Please put litter in its place (you're scaring people)

From a local news channel's twitter

3:44 bomb squad investigating suspicious duffle bag in trash can near steps of fire dept headquarters.

I read about 3-4 bomb squad call outs a day for "suspicious bag, package, item... usually near or in a trash can." They shut down the nearest street and take a couple of hours to determine that someone threw something away in a trash can. It is never, I repeat never, a device meant to do harm.

Last week they shut down one of the malls here because if a "suspicious bag" near a trash can. It was nothing and people were allowed back inside a couple hours later.

So if you take nothing else from this rant, make sure when you throw something away that it makes it completely inside the trash can, else it may be interpreted as dangerous.

Did I need to mention this is in Floriduh?