[Misc] On the spot fine

[Durlston]

stub it out on the wall and put it in a pocket or something until you find somewhere APPROPRIATE ie a bin/ashtray to put it?

This sounds like a scene from Only Fools And Horses.

Del: "Rodney.........your trousers are on fire".

 

[Pickles]

I feel for you mate.

I'm a smoker and live in a residential area with no litter bins. I was fined outside Wembley for dropping a cigarette, stubbing it out and then picking it up! What the hell else was I supposed to do? The bins were overflowing with rubbish. I very nearly decked the guy - would have got into a lot more trouble though!

We pay our taxes on cigarettes (unless we bootleg ). Tell me, as a rhetorical question, what's worse? A dropped cig butt or a pile of vomit on Saturday/Sunday morning that your dog eats and then regurgitates? Ughhh!

These jobsworths are @rsehol€s.

According to the gov website https://www.gov.uk/guidance/enforcement-officers-issuing-fixed-penalty-notices

this bit here Give offenders the chance to pick up litter before you issue an FPN. Warn them that you will issue an FPN if they don’t., surely you shouldn't have been fined, nor the majority who drop a fag or whatever, as they weren't offered the chance to pick it up?

Someone must know on here.

 

[LVGull]

£75 for putting the end of a cigarette/rollup in a drain Bit excessive IMO. Wont do it again though
No point appealing it is there?

Who fined you?

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

I got fined a year or so ago and yes I agree it is excessive, but in all honesty, no matter where I am I always try and find a bin now so it definitely works as a deterrent.
They would make an absolute killing if they worked evenings/nights outside the pubs and clubs though, not that I would want the job to fine people while they are drunk.

 

[Justice]

Like I would give these ‘why don’t you get a proper job’ idiots my real name. They provide less bins now obvious why the councils take the public bins away. I’m always working around Marylebone/Oxford Street and they have Plenty of public bins with ash tray section things and everyone seems to use them.

 

[bluenitsuj]

Can you just refuse to give them your name and address then walk away?

 

[GT49er]

Next to the drain?

That would be littering. Disposing of it down the drain seems to me a perfectly sensible and acceptable non-littering solution. £75 for just dropping it in the street, fine, but sensibly put down the drain - should be no problem.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

You're lucky it was only £75.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-43609325

 

[A mex eyecan]

Old fag in the pocket? I think even smokers may find the smell too much on their clothes as it would linger until they were next washed

doesn’t it anyway? or at least for a fair while

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Where should a person put a cigarette end when they have finished with it but it's still burning if they are outside?

The bins in Brighton have got a stubber plate on the top, and then, when it is no longer burning, put it in the bin.
That's if you can find a bin, of course.

 

[A mex eyecan]

shame though that they don’t fine all the people who drop their old chewing gum on the pavements too. Well i haven’t heard of any cases, but perhaps they do already

 

[Petunia]

I always used these when I was a smoker. A very simple and effective way to reduce smoking litter on the streets if more people were to use them.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/LABOTA-Ash...=1549103964&sr=8-3&keywords=Portable+Ashtrays

 

[Icy Gull]

doesn’t it anyway? or at least for a fair while

A stubbed out fag in a pocket has a much longer lasting and stronger stink than clothes from outside smoking at least

 

[bha100]

Can you just refuse to give them your name and address then walk away?

 

[maffew]

Who fined you?

It was a council environment enforcement officer (I forget the exact thing on her badge).

 

[maffew]

You're lucky it was only £75.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-43609325

I wouldnt consider myself lucky that it was anything at all if I'm honest. It's £40 as I will pay it withing 14 days.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Ah, okay lol. I am also not a smoker, haven't indulged since I was 18, apart from the occasional cigar i.e. after the Wigan promotion. I haven't usually any sympathy for smokers as I dislike the habit, but I do in this case as it seems draconian.

oh I agree....I thought it was an early April 1st windup

 

[maffew]

Can you just refuse to give them your name and address then walk away?

I'd probably have done that in the past or made them watch the cctv as there was nothing to actually pick up. I kinda just started and said "really?" and shook my head. If I'm honest she seemed to want an argument about it and read my rights or what have you. Seemed quite pleased with herself

 

[Worried Man Blues]

I'd probably have done that in the past or made them watch the cctv as there was nothing to actually pick up. I kinda just started and said "really?" and shook my head. If I'm honest she seemed to want an argument about it and read my rights or what have you. Seemed quite pleased with herself

Coming on here just makes you the butt of jokes

 

[drew]

I feel for you mate.

I'm a smoker and live in a residential area with no litter bins. I was fined outside Wembley for dropping a cigarette, stubbing it out and then picking it up! What the hell else was I supposed to do? The bins were overflowing with rubbish. I very nearly decked the guy - would have got into a lot more trouble though!

We pay our taxes on cigarettes (unless we bootleg ). Tell me, as a rhetorical question, what's worse? A dropped cig butt or a pile of vomit on Saturday/Sunday morning that your dog eats and then regurgitates? Ughhh!

These jobsworths are @rsehol€s.

You make it sound like they only fine smokers! Open your eyes and look at the garbage lying around, I'm sure they fine others as well.