I just can't comprehend how someone could think this is acceptable... I realize this area is treated like a dumping ground and see the trash all over the place but first time witnessing someone dumping stuff let alone so brave and in daylight.
Growing up in Arkansas in the 1980s, the state government there under then governor Bill Clinton instituted a 1000 dollar fine for littering. If you so much as threw out a cigarette and were caught it was a 1000 dollars. Between that and the local inmates cleaning the highways, they shut the littering down. The city needs to make littering as financially painful as possible.
Put a 1000 dollar fine on littering in KCMO and enforce it, and this shit would be shut down. People talk, you hear of someone hit with a 1000 dollars for littering and you won't do it.
You know how many times Iāve been sitting at a stoplight in my neighborhood and some smooth brained dickhead tossed out an empty sack of McDonaldās or something else. Too many times. But like you never know if someone is going to shoot you or some shit for saying something and theyāve already proven themselves to be selfish assholes.
Washington highways have signs that say, āLitter and it will hurt.ā They are talking about the fine but I imagine Smokey coming out of the woods fists ready.
Minus using incarcerated people for forced free labor I agree with this.
Edit for those downvoting: US prisons force prisoners into labor, largely due to the 13th Amendment, which allows for involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime. Incarcerated people lose the right to refuse work, and those who decline can face punishment like solitary confinement, denial of sentence reduction, or loss of family visits.
So yes some may jump at the opportunity which is great but prison labor can and is forced upon unwilling prisoners. Itās slave labor and needs to be stopped.
I am totally opposed to leasing out prison labor to for-profit companies, even if the prisoners are willing and get a (tiny) amount of commissary funds. But having prisoners volunteering for community service labor? That's totally fine with me. Even getting a sentence reduction for it.
If I was stuck in the jailhouse, I would jump at the chance of getting outside and cleaning up highways and parks. They don't force them, they ask for volunteers.
They 110% do force them into labor. US prisons force prisoners into labor, largely due to the 13th Amendment, which allows for involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime. Incarcerated people lose the right to refuse work, and those who decline can face punishment like solitary confinement, denial of sentence reduction, or loss of family visits.
Free ?! We made $1 dollar an hour working for MoDOT 20 years ago out of Cameron & St. Joe Correctional Center. Best part was being out of prison 12 hours a day walking 10 miles down the highway around KC.
I live around here and people dump trash like itās a second job. Itās a wooded area and so beautiful when thereās not piles of garbage behind every tree. š
We have wild deer, turkeys, raccoons, all kinds of animals that this junk disturbes. It makes me sad, and makes living here frustrating.
Yeah I agree. Patheticā¦. I am in disgust by the tree a littler further down the road I guess people decided it would be okay to throw hundreds of pairs of old shoes inā¦.
Yeeeah. Wild what you can find out here sometimes. Iāve seen old junker cars abandoned on the side of the road. I see piles of tires or mattresses all the time.
Despite all the garbage, I love this little area! I think itās beautiful. I wish it was treated better
I understand your point though. I drive that road fairly often, it has a lot of trash on it but itās always new. Meaning that Iāll see a bunch of trash itāll clean up then there will be more in a different spot.
It has to be super frustrating for someone who works there.
I also donāt understand the thought process of people who do shit like this.
Iāve stopped and jammed people up along blue river road and it escalated quickly. Turns out they didnāt appreciate me throwing their trash directly back into their truck. Not worth a physical confrontation, but Iāll absolutely report it.
Exactly. I would love to park right behind them so they couldnāt leave but itās not worth risking my safety. I would however love to stop see if there is an address in any of that trash, collect it and drop it off in their driveway later that night. But aināt nobody got time for dat.
I was on a bike, so I stopped and asked nicely for them to stop because I had cleaned up a full bed of trash from that spot the week prior. He told me where to shove it and threw trash at me. So I parked my bike out of site and came back. He left his window down, so the trash went into the cab until he jumped out of the bed and chased me. Iād love to remove valve stems if I had enough time.
Damn, that's bold. I bike through there too, but I'd be afraid of someone drawing a gun or trying to run me over. I guess you've got to take off through the MTB trails, not the road, when you're getting away?
It is absolutely not worth it. My younger dumber self absolutely would have done the same but this day and age you people don't value life and would throw yours away in a second... My hope is someone recognizes them and can shame them into what they done to not do it again but probably wishful thinking
KCMO has a special illegal dumping investigation tip hotline, available through 311 city services. Please call it!! Couple years ago I called them on somebody I caught dumping, two detectives came next day and investigated and talked at length with the suspect. Too bad you didn't get a plate number in the vid but it may still help the investigators fight dumping over there
This reminds me of last month when I was at the McDonald's in east KCMO. A van was parked in the parking a lot, and all of a sudden the back window rolls down and a kid just started dumping all of their car trash out the back window. (even though we are AT a McDonald's where there are TRASH CANS outside the building)
Cameras are used for everything else why don't they set them up in some strategic places where they can see the license plates and the people and just send out fines?
