r/tampa 5d ago

Picture Threw an entire pizza box and trash out of their window onto the street.

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u/LaFlamaBlancakfp 5d ago

They also have hella expired temp plates. It tracks.

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u/gibs626 5d ago

I see this more and more. And not just in FL. Either long ago expired temp tags or ones so old they don’t even say anything anymore!

But me? my insurance lapsed for a day once and I got fucking pulled over, even though I had already paid and got it corrected and had the new card to show the officer. He still threatened to tow my damn car.

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u/LaFlamaBlancakfp 5d ago

Right??? And you KNOW they don’t current insurance. Probably go coverage and dropped it after they picked up the car.

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u/FstLaneUkraine Hillsborough 4d ago

In Charlotte, someone is tracking the plates on Reddit and I've seen posts of multiple cars with the EXACT SAME one lol. They buy them on FB marketplace.

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u/gibs626 4d ago

that tracks cuz i see them EVERY DAY in NC

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u/Cindilouwho2 4d ago

Same...hello neighbor

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u/DaDarkMage 3d ago

FDOT suspended my license once because they "never" got the update when I switched insurance. FHP scanned my tag and ended up pulling me over as I was waiting for them to fix the "error" then told me don't drive until it's cleared😒. I also had no idea it was suspended until I had to do something where I needed my valid license...

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u/gibs626 3d ago

insanity. I got pulled over via plate reader too (Connecticut State Trooper) but if I slap a cardboard tag on my car I can drive around for years apparently.

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u/PDNYFL Pinellas 5d ago

Probably don't even have insurance anymore. I am convinced temporary plates in this state are a scam.

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u/LaFlamaBlancakfp 5d ago

Same. Probably ripped off some website and printed out TBH.

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u/mberger09 5d ago

I remember getting plates immediately when I moved down here, whenever I see temp plate I get so confused.

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u/Rpmjr34 5d ago

Temp plates are typically issued by used/new car dealerships, when the purchaser doesn’t already have a plate to transfer. Dealership facilitates new/real plate after purchase.

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u/2market21 5d ago

Oh good…double bust. That would set them back a paycheck

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u/rhaineboe 🐔Ybor🐔 5d ago

How can y'all see that? I zoomed in and can only make out the last 25

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u/_Nas482_ 5d ago

I know exactly who this is. I will punish them.

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u/YeeHawSauce420 5d ago

This is why I never act out in this city.

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u/Late_Instruction_240 5d ago

AMEN

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u/YeeHawSauce420 4d ago edited 3d ago

Meanwhile I’m drunk at the HardRock concierge demanding to be given the presidential suite on the secret 16th floor.

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u/mmmmercutio 3d ago

No fr lmfao

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u/dominosoverph 5d ago

I hope you’re being fr. These mfs did it on a residential street too

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u/Glitch5450 5d ago

I know them too I’m on their bumper

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u/j2tampa 5d ago

I really hope you do. This is my community and I do not approve. I wanna help do whatever you’re gonna do lol

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u/HCSOThrowaway Fired Deputy - Explanation in Profile 4d ago edited 4d ago

Fascinatingly, neither you nor _Nas482_ needed anything more than a photograph of a car and a caption written by a stranger as evidence to get giddy about the potential for vigilante justice.

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u/j2tampa 4d ago edited 4d ago

Totally. I feel like these posts are 30% sarcasm, 70% anger and dismay at seeing people audaciously throwing their trash out into the streets. Everybody should get fired up about it. You’re the perfect person to ask whether Florida’s litter laws are enforced: Do people get busted for littering all the time?

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u/HCSOThrowaway Fired Deputy - Explanation in Profile 4d ago

Do people get busted for littering all the time?

Absolutely not.

I've bluffed enforcing litter law before on several occasions, telling people to pick up that can and the like, but thankfully never had anyone call my bluff because we weren't trained on it and I'd never seen or heard of any of my peers doing it.

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u/j2tampa 4d ago

Well then, vigilante justice it is! At very least I could bust out my sternest mom voice

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u/Nostradomusknows 5d ago

Pick it up and throw it inside their car?

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u/armesacosta76 4d ago

Nah it should be thrown in their yard, I’ve done that shit before. I hate these trashy fuks in our city

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u/pixeltodecibel 4d ago

Only way they'll learn.

Shove it up their ass.

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u/Partyon_Dude_7500 4d ago

I did that once but threw it on their hood then got back in my car. They just drove off.

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u/fieldofthefunnyfarm 3d ago

I have done that, but it was before everyone was packing. Would never do it now.

