Can cause a fire with loss of life tossing lit cigarettes.

Good, it was an exceedingly stupid thing to do. Besides, cigarette butts take years and years to biodegrade and if they wind up in lakes, streams or other bodies of water, fish and other marine creatures can and will eat them, usually killing them. They've also been found in the stomachs of birds.

Right after h.s., I worked that summer for the TX Dept. of Transportation. We did all kinds of things but my least favorite job was abbreviated "P.R.O.W." ( Picking Up Right-of-Way) on the time sheets we had to fill out at the end of ea. day.   I haven't thrown a single thing out the car window since.

I did find loads of interesting things; wallets, one time a purse, bags of pot, money stuck on weeds, all kinds of things but there were other disgusting items, too.... milk jugs full of pee, dirty diapers (called "belivits", as in ten lbs. of poop in a five lb. sack. "Can you belivit?" ) porn magazines with the pages stuck together <gag> and used condoms galore. I could understand those latter things being in trash cans or strewn about the roadside parks we also cleaned and mowed, but do people often have sex while driving down the road? I mean, it's admirable for someone to have safe sex, but doing it while in a moving car is sort of counter-productive to that, right?

FYI: The phrase "Don't Mess With Texas" comes from an anti-littering campaign from the mid-80's