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Trash Hatch™
Dispose of unwanted liquids and small trash items discreetly! | |
You might be driving down the road one day and you are faced with the dilema of having to get rid of that cigarette butt, that piece of gum that you chewed the life out of, or that half a cup of coffee that is about to ruin your interior because you just now discovered that the cup has a pinhole leak.
The
Trash Hatch™ is a nifty little device that can be installed on the floor in front of the driver's seat or it can be retro-fitted into the center console. This permits you to discreetly discard small amounts of trash on the road without facing the citation from a police officer or the embarassment of other angry drivers as they glare at you.
Open the hatch while going down the highway and release your trash! Nobody will know that it came from YOUR car because it will appear that you drove over what someone else ahead of you probably threw out the window.
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Now who left fishbones all over the road like that. |
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Yeah, but we know now, so here's a "citizen's citation" [-]. |
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Shouldn't the category be "Tools to commit crimes:minor"(-) |
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I might feel differently about this if it were a caltrop hatch. |
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I think they did something similar in the movie "Night Shift" The garbage was deposited in a compartment in the center console and pneumatically pushed to the trunk.
The "star" of the show then puched the button that opened the trunk and dumped it, right on the highway. |
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The scene did make me contemplate the size of the marked for expensive auto accessories built just for rednecks. |
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By /marked / I meant "market" Must be a keyboard problem with my machine. |
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See the "edit" button under your annotations? That's so you can go back and fix typos, stuff like that. |
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I knew a guy whose father was a beer-drinking alcoholic, and his solution to the commute home involved a funnel and hose through the truck floorboard. Probably a trucker tool as well. |
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[-] for dropping anything on the highway. |
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oops, this morning I was here real early and must have hit the + instead of the -, sorry. I can't stand littering in any way, shape or form and a *sneaky* litterbug would be the worst of all. |
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And I had my autoboner turned off. Sorry. |
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+ from me. But I'm thinking more along the lines committing one minor crime in order to avoid being busted for a more serious offense. |
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//Open the hatch while going down the
highway and release your trash!// Isn't this
what cars already do to the climate? A very
smelly fishbone for thinking that this could
ever be considered a worthy notion. What
does the TM stand for? - is it Totally
Moronic by any chance? |
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"That's true, you guys do need *something* to do when you grow up" = my response, if lucky enough to think of it. |
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Hmmmm. Dump trash on highway. Get busted. Pick up trash off the highway. |
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Now, if you were to put a tiny disposable garbage bag at the bottom of your trash hatch, so at the end of your journey you can just take the bag and throw it into a trash can (prominent in parking lots), your idea would have been a) good, and b) baked. Cars definitely need some sort of easy-to-clean trash bin, because the ashtrays are too small, and too hard to clean, so most of the trash like paper wrappers and soda cans ends up littering the floor beneath the passengers' feet indefinitely. But since you advise to just dump the trash on the road, a) that's illegal, and b) that's what most people already do, so that isn't really an invention. |
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nice idea [Veho]. I just carry a small paper bag in my car, for tissues, chewed gum, wrappers etc. |
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baked: my girlfriends '73 beetle has no drivers side floor. |
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Some 10 years ago I was cycling on Ferry Rd in Christchurch, NZ.
Some young male driver threw away a some rubbish from the roof hatch of his car while he overtook me. I stopped my bicycle and picked up the rubbish. Then I caught up him on the next traffic lights and rode beside him. "You dropped this mate" I said and dropped the rubbish back into his car from the open roof hatch. He had a funny look on his face but did not say anything, lol. |
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Here's a thought. At the next stoplight, open your window and dump the contents of that leaky coffee cup on the road. Can they fine you for littering with a liquid? I think not. Keep the empty cup in your car to catch that cigarette butt, the wad of over-chewed gum, and whatever else you might be tempted to toss out (mother-in-law?) so when you arrive at your destination you can truly put your trash where it belongs. |
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I bite my lip and grab the steering wheel REALLY REALLY HARD to keep from demonstrating "ramming speed!" on every mouthbreather I see who flips yet another of those damn cigarette butts onto my clean countryside. If littering is made even easier and more subtle, then how am I supposed to know whom to hate? Where does the ramming stop? |
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Fishbone, composted and cleanly returned to mother Earth. |
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People are voting against this because they hate littering, while I'm voting for it because I hate government. |
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The only things you can legally litter on the highway in my state are chicken feathers and water. |
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In the nautical world, it is possible to dispose of liquid effluent from storage tanks, but only beyond the "3-mile" zone in coastal waters. Most inland lakes, rivers, bays, etc are considered "no discharge" zones. |
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Penalties are extreme for those caught disposing of waste (especially plastic, which can cause death among wildlife) improperly. A "macerator" which chews up waste into small bits is still required. |
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man, your pitch is all wrong 'cause
nobody likes a litterbug. Call it a "Roach
Hatch," a way to discreetly make sure
the product is not on your person in the
event that you get busted (God forbid)
while bakin' out the old jalopy. then you
get all the stoner HBer's support (check
out all the smoking ideas ;) |
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awsome idea! this should come standard on every car. double plus good bun for you. |
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