This really pisses me off.

[Maggot]

We've asked it a hundred time, WTF is wrong with people. Thes eparks are one of our greatest treasures and morons are trashing them.


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[BytorJr]

These are the people who door ding cars, key cars, five-finger discount, etc. They respect nobody's property INCLUDING their own. Provided they pay taxes (likely not) then they are seriously destroying their own property. This is when there is some validation in certain Middle Eastern laws. Spray painting your own national park, just like that idiot that tipped over the giant bolder on purpose in Arches, needs to be something like mandatory 10 years in a real honest-to-God prison. I'd just love to meet their parents.

 

[Bigwheels]

Like the 1st & only time I went to Yellowstone & saw Morning Glory pool. With an empty rack of beer & bottles laying in the bottom!
I would gleefully skin those sob's alive even 40 years later!
People suck! I'll bet those bastards kids are members of antifa today...

 

[huntingthem]

These are the people who door ding cars, key cars, five-finger discount, etc. They respect nobody's property INCLUDING their own. Provided they pay taxes (likely not) then they are seriously destroying their own property. This is when there is some validation in certain Middle Eastern laws. Spray painting your own national park, just like that idiot that tipped over the giant bolder on purpose in Arches, needs to be something like mandatory 10 years in a real honest-to-God prison. I'd just love to meet their parents.

Cane their asses.....

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[SniperWolf6mm]

Not just the parks, beaches too. As an avid surfer it pisses me off how much trash winds up in the ocean. Especially after a major holiday weekend. The US is not that bad compared to other countries though.

 

[supercorndogs]

"including indigenous populations who were already particularly susceptible to the virus."

“It’s really in the hands of the visitors,” she says. “If they will cooperate and wear their masks, they can keep all of us safe and keep their vacation destinations open.”

" these newfound visitors aren’t paying heed to trail etiquette or environmental guidelines. “To step off the trail is to endanger 100-year-old moss,” she says."

"In interviews, rangers at Big Bend National Park in Texas, Great Falls Park in Maryland, and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Utah and Arizona said they have all seen increases in visitation"

Some excerpts from this article because I don't feel like anyone commenting actually read it. The only trail they even talk about being trashed is in Cali, which in Cali all the trails get trashed, and rocks get spray painted.

Then it moves on to a lady in Boulder, CO. Her bitch is that there are too many out of state people at the trail she likes and they may not be wearing masks. and they may not be social distancing at certain points on the trail. Fuck her.

This is propaganda. I would say the end game is closing open public spaces. I have seen so many trails in Cali that were trashed and spray painted.

 

[pmclaine]

Despite being an Italian portraying an Indian the message resonates....

 

[Amanda4461]

I tell my wife that the 80/20 rule is applied by psychology in reverse. Actually, 80% of the folks walking the earth are useless dirtbags, with 20% being the productive folks who go to work, do the job well, take pride in their country and themselves, and carry the shiftless, whining, lazy scumbags all around them, square on their backs. Of course, the 20% pay the taxes to allow the 80% to exist and be a burden often too great to bear. My wife calls me a pessimist, until she sees the trash of all colors, many illegals, dump their dirty baby diapers and Mickey D’s Trash on the asphalt at the North Carolina Zoo, 6 feet from the trash receptacles. Following these scumbags into the zoo, we end up picking up the plastic shit that they drop on the trails. I think I have convinced her of my shitty viewpoint

 

[supercorndogs]

I can tell you, when some illegals from south of border we have here get done fishing, The place they were fishing is trashed, with no attempt to clean up the mess. It didn't start with the COVID though. When the people that run the either of the two Tia restaurants in town leave a fishing spot. You can't even tell they were there.

 

[fencewire]

now you have the mask trash... at least for the most part the glove use and dispose in the parking lots has dissipated, but now it is masks blowing here and there. The free ones mind you...

 

[powdahound76]

@supercorndogs - we have both variety here in Denver too.

