@Cael Berglund oh no I was just messing around, I guess I can see how you see that, I'm just terrible at communicating through texting or emailing etc. but if I were to say these words directly to you in RL then it would be normal ya know? BTW just for your own future reference, (just so you don't mistake it) the definition of gaslighting is- "manipulate (someone) by psychological means into questioning their own sanity." Okay have a good day
“I’m 30 y.o. and I had a nightmare about this lady last month” For some reason, this made me bust a gut. Thanks for everything you do Austin and have a great rest of your day!
i live in battlefield but i will totally drive across town to do this if i had my own car (im 16) edit: I'm 18, moved, and I have a car now. I primarily bus now (it's cheaper, plus I had a car accident which demotivated me), and Luster pales in comparison to how bad downtown is. National between St Louis and Chestnut is atrocious.
Well you can but I imagine the whole get your name put on a sign thing makes some people slightly more inclined to do it and you're also probably given some kind of extra protections if you have the legal approval to be wandering around an active highway.
Why would your teachers first thought be "Austin is actively making the choice to litter!" instead of "Looks like this Austin kid lost his ID badge" I mean in this case she was right, but for something like an student Id card it would have been just as likely to have accidentally fallen out of a bag, its not like she was there when Austin tossed this out the window of a moving car. Its such a weird thing to do...
Heh, that title sounds like something a Mr. Beast copycat (who's not very experienced yet) would do. Oddly enough, Austin even looks like a discount Mr. Beast in the thumbnail, same vibe ;)
Adopting a road is not always just cleaning up, it’s doing some landscaping too. You should get some of those walking steps from the hardware store, park benches, and shrubs and plant it. The idea is that the more beautiful it looks, the less likely someone will litter.
I hear this sentiment, but the street is literally a boundary for a fkn aggregate mine, which is probably why people feel no compunction throwing their trash there to begin with. Beyond the other side of the ditch is private property.
Thank you for doing the paperwork to show the whole "Adopt-a-Highway" process Rather than just... well, showing up and starting to clean up other people's mess. 🗑 Sure it might have been fine to just clean it up spontaneously, but I think the awareness Of how the program works, in your area at least, is beneficial for discussion and progress. 🙂
If its allowed, you might consider using (a part) of the income from this video to plant flowers/native plants along the road as a passive deterrent to keep people from littering. Kind of in the same way cities will paint murals to help prevent graffiti.
Excellent idea, but just beyond the ditch is private property and likely not keen. This street is boundary for an aggregate mine and likely why people throw their crap there to begin with.
Laughed at the pretentious sign comment. I have a 3 mile stretch of highway, but my signs just say "Neighbors Against Litter" to avoid that. I also gave up on trying to recruit help--it's just easier to do it myself when I have a free Saturday. Good for you for doing this and posting a video about it. Hopefully it makes a few people think twice about tossing their garbage on the street.
I've always been curious if it would be cheaper for the city to just hire a clean up crew than to pay an employee to create and post those signs saying who adopted the street. Might be an interesting video idea, "how much do street signs really cost?" or something.
... not much. And paying some group every month or so for cleaning several streets is a lot more. Usually towns do clean the more urban areas themselves though.
not sure how much it is in USA, but here in UK the physical sign is about £50. If you add the cost of labour, it's about £500. I know this cause i asked the worker who put up the "bumpy road" sign in our village 5 months late after the road got paved. So, yeah... that's money down the drain.
You could always get one of those "No littering" signs with the long list of punishments for doing so, it's not gonna solve the problem, but it would help. Especially if you could get a broken camera or something to attach to the top...
Didn’t realize Luster was that bad. I haven’t been down that road in a while. Kudos for keeping Springfield clean. Also, I’ve only seen a couple of your videos and had no idea you were from Springfield!
July 3rd 2021 was my 1 year anniversary of moving to Springfield from Las Vegas. I did partly cause of you Austin & the Jack/Gab channel. Thank you so much for your videos. Springfield has been an amazing town to me. I'm glad to call it home.
@@Jellyjam14blas you can "adopt" endangered animals in the same type of way you adopt a road or highway. You really just get pictures and update letters from the animal sanctuary; but you pay a regular fee to help pay for its care and upkeep.
