Human beings are THE virus. - People leave 13,000 lbs of trash @ Cocoa Bch 1 weekend

[Shogon]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2020/05/09/coronavirus-reopenings-cocoa-beach-florida-cracks-down-litter/3104430001/

First week of being re-open... ridiculous... vile pieces of absolute trash ass filth. Lazy mother****ers!!! ****!!!


Returning beachgoers left 13,000 pounds of trash on Florida's Cocoa Beach, prompting crackdown

As coronavirus restrictions begin to ease, people and their trash have been inundating Brevard's beaches.

Over 13,000 pounds of trash picked up at Cocoa Beach last weekend – less than a month after it reopened on April 21. As a result, officials are cracking down on littering, increasing fines and enforcement.

Littering in Cocoa Beach can now fetch offenders a $250 fine.

"As restrictions are becoming more relaxed during this pandemic, the City of Cocoa Beach is beginning to see an influx of day-trippers to our beaches, along with piles of unlawfully discarded trash in their wake," Cocoa Beach Police Department wrote in a notice.

"This will not be tolerated."

Keep Brevard Beautiful was out early Saturday emptying trash cans near Minutemen Causeway. KBB is running double shifts in some beachside areas to keep up with the litter and trash. Police and beach rangers are stepping up their litter monitoring.

According to Cocoa Beach police, officers must witness a littering offense first hand to issue a citation. Anyone who wants to report littering is still encouraged to call police at 321-868-3251.

“Our community works very hard to be stewards of environmental sustainability. If I need to reallocate critical resources during our peak season to combat litterers, we are no longer asking our visitors to comply with our litter laws, we expect it, and there will be consequences for offenders,” said Chief Scott Rosenfeld in a statement.

Keep Brevard Beautiful, a volunteer organization that organizes trash pickups around the county, has recorded a large increase in trash on the beaches compared to other years.

According to KBB deputy director Bryan Bobbitt, last weekend saw a heavy influx of trash on the beaches.

Volunteers with Keep Brevard Beautiful picked up 33 bags of trash from Friday beachgoers, 122 bags for Saturday and 142 for Sunday.

That overshadows an average of fewer than 10 bags for a given day while beach access was restricted due to coronavirus.

“Normally there is an uptick but what we’ve seen this past weekend is way above normal," Bobbitt said. "It’s equivalent to Fourth of July and Memorial Day weekend.”

"People need to understand if they leave trash on the ground a bird, fish or sea turtle could be killed by it. It’s not just a blight issue it’s an environmental issue all around," he said.

Bobbitt said people who want to be even more helpful can take their trash and recyclables with them to prevent bins on the beach from overflowing.

"We encourage everyone to come and enjoy the beaches but pick up after yourself."

[Long Duck Dong]

Lock em up

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[AlternativeAcc.]

Not gonna lie, I usually leave my trash on the beach

I figure a bird could use the nourishment

[n00bie]

Not gonna lie, I usually leave my trash on the beach

I figure a bird could use the nourishment

You figured birds eat plastic?

[TheMan]

Not gonna lie, I usually leave my trash on the beach

I figure a bird could use the nourishment

That ain't nothing, I enjoy defecating on the beach.

[DoctorP]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0qdbsE3Jqo

[Phong]

Those who think that humans are a virus should kill themselves and promote the death of others in order to save the planet.

[SouBeachTalents]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l2cbQPiBq0

[Overdrive]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2020/05/09/coronavirus-reopenings-cocoa-beach-florida-cracks-down-litter/3104430001/

First week of being re-open... ridiculous... vile pieces of absolute trash ass filth. Lazy mother****ers!!! ****!!!

I was hoping people would learn something from the lockdown. Nothing changed.

[Phong]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l2cbQPiBq0That makes a cool scene for the movie but how awful it is that some people took this ill-informed "revelation" as some kind of insightful truth.

Other species don't gather around the bonfire to sing kumbaya while discussing how to achieve an equilibrium with their environment. They reproduce and reproduce until the carrying capacity of the environment stops them. There are a lot of species that wreck havoc in the environment they live in because they haven't hit any environmental barriers yet.

We think of ourselves as unique even when we disparage ourselves..lol,

[DoctorP]

That makes a cool scene for the movie but how awful it is that some people took this ill-informed "revelation" as some kind of insightful truth.

Other species don't gather around the bonfire to sing kumbaya while discussing how to achieve an equilibrium with their environment. They reproduce and reproduce until the carrying capacity of the environment stops them. There are a lot of species that wreck havoc in the environment they live in because they haven't hit any environmental barriers yet.

We think of ourselves as unique even when we disparage ourselves..lol,

we have the capacity to change for the better but we are lazy and unconscious much of the time. littering is just laziness but i see people do it all of the time and there is really no reason for it

[Phong]

we have the capacity to change for the better but we are lazy and unconscious much of the time. littering is just laziness but i see people do it all of the time and there is really no reason for itSure. I'm not denying that. I'm merely commenting on the title of this thread and the Matrix speech.

