Cigarettes out car windows?

Bom records guru said :

To the OP: I would suggest carrying a small fire extinguisher with you to make your point. Everyone will get the idea, and is less likely to end up with you being hospitalised. If you do want to pick a fight, just point the extinguisher through the offenders window and empty its contents in their car 🙂

Oh, did I leave that bit out? Sorry, I go to work in motorcycle gear. Nose punches and the like would hurt him far more than me. And reaction times to get to the said cigarette and return it are much less. So if you see a big white van raging at a little blue motorbike along GDE one morning soon, you know why huh? 🙂

Terra said :

Euro will pretty much mean pushbikes are second nature. Well in most of it anyway.

A lap of the lake, either all together or in parts, will get her interest up about the main attractions.

Just follow on from there.

War Memorial (yes even for teenage girls) and National Museum are musts.

She could also go online and get her threads confused in Riotact

Euro will pretty much mean pushbikes are second nature. Well in most of it anyway.

A lap of the lake, either all together or in parts, will get her interest up about the main attractions.

Just follow on from there.

War Memorial (yes even for teenage girls) and National Museum are musts.

Bom records guru said :

The February 1991 Black Mountain fire (probably the most significant fire in urban Canberra in the 20 years before 2001-03) was started this way – a few weeks afterwards you could go to the intersection of Belconnen Way and Macarthur Avenue and see exactly where the offending cigarette landed.

Belconnen Way does not intersect Macarthur Avenue (and never has). There is over 1km of road known as ‘Fairfax Street’ separating them.

To the OP: I would suggest carrying a small fire extinguisher with you to make your point. Everyone will get the idea, and is less likely to end up with you being hospitalised. If you do want to pick a fight, just point the extinguisher through the offenders window and empty its contents in their car 🙂

So for anyone who does smoke in the car, like I used to do when I was a smoker, here’s a tip.

Grab an empty plastic drink bottle, and half fill it with water. Dispose of your butt in the bottle, swish it around and it’s put out. Pop the lid back on, and there’s no smell (well…no more smell than you’ve already created by smoking in the car in the first place…)

When the bottle begins to get full, just throw it out and start a new one.

There’s no excuse for throwing butts out the window, especially when alternatives are so simple.

MsCheeky said :

This reminds me a big car trip we did as a family in about 1969-70. Toyota Crown pulling a trailer with Mum, Dad, six kids and the dog, drove from Woomera, South Australia to Brisbane, Sydney and back to Woomera over a period of about a month, in the middle of summer. You can imagine we generated a bit of rubbish during some of the long drives – empty drink cans, sandwich wrappers and so on.

With the drink cans, when we were finished, our job was to hand them up to Dad who would chuck them out of the car with a right hander over the roof onto the side of the road, though he did rather favour throwing them while on a bridge so they’d end up in a creek. It seemed a perfectly normal bit of behaviour back then. Not too long after that campaigns such as Keep South Australia Beautiful started up and people began to wise up. Thinking about it now, I cringe.

Also, when I was in the ranks of filthy smokers, I was similarly oblivious to the concepts of littering or second hand smoke. Double cringe. Still, hindsight is 20-20.

You are absolved my child. Although I think even the big man would cringe at that one.

I grew up in another country, but you are right, back then there was not so much awareness. Thank god for progress!

Incredibly annoying. What’s worse is when the ignorant knob in front flicks it out the window whilst moving and it hits square in your windscreen in a shower of sparks.
Frankly I reckon cars should have smoke detectors in them that roll the windows up when they detect the smoke. Let the filthy scum swelter in their own stench.

The February 1991 Black Mountain fire (probably the most significant fire in urban Canberra in the 20 years before 2001-03) was started this way – a few weeks afterwards you could go to the intersection of Belconnen Way and Macarthur Avenue and see exactly where the offending cigarette landed.

If they are stupid enough to be smoking in the first place then trying to “enlighten” them about littering and potential bushfires is at best going to be totally lost on them.

Today when I was up at Majura I pulled a woman up on nearly taking my son out as she flew into a parking space. No apology, just outright denial that she was driving like a total arse wipe. She also had a small baby in the back of her car which gives anyone reason to watch how they drive. By the looks of her she was the baby’s grandmother.

So I don’t fancy your chances of getting any joy from your smoker. Most people who do strange things in their cars on Canberra roads think its their god given right.