Quote Originally Posted by royce View Post
I wish you the best, Motorcity. I understand the frustration. My house is the sixth house from the corner, if the other five houses were still there. Every trash day I put out my can and proceed to take a garbage bag and pick up trash from the corner all the way back to my house. Items picked up include: beer bottles [[Modelo quiet frequently), tequila bottles [[Patron), fast food items like bags and especially pop containers, water bottles [[with some water still in them), cigar and cigarette boxes, and styrofoam containers, typically from Coney Island restaurants.

Sometimes I think the littering in and around my house is done on purpose. People see me picking up trash and then must think I'm the trash guy so they just say to themselves, "Hey, let's throw out our trash here. That guy who's always picking up trash will pick it up."
You nailed it. I don't think it's a conscious 'oh, they'll pick it up,' it's wicked trifling folks who consciously get off on trashing us and everything in their orbit. It is deliberate animosity. That's why we did all the litter clean-ups at the crack of dawn, to avoid additional attention and animosity. Folks have thrown their trash out the car window at us on more than one occasion. Enough is enough. We're moving out of the region entirely, but just as an example, folks in Birmingham and Franklin ain't living like this. Folks in Oakland Township and Grosse Point Shores can't collect Hefty bags of litter and trash every time they walk their dog. It's disgusting and it never ends in Detroit. And even after receiving that $880 million boatload from the feds, Duggan's admin does not care to spend it on cleaning up the city. It'll all be embezzled by the bureaucracy and Detroit outside of the casinos and a small slice of downtown will still look like the same garbage dump.