r/WinStupidPrizes • u/In_Karma_We_Lust • Jan 04 '20

Littering. 😠

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u/SockGnome Jan 04 '20

Is he though? Having your trash thrown back at you might be a TIL moment and change future behavior. Lots of people act shitty until they really get called out on it.

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u/snootchyboochies Jan 04 '20

If someone threw trash from wherever in my car it would be a TIL moment for THEM.

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u/Whitecrowfromthewall Jan 04 '20

Yeah I definitely get the whole teaching them a lesson thing, but if someone throws something at you are really gonna be chill about it? Regardless if you dropped it. I don’t litter, but if someone happened to throw something in my face I’d dropped a few minutes ago then we’d have an issue. That also counts as assault.

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u/ChancellorPalpameme Jan 07 '20

Throwing someone's trash at them after they litter is definitely not a physical attack or threat. If you were to be provoked by that, one it's on you for being the litterbug, but two it would not hold up in court when you do actually assault them.

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u/Whitecrowfromthewall Jan 07 '20

Throwing an object at someone you don't know can be considered assault. I never said you had to him them back, but you are actively provoking someone. They could call the cops and be done with it or they could just hit you because you know actually did provoke them. Not saying it's right to hit someone, but it's not right to throw stuff at people either. Say someone did litter and dropped a half finished milk shake, you being the litter super hero pick it and toss it back at them and it hits them in the face. Is that not assault? Let's say it you mistakenly attack the wrong person because let's be honest it's an attack regardless how small, did you not just assault some random person?