This is a really common thing in most of the U.S., you basically just pay to help maintain the highway whether that's through structural maintenance or trash cleanup; in return your name or business name advertised on that road. In some places you essentially just pay for the ad and are agreeing to go cleanup the road occassionally
Man... This is where all my family is from. My mom's family live in Springfield, my grandpa taught at Missouri State (actually SMS before the name change), and my grandma still lives off Republic. Great to see you loving the community, I appreciate it.
@@WouldntULikeToKnow. not when there are endless options for people to responsibly dispose of said trash responsibility always falls to the individual; most items people toss could be recycled, they're just too lazy to put it in the right bin
@@dirtpounder Trash gets onto the ground in some unorthodox ways as well. On a windy day I watched the garbage truck pick up the bin at our school and a bunch of stuff blew away when they lifted it up.
@@timbrown3666 I'd argue that falls on the makers of the trucks, I've seen designs with an extra arm to hold the lid closed until it's a couple feet in the bucket, then let it open so nothing flies away. There's as many ways to blame the handlers as the companies making the products. If everyone would do their share, the whole issue wouldn't exist.
I’m only 50 seconds in but I’m SO GLAD this wasn’t a clickbaity video just vlogging about your day and haphazardly coming up with this idea and your friends tagged along and nothing came of it but a minute and a half of content. I’m glad this was birthed out of frustration and you’re doing something good with this. Good on you.
I'm pretty sure it's more about the road safety concerns about having some rando picking up litter right next to the street. Works better if it's more organized than that.
Hey Austin, I live in Springfield and travel this road to work daily. Thank you for cleaning up our community! We need more people like ya. Perhaps a fan meet up to help you clean up the road may be cool?
It serves 2 "needs". 1.) To get trash picked up 2.) Free publicity for businesses and free status for individuals. You dont need one, but incentivises people who drive down the street or who live / work there to be a good part of the community while collecting the benefits from it
Oh and 3.) The city comes to pick up the bags of trash so you don't have to haul them, which honestly is a saftey thing as trash carrys a disease you can only get from trash
@@FreelanceDev4life I like those reasons, makes sense. but back on the topic of making me mad, clean up the street without a permit, leave to get a trailer to haul away the bags, come back to find an officer writing you a fine for leaving bags of trash. no good deed goes unpunished, and the police can be assholes.
Once I saw a park/playground, where they build a big thrash bin with the design of a shooting target. The spot near the bin was really dirty (because these noobs had no aim) but the whole park was clean.
I live in a small neighborhood around some fields. Every once in a while, I take a day to scour every, single, street, and even the wooded areas, and completely cleanse this place of fireball and vodka bottles. It feels very accomplishing bringing home trashbags of litter, with a clean neighborhood!
I think the best part about this channel is that every time I watch a video here it makes me feel very emotional and inspired and hopeful. Very different from anything else on UA-cam.
This is really awesome. Too many places in our State are like this. Especially along highways in mid Missouri where I feel people just can't be bothered to do anything about it.
I did something similar in grade school! I didn't adopt a street or anything since I was a minor, but my school was near a pretty busy road, so I spent every third recess (once a week) picking up the litter that rolled/blew down the hill and onto our playground. I got a scar out of it from a glass bottle, and my school started doing a weekend cleanup thing because of it. I think a few of my teachers hated me for it.
Having lived on that side of town in my much younger years, and that it still holds a special place in my heart, I thank you for doing this. I don’t remember it being littered as you show us, but I was probably too immature to care.
Literally looked this up because I drove past the Austin McConnell adopt-a-street sign on Luster and Galloway 😂 i was like "....that name sounds familiar" I always forget we live in the same city!
6:55 that jacket is incredible and if anyone knows the style/where to buy I want it Austin your videos are always great and this is really encouraging to help my town get better. Thank you!
4:44 all of that litter in that stock footage has no label on it, which tells us they literally had to litter to make the litter clean up stock footage.
Doctor's handwriting is often referred to as "chicken scratch" if that provides more context to how illegible your handwriting must be. Not that mines is much better lel
I just happened to be in Springfield about 2 miles from this street when this video showed up in my feed, I think the universe is trying to tell me something. I just don't know if it's telling me to throw my garbage on this street or not.
Going into my sophomore year and totally had a teacher like that last year. She gave me detention and an essay because I tossed my water bottle to a friend.
