Jess in St. Louis says this dumpster “is definitely a manifestation of the microcosm of American value clashes that is my block.” Adds Jess: “Hopefully we can all survive the cardboard waste of Christmas in one piece.”
![Whoever threw away all that cardboard. Do it again and I'll fill your yard with it. Don't be an Asshole. Recycle. [Response] QUIT Being a Nanny-State, Progressive, Liberal, ASS and try to FORCE me to recycle if I don't want to. FU & F the Polar Bear! And if I catch you in my yard, realize, I support the 2nd Ammendmant [sic]. this was written by someone who choses to recycle.](http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7033/6554915221_25ef752714.jpg "Whoever threw away all that cardboard. Do it again and I'll fill your yard with it. Don't be an Asshole. Recycle. [Response] QUIT Being a Nanny-State, Progressive, Liberal, ASS and try to FORCE me to recycle if I don't want to. FU & F the Polar Bear! And if I catch you in my yard, realize, I support the 2nd Ammendmant [sic]. this was written by someone who choses to recycle.")
![QUIT Being a Nanny-State, Progressive, Liberal, ASS and try to FORCE me to recycle if I don't want to. FU & F the Polar Bear! And if I catch you in my yard, realize, I support the 2nd Ammendmant [sic]. this was written by someone who choses to recycle.](http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7027/6597044819_bd2527e507.jpg "QUIT Being a Nanny-State, Progressive, Liberal, ASS and try to FORCE me to recycle if I don't want to. FU & F the Polar Bear! And if I catch you in my yard, realize, I support the 2nd Ammendmant [sic]. this was written by someone who choses to recycle.")
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56 responses so far ↓
#1
josh
Free speech, it doesn’t kill others, just those who use it.
Dec 29, 2011 at 6:02 pm rating: 30
#2
shwo!
And then there’s the 3rd Amendment, which apologizes for the spelling of the 2nd Ammendmant.
Dec 29, 2011 at 6:04 pm rating: 86
#3
katie_2256
I love the random capitalization that’s going on in the first note. IT makes Things so MUCh more Exciting
Dec 29, 2011 at 6:09 pm rating: 29
#4
FeRD
Every one of you needs to study these notes until you understand that threats are never an effective way of influencing others’ behavior!
You’d better understand it… OR ELSE!!!
Dec 29, 2011 at 6:46 pm rating: 40
#5
aliceblue
These two are meant for each other.
Dec 29, 2011 at 7:44 pm rating: 9
#6
HeyOH!
What did the polar bear do? F the PEDOBEAR!
Dec 29, 2011 at 8:02 pm rating: 14
#7
Palomon
Penn and Teller covered recycling in “Bull Shit.” turns out the overwhelming majority of “recycled” trash ends up in landfills anyway. The good news? Landfills are pretty pleasant once capped.
Dec 29, 2011 at 8:04 pm rating: 12
#8
Goldie
Ammen, brother.
Dec 29, 2011 at 8:05 pm rating: 5
#9
SpaceGirl
This one just makes me sad, and I’m not sure why.
Dec 29, 2011 at 9:39 pm rating: 10
#10
Poltergeist
The first notewriter is a jackass who needs to find better things to do than peering into dumpsters and analyzing the contents, but I just love how the second one uses this as an excuse to push some conservative propaganda. Politics, very surprisingly, are not always the driving force behind stupid shit. Oh, and you can take the red lawn sign down because nobody honestly gives a fuck about who you’re voting for. It’s okay to keep it a secret – God won’t hate you…rant over.
Dec 29, 2011 at 10:36 pm rating: 26
#11
Poltergeist
Now tell me, do rice cakes get thrown in the garbage or recycled? And if I mistakenly put them in the wrong location, will I also receive a PA note, a PA response to said PA note, and a lawn full of rice cakes?
Dec 29, 2011 at 11:18 pm rating: 4
#12
pony girl
Obviously the first note writer loves the planet so much that they scour their neighborhood trash cans for ill-placed cardboard to make PANs.
Truly, this person deserves some sort of eco-award. Perhaps the second notewriter can build a huge found-object sculpture for first notewriter’s yard?
Dec 30, 2011 at 12:00 am rating: 5
#13
Pops Negral
Not everybody has a place to put recyclables. If it’s there I’ll use it, if not it’s going in the trash. If you have a choice and choose not to then you’re a dick.
