When I see garbage dumped on the side of the road, on or near farmland, I always wonder what would motivate people to do this.
The only word I come up with is ignorance.
Think about it: They obviously own some sort of vehicle to transport this mess to its current location, that vehicle has not one, but two licence plates. Both of those plates have numbers and letters stamped on them, some of the letters actually spell out Beautiful British Columbia.
So try to imagine loading up your van or truck with your junk, driving down a country road, perhaps in the middle of the night, finding a spot, dumping your mess and driving away, with your licence plates proudly displaying those words.
Sounds like you’re pretty ignorant, right?
Another motivation to do this might be the fact these idiots believe they are going to save themselves some money by not going to the transfer station or the dump.
Again, ignorance prevails.
By dumping their load on the roadside, they have created a mess for the city to clean up.
That job is paid for by taxes we all have to pay, about $6 million last year.
Imagine what else we as taxpayers could do with $6 million if ignorant people didn’t dump garbage on the streets.
Maybe their taxes may go down about 20 bucks or so… or the cost of a trip to the dump once a year.
Anyone caught doing these crimes should be re-educated, be made to clean up the streets – perhaps wearing a bright yellow jumpsuit with a large I printed on the back, I for ignorant…or Idiot.
Robert Gary Parkes, Port Kells