I noticed that sign got posted a few weeks ago and that the ditch was cleaned out and I wondered if it was the same Austin McConnell. Good job! Kinda super weird to see a video about the street I traveled up and down twice nearly daily when I was working at that Chuck E. Cheese in primrose marketplace for a year and a half. I do not work there anymore! I don't drive through there often anymore either unless its for frozen custard!
Good work Austen. I don’t understand littering it literally takes two seconds to put stuff in the trash can. I was raised to not litter so it’s just second nature for me
I had a classmate who used to shove all his papers into his bag. On the Last day of our junior year he spontaneously decided to empty it all out in our windy hilltop parking lot as a "fuck you" to the school, needless to say seconds later he realized his name was on every single one of those papers. We came back about 30 minutes later to see him almost done picking them up lol.
I remember driving past the sign a month or so ago on my way to my folks place and going "Wait did that say Austin McConnell??" And then had to check on my way back home to make sure I wasn't seeing things. Cheers to you guys for doing so much work on Luster, even if it sadly seems to go right back to the way it was a couple weeks later.
Nicely done, Austin. Your whole local ecosystem will be thanking you. The soil doesn't need inks from packaging and chemical additives from food and drinks in it, the water doesn't need to be filled with microplastics, which is what those bottles will turn into eventually, the plants don't need those things, the animals can be safe from being trapped, hurt or killed by ingesting trash. You're a champ! Totally inspiring, and reminding me to take my bag and gloves out to the park again to pick things up (it's a lot more effective than getting in anyone's face, you're right) Really looking forward to future videos about your stretch of road. Maybe you could find out what kind of environments border it in those trees there, what kind of plants and animals or what used to be on the road before modernisation. It'd be really interesting to know what it'd be like in optimum environmental conditions (bearing in mind that there is a modern street there now). I'd go ham on it, lean in to the embarrassment cos hey, not only are you making the world nicer to look at, you're actually helping it be more liveable for all the creatures in that little stretch, big and small, animal and plant. Very cool.
I took 3 years of German in high school, because college . My specific college program required 2 Spanish courses to get in, and 2 more for the major. My life is useless.
Austin's really giving this street back it's luster. Real talk though, Litter sucks. It's nasty, it's awful, and it makes places worse. Major props to you for doing something about it.
There’s something stupid in an amazing way & just impressive about the fact this man indirectly got sponsored to pick up trash. He got sick of seeing a street have trash then in the process of cleaning it was able to make a UA-cam video, get it sponsored & get 130,000 views. This channel can be described as unpredictable good quality content
Thank you for making Springfield a more beautiful place! I know the exact stretch of road you’re talking about. What high school did you go over to? I volunteered at Pershing middle and later Glendale high!
_One man’s trash is another man’s UA-cam video._ This is such an awesome idea, Austin. It makes me grateful to know that there are people out there doing good. Thank you!
Amazing work! It's kinda sad that others just imediately start to litter again, but you've surely at least changed _some_ people's minds about throwing away their trash without care. I don't live there, nor even in the States, but you've got my thanks for your, and all your buddies' work. Keep being awesome!
"What are you in for?"
"I was picking up trash on my street without the appropriate documentation"
*immediately proceeds to get beaten up by the other inmate*
@@angrymandanthecommenter immediately proceeds to beat up the other inmate*
@@Nativityin6lack McKay is writing in Ozarks dialect and is correct for the area.
The industrial revolution and its consequences
@@lyfehaxandtrix3481 ?
"What's up nerd"
"Sup loser"
That's a greeting between friends if I've ever heard one.
he really said “ if you dont like it just adopt the damn street “
huh. that’s funny my parents used the same strategy with me
@@Zanden08 damn that sucks, i dont know what to say lol
As a wise man once said: “Pick up that can”
I understood this reference.
Chuck it at his kneecap
@@austinmcconnell I liked the " Keep the change you filthy animal" reference 😂
@@dafunktrunk first play through I looked dude in the head for a solid 5 seconds then went bonk for the funny
now put it in the trash can
austin has one of the most satisfying voices to listen to on youtube
that simply isn’t true, he doesn’t have a bad voice or anything but his voice isn’t special.
PREACH!!!
Honestly though
@@harrison5280 why, why do you feel the need to say that. (Retorical question)
@Cael Berglund oh no I was just messing around, I guess I can see how you see that, I'm just terrible at communicating through texting or emailing etc. but if I were to say these words directly to you in RL then it would be normal ya know?