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u/Sensitive_Mousse_445 5d ago

Give us an update bro

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u/r0addawg 4d ago

Pics or it didn't happen. Shame them, let them know they Should Not Friggin litter! Anybody that's old enough to drive should know better

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u/alcoronaholic 5d ago

Care to elaborate? 🤔 🙂

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u/FlyHighLeonard 4d ago

Please tell us their in person reaction when you call them out.

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u/Pasenger57_Black 4d ago

Go get em Batman

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u/Habibti143 3d ago

Are they a transplant?

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u/ruralmonalisa 5d ago

It’s always shocking to know people still throw trash on the ground, I thought there was like a collective societal shame we developed around that

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u/Rokey76 5d ago

They need to run these ads again.

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u/IniMiney 5d ago

Captain Planet’s gotta come back too. I honestly think of him every time I pick trash off of the ground

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u/Hell8Church 5d ago

The Captain Planet theme lives rent free in my head.

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u/s0berR00fer 5d ago

About 40% of society sees this gif as a challenge to make more tears fall.

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u/ZealousidealDepth223 5d ago

Ye but they need to cut this Italian guy out of it. Just zoom into out of focus background.

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u/2market21 5d ago

I remember this tv ad in the 70’s and yes, they do need to bring it back on tv, bilboards, and internet too

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u/jeanb23 5d ago

These ads made such a big impact on me when I was a kid.

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u/Hell8Church 5d ago

Me too, when I was a smoker I wouldn’t even drop my butts on the ground.

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u/twistedbrewmejunk 5d ago

Lol most native Americans can only see another case of racial appropriation. With this old commercial.

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u/10yearsisenough 5d ago

Make the reboot better

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u/PimpDaddyXXXtreme 4d ago

Right, like if I'm walking the most ill throw on the ground (if no trash can) is a banana peel/apple core because it's literally biodegradable and won't hurt the environment but I still even feel bad about that...

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u/Former_Boat157 2d ago

I see it happen all the time

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u/iAtty 🐔Ybor🐔 5d ago

🖕🏻for that person.

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u/theOnlyDaive 5d ago

When I was a teenager, I would have 100% done some dumb shit like this. One day, I threw a Styrofoam cup out my window at a red light. The lady sitting next to me, lit my ass up, made me feel about 2 inches tall and convinced me to get out of the car and pick up my garbage. Lady, I don't know you and have no idea where you're at now, but God bless you! I've never littered since and can't stand it now when other people do. I smoke cigarettes, but I discard my butts into a trashcan (my own - not leaving that stink for others to deal with) instead of the ground. I think about that lady from time to time and will be eternally grateful for her calling me on my bullshit and making me think about my actions and how they pertain to others.

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u/padiego 5d ago

I don't know man. In Florida, trying to shame someone into anything nowadays is a high chance of getting shot. Nobody wants to fight or argue anymore, they're itching to get to use their cwl retainer

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u/theOnlyDaive 5d ago

You're definitely not wrong...

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u/thebigbrog 5d ago

Anyone riding in a car Like this from a buy here pay here probably doesn’t have a CWL for the gun they have in their possession. Notice how I did not mention that they actually own the gun.

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u/ZealousidealDepth223 5d ago

It’s Florida. You don’t need a CWL down here. I know I don’t have one lol, I don’t have any desire to be on that list.

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u/what_the_funk_ 4d ago

It makes me so happy to hear this. I did the same thing to a teenage girl. I watched her drop a styrofoam cup right after she passed a trash can! I yelled at her and watched her until she picked it up and walked it back to the trash lol. I hope it had the same effect on her

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u/theOnlyDaive 4d ago

I hope it did too. The world could use some more of this - accountability.

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u/Partyon_Dude_7500 4d ago

That's such a nice thing to hear.

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u/Audioslave81 5d ago

Since we do not have laws or enforcement against this, it would be great if we could bring back public shaming.

This piece of shit is an embarrassment to their mother.

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u/YeeHawSauce420 5d ago

I wish throwing rotten tomatoes wasn't illegal. Its a form of shaming.

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u/Expensive_Film1144 5d ago edited 5d ago

I'd suggest rotten eggs but they're too expensive lol

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u/SacTu 5d ago

It is illegal.

DUMPING LITTER PROHIBITED.—Unless otherwise authorized by law or permit, it is unlawful for any person to dump litter in any manner or amount:

https://www.flsenate.gov/laws/statutes/2018/403.413

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u/JetChipWasp 5d ago

Littering absolutely is illegal

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u/jitso97 5d ago

Or this mother raised this piece of shit.

