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HEY Jim.
Just to play devil's advocate....

Wouldn't spitting on the side walk be, technically, considered littering?
Isn't littering against the law, (though raely enforced) and thus a business of the police?


>When I was young 2 things that happened a lot that you hardly see anymore are spitting and doggie-doo lying around. I was a spitter and can't remember when/why I stopped. And I thnk there is such a thing as spitting 'courteously', with regard for others who are around. A cop rolling by in a cop car is not impacted in any way unless it's directly on his windshield or splatters him/her through an opened window. It may not be good form but this incident most certainly isn't a police matter. Period.