Does Anyone remember the crying Indian on the side of the road commercial?

Question

Well now I'm that Indian if u know what I mean .. I'm going give the next person that litters out their car window a "pit maneuver "
Fines for dropping litter ("dumping trash") on a road or highway in the USA and Canada tend to be very high, typically $1000.
Because of the risk of wildfires, throwing any lighted, flaming or glowing object such as a cigarette stub from a vehicle is regarded as an extremely serious offence.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIT_maneuver

http://freespace.virgin.net/john.cletheroe/usa_can/driving/litter.htm

Answer 1

Great commercial. You go on and give those litter bugs the old pit maneuver!

Answer 2

"Question: Who was the crying Indian in the late '70s (I think)? — Justin D.

Televisionary: I assume you mean the man who played the crying Native American in the memorable Keep America Beautiful public-service ad that debuted on Earth Day in 1971. The commercial featured an actor named Iron Eyes Cody as a Native American who, after paddling his way up a polluted river, hopped ashore and walked to a busy highway, only to have a bag of garbage from a passing car nearly hit him. He turned to the camera, shedding a single tear, as the voice-over delivered the tag line: "People started pollution. People can stop it."


Thing was, Iron Eyes, who died in 1999 at the age of 94, wasn't really Native American, although he lived as if he were as an adult, adopting Native American children and doing quite a bit for Native American causes. He insisted he was, even after a half sister made a public case that he was actually Italian American (which was true).

And it didn't matter to the Native American community, which didn't much care about his lack of blood ties. His good works were all that mattered, they said, and if that works for them, it works for me."

--from http://www.tvguide.com/TV/Televisionary/default.htm?cmsRedir=true&rmDate=03212006&cmsGuid=%7BF2A6F5A6-8341-4E5B-BBB2-16ABEEC23511%7D

Answer 3

In my state we have a hotline you can call when you see someone littering on the roadways. I'm just b***hy enough to call it every time I see someone flick a cigarette out the window. They get a nasty letter saying someone witnessed them in the act and, had it been a cop, the fine would have been $1,095.

Answer 4

yes I remember it was about littering and polluting. A "pit maneuver" might be considered another form of pollution.

Answer 5

The Indian's name was Iron Eyes Cody. I don't think he would want you to do anything dumb. Get the offenders' license number and report 'em.

Answer 6

Go for it! Litterers are the laziest people ever.

Answer 7

Yes I do remember that man. I believe he passed away, though

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

yes I remember him.

Answer 10

Good. people are seriously gross these days. :(