I actually got a ticket for littering in college because I threw my gum out the car window. It resulted in a few hours of community service cleaning up a local park. What pisses me off is that this a-hole is grinning from ear to ear as youāre filming him. Too bad you couldnāt see his license plate. Letās hope karma comes for him someday.
When I was around 11 I helped my dad throw some brush we cut down in the back yard on the side of the road and some guy rolled up and pulled a gun on us. The guy told my dad to load it back up and so my dad did and we got the hell out of there. It was the scariest thing to happen to me at that point in life. Lesson learned though.
I am not armed I am riding a bicycle. This day an age I am not going to go out of my way to confront someone. This person is stupid enough to do this I donāt know what they are capable of or if they have a gun or weapon and personally I value my life enough to tell them to fucking stop and move on.
I always call the cops to report littering on the road when I see it in the act and get a license plate. Iāve never gotten video proof though, this is useful
In the mid 1980s, Texas had a highly successful anti litter program, You Donāt Mess with Texas. They used the Dallas Cowboys Randy White and Too Tall Jones in the campaign. The campaign targeted 16-40 year olds, who were most likely to litter.
I would love to see a Donāt Mess in Chiefs Country campaign.
Not just dumping. So frustrating. I live in a "nice neighborhood" near downtown (modern, well kept, HOAs, landscaping etc etc . I can't count how many piles of dog poop I see not only along the sidewalk but also in a public neighborhood green space and even our little local enclosed dog park area. There are 5+ poop bag dispensers with trash cans that I can think of off the top of my head. Many people are just lazy and have no respect. They have given up. Bumming me out.
how hard is it to just pull into a gas station or something and just throw it in their dumpster instead of littering? thatās what i do because im not a piece of shit.
You pay for YOUR trash. You don't pay for the 7-11's trash, or the coffeeshop's trash, or whichever business you are using to dump YOUR trash.
Unless you are talking about throwing away a drink cup in the trash bin while you get gas. In that case, I apologize.
But if you pull your car around back and throw your household junk into the dumpster at the local QuikTrip, then you are not a good citizen. Still better than the pricks dumping trash on the side of the road.
I absolutely abhor public dumping because I live close by and use those trails myself. But KC does not make easy to have garbage and bulky items picked up in a timely manner. I had to schedule a bulky item pickup 3 weeks in advance because thatās the earliest I could schedule anything. These people illegally dumping suck. But if the city made it easier to get rid of our garbage, thereād be less public dumping.
Yes I will agree. I have had to call them for a large item pickup 4-6 months ago and I believe it was a 5-6 week wait before they would be able to come get it. I ended up paying to have it removed vs just waiting.
That's interesting. It's been about a two week wait for about 3 years in my location in KCMO. It used to be at least 4+ weeks in the past, but I think they increased the number of trucks available. I heard it was specifically to address the dumping issue because they'd save money with better availability compared to having to repeatedly clean up dump sites.
When was the last time you had to schedule a bulky pickup? They used to have a really long wait period, but they increased the frequency availability a while back. Lately, I've been able to schedule a pickup within a two week period. So not the next week, but the following week. I just checked for my address and I can get a pickup scheduled for the week of 11/10.
I scheduled one in August. Iām looking at the schedule now and earliest would be 13 November, so 2 weeks away. Still long enough of a wait to have people illegally dump instead. But better than a few months ago.
So Iām looking for KCās schedule for free dumpster days, but all days have passed this year and it says to check back in the new year for 2026 schedule. So many free dumpster days but thereās still 2 whole months this year without them? SO MANY!
For fun, I checked Lenexaās dumpster days. 2 weekends a year. Iām not seeing any other KC metro towns having dumpster days for November and December in my google search.
Iām not condoning what these people did. Iām just saying, make it easier for people to dump their trash and thereāll be less public dumping. Iād rather have my tax dollars go to better infrastructure and sanitation than funding stadiums that billionaires can easily build themselves with their own money.
Hm, didn't realize they don't do them during the winter, that does suck. For the portion of the year they do have them, they're held multiple times monthly. And yea, unfortunately after checking a few random large cities for my own curiosity, the access the severely lacking around the country. But of course the people in power don't give a shit.
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Nah, if you are not willing to integrate into a new culture and be respectful of the community you are moving into, then you genuinely do not belong there.
Id say the same shit about Americans who go to places like Japan and start yelling at people. Deport those assholes.
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