BTW just for your own future reference, (just so you don't mistake it) the definition of gaslighting is- "manipulate (someone) by psychological means into questioning their own sanity." Okay have a good day
“I’m 30 y.o. and I had a nightmare about this lady last month”
For some reason, this made me bust a gut. Thanks for everything you do Austin and have a great rest of your day!
I died LMAOO
I SAW THIS SIGN THE OTHER DAY AND WONDERED ABOUT IT!!!!!!!! Literally like a week ago. I'd love to help you guys the next time you are out.
I live a few streets over I want to come!
i live in battlefield but i will totally drive across town to do this if i had my own car (im 16)
edit: I'm 18, moved, and I have a car now. I primarily bus now (it's cheaper, plus I had a car accident which demotivated me), and Luster pales in comparison to how bad downtown is. National between St Louis and Chestnut is atrocious.
I won't help but will toss a Franklin out the window next time I drive past. Good luck finding it.
Did it make you think twice before you dumped that Wendy's bag out the window?
I'm in Nixa, but I'm down to helping next time!
"then you're allowed to start picking up trash"
So, you aren't allowed to just pick up trash without filling out a form and getting it approved?
Welcome to America!
Well you can but I imagine the whole get your name put on a sign thing makes some people slightly more inclined to do it and you're also probably given some kind of extra protections if you have the legal approval to be wandering around an active highway.
Well, the french club seems to have done it.
Why would your teachers first thought be "Austin is actively making the choice to litter!" instead of "Looks like this Austin kid lost his ID badge" I mean in this case she was right, but for something like an student Id card it would have been just as likely to have accidentally fallen out of a bag, its not like she was there when Austin tossed this out the window of a moving car.
Its such a weird thing to do...
Lolol I thought he was say when he threw the id card it hit her face. XD
@@GcorpCoPrez Lol
have you ever met a karen? they operate in judge mode 24/7.
@@yodarded8712 tell me you watch tik tok without telling me you watch tik tok
@@Abcdefg-rk8jk the term exists long before tik tok mate.
“If you’ve got internal frustrations about society, there are more productive ways of expressing it than defacing your town.”
Well said, Austin.
other UA-camrs: I Bought a McLaren/Lamborghini/Ferrari
Austin: I adopted the worst street in town
ok
The street always wins....
Now austin just has to buy a roundabout
Oh Look at me I bought a Lamborghini! BUY some DAMN Subtitles.
Heh, that title sounds like something a Mr. Beast copycat (who's not very experienced yet) would do. Oddly enough, Austin even looks like a discount Mr. Beast in the thumbnail, same vibe ;)
"what are you doing here, nerd?"
"Sup, loser"
Just a normal conversation I guess
I know! What an interesting interaction.
Austin really went "hey my heart is severely damaged" and then made a video about adopting an ugly street
Probably pre-made
Notice all the clothes they're wearing and trees stripped of their leaves...
it all started in December 2020, as you can see in the form.
And made it beautiful
Probably made before the problems were noticed.
Adopting a road is not always just cleaning up, it’s doing some landscaping too. You should get some of those walking steps from the hardware store, park benches, and shrubs and plant it. The idea is that the more beautiful it looks, the less likely someone will litter.
I hear this sentiment, but the street is literally a boundary for a fkn aggregate mine, which is probably why people feel no compunction throwing their trash there to begin with. Beyond the other side of the ditch is private property.
I imagine a poster board sign with sadly written block letters: "pls stop trash" followed by a little frowny face and Austin's name.
Thank you for doing the paperwork to show the whole "Adopt-a-Highway" process
Rather than just... well, showing up and starting to clean up other people's mess. 🗑
Sure it might have been fine to just clean it up spontaneously, but I think the awareness
Of how the program works, in your area at least, is beneficial for discussion and progress. 🙂
At least the benefit to sending an application is free advertising
What's the point of this whole program though? Just to have a sign with you/your company's name on the side of the road?
@@starrysock I think cleaning up a road that doesn’t belong to you can get you in legal trouble
@@FlorGeneva that’s fricked up
@@bensosnowski1128 eh idk
Thank you for adopting that poor street, Austin. It's really sad how that street's parents just left it. Thankfully Austin took it in.