[DoctorP]

Sure. I'm not denying that. I'm merely commenting on the title of this thread and the Matrix speech.

oh yea sorry i was just reacting to what you were saying

[bladefd]

we have the capacity to change for the better but we are lazy and unconscious much of the time. littering is just laziness but i see people do it all of the time and there is really no reason for it

And selfish. Too many people are selfish as fu<k.. They only care about themselves. Now someone else will have to clean up on the beach behind them because these filthy idiots were too stupid and lazy to properly dispose their garbage in a proper garbage can by themselves..

[DoctorP]

And selfish. Too many people are selfish as fu<k.. They only care about themselves. Now someone else will have to clean up on the beach behind them because these filthy idiots were too stupid and lazy to properly dispose their garbage in a proper garbage can by themselves..

that should be a well paying job but instead its a shitty wage. environmental clean up is high value to the planet so it should pay a sweet wage

i guess that job will go to the robots eventually

[Hawker]

that should be a well paying job but instead its a shitty wage. environmental clean up is high value to the planet so it should pay a sweet wage

i guess that job will go to the robots eventually

It’s a low skill job that anybody can do.

[diamenz]

people are just toooo good to be contained.


A teen girl was subjected to verbal abuse as a local ice cream shop struggled to follow social-distancing protocols while keeping up with unexpected demand.

"I thought I had a pretty good plan, everything was going well, the people were ordering online at least an hour ahead," said Mark Lawrence, owner of "Polar Cave Ice Cream Parlour" in Mashpee, Massachusetts.

However the store ultimately became unable to provide the ice cream fast enough to meet the steady stream of customers.

"People start to get very agitated. We were only doing curbside pick up, so you have to sit in your car in the parking lot. Some people would get out of their car... and it was like, 'No, get back in your car, or don't have ice cream.'"
And that's when customers became unruly, Lawrence told CNN.

"The wheels fell off the bus because we couldn't produce that much product to get out the door in a timely enough fashion," he said.

"It was like you let caged animals out of their cage after being in it for seven to eight weeks and then they took it on the easiest prey, they took it all out on this poor 17-year-old girl," Lawrence added.

The unpleasant experience ultimately led to the teen resigning 20 minutes after her shift.

"F-bombs were flying like snowflakes... we shouldn't call anybody some of the words that were used," Lawrence said.

[TheMan]

people are just toooo good to be contained.

:yaohappy:

[Hawker]

people are just toooo good to be contained.

Bunch of Karens up in Massachusetts.

EDIT: Looks like they re-opened. Good.

[Norcaliblunt]

We need to find a way to phase out all this plastic wrap and packaging crap.

[Derka]

Bunch of Karens up in Massachusetts.

EDIT: Looks like they re-opened. Good.
Mashpee is a town on Cape Cod, which is where I live. From May through September about half of the Cape, Mashpee included, is populated by people from NY, NJ and CT. They are the Karenest of Karens.

[Lebron23]

Somebody needs to call Captain Planet

[Axe]

No wonder mother 🌍 is dying slowly as time passes by.

[MrFonzworth]

OP should start a podcast

[Derka]

No wonder mother �� is dying slowly as time passes by.
As George Carlin once put it: the planet is doing fine, the people are f*cked.

[Axe]

As George Carlin once put it: the planet is doing fine, the people are f*cked.
If only there's a chance that i could live in a foreign object aside from here, i would choose the moon or mars.

[jstern]

I remember like two years ago, this kid dropped a soda bottle or something, he quickly turned back to pick it up, and what looked like his masculine, 6'2" aunt scolded him and asked him why is he picking up his garbage. To leave it there. Angry disgusting woman dooming this kid.

Then I remember this guy looking at his 30 or so NY Lottery tickets. Obviously he didn't win anything, because what are the chances. The garbage can was around 15 feet away from him, but he felt it was better to slowly and lazily rip them all into little pieces and throw them on the floor.

But what can you do? That's just the way people are. On ish or anywhere. Unlike the woman in my first example, they do it without thinking anything of it.

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

Then DO YOUR PART IN COMMANDING THE GOOD AND FORBIDDING THE EVIL.

INSTEAD OF CRYING ABOUT HUMANS---DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

[DoctorP]

Then DO YOUR PART IN COMMANDING THE GOOD AND FORBIDDING THE EVIL.

INSTEAD OF CRYING ABOUT HUMANS---DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

that why i started this corona virus thing...oops... nothing

[Phong]

that why i started this corona virus thing...oops... nothing Not nearly deadly enough.
- 280,000 died of the corona virus so far
- 360,000 are born every day

[DoctorP]

Not nearly deadly enough.
- 280,000 died of the corona virus so far
- 360,000 are born every day

Yeah **** it

COVID-22 coming soon.

[Axe]

that why i started this corona virus thing...oops... nothing
Yes, we already know you are responsible for all of this since the start.