Portland, Tennessee Blog

I really don't understand this thing at CARES.
I wonder if anyone really gets fined....and the next thing I wonder is why the city doesen't pick up that stuff and haul it away...instead of allowing it to sit there all weekend. They, the city, really should INSIST that CARES take care of this problem. Gallatin CARES does not have this problem and neither does the Hope Center in White House.

Although I do notice that they haven't done anything about it yet. They are still doing it every week. Why don't they put a few drop boxes around town like the other charitible companies do. Wait....THat would make too much sence.

I agree that the tennesseian is littering. As far as the items dumped at the Portland Cares... That is considered lttering by the cities standards. They did an anouncement about it in the paper and said that if anyone is cought in the act there will be a stiff fine and posible charges for the act.
Just quoting the paper.
Thanks

If we want to know if it's littering or not...let's all take our rolled up papers WE get in OUR yards and throw them in the front yard of CITY HALL. Bet we'll get an answer then...LOL LOL.

It's not just the freebies that are tossed onto your property. We live at the end of a long driveway and have two Newspaper tubes by the mailboxes. Yet whoever delivers the Sunday Tennessean/New Examiner (whose stupid idea was that merger?) throws it into our shared driveway, week after week. I have called the Gallatin office, the Nashville office, and talked to someone at the Portland office as well. The Sunday paper continued to be tossed into the driveway. I cancelled the "free" Sunday Tennessean about two weeks before they combined with the Monday Examiner.

Because of the merger, we were only getting the Examiner twice a week. Our subscription expired in April, and we chose not to renew it. Customer service is apparently not their strong point. They know they are the only county paper, and apparently, they don't care if the customers are satisfied or not.

It's not just the freebies that are tossed onto your property. We live at the end of a long driveway and have two Newspaper tubes by the mailboxes. Yet whoever delivers the Sunday Tennessean/New Examiner (whose stupid idea was that merger?) throws it into our shared driveway, week after week. I have called the Gallatin office, the Nashville office, and talked to someone at the Portland office as well. The Sunday paper continued to be tossed into the driveway. I cancelled the "free" Sunday Tennessean about two weeks before they combined with the Monday Examiner.

Because of the merger, we were only getting the Examiner twice a week. Our subscription expired in April, and we chose not to renew it. Customer service is apparently not their strong point. They know they are the only county paper, and apparently, they don't care if the customers are satisfied or not.

Regarding the Duplicate entries, those of you that are having this problem try this. First clear out your temp internet files by clearing your cache. If it still continues it may be a problem within, I have had this happen a few times and when it seems like it is taking a long time to load my response, I will quickly do a "control/c" to copy what I'v typed, after it does or doesn't take the entry close out of the blog wait a minute and go back to the blog, if your entry is there, great, if it isn't just "control/v" to paste the text back in the box and try again. Most of the times it goes thru the first time it just doesn't appear that it did.

Oh, I'm so embarassed now...I do sound like a like a litter fanatic, don't I ??? LOL

Gosh DeAnna, do you have to drive the point home over and over again lol.

Oh, gosh....I didn't mean for it to show up TWICE...I got that "submission error" message, so I just assumed it wasn't going to send....so I clicked it again......and it showed up twice....I'm so sorry ! I wasn't trying to be emphatic...lol.

okaaaaaay you made your point the FIRST time
LOL Once again, something new learned on the blog

Tennessee Code 39-14-502

(c) (1) For conviction of a first offense, a person violating the provisions of this section shall be fined five hundred dollars ($500) and be required to remove litter from the state or local highway system, public playgrounds, public parks or other appropriate public locations for not less than forty (40) hours nor more than six (6) months. For conviction of a second or subsequent offense, a person violating the provisions of this section shall be fined one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) and be required to remove litter from the state or local highway system, public playgrounds, public parks or other appropriate public locations for not less than eighty (80) hours nor more than six (6) months.

From Tennessee Code - 39-14-502 :

(c) (1) For conviction of a first offense, a person violating the provisions of this section shall be fined five hundred dollars ($500) and be required to remove litter from the state or local highway system, public playgrounds, public parks or other appropriate public locations for not less than forty (40) hours nor more than six (6) months. For conviction of a second or subsequent offense, a person violating the provisions of this section shall be fined one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) and be required to remove litter from the state or local highway system, public playgrounds, public parks or other appropriate public locations for not less than eighty (80) hours nor more than six (6) months.

I thought $500.00 was the meximum fine

OK....GB....will start thowing coupons and ads in your yard....LOL LOL.

and Charlie....the fine for public littering is $500 for first offense !! Is the littering at CARES considered littering? Just wondering.

This is not meant to be mean:

it seems like we kinda get a mob mind set sometimes. what if someone was throwing out 5 dollar bills in our yards once a week?
would we be upset? i doubt it.
this is a free service and some may enjoy it.
has anyone contacted gannett news service to see about getting theirs cancelled?
i personally do not look at it, but if you were needing something out of the classified it would save you 50 cents.

I saw a sign on the side of the road today: "No Littering / $50 Fine." That's a City of Portland sign. I think the Tennessean litter is a fantastic money-making opportunity for Portland.