Damn, Austin seems really good with non pay-to-win strats in real life Simpsons: Tapped Out
ur profiles Is cool
I haven’t seen anyone talk about that game in years damnnn, unlocked memories I forgot I had
ok
What?
@@JaysonT1 Might be a bot, since it's their first comment on the channel, but it's weirdly specific
Or it could be auto correct
If its allowed, you might consider using (a part) of the income from this video to plant flowers/native plants along the road as a passive deterrent to keep people from littering. Kind of in the same way cities will paint murals to help prevent graffiti.
Excellent idea, but just beyond the ditch is private property and likely not keen. This street is boundary for an aggregate mine and likely why people throw their crap there to begin with.
Someone has to tell the street the truth
:(
“Street, I’m sorry to have to tell you this, but… your adopted.”- said the human man
"street, your parents, the city, didn't want to take care of you, even though it should be their responsability, so i did it, thankfully"
@@imnotreallyjess4318 that's... so sad but so true :'(
@@imnotreallyjess4318 that makes it more sad
Laughed at the pretentious sign comment. I have a 3 mile stretch of highway, but my signs just say "Neighbors Against Litter" to avoid that. I also gave up on trying to recruit help--it's just easier to do it myself when I have a free Saturday. Good for you for doing this and posting a video about it. Hopefully it makes a few people think twice about tossing their garbage on the street.
I've always been curious if it would be cheaper for the city to just hire a clean up crew than to pay an employee to create and post those signs saying who adopted the street. Might be an interesting video idea, "how much do street signs really cost?" or something.
Once you have the manufacturing process in place, one particular street sign is really not all that much. There is an economy of scale.
@@Skip6235 makes sense, still I wonder what the cost is. I guess I could google it haha.
... not much. And paying some group every month or so for cleaning several streets is a lot more.
Usually towns do clean the more urban areas themselves though.
not sure how much it is in USA, but here in UK the physical sign is about £50. If you add the cost of labour, it's about £500.
I know this cause i asked the worker who put up the "bumpy road" sign in our village 5 months late after the road got paved. So, yeah... that's money down the drain.
You could always get one of those "No littering" signs with the long list of punishments for doing so, it's not gonna solve the problem, but it would help.
Especially if you could get a broken camera or something to attach to the top...
As a Springfield local, it’s gotten so dirty over the past few years. The entire town seems so littered
Now call Post 10 and he'll clear that drain for you.
I love that channel
Heck yeah
If you ever go to Sedalia Missouri there’s a highway that I help clean, the sign is just next to the Starbucks and says “Aricelly Gonzalez”
Didn’t realize Luster was that bad. I haven’t been down that road in a while. Kudos for keeping Springfield clean.
Also, I’ve only seen a couple of your videos and had no idea you were from Springfield!
Yeah hopeing one day I run into him
@@grimsum4916 same but I dont live there
Mega Scizor pfp nice
July 3rd 2021 was my 1 year anniversary of moving to Springfield from Las Vegas. I did partly cause of you Austin & the Jack/Gab channel. Thank you so much for your videos. Springfield has been an amazing town to me. I'm glad to call it home.
Didn’t know you could adopt a road but ok. A cat yes. A panda maybe. But a street? Interesting.
You never seen the, "Adopt a road" signs on highways❓❗
Yeah, the signs are all over indiana. All you gotta do is clean it. The sign is included with your name or organization on it.
A panda?? They are endangered
@@Jellyjam14blas you can "adopt" endangered animals in the same type of way you adopt a road or highway. You really just get pictures and update letters from the animal sanctuary; but you pay a regular fee to help pay for its care and upkeep.
This is a really common thing in most of the U.S., you basically just pay to help maintain the highway whether that's through structural maintenance or trash cleanup; in return your name or business name advertised on that road. In some places you essentially just pay for the ad and are agreeing to go cleanup the road occassionally
Man... This is where all my family is from. My mom's family live in Springfield, my grandpa taught at Missouri State (actually SMS before the name change), and my grandma still lives off Republic. Great to see you loving the community, I appreciate it.
People who pick up litter are actual heroes, we just don’t recognize them.
And people who litter are actual villains, we just don't recognize them either.
@@Codraroll the companies who make billions of tons of trash should, ultimately, be on the hook.