I will take old school proud Mexicans all day. The many thousands I have encountered through work and life in general were kind and polite, hard working, and grateful to live in the US with safety and opportunity.

The kind you speak of who trash everything are vermin to be launched back across the border.

While I too see this article as crap, I will say that 2 weekends ago, we arrived at a long time favorite campsite in the middle of the NF to spend an hour picking up the spot, trash everywhere. Ended up bringing 2 extra trash bags home.
A short walk showed 2 other spots with trash scattered about too.

I had some sissy give me a look back in April for not wearing a mask hiking.
Gave him the look and he scampered off like a ground squirrel a Kid tossed a pine cone at.
And at 5’7” and 150 I am not an imposing figure. Guess my face said I kinda wanted to whip his ass!

 

[Jefe's Dope]

Is a rule when camping, I take out more trash than I bring in.

 

[Threadcutter308]

@supercorndogs - we have both variety here in Denver too.

I will take old school proud Mexicans all day. The many thousands I have encountered through work and life in general were kind and polite, hard working, and grateful to live in the US with safety and opportunity.

The kind you speak of who trash everything are vermin to be launched back across the border.

While I too see this article as crap, I will say that 2 weekends ago, we arrived at a long time favorite campsite in the middle of the NF to spend an hour picking up the spot, trash everywhere. Ended up bringing 2 extra trash bags home.
A short walk showed 2 other spots with trash scattered about too.

I had some sissy give me a look back in April for not wearing a mask hiking.
Gave him the look and he scampered off like a ground squirrel a Kid tossed a pine cone at.
And at 5’7” and 150 I am not an imposing figure. Guess my face said I kinda wanted to whip his ass!

You should have gone over and licked all the door handles on his car doors. He'd still be standing there..........

 

[theLBC]

 

[SniperWolf6mm]

I have seen so many trails in Cali that were trashed and spray painted.

Ever check out "Jim Morrison Cave?"

 

[BytorJr]

The interesting thing about all this, and it's not super surprising, is all us "evil people who believe in THE Constitution and 'lean right' actually are more offended by environmental issues than the so-called "green" people who are some of those causing this crap!!!

 

[HMRamateur]

It's not as bad in canada, but definitely worse than it used to be. There's garbage everywhere, the parks are SUPER packed. Thankfully no graffiti or shit on the paths. I'm at the point now that it it doesn't require a lot of energy to access, it isn't worth going for me because I'm just going to run into someone else there. The parks have paved access; way too easy to get there.

 

[pmclaine]

The interesting thing about all this, and it's not super surprising, is all us "evil people who believe in THE Constitution and 'lean right' actually are more offended by environmental issues than the so-called "green" people who are some of those causing this crap!!!

To them its a "religion".

They look at it with "passion" rather than "rationality".

When our parents bought a fridge it used more electricity but lasted 40 years or longer.

Now we buy a fridge and you can run it for pennies a month but it dies within ten years.

They think "But we have cut the electricty useage" not realizing the manufacturing cost of making a sheetmetal cabinet and all the other aluminum, plastic, petroleum products that make up a fridge will now have to be replaced by new while the old goes to take space in the landfill, this far exceeds any savings in electricity.

Add the cost of having the stupid fridge be boated over here on an oil burning container ship because we are too stupid to realize our feel good environmental laws and trade practices have just "offshored" to another country the abuses we were trying to prevent here. The energy expenditure to actually make a fridge actually goes down the longer it runs.

When you make decisions by "feeling" you generally lose.

 

[BytorJr]

I remember a Westinghouse 'fridge in my Grandfather's "pump house" that was probably 40 years old. Finally tossed it (I was pissed) because it ran at lower RPM (hence longevity) and was just cool with the whole door handle mechanism and such. You had to defrost it and I think when he passed my dad didn't want to deal with it since we didn't fish much (where tackle was) then.