Since when has it become legal for our public servants, namely the police and EMTs from the fire department, to break the anti-littering ordinance? I live in Nashville, Tennessee, and it is almost a daily occurrence (in my life...) to find strewn along the highways and city streets, disposable plastic gloves...you know, the kind the doctor uses to examine you. (If you don't believe me, I have photographic proof. Send me an email, and I'll send you several photographs.) They are usually at the scene of an arrest or a traffic accident, and usually, in pairs. Some are white or off-white, but most of them these days are purple or turquoise. Now don't get me wrong, I appreciate the work our police do. They encounter all kinds of people, and need the protection of these gloves to keep from becoming victims of the potentially diseased interrogants. AIDS is still incurable, and very deadly. But littering is still against the law...and these folks are sworn to uphold that law.
Would it be too difficult to put a trash bag in the trunk of the patrol car, and when finished with the gloves, simply put them in the bag? Rules are rules, and these public servants cannot legitimately enforce a law which they themselves break regularly. If they are not guilty, then none of us are. Let's clean up our act.
