what would you do

[SFC]

Was out fishing seen a guy in a suv throw out a can that had busted open in his veh. & was spraying all over. They were about 100 yds away from me on their way out on the lake. My first thought was to go over to their house & confront them. I sat their going over in my mind what to do,confront them, call a warden, is it worth their time? I decided I would just swing over & pick up the can. Another veh. comes out see's the can stops picks it up throws it off the road. Not impressed with what Iam seeing & questioning myself. I see a guy on his 4 wheeler driving around not going to fish but out picking up trash ,great to see. What would u do?

[leech~~]

Was out fishing seen a guy in a suv throw out a can that had busted open in his veh. & was spraying all over. They were about 100 yds away from me on their way out on the lake. My first thought was to go over to their house & confront them. I sat their going over in my mind what to do,confront them, call a warden, is it worth their time? I decided I would just swing over & pick up the can. Another veh. comes out see's the can stops picks it up throws it off the road. Not impressed with what Iam seeing & questioning myself. I see a guy on his 4 wheeler driving around not going to fish but out picking up trash ,great to see. What would u do?

Well at least you witnessed a 50/50 out of 4 guys that noticed it, you being one that would pick it up. The odds are worst then that I'm sure!

[mntim]

I would pick it up, I'm a small guy and am afraid of confrontation

[DuckBlind]

If I were a Ninja I would have taken him down, but I am not a Ninja.

[Reynolds]

I usually go with the "here you go, you forgot this" line. Without making much of a scene, you get your point across that littering is not appreciated.

[Wanderer]

Hand it back and say "It's empty now. It's safe".

Do what you feel you need to do to be a good steward. Personally I probably would offer it back to them.

[slurpie]

I like the You forgot this line. That would be the best.

[bikeoutback]

I'm gonna take [PoorWordUsage] for this but here is how this would play out if it were me. I'm driving on the lake, my beverage is spraying all over my vehicle for some reason, mostly curse words would follow and the can goes out the window. I'm a litte peeved off and I continue on and go fishing. I would stop and pick it up on my way off the lake when my calmer mind had prevailed. I know I know I know it's not the right order of things, it's not right at all and it's probably what wasn't going to happen and even I wouldn't give benefit of the doubt.

We did fish a private lake this past weekend for 4 days. We left cans in a couple spots by one here by a hole one there and we knew it. Monday after we picked up all our gear and removed any trash along the way we circled the lake, the path and the areas we fished 3 times ensuring we got everything. We even knew we had one can out there cause we used it for target practice and finally found it where we had set it up just couldn't see it till we drove right up to it. Again not the best laid plan but it's how it goes I guess.

[LightningBG]

Understandable for them to toss it in the first place. Hopefully they would have picked it up on the way off the lake. Maybe they were hoping it would freeze by they time they got back to it.

If it was still there when I left I would have just picked it up on my way out and went home.