Beat 360° 8/20/09
Ready for today's Beat 360°? Everyday we post a picture – and you provide the caption and our staff will join in too. Tune in tonight at 10pm to see if you are our favorite! Here is the 'Beat 360°' pic:
Zack Neil rides his ash tray bike in down town Amsterdam on August 19, 2009 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Zack Neil informs inhabitants and tourists about the negative effects of cigarette butts and chewing gum on the environment. The Central Amsterdam government has recently started with this awareness campaign and in the Dutch city of Rotterdam the 90 euro (128 US Dollars) fine has occasionally been handed out. It takes more than 10 years to break down a cigarette butt and up to 50 years for chewing gum. (Photo: Michel Porro/Getty Images)
Have fun with it. We're looking forward to your captions! Make sure to include your name, city, state (or country) so we can post your comment.
UPDATE
STAFF WINNER
Jill Billante
New Arizona GOP ad shows President Barack Obama touring the streets of Amsterdam.
VIEWER WINNER
Michael Kajdas, Chicago
I’d ask for a light but I don’t want to make an ash of myself.
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Philadelphia PA
Only buttheads litter!
Whitehouse employee leaves work after cleaning airforce1 and oval office.
Susan Barnes
Tampa, FL
"But Mom, I DID just see a cigarette riding a bike!"
OR
The butt stops here.
'Baby got butts"... 'I got big butts and i cannot lie, You other brothers can't deny"
Bicycling butthead pedals to protest sticky subjects... gum & cigarettes!
The world is a ash tray! If you have one, burn one. The world is a ash tray!
"Health Care or Wealth Care. This is what happens to you when there's - No Care!"
Obama's nightmares about health care reform just took a turn for the strange.
Just when you thought you couldn't receive anymore tar from a cigarette, Now from Marbrol the XXXL Reds!
So this is what Anderson Cooper does when he's not hosting AC360.
Both in the same foto: something that`s good for your health and something that`s bad for your health.
He only gets people's attention until the guy with the bong bike arrives.
This is as smart as smoking
Cigarette butts and chewing gum may break my bones but new health reform will not cover me.
- The Environment
Eddie from NY
Having completed a successful cigarette and gum campaign Amsterdam's Butt Man considers modification to his bike to attack the city's Red Light District and sex trade industry.
Why did I agree to this again? I'm such a butt-head...
If you don't put your butts in the can we"ll fine your ash.
Oh my. Look at that "butt" head riding down the street.
Yes people please put your butts in the can
So this what you get from all those goverment smoking ban rules
Zack: Why am I ALWAYS the smelly, dirty bad guy?!!?
It will take well over 10 years for a butt like this to be gone. It only took a year for the cancer to kill both of my riding partners.
Joe Schedeler, Los Angeles CA
Tired of getting no respect, the Ku Klux Klan tries out a new uniform and marketing campaign.
Yes people please put you butts in the can.
He's a real green freak!
Obama finds new way to travel between town hall meetings and get his smokes there with him.
Hey Beavis – he said "Ash"! Get it? "Ash"! Uh huh huh huh...
Don't butt into my business
Houston, Texas
I guess if it's true that you are what you eat, then maybe......
Even smoker's clunkers are eligible for the rebate!
The new Death Panel uniform and Death-bike were unveiled today to promote awareness and solicit recruits.
Please be kind to the next person, because I don't want to pick up your "chewed -up butt."
Nipping smoking habits in the bud. You're doing it wrong.
Atlanta,ga
Its a recession and I gotta save money on cigarettes by any means neccessary!
Mr Cigarette, of the famed comic Doonsbury, was spotted in public yesterday. Ending endless rumors of his death due to smoking related illness.
Top this Canibus Man
The streets of Lilliput quickly cleared when Gulliver started dropping still smoldering butts.
Long Island, NY
"On my way home for a cannibal dinner."
Its a recession and I gotta save money on cigarettes by any means neccessary!
Meet the NEW Marlboro Man
Okay people get ready....here comes Buttman!!!
Don't be a butthead–it could take less than ten years to die from lung cancer.
Another way of erasing carbon footprints!
Like they say, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
TAMPA, FL: "Come on...you've never had a smoke like THIS before..."
Are there worst things than tobacco and gum? Imagine if the federal government fined everyone in Los Angeles $120 for living in that smog clogged environment. The Obama administration could erase the national debt with the generated revenues?
Bill, leaving incognito, so that those who want to know his opinion on current events can't "smoke" him out! " No, I'm not the Secretary of State! My Wife is!"
Son, every once in a while life gets me down, so I need to be reminded what I fight for.
Hot dog sales were a little light last month so he is gonna try something new
Special Bike – $1000
Special Costume – $500
Special therapy to restore my self-image – too much
Rick Mitchell
Columbus, Ohio