@@WouldntULikeToKnow. not when there are endless options for people to responsibly dispose of said trash
responsibility always falls to the individual; most items people toss could be recycled, they're just too lazy to put it in the right bin
@@dirtpounder Trash gets onto the ground in some unorthodox ways as well. On a windy day I watched the garbage truck pick up the bin at our school and a bunch of stuff blew away when they lifted it up.
@@timbrown3666 I'd argue that falls on the makers of the trucks, I've seen designs with an extra arm to hold the lid closed until it's a couple feet in the bucket, then let it open so nothing flies away.
There's as many ways to blame the handlers as the companies making the products. If everyone would do their share, the whole issue wouldn't exist.
“God I hate this street, it’s so dirty.”
I’m going to adopt it
Your "dirtiest street in my hometown" is like the average street in my hometown
That's so sad
I'm certain that's not the dirtiest street in Springfield.
@@AdamBuker not after Austin cleaned it!
living in a city, i felt this
🤝 same
I’m only 50 seconds in but I’m SO GLAD this wasn’t a clickbaity video just vlogging about your day and haphazardly coming up with this idea and your friends tagged along and nothing came of it but a minute and a half of content. I’m glad this was birthed out of frustration and you’re doing something good with this. Good on you.
Wait, you're not allowed to pick up litter without permission?
Now I want to know the answer too
I might be wrong, but I'm guessing that as a group, yes. Individually, I suppose you don't.
Maybe its a liability thing
Defintely a liability thing. The city doesn’t want to get sued.
I'm pretty sure it's more about the road safety concerns about having some rando picking up litter right next to the street. Works better if it's more organized than that.
Hey Austin, I live in Springfield and travel this road to work daily.
Thank you for cleaning up our community! We need more people like ya.
Perhaps a fan meet up to help you clean up the road may be cool?
Question:
WHY DO YOU NEED AN APPLICATION TO PICK UP TRASH ON THE STREET WHEN YOU CAN DO THAT ANYTIME??
For the sign
It's a city liability thing, they don't want to get sued probably.
It serves 2 "needs".
1.) To get trash picked up
2.) Free publicity for businesses and free status for individuals.
You dont need one, but incentivises people who drive down the street or who live / work there to be a good part of the community while collecting the benefits from it
Oh and 3.) The city comes to pick up the bags of trash so you don't have to haul them, which honestly is a saftey thing as trash carrys a disease you can only get from trash
@@FreelanceDev4life I like those reasons, makes sense. but back on the topic of making me mad, clean up the street without a permit, leave to get a trailer to haul away the bags, come back to find an officer writing you a fine for leaving bags of trash. no good deed goes unpunished, and the police can be assholes.
Once I saw a park/playground, where they build a big thrash bin with the design of a shooting target. The spot near the bin was really dirty (because these noobs had no aim) but the whole park was clean.
I live in a small neighborhood around some fields. Every once in a while, I take a day to scour every, single, street, and even the wooded areas, and completely cleanse this place of fireball and vodka bottles. It feels very accomplishing bringing home trashbags of litter, with a clean neighborhood!
I'd suggest recycling the bottles. Could make it somewhat profitable.
I think the best part about this channel is that every time I watch a video here it makes me feel very emotional and inspired and hopeful. Very different from anything else on UA-cam.
I live in Springfield, thanks for helping keep this town clean!
yeah he is actually making a difference in our town lol
'I'll put my youtube channel name in there. Nevermind, I'm gonna do my name.'
Correct if I'm wrong, but aren't those like, one in the same?
Ur wrong
Ur still wrong
Well, austin is actually his middle name. His first name is Gregory.
@@mcbubski4297 So he didn't use his name did he?
His youtube channel has no space between austin and mcconnell
"What are you doin' here, nerd?"
"'Sup, loser?"
if this isn't the most American thing ever, i don't know what is.
"Totally not my wife's cousin" - Austin McConnell
I don't think it's particularly American to trash talk people who totally aren't your wife's cousin
No, Guns
If the cousin turned and shot a skeet with a shotgun and said, "whatta' want" then that would be on the mark
Y’all are forgetting the legendary American thing. INSTANT CHEESE
This is really awesome. Too many places in our State are like this. Especially along highways in mid Missouri where I feel people just can't be bothered to do anything about it.
*Is this where Oscar the Grouch lives?*
Because I would then get why he would rather want to live inside a garbage can instead.
