How boring from holier than thou non smokers
And I wonder how many of them drive diesel engined cars.....
I think Titi probably framed the real problem correctly in that that these enforcement characters, often intellectually and socially challenged and largely unemployable except in this very sort of ignorant binary thug
"Do as I say" type jobs, dressed up in some kind of quasi official uniform designed to baffle the ignorant and passive submissive types into quick acquiescence, are too often driven, just like many wheel clamper protection racket like gangster companies, by a revenue earning weekly or monthly target and thus naturally gravitate towards targetting the vulnerable and the easy marks, but rarely the hard knock recidivists.
And it's profitable as it's a means for private companies to tax the public with little oversight.
Like outsourced car parking charges at airports and within major cities and now into small towns, it's become another racket run by exceptionally shady characters, but dressed up as a environmental necessity in order to ensure silent majority support from those who don't know or recognise that it's really just a racket.
Forget cigarette butts, once these companies become established and when smoking becomes history, it will be fines for people flicking bogies next, and with outsourced enforcement no doubt....
Now don't get me wrong, I think grinding out a cigarette butt on the ground is very wrong, all litter should be held and disposed in a proper litter collection facility, but this sort of enforcement is not the right way of doing it and it's not the world I was taught it would be when I was little.