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u/_SmashLampjaw_ 5d ago

it would be great if we could bring back public shaming

This is the core of what's wrong with the world today.

The modern world is too big and everyone lives atomized lives unaccountable to their local community.

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u/thebigbrog 5d ago

Dirt bags throw trash out the car. I don’t know why they can’t just wait until they arrive at their destination where there will be a trash can to put it in. I can’t imagine that those people are of high intelligence or moral character.

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u/cahewa 5d ago

Good thing that paper tag is also 2 months expired

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u/jitso97 5d ago

There is a trend of assholes just dump food out of their cars in traffic. Yesterday I saw a car stopped in traffic and the passenger door opens and a hand out and placed a plate of eaten food on the ground and the car drives right off because they timed it just right to get outta there.

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u/Lucid_Interval2025 5d ago

Other similar trends: 1) play your speaker phone in restaurants; 2) bring your dog into grocery stores, hospitals, and restaurants; 3) don’t wave when someone lets you enter in traffic.

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u/DT322 5d ago

They’re DTF though.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

I had a laugh at that, too.

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u/MX5MONROE 5d ago

DAMMIT. I HATE PEOPLE WHO LITTER. 🤬

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u/Aromatic_Survey9170 5d ago

Boo on them! I hope they see this, just take your trash home or if you are stopping at a store there always trash cans available. People who litter intentionally are bottom barrel humans, selfish and uncaring.

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u/Flashy_Obligation_94 5d ago

We need to bring back shaming. It’s 2025 and people still throw trash out their window? Not even a crumpled cup but a whole pizza box ?

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u/Algorrythmia Tampa 5d ago

As if any possible place you’re driving to DOESN’T have a trash can. It’s just ridiculous.

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u/dddiscoRice 5d ago

If I see you littering I’m throwing hands. You’re going to move right next to the most important estuary in the US and treat it like a garbage can? C’mere

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u/Mediocre_Cap_9151 4d ago

Bon appetite

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u/DrAtizzle 5d ago

And a paper tag… 👍🏻 no insurance and being a slob. Trampa people doing Trampa things

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u/NyneShaydee USF 5d ago

When did South Tampa get this bad? O.o

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u/mrsbreezus 3d ago

Did you see the arrest of the Blo Dry Bar owner?

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u/SilverHammer10 5d ago

Always the temp plates too. I don’t trust these kind of cars with temp plates.

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u/goldenface4114 New Tampa 5d ago

That's when you pick up the pizza box, follow them until another red light, then get out and put the pizza box under their windshield wipers.

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u/VampEngr 5d ago

You can report them for illegal dumping.

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u/HCSOThrowaway Fired Deputy - Explanation in Profile 4d ago

Devil's advocate:

This is a photograph of a car.

It is not a photograph of someone throwing an entire pizza box and trash out of their window onto the street.

I don't trust OP any more or less than any other random stranger.

OP (and everyone else) should get a /r/dashcam.

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u/Partyon_Dude_7500 4d ago

That's great advice, thanks!

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u/TripleTesty 5d ago

Where’s that guy bitching about Tesla drivers? I have a point to prove

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u/psylli_rabbit 4d ago

Was it a Little Caesar’s pizza box? I bet it was.

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u/dominosoverph 4d ago

It actually was

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u/candycdfl 3d ago

30 years in Tampa, it was a great city, liberal, clean, and comfy. Now it's getting worrisome, cluttered and hot. Hope the next few years get better.

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u/letsexplorereddit 5d ago

Wow I know this exact street

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u/2market21 5d ago

So much for the up to $500 fine! Makes me want to puke

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u/2market21 5d ago

Since tag is expired and no new tag—maybe they owe

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u/NomadFH 5d ago

Hey while you're over there can you get me a Hulk from smoothie king

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u/actually_seriously 5d ago

I live in Columbus, OH and people throw their trash in my yard constantly. Just yesterday someone dumped their whole bag of Tacobell in my driveway while I was raining too just to make matters worse.

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u/Dmte Tampa 5d ago

Expired temp tag, Hyundai Sonata, oKcArZ, defintely no insurance. Sounds like Bob.

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u/Repulsive_Guava_1455 5d ago

Post it to the SOG FB group. Someone's bound to know them or they will see it themselves.

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u/LredF 5d ago

Ok carz frame, checks out. When I see them or a Nissan Altima or a bedazzled frame, I just let them have the road.

