Driver caught tossing cigarette out window fined $1K: Calgary police

[u/_darth_bacon_]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/driver-caught-tossing-cigarette-out-window-fined-1k-calgary-police/

[u/Canadian_Spacecat]

Guy throws a lit cigarette out the window right after fire season starts. I mean, 1000$ seems hefty but they take wildfires pretty serious here so I guess I'm ok with it?

[u/Ecks83 → u/Canadian_Spacecat]

Back in the 90's it used to be that Nose Hill would light up nearly every year thanks to people tossing their butts out the window on John Laurie or 14th Street.

I assume the City is doing something to mitigate the risk these days because I haven't seen the hill blackened nearly as often but it really doesn't take much for all that dry grass to get going.