3,000 homes in Portland
x $50.00 fine each
= $150,000.00 fine per week
x 52 weeks in a year
= $7,800,000.00 total fine for the year.

Portland should look into this! :-)

"until they vote you out of office"

My money’s on Daniel’s thinking! There’s no way “W” can win the next Presidential Election!

S.Jackson

Go Yoda, Go Yoda, Go Yoda!

Daniel --- very well said ! Thanks.

I think "W" must be writing on this blog under another name.....what do you think? LOL LOL

jr. digman
Backward speaking you are. Takein that schtick is. His lawyers, Lucas will send after you. Won the terroist have before the Tennessean throw on your lawn, their paper. Post on every topic Sr. digman does, the same crap he is spewing. Now another di**man me have here.

So blowing up kids in Iraq means you love God huh? You must be reading a different Bible than me.I think you've been reading from the Oil Chronicles, Chapter 2, Versus 3-5 that say"When you're trying to abuse your power to further your own cause, simply trick the ignorant masses into believing it's for a just cause, such as religion, and then kill, rape and pillage until they vote you out of office. Of course by then you'll have so much money it won't matter."

I meant send back junk MAIL (not email) silly me :)

I once read an email that suggested sending junk email back to the company that sent it to you in their own prepaid postage envelopes.

I wonder what the Tennesean would do if we organized a collection of all the unsolicited publications for a month or two and then returned them??? . . . in their parking lot

like my superieor below say(digman) tennessean hate God and America. and when he throw paper in my yard, it makes Osama smile. Terrorists win, America loses.

Me so smart....tennessean you stop being a liberal...me know you!!! you give paper away because no one in state of tennessee buys a tennessean!!! No one but liberals.

Did I mention me no like liberals?

What makes the Tennessean throwing these papers into our driveways littering, as opposed to the local churches and real estate agents putting phamplets on my doorknob? At least I get something out of the classifieds.

I am thinking it is something going on with this website or it's software since it's happening to several people....

DeeAnna -
That's been happening a lot lately. You're not alone.

I don't know the answer to your question though.

Well......twice I got a "submission error" and now it's popped up three times.....don't know what's with that...hate that.

Does anyone know if the dumped things by the road at CARES are considered "litter" legally ?

Is the pile of dumped things by the road at CARES considered, legally, to be litter??

Anyone know the answer to that?

I wonder if the things dumped in front of CARES is legally considered to be litter........anyone know the answer to that?

I glance over them from time to time,but my pet peeve about it is the people who deliver mine are two teenage boys who blare their bad-language filled rap mess as the casually throw the roll out the window,which by the way has never actually landed in my driveway, mostly middle of the road or in my flowers. There are about 5 of them in my neighbors drain in his ditch..Who decides when we get this stuff without asking??

the tennessean is nothing but a God-hating, America hating libral rag anyway. thats why they have to give it away.

There is a website to report litter....it's
www.stoplitter.org.
You can even report litter that you see...submit your findings...you could even win a T-shirt !!

That's www.stoplitter.org

Be sure to put .org.

This is a great site !

Too bad those recycling bins are gone. That would be a perfect place to deposit the unwanted publication.

They go straight from my driveway (Where they have been run over several times) to the trash can. Hate em!!!!

Judy - yes, there is a Tennessee Littering Law.

Tennessee Code Annotated:


39-14-502. Criminal littering - Penalty.

(a) (1) A person commits criminal littering who:


(A) Knowingly places, drops or throws litter on any public or private property without permission and does not immediately remove it;





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(b) Criminal littering is a Class A misdemeanor punishable only as provided in subsection (c).



(c) (1) For conviction of a first offense, a person violating the provisions of this section shall be fined five hundred dollars ($500) and be required to remove litter from the state or local highway system, public playgrounds, public parks or other appropriate public locations for not less than forty (40) hours nor more than six (6) months. For conviction of a second or subsequent offense, a person violating the provisions of this section shall be fined one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) and be required to remove litter from the state or local highway system, public playgrounds, public parks or other appropriate public locations for not less than eighty (80) hours nor more than six (6) months.

These rolled-up rolls are litter and end up in the trash.There really should be a city ordinance about thowing papers like that in everyone's yards. I bet if I went around doing that....I'd be facing a fine right now ! Who gives the authority for doing this?

I too get these newspapers from the tennessean & find them to be a complete waste, they go right to the trash where it belongs. Deliberate littering should NOT be allowed, anyone else that throws things out the window (cans, cups, bags, etc.) is subject to littering fines, maybe we should call and report the tennessean for littering in our yards, don't they have that new law where you can call and report people you've seen throwing stuff out the window, or does that just apply to cigarette butts.

MDL - I've gotten them now for about a month. Yes consider yourself lucky!!

I've never gotten one. How long has this been going on? I guess I'll just consider myself lucky that it missed me!?!

I HATE them.....I try to keep them picked up but it seems like a never ending battle.Who is paying for this "free" service? I know they must pay someone for delvering them and then the cost of paper and to print.Just wonder if they pass that on to the people who buy the paper.I wish they would stop littering....I feel you on this one..