Dec 30, 2011 at 1:45 am rating: 9
#14
Pandanus Bear
what the hell has a polar bear got to do with recycling? is this some USA cultural reference?
Dec 30, 2011 at 7:25 am rating: 6
#15
viqueen_fan3
I like how all the Ys in the first note are different
Dec 30, 2011 at 9:36 am rating: 3
#16
People Person
That cardboard is a homeless guy’s home. Free building material, just trying to pay it forward.
Dec 30, 2011 at 11:27 am rating: 2
#17
JBee
I can relate to the note writer on this one (though I realize it’s pointless to write angry notes on the dumpster). I used to dumpster dive useful stuff out of my apartment complex’s dumpsters all the time; I’m talking gently used clothing in bags, window fans, etc, most of which was in perfectly fine shape to be donated to thrift stores. And of course there was tons of stuff that should be recycled, when the recycling bins were literally a matter of feet away from the dumpster. I think people are just lazy, and it makes me mad too. But stupid notes won’t do a thing.
Dec 30, 2011 at 11:27 am rating: 15
#18
Bill
As a fellow St. Louisan, I’d like to point out that this is a communal alley dumpster (likely overflowing with cardboard and making it impossible to put trash into, just like the one in my alley) located mere feet from a commingled recycling dumpster designed explicitly to accept cardboard. (i.e. I read it as “Don’t be a dick and fill a dumpster with not-flattened boxes.” Which I suppose is just as PA, but not nearly as entertaining.)
Dec 30, 2011 at 12:40 pm rating: 8
#19
Roundredhead
I think my favorite part of the second note is that they feel the need to say that they choose to recycle. I suppose they want us to know that they aren’t as much of a jerk as the guy who filled the dumpster with cardboard.
Dec 30, 2011 at 8:21 pm rating: 1
#20
Poltergeist
Although there is a part of me that hates the “This is mine and I’ll do what I want with it, even if it means throwing it out” crowd.
Anybody ever had an experience like this? As a second grader, I purchased a school lunch one day that I ended up not enjoying in the least. I learned my lesson, but it was an honest mistake and I was only a hungry little boy. The kid next to me only ate half of his sandwich, so I nicely asked if I could have the other half. His response – “It’s my sandwich and I’ll toss it out of I wanna.” So he did.
tl;dr – It would be really nice if you recycled or offered unwanted items to other people in some way instead of just throwing them out simply because you can. So yes, I somewhat agree with notewriter #1 – please don’t be an asshole.
Fun fact – polar bear fur appears solidly white but is actually transparent! Woo!
Dec 31, 2011 at 12:09 am rating: 8
#21
Cordelia
When the ice caps melt (even more) and polar bears go looking for a new food source I hope they eat all the deliberate non-recyclers!
Dec 31, 2011 at 2:06 am rating: 13
#22
Dan
If I was the cardboard dumper, I wouldn’t be too concerned. If the original author needs to leave a note for me on the dumpster, he clearly doesn’t know where I live. Empty threat much?
Dec 31, 2011 at 6:54 am rating: 2
#23
John Alansan
Waah waah, nanny state…
Gimme my guns, my freedom, and my lack of personal responsibility!!
Then gimme a f*cked up planet! Then maybe I’ll admit I was wrong.
Dec 31, 2011 at 12:54 pm rating: 18
#24
redheadwglasses
My NYC/SF friend moved to Montana and was at a friend’s house, cleaning up after dinner. She was rinsing the jars and cans to recycle, and her Montana host said, “S, why are you washing the garbage?”
Jan 2, 2012 at 12:40 pm rating: 2
#25
El Jefe
Wow, all these comments and nobody apparently noticed the the backwards ‘y’ in the first note’s ‘your’? How can you even mistrain yourself to do such a thing? I live in Vermont, and even we are lacking such a signmaking hippie-camp ‘skill’!
Is Wacky Caps the new Smoke Screen or Oil Slick like so many Spy Hunter games past, to liberally apply to the note to cover a multitude of crimes against grammar?
Jan 3, 2012 at 9:51 am rating: 2
#26
fashion photography course
Thank you for the sensible critique. Me & my cousin were just preparing to do some research on this. We got a book from our local library but I think I learned better from this post. I’m very glad to see such great info being shared freely out there…
Jan 5, 2012 at 1:31 am rating: 0
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