Spotsylvanians who have lived here longer tell Rayms Keller the trash has fallen off trucks on the way to the county dump. That s true, to a certain extent. I see the same thing happening on roads leading to the landfill jointly used by Stafford and Fredericksburg. In the region s more rural counties, lackadaisical residents load trash that flies out of the beds of their pickup trucks. Loosely secured loads of dump-bound trash are only one source of litter, however.
Bad manners explain the bulk of the stuff strewn along the region s roads.
Not only are some people oblivious to the natural scenery, they don t care if they create a mess that other people must visually endure or volunteer to pick up. Some litterers, meanwhile, are petty little outlaws who get a mild thrill each time they toss an empty beer can out the window. To them, that is an act of freedom. To me, it s an empty-headed act of littering. Perhaps some litterers don t know any better because they were raised by litterers.