New Hobby?

So I learned something really interesting yesterday and I think it might have to become my new hobby.  I complain about a lot of things, but until now I have not had a way to get some sort of follow through.  So, I ask you my few readers, would you like to unite with me and take a stand?  Let me share my joy with you.

One of my pet peeves are people who smoke in their cars with the windows down and at the end fling their smoking butts out into the road.  I think it's disrespectful, and rude.  If they don't want their cigarette smoke around them when they are driving what makes them think I do?  But what can you do about it, short of rolling down your window and saying something to them which will only resort in a fight in varying levels.  You know anything from name calling to some form of road rage.  Well, my readers, you do have an option.  If they throw their smoking cigarette butt out the window it is an offense.  So what can you do?  Simple.  Call the local police, not the emergency line-they do not like that, and report the offense.  An officer will have to take the report.  You will have to sign it.  They will track down and server the offender and they will have to appear in court.  You will as well, but in my opinion it is worth it to take a stand.  When you make the report you need to know the license plate number, the location it happened (parking lot, street name and closest intersection) and it helps to know if the person is male or female.  They have to come and take your report, it is your right.

This is the same for drunk or erratic drivers, so if you witness or are a target in road rage you do have ways to fight back.  Given it's not right in that moment.  But I'm ok with it biting them in the butt after the fact.  So what am I saying?  I'm saying unite, take back our roads and make them cigarette butt free and maybe a little safer.  I'll go to court if it means maybe one more person things before chasing someone down or flipping that smoking butt out the window.  Spread the word and join me in some karma.

~Emily