It's a sad day...

I recently came across this news story (also here). I was shocked.

Here's the gist:
- A bunch of students became offended, resulting in a weekend camping retreat being cancelled.
- The students were offended over... a banana skin.
- The reason for the offence was... hate-crime/racism.

SERIOUSLY?!?!

The cause was that there was no rubbish bin nearby. The person eating the banana (immaturely) threw the skin at a tree. "Immaturely" because he should have just held onto it until he found a bin, (not because the action could be seen as racist).

He even said: "Although unintentional, there is no excuse for the pain that was caused..."

The problem of littering should be treated for what it is. Not treated as an act of racism.

Some people need to travel around. Get some cultural experience outside of the USA. Many countries have litter lining the streets, including banana skins. No one gets offended by it.

I honestly can't believe that some parts of the world have to this. And then... I also found this article: another piece of trash causes offence.

But I can't work out what's upsetting me more:
- that people are getting offended over trash,
- that the police actually waste time looking into these incidents, or
- that such things are even newsworthy.

A message for every other country of the world (especially my homeland, the United Kingdom):

Please don't become this dumb!!