[Closed] Like throwing a sausage up the M62.........

too right. I'm not sure about the 'victim surcharge' bit, but littering should definitely be punished more strongly.

[url= http://www.ayrshirepost.net/ayrshire-news/local-news-ayrshire/2010/01/29/prestwick-businessman-fined-for-blowing-nose-in-stationary-car-102545-25697139/ ]While we're on traffic news [/url]

I agree, there's no excuse for it. However I'm sure I've been guilty of lobbing and apple core out once or twice, but only into country hedgerows, not at roundabouts in relatively built up areas.

Blowing nose one is stupid, however I do question the drivers brainpower when he can't even work out how to switch to breathing through his mouth when his nose is blocked!

“Surely it would have been more dangerous to drive with a blocked nose struggling to breathe.”

He was fined £175 and ordered to pay £429 court costs [b]plus the £15 victim surcharge[/b].

I'm intrigued to know that this is and who the victim might be - did the sausage hit someone, or was the environmental official traumatised by the wanton littering ?

The victim may be a defenceless creature lured out into the road by this tasty morsel, Hedgehog perhaps.............

plus the £15 victim surcharge.

Is that a standard charge now?

Does seem a bit smart for half a sausage, wonder what they would have fined him for a whole one?

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Victim might be the council coffers, having to outlay more on tidying up the mess that lazy people leave around. Maybe the local residents because they have to put up with their area looking like a tip due to people dropping litter. The number of people I see throwing litter out of cars drives me insane.

Victim might be the council coffers

is that like extending human rights to corporations?

I'm not sure it's a human rights issue really 🙂 I'm also not sure what they do with the £15, after all it wont go to the actual crime victim. And surely the sausage was the victim here, used and abused, then thrown into the road.

is an organic material which will be eaten by furry creatures necessarily litter?

is an organic material which will be eaten by furry creatures necessarily litter?

Good point, people dont get fined for putting food out for birds, there's a park near me that has a daily bucket of bread scraps thrown in from the nearby bakery, no one bats an eyelid about that.......

Serves him right for ignoring a court summons.

And the £15 goes to pay for victim support etc. It's taken from all court cases now I think.

And surely the sausage was the victim here, used and abused, then thrown into the road.

let's face it, the outcome for the sausage (or pig, if meat featured in its composition), was never going to be good 🙁 It's worth pointing out that Peter Tatchel has already stated that in coming years the treatment of animals will become the new Holocast...

is an organic material which will be eaten by furry creatures necessarily litter?

If it's just dropped in the road, yes. If you make the effort the hedgerow it and make sure it's not visible and has a high likelyhood of being eaten, no. It's like if I said "my poo is biodegradable, I'm going to do it on the road outside your house" You'd be a bit miffed. If I did it in the hedge round the corner you'd probably not even care.

I've never known anyone to throw away a sausage. Grilled tomato, perhaps.

[i] is an organic material which will be eaten by furry creatures necessarily litter?

Good point, people dont get fined for putting food out for birds,[/i]

birds are feathery, not furry. hth.

let's face it, the outcome for the sausage (or pig, if meat featured in its composition), was never going to be good

The sausages Raison d'être was to be eaten, neither did he eat it or properly dispose of it. You know what the answer is don't you...

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If it's just dropped in the road, yes. If you make the effort the hedgerow it and make sure it's not visible and has a high likelyhood of being eaten, no. It's like if I said "my poo is biodegradable, I'm going to do it on the road outside your house" You'd be a bit miffed. If I did it in the hedge round the corner you'd probably not even care.

Fined for poor throwing action then

indeed, limp wristed throwing. Or maybe commno sense fail. I mean surely the best answer is to just wrap it back up and stick it in the door pocket until you're near a bin?

The sausages Raison d'être was to be eaten

well, if I were to have to spend my life in a concentration camp before being killed I might indeed question my reasons for existence too...

Food waste = vermin proliferation, so in that respect they were probably right. However, the bird feeding point is a good one!

[i]wrap it back up and stick it in the door pocket[/i]
what a lot of effort. Just throw it in the passenger footwell. That's why they exist.

lol @ uplink's link - guy got done for littering for dropping a tenner... police said he meant to, he said it was an accident...

WHO THE **** IS GOING TO DROP A TENNER BY ACCIDENT?!

WHO THE **** IS GOING TO DROP A TENNER BY ACCIDENT?!

Eerr I think you're a bit confused with the capitals there.

[i]WHO THE **** IS GOING TO DROP A TENNER BY ACCIDENT?! [/i]

Who's going to drop one on purpose?

well, if I were to have to spend my life in a concentration camp before being killed I might indeed question my reasons for existence too...

Then you're a sausage also.

Then you're a sausage also.

perhaps a pig is larval stage of the sausage ?