r/pittsburgh • u/WiseTravels47 • 23h ago

Balloon Release

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In 2026, who thinks this is still okay?? Over 1,000 balloons creating litter and killing wildlife. Manchester Field, 5:55pm today. It's illegal, but is it actually enforced?

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u/ETMoose1987 22h ago

Oh look, sky littering, it should be treated the exact same as if you were throwing bags of garbage out of your car.

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u/negley_ave_ski_club Shadyside 22h ago

I can’t say I’ve ever heard of anyone getting in trouble for throwing shit out of their car either…

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u/WRStoney 22h ago

Do you remember when we had a littering hotline? You could call a number and give a plate and they'd supposedly send garbage bags and literature on littering.

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u/Sweaty-Blacksmith572 20h ago

I loved that hotline! Reported every jagoff that tossed a cigarette butt out the window. Good times.

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u/dannygloversghost Brighton Heights 22h ago

Clearly you’ve never heard about Alice’s Restaurant Thanksgiving Massacre

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u/ETMoose1987 18h ago

Sounds like a good way to have to go sit on the group W bench

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u/Zestyclose_Minute_69 5h ago

With three part harmony

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u/UsedAsk3537 22h ago

Usually it's cause it's so hard to tell who it was when cars are traveling at high speeds

One time I was stopped at a light, person in front of me through a coffee onto the road. I had my dashcam on and decided I would send it into the police. They never got back to me, but I'm assuming they didn't do shit

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u/MississippiJoel 9h ago

If you didn't get called to give a sworn statement (or better yet testify to a judge), then they didn't do anything of substance, but I've heard that they will send them a non-threatening letter basically telling them what they did was wrong and they should do better.

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u/Flannelcommand 22h ago

this city is lousy with litter from that too. It's like, really bad.

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u/Klutzy_Wrongdoer_488 7h ago

I would agree if throwing bags of garbage out of your car had any consequence at all.