Submitted by TRUE (not verified) on Sun, 01/10/2010 - 1:41pm.
Let me begin by saying I am a smoker and have been since for 21yrs. I do agree with the law when it considers tossing cigarette butts out of your car window as littering, however, when it allows anyone the option to report this offense without facts or evidence when the penalty is so high is outrageous! That means that if I don't like you, I can call the police and give them your license plate number without any evidence and can cause this person to pay a $1000.00 fine for an act that was never committed. Is this just another way for the State to get money out of us? Whatever happened to being
"innocent until proven guilty in a court of law"? What Next????
WHAT NEXT????
Let me begin by saying I am a smoker and have been since for 21yrs. I do agree with the law when it considers tossing cigarette butts out of your car window as littering, however, when it allows anyone the option to report this offense without facts or evidence when the penalty is so high is outrageous! That means that if I don't like you, I can call the police and give them your license plate number without any evidence and can cause this person to pay a $1000.00 fine for an act that was never committed. Is this just another way for the State to get money out of us? Whatever happened to being
"innocent until proven guilty in a court of law"? What Next????