Now here is an idea that will cut crime better than serializing bullets. A friend lives about 1 Starbucks Medium from a coffee shop, so her front yard and sidewalk collects empty paper cups complete with their little jackets. Littering is illegal, $200 fine, that’s more than running a red light. She picks them up and chucks them in her own trash (I’ve suggested going back to the shop with a month’s worth and dumping them on the floor, but that’s “confrontational and besides it’s not the shop’s fault”)
So if we could have the purchaser’s name printed on the cup at the store, it would greatly cut down on the mess.
I mean, that’s how Arlo Guthrie got busted for littering, they found his name in the trashbag.
“So if we could have the purchaser’s name printed on the cup at the store, it would greatly cut down on the mess.”
Doesn’t Starbucks already do that? The last three I’ve been in, one of which was on the other end of the country from the other two, ask you for your name when you buy so you can pick up the right drink at the other end... instead of just saying “Caramel frappucino” and having all 3 people who ordered that think it’s theirs, they can look at the cup and say “Caramel frappucino for Sally” and Sally can pick up her drink and everyone else will know it’s not theirs she’s taking.