😂
I did something similar in grade school! I didn't adopt a street or anything since I was a minor, but my school was near a pretty busy road, so I spent every third recess (once a week) picking up the litter that rolled/blew down the hill and onto our playground. I got a scar out of it from a glass bottle, and my school started doing a weekend cleanup thing because of it.
I think a few of my teachers hated me for it.
'"What a wonderful new smell I've discovered' - Han Solo"
- Austin McConnell
When I was in High School you needed 2 years of a foreign language to graduate, 3 to go to most colleges, and 4 years to go to a "good" college.
Having lived on that side of town in my much younger years, and that it still holds a special place in my heart, I thank you for doing this. I don’t remember it being littered as you show us, but I was probably too immature to care.
Literally looked this up because I drove past the Austin McConnell adopt-a-street sign on Luster and Galloway 😂 i was like "....that name sounds familiar" I always forget we live in the same city!
so the city is like: "We don't wanna do anything about that street, maybe clean it yourself?"
Everyone wants clean streets but it's not that high on funding priority
Make a solar power robot that picks it up or snipe the people that are littering.
Not just that city, but most areas in the US.
@@Ebolachicken Imagine a sniper robot just zapping things out of midair
Some states it's like $200 or so
The fact you went out of your way to make that street look better and the next day the people absolutely trashed it.
6:55 that jacket is incredible and if anyone knows the style/where to buy I want it
Austin your videos are always great and this is really encouraging to help my town get better. Thank you!
4:44 all of that litter in that stock footage has no label on it, which tells us they literally had to litter to make the litter clean up stock footage.
Adoption McConnell
My boy scout troop has adopted a street in Springfield too, Scenic from Catalpa to Bennett. Clean up your cities, folks
Your handwriting is doing things to me.
I’ve been told I have “doctor’s writing” which I think is code for crap.
You think, and you'd be correct
It’s not code dude
My handwriting has been called scribbles before.
Doctor's handwriting is often referred to as "chicken scratch" if that provides more context to how illegible your handwriting must be.
Not that mines is much better lel
To see you taking care of my hometown really makes my heart happy! ☺
Just imagine getting arrested for picking up trash without adopting the highway beforehand.
Yo I'm from Springfield and I'm glad to see anyone trying to quell the flames of this dumpster fire.
Dumpster fire?! This town is the equivalent of the fictional Simpsons' Springfield Tire Fire.
You managed a Star Wars and Home Alone quote during clean up! Respect!
I just happened to be in Springfield about 2 miles from this street when this video showed up in my feed, I think the universe is trying to tell me something. I just don't know if it's telling me to throw my garbage on this street or not.
For some reason this actually looks fun to do with a group of friends!
One of my favourite channels. For YEARS, now! Thank you 💜💜💜
Going into my sophomore year and totally had a teacher like that last year. She gave me detention and an essay because I tossed my water bottle to a friend.
bruh.
Austin, here is a tip: get a weed eater and trim the long grass in the zone. It will look more tidy and possibly prevent people from littering there.
I noticed that sign got posted a few weeks ago and that the ditch was cleaned out and I wondered if it was the same Austin McConnell. Good job! Kinda super weird to see a video about the street I traveled up and down twice nearly daily when I was working at that Chuck E. Cheese in primrose marketplace for a year and a half. I do not work there anymore! I don't drive through there often anymore either unless its for frozen custard!
This dude really makes videos about whatever the fuck he feels like and I love it
Good work Austen. I don’t understand littering it literally takes two seconds to put stuff in the trash can. I was raised to not litter so it’s just second nature for me
Yeah, when you're raised not to litter like us, the idea of littering is disgusting. I just can't put myself into the mindset of people who do it.
Man always sad to see how fast litter comes back
But Awsome how you got so many friends to help your endeavor.
"Yay, it's an avenue" - the midwife
I had a classmate who used to shove all his papers into his bag. On the Last day of our junior year he spontaneously decided to empty it all out in our windy hilltop parking lot as a "fuck you" to the school, needless to say seconds later he realized his name was on every single one of those papers. We came back about 30 minutes later to see him almost done picking them up lol.
What’s interesting to me is that you (Austin) are just a normal person, doing interesting things. Why I love this channel.
You are doing phenomenal work. There's a reason you're one of my favorite people on UA-cam. You care about what's important, and I respect that.