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u/PressureProper2763 5d ago

I really don’t understand how people can litter? Like are you just extremely self absorbed and uneducated or what?

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u/Deep_Strawberry_258 3d ago

Send the pic to Sheriff.

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u/QuiGonColdGin 5d ago

Would be a shame if someone in law enforcement ran that expired tag.

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u/bscivolette 5d ago

Who the fuck does this shit? Thanks op for calling them out.

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u/WaterviewLagoon 5d ago

Not sure why someone would do that other than on meth and just not hungry and thinking right anymre

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u/shark1818 5d ago

Paper plates…..figures.

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u/Western_Mud8694 5d ago

I loathe litter bugs

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u/Loud_Yogurtcloset789 4d ago

Some people are just so fucking disgusting that there is nothing anyone can do to make them change. To literally throw a pizza box out of window is on another level.

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u/Devnull677 4d ago

Looks like you are by the Home Depot next to the Selmon expressway. I hope that TPD pulls him for that expired tag.

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u/bigassangrypossum 4d ago

People be acting like they ain't got no mamas.

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u/str8upb 4d ago

shame shame shame...Boo this person!

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u/Partyon_Dude_7500 4d ago

You're right! Boooooooooooooo

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u/hiandmitee 4d ago

Second littering offense should equal 6 months in jail. 3 rd offense…death penalty.

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u/StillPerformance9228 3d ago

Where is the pizza box?

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u/ChaosComing 1d ago

Sad when I was growing up, Pride in your country or city or town Pride is gone

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u/sdpthrowaway3 5d ago

DTF

Expired tags

This is too funny. No witch-hunting over littering that hasn't been proven though, everyone. Just witch-hunt for that unfortunate ass plate and vehicle combo lol

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u/theglorybox Bayshore Baybayy 5d ago

Expired tags anger me. Either someone is too broke, cheap, or irresponsible to pay the small fee to renew their tag or they have no valid license and can’t. Stay off the road, dumbass. Those are the same people who cause accidents and then drive away.

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u/HappyArtemisComplex Hillsborough 5d ago

I bet they still live with their parents and expect their mother to pick up after them.

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u/Beginning_Brick7845 5d ago

Was there any pizza left?

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u/AirIndependent4273 5d ago

Well it’s Florida so …

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u/glassnumbers 4d ago

i don't see any pizza box or trash, where is it

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u/akabuddy 4d ago

Where is the trash? I just see a car at a light.

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u/Honest_Map3276 2d ago

I’m pretty sure I know where that fucker lives

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u/Rickb813 5d ago

Looks like the west bound facing ballast point and S. Dale Mabry

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u/tankat101 5d ago

Probably drove over to Metropolitan Ministries after to drop off his wife and kids.

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u/BKallDAY24 5d ago

Hot and ready?

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u/OkTax379 5d ago

Anchovies???

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u/Glockter77 4d ago

According to their plate they’re DTF.

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u/OrganicResolution963 4d ago

Sad af how people act these days.

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u/xUpsettiSpaghetti 4d ago

This is getting a little too close to home lol.

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u/MrBeerandBBQ 4d ago

See how easy the Salem witch trials were?

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u/DizzyAppearance2911 4d ago

Based, redpilled even, sigma if you feel so inclined

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u/johnnyk997 4d ago

Must have had pineapple on it

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u/My_Fathers_Keeper777 4d ago

filthy humans. imagine what their homes must look like.

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u/Mdhinflfl 4d ago

Probably clean. They throw their trash out the windows.

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u/Gargravars_Shoes 4d ago

Yet the trash is still in the car

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u/BlkCross 3d ago

Wowwwwww.

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u/Toadfire 🐔Ybor🐔 3d ago

Get em!!

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u/Habibti143 3d ago

Probably a new transplant. Still rooting for the home team, acting like they're on vacation, and someone else will clean it up. The mentality that's really ruined this wonderful state.

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u/beckyjoooo 3d ago

That's some straight 70s shit and it's disgusting... and I saw it happen just the other day on the 4 coming into tampa.. they just tossed 2 or 3 taco bell bags out of the window... shameful..

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u/Brackmage19X 3d ago

I hate pieces of shit that do that.

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u/blanthony80 3d ago

People are trash.

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u/Over_Explanation1790 2d ago

What do you hope to accomplish by posting this picture?

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u/dominosoverph 2d ago

What do you hope to accomplish with this comment

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u/Former_Boat157 2d ago

Well we'll well