Trash Watching

[sissa216]

haha, we did this too. (hi mellie )

I think its pretty harmless. And had it not been picked up, we would have cleaned up after ourselves.

 

[LudwigVonDrake]

I can think of LOTS of other things to do in WDW than drop trash on the ground and wait for someone to pick it up :lookaroun

 

[optjay]

making a mess just to watch some one work? How about you shoplift from a store and wait to get cought? tell security it was just a fun test! give me a break. Boy they sure earn there 5 dollars an hour.

 

[unkadug]

I hope no one gives you heat for this thread.

Too late!!

I dont think that the OP meant that everyone should be throwing all their own garbage on the ground for their amusement.

It is pretty fascinating that the custodial staff keeps the parks as clean as they are considering the sheer magnitude of garbage generated.
:sohappy:

 

[daveemtdave]

Personally for the price of the ticket to get in, I can find better things to do...Like say THANK YOU to the CM who DO THEIR JOB..........IF IT WAS NOT FOR THEM....I would not enjoy my day as much.

 

[MagliteL13]

I have done it. When waiting for Spectromagic and sitting on the curb, my friends and I got bored. We placed a soda bottle in the middle of the road to see whether it would be kicked around by people or picked up. It was kicked for a while, and then picked up by a Tomorrowland manager in a nice "scoop and go" manuver.

That "scoop and go" is commonly refered to as the Disney scoop.

If there are any custodial CMs here, I'd just like to say thank you. You get a whole lot more, for lack of a better term, crap, than the rest of us.

I don't think intentionally putting trash on the ground with the intent of seeing how long it takes to be picked up is wrong--that's what all the CMs in the park are for (not just custodial).

 

[Woody13]

Yes, I know what you're thinking. What on Earth is this thread about. Well I am going to tell you. On my family's last trip to WDW, we did something we call "Trash Watching." At the MGM Studios, we would drop a piece of trash on the ground, then watch and wait until someone picked it up. The dropping would be carried out casually by a family member, while the rest of the family watched from a bench. The Custodial CM's were awesome. The longest the trash stayed on the ground was, (yes we timed), 4 mins. 31 secs. We realized that only in Disney would you see such cleanliness. Way to go Disney for keeping the parks cleans. So has anyone else done "Trash Watching?" It's a great thing to do when you're tired from a day in the park!

P.S.- Please keep in mind that we did realize that a CM would eventually pick the trash up, and we would not purposefully trash WDW.

What you have done is to violate the Florida litter law (403.413 Florida Litter Law) which applies on both public and private property. You should be ashamed of yourself and your family! Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

Penalties for civil littering violations are typically a monetary fine and a specified number of hours picking up litter or other community service. The penalties may be mandatory or discretionary. The state law may require the court to assess a penalty, but allow the judge's discretion to determine the amount between a specified range with some or no minimum fine to a maximum monetary fine.

 

[tn1999]

One of Disney'a famous quotes (or something like it):

"If you keep something clean, people will respect it
but if you let something get dirty, they will only make it worse".

 

[jozzmenia]

Geesh, try to make a valid point and someone has to go childish on you.

I think you overdramatized it. I happen to believe that even if no person ever in life littered in Disney World, they would probably STILL raise prices. :lookaroun

 

[Hakunamatata]

I think you overdramatized it. I happen to believe that even if no person ever in life littered in Disney World, they would probably STILL raise prices. :lookaroun

Thats fine.....take comfort in your belief if you need to.....