Just imagine if you watched this channel and just suddenly saw Austin McConnell street while driving down the road
That legitimately happened to me about a month ago. 😂
Happened to me a month or two ago! Luster is the street I take when I go visit my parents, and I had to do a double take when I saw the sign.
@@ColorOfSakura I thought of your family when I realized what street he adopted XD
As someone who is headed to Springfield for college soon, I’m thankful to see that I picked a city with people who really care about their home.
I’m not usually a very sentimental person, but this was strangely heartwarming.
The french teacher story was absolutely hilarious
I remember driving past the sign a month or so ago on my way to my folks place and going "Wait did that say Austin McConnell??" And then had to check on my way back home to make sure I wasn't seeing things.
Cheers to you guys for doing so much work on Luster, even if it sadly seems to go right back to the way it was a couple weeks later.
Nicely done, Austin. Your whole local ecosystem will be thanking you. The soil doesn't need inks from packaging and chemical additives from food and drinks in it, the water doesn't need to be filled with microplastics, which is what those bottles will turn into eventually, the plants don't need those things, the animals can be safe from being trapped, hurt or killed by ingesting trash. You're a champ! Totally inspiring, and reminding me to take my bag and gloves out to the park again to pick things up (it's a lot more effective than getting in anyone's face, you're right) Really looking forward to future videos about your stretch of road. Maybe you could find out what kind of environments border it in those trees there, what kind of plants and animals or what used to be on the road before modernisation. It'd be really interesting to know what it'd be like in optimum environmental conditions (bearing in mind that there is a modern street there now). I'd go ham on it, lean in to the embarrassment cos hey, not only are you making the world nicer to look at, you're actually helping it be more liveable for all the creatures in that little stretch, big and small, animal and plant. Very cool.
I took 3 years of German in high school, because college . My specific college program required 2 Spanish courses to get in, and 2 more for the major. My life is useless.
Guten Tag.
Buenos dias.
I would win as a native German speaker who also learned Spanish in school as their second foreign language.
@@DieAlteistwiederda so how much French do you speak on the daily?
Austin's really giving this street back it's luster.
Real talk though, Litter sucks. It's nasty, it's awful, and it makes places worse. Major props to you for doing something about it.
Hey man thank you for cleaning up this town one street at a time! Can’t believe I found someone from Springfield who’s videos are awesome!
Thank you for doing this. I don’t understand why that street is so bad. I go that way to Chick-fil-A. I hope it continues to stay clean.
The additional sign on the street looks beautiful!
Luster Ave was not what I imagined when I though of the "worst street" in Springfield. 😆
Now I'm curious as to which street Springfieldians would consider the 'worst!'
I love the variety of your channel. each video is so different and grabs my attention everytime. getting you in my notifications is always a treat
Ye, he's one of the few people I have the notifications on. Always bringing something new to the table!
Can't wait to see your sign! I adopted a stretch of south Jefferson.
I have a feeling this will end up as one of the better performing videos on the channel
Just stop
There’s something stupid in an amazing way & just impressive about the fact this man indirectly got sponsored to pick up trash. He got sick of seeing a street have trash then in the process of cleaning it was able to make a UA-cam video, get it sponsored & get 130,000 views.
This channel can be described as unpredictable good quality content
Thank you for making Springfield a more beautiful place! I know the exact stretch of road you’re talking about. What high school did you go over to? I volunteered at Pershing middle and later Glendale high!
I've lived in Springfield for 15 years now and commercial used to be the WORST!
i noticed when the sign changed, so happy i can see your process! :)
"...and then you're allowed to start picking up trash."
Ah yes, whose life wasn't traumatized by a high school language teacher...espacilly the french teachers!!
I also drive on this road every day and am so glad you’re helping make it better. Thanks Austin!
The inspiration filled in this video(Thanks to the French teacher). Whew😅.
Thank you Austin for being a great human being.
Thank you for doing this for your community, Austin!
I legit have never seen an upload this early. UA-cam said it was uploaded 57secs ago when I clicked on it lol.
_One man’s trash is another man’s UA-cam video._
This is such an awesome idea, Austin. It makes me grateful to know that there are people out there doing good. Thank you!
Thank you for another video Austin - Hope you are doing well
Amazing work! It's kinda sad that others just imediately start to litter again, but you've surely at least changed _some_ people's minds about throwing away their trash without care. I don't live there, nor even in the States, but you've got my thanks for your, and all your buddies' work. Keep being awesome!