to the river/lake for weekend clean-up duty. But then, there'd be an insurance liability issue I suppose. I know I'd LOVE to take out a couple "offenders" every other Saturday and let them get a good 6 to 8 hours of their community service obligation completed!!! I'd be a "ball buster" for sure, and I'd be right in there with them picking stuff up.

Skeeter is right, There is TONS of trash out there. We try to pick up some when we go out... But one boat can't hardly make a dent in what's out there. A pile of plastic garbage bags has been a staple item in our boats for going on two decades now.

By the way, Skeeter, When we rode Lake Harney with y'all for the May ride... The LACK OF TRASH did not go unnoticed by us. It was absolutely beautiful along that eastern shore of the lake! You guys did a fantastic job!

I don't know what it takes to kill a litterbug. It's a problem with society and the way kids are brought up to not care about appreciating what they have. It's about pride (or the LACK of it).

The best we can do is to keep picking up after them, and enjoying it for the short time it's clean(er).

:(

Sorry for the ranting. This is a sensitive subject that troubles me often.

matt.
 
When you done just put it back in the cooler no mess no fuss. I really think they need to just out law glass bottles or put a high deposit on them. If you camp out there you better wear shoes all the time. As for holes in the signs we had a boat end up with a hole in radiator one morning.
 
Great idea Ted,deposit on glass bottles.I remember collecting soda bottles as a kid.And bringing them to Winn Dixie for money.But put a high deposit on beer bottles :lol: as you said.
 
If anyone ever decides to go on the rainbow river you will have a new appreciation for litter prevention. There is nothing disposable allowed on it at all. No bottles, no cans, no bags of chips, no wrappers anything .. it all has to be in re-usable take home containers
 
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