Comments on: Littering fine gets Emmanuel Sanders dumped from anti-littering campaign

By: pftcensorssuck

pftcensorssuck — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:19:47 +0000

You’ve got to love the irony of an anti-anything spokesman getting pinched for the very thing they’re supposed to be against, but seriously, WHO gets charged with “Littering” these days????

This would be a much better story if he got caught tossing a McDonald’s bag full of crap out his car window at 80 miles per, rather than for actually trying to use a dumpster that was “private”…… that alone sort of supports his anti-littering theme, doesn’t it? Not like the dude left the box laying in the middle of a parking lot like many Wal Mart low-lifes do.

By: ballsohardu

ballsohardu — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 05:45:43 +0000

He didnt litter he has bad hands. Wham pow like big ben and his victims!

By: covercorner

covercorner — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:15:38 +0000

This is a huge NFL news story! Who will catch the ball for the Steelers while Antonio Brown and Emmanuel Sanders serve their season long suspensions for putting garbage by a dumpster?

By: patsaintsbroncoscheat

patsaintsbroncoscheat — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:04:08 +0000

Maybe the owner of the dumpster would prefer the litter on the ground?

By: Deb

Deb — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:03:11 +0000

People will drive out to construction sites and dump a pickup’s worth of trash into the dumpster that the construction company then must pay to haul away. That, I’d say, is worth a $300 fine. But one box?

And instead of removing him from the anti-littering campaign, they should have him make a public-service message warning people that using, say, McDonald’s dumpster could get them fined. That’s not the way to solve the litter problem.

By: macwomack

macwomack — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:40:19 +0000

So what will the league impossed penalty be … considering this is a first offense I think a 4 game suspension is appropriate.

By: johntonioholmes

johntonioholmes — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:29:14 +0000

I’m a little bit of an environmentalist (a little), so I was mad when I read the headline saying that Sanders was littering.

Then I find out that he actually wasn’t littering, but was prosecuted because of a technicality.

I mean, I understand the “private dumpster” is kept private so that people don’t just come and fill it up with their garbage, but that’s not exactly what Sanders and Brown were doing.

It’s whatever, I guess.

By: mitchitized

mitchitized — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:26:32 +0000

Cigarette butts all over the sidewalks in just about every major American city… You’d think at $300 a pop, the police would stop writing parking tickets and just follow around people that smoked!

Naw, we got a professional athlete using the wrong trash can, this is news!

*facepalm

By: lhaveprettyfeet

lhaveprettyfeet — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:10:30 +0000

Goodell’s got a 4 game suspension ready

By: smittee22

smittee22 — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:02:39 +0000

Come on, Seriously littering for putting garbage by a dumpster. Unbelievable that they get charged for this.

By: silencethecritics

silencethecritics — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:48:45 +0000

Absolutely one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard. $300 fine for putting trash in a private trash can? What a joke.

By: grandpoopah

grandpoopah — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:42:39 +0000

I live in a city where litter is a huge problem and I fully support punishing people who are caught littering. That said, putting trash in someone else’s trash can is not littering and should not be punished as such.

By: 49erstim

49erstim — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:23:36 +0000

So he got busted for littering by trying to use somebody elses garbage can? Whaaaaat? He is SUCH a menace to society! Please tell me that he is NOT walking the streets! He is! Lock your doors folks!

By: EJ

EJ — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:11:32 +0000

Sanders shouldn’t of thrown his garbage in somebody else’s trash container, but it shouldn’t have been called littering. It should have been called illegal placement, because technically, he didn’t really litter. Littering is when you put garbage where there is no collection, in the Forrest, on the street. What a bunch of crap.

By: marvsleezy

marvsleezy — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:55:23 +0000

He should have plead innocent& plead down to something else to avoid embarrassment

By: noahbird

noahbird — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:53:58 +0000

Lock the dumpster if it is in a public place and not supposed to be used. That’s not littering.

By: kane337

kane337 — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:18:44 +0000

I hate people that litter. However, I don’t consider Sanders case littering. He was just using a dumpster that he wasn’t supposed to be using.

By: ravenator

ravenator — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:55:17 +0000

Haha thats hilarious. Not surprised a city like Pittaburgh needs an anti littering campaign, place is full of trash.