I WAS at a bus stop waiting for my usual bus travel and lit half a cigarette, smoked it and put it out on the pavement.

A few minutes later I was given a fine of £80 for doing it.

I do understand that they make a mess but all the cleaning up of pavements and roads is a good job for some people.

If people were paid a wage with these fines to the workers, they would want you to drop more litter and it will keep them in a good job.

There has been many times I've seen empty coke and beer cans on pavements all squashed and split and if someone trips or falls, the sharp bits only have to hit someone in the wrong place and they might die there and then.

People throw bits of food on pavements and if someone slips they might badly bang their head, go unconscious or even go into a coma and never come out of it or even die.

But all people who smoke do is stamp on the finished cigarette to put it out.

That isn't life-threatening.

The unmarked police cars are waiting in areas to give these fines to people who smoke but, not watching and waiting to give them to people who are leaving life-threatening litter around.

Surely they must need to talk about it, get their act together and get things right before someone or something serious does happen.

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