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Urban Fishing & Garbage

I did a little fishing early this morning and ended up pulling someone's litter out of the lake. Most of it had its origins in fishing and made me wonder why anyone who likes to fish would be so stupid as to allow their trash to end up in the lake. There is a garbage can near the end of the fishing pier. Is that too far to go to throw your crap away? There are way too many irresponsible people on this Earth mucking it up!

Trash, Green Arrows & Red Lights

I've been noticing a lot of two issues. One is drivers running red lights and the other is people throwing their garbage (littering) on the ground or in lakes. When I wake up in the morning, I can see trash on the street and on the lawns of myself and my neighbors. Apparently it is our responsibility to clean up after the steady stream of people who walk from the apartments at the end of the block—through our neighborhood to the convenience store and back all day and all night. Now to my morning fishing excursions. In the past few days, I have fished out of the lake, bait containers, fishing line, pop cans, beer bottles, cigarette packs and other assorted trash. Much of this is likely from people fishing from the pier. I'm not sure why people who like to fish, like to do so amidst a pile of garbage, but apparently it is also my responsibility to clean up their trash from the lake where they tossed it. Bringing me now to the second part of my rant. Every day, I notice on avera...