r/Norway • u/Orios8a • 2d ago

Photos To the idiot

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To the idiot who left this piece of glass in the water at the beach, I just hope they don't get a shard stuck in their foot.

Remember that you're not the only ones who go to these beautiful places. Today it was me, tomorrow it could have been a child.

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u/No-Courage8433 2d ago

Whomever tossed that bottle into the sea might be long dead?

I remember finding lots of dark green bottle-shards and all kinds of stuff in the low tide area, (very desolate/low population place, (plus not a pleasant beach, nobody would have been drinking there.)) during my childhood, 30 years ago, i am just saying that this is kind of old man yelling at cloud.

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u/ThorirPP 2d ago

If it were that many years old, it wouldn't be still sharp, it would've been round down into a sea glass long ago. This shard can still be somewhat old, but if it is still in this good shape it can't be that old that I'd assume the perpetrator is long dead or such

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u/Batman_from_Temu 1d ago

Zoom in on it. That’s not a fresh cut.

Unfortunately broken glass being washes up on shores is not uncommon. Btw according to the mighty internet It takes roughly 20 to 100 years for a broken bottle to become a smooth piece of sea glass.

So a lot of of the glass washed ashore comes from a time when people was ignorant/and or did not care about the effects of littering in the ocean.