LETTERS: Think about it
To the Editor:
At 9:54 a.m. Friday, a man dressed in light colored shorts and shirt was cleaning out his golf cart on the north side of the Marion Country Club clubhouse. He tossed a plastic bottle that had about one-half of the contents still in it and it landed in the center of K-256.
I was in my pickup traveling east at about 30 mph in the 40 mph speed zone. If I had been running 40 mph it would have hit me. I should have gone back and made a citizen's arrest. I'm sure I know who the person is and I would have had great pleasure in doing that.
My greatest pet peeve is the so-and-sos who clutter up the roadside ditches. Why is it they cannot take bottles, cans, and fast food trash home and put it in their trash containers? They are paying the county for trash pickup on their tax bill.
Now I can understand the beer and whiskey drinkers not wanting to be caught with an empty container in their vehicle, so they chuck it out in somebody's front yard. I consider the road to be the boundary to my land and my front yard.
In the '50s I was picking up trash from the Dairy Queen that was being left in my driveway entrance. This was happening almost every evening. I was watching my driveway closely in the evenings, and sure enough, a nice clean passenger car pulled into our drive preparing to turn around and go back to Marion. Just before they exited our drive they had finished their snacks and dropped the containers in the driveway.
I got in my pickup, drove to the lane entrance, picked up the litter, and leisurely followed one of Marion's prominent retired couples to their nice well-kept new brick home. The yard was immaculate until I stopped, took their trash and dropped it out on their front lawn. The couple was just getting out of their car and saw me doing it. I never said one word, they just stared in disbelief, but I never had that happen again.
Some people don't think as I do, that a roadway ditch is someone else's front yard.
So when you get ready to chuck it out your car window, stop and think if you would like it in your front yard!
Rex L. Siebert
Marion
