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Why would you think it is okay to put dog shit in someone's bin?

110 replies

ArtfulBear · 14/03/2025 14:09

I've recently moved into a new house. It's not in the nicest area of the city, but it could be worse. I've had a bit of a rough time of it recently and am finding adjusting to my new life difficult which is probably affecting my resilience and ability to let things go.

Our bins are collected fortnightly on the day I happen to work late. Every sodding bin day at least one arsehole chucks dog shit in it after they're emptied. This week, two arseholes have done it and both bags have burst so, yet again, I have a filthy stinking bin to clean out.

I'm angry and upset, both about the shit and the fact it's really getting to me. I can't take the bins in straight away because I have to be at work!

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Oncewornballgown · 14/03/2025 15:15

I have also had people dump them into my bin so I bring the bin in as quickly as I can.

Oncewornballgown · 14/03/2025 15:13

YANBU I have dogs and wouldn’t do this. My dogs, therefore, their mess is for me to pick up and responsibly dispose of, in either my own bin, or a proper dog waste bin. They generally do their business at home but not always. I would not use someone else’s bin or a normal public waste bin as I consider it antisocial to do so.
No one likes walking around with full poo bags but you can get containers to keep them in until appropriate disposal is available.

TinklySnail · 14/03/2025 15:13

The council owns the bin. In my area they actively encourage using ‘any bin’ .
If it bothers you I’d move it somewhere the public can’t get to.
I don’t use other people’s bins and will carry it home. I totally understand the irritation it causes.

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 14/03/2025 15:06

ByPeachPeer · 14/03/2025 14:56

I find it really weird how many people really care about this. It's a bin, for rubbish. An outside bin. It should not have any impact on your life, I doubt id even notice if somebody put it in mine as I'm not out checking the contents of my bin and it's emptied by the council. If your bin was completely full preventing you from using it or, as the op said if the poo isn't in bags I could understand it but usually one sealed bag of poo, I see no issue.

The OP says the bags have burst meaning she has to clean the bin. I don't have a dog and would absolutely notice if someone put dog shit in my bin

BigDahliaFan · 14/03/2025 15:04

I came back from holiday to find our neighbours had filled up our green waste bin with black bin liners full of rubbish. I was a bit jet lagged and narky - she wondered if it was someone else's rubbish - I had to point out there were empty boxes with her name and address on....

Darkclothes · 14/03/2025 15:04

@ByPeachPeer ...if the poo isn't in bags I could understand...

You clearly missed that part where the poo bags split into the OP's empty bin!!!

HelenWheels · 14/03/2025 15:02

i wouldnt do it, it is so rude

buttercupcake · 14/03/2025 15:01

I absolutely hate this. The bizarre thing is that I have a dog, but still don’t want another dogs crap in my bin! As a dog owner I would never put my rubbish in someone else bin.

IdasFlowers · 14/03/2025 14:57

I'd hate that. I've seen people on local Facebook groups justify their skankiness by saying the council own the bins so they're allowed to do it. Grim people

ByPeachPeer · 14/03/2025 14:56

I find it really weird how many people really care about this. It's a bin, for rubbish. An outside bin. It should not have any impact on your life, I doubt id even notice if somebody put it in mine as I'm not out checking the contents of my bin and it's emptied by the council. If your bin was completely full preventing you from using it or, as the op said if the poo isn't in bags I could understand it but usually one sealed bag of poo, I see no issue.

Sinkintotheswamp · 14/03/2025 14:54

Yanbu. Selfish cunts.
It's happened to me twice. The bin stank and I had to find a stick to hook it out with.

vodkaredbullgirl · 14/03/2025 14:52

Never and I have dogs.

Darkclothes · 14/03/2025 14:51

@TotallyAddictedToCoffee And you honestly think putting your dog shit bags in someone else's bin at any time is ok??? Find a public poo bin or take it home FFS! Would it be ok if I dumped a bag of rubbish, rotten food or dog poo in your bin???

OP- When renovating, I bought a fake camera from amazon for less than £10. It uses batteries and has a flashing, red light. People were throwing poo bags into our skip, so I added a sign 'SMILE- you are on camera'. The bags soon stopped. you could try this, in additional to the gravity lock.

We now have proper cameras. Last week, our bin up the drive- not anywhere near the road. A woman came walking up our drive, scraping shit off her shoe with leaves and proceeded to put them inside out wheelie bin! Thanks for that!

NameChanges123 · 14/03/2025 14:49

Dog owners 🤬 (not all of you - but way too many). Some dog shat on the road outside my property this week and I stood in it.

I think all dogs should be licensed and also made to go to toilet in the their own gardens (so, no garden, no dog!). The amount of times I’ve seen a dog pissing on someone’s recycling bags/containers too. Disgusting and the owners clearly not giving a toss.

ArtfulBear · 14/03/2025 14:44

Ooh, I will investigate the gravity locks further! Thank you!

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KittenPause · 14/03/2025 14:42

Someone has just put some in mine

fuckers

Smokeyblueblack · 14/03/2025 14:41

I've got a wee Tapo security camera on my bedroom window ledge and it covers quite an area of the garden plus the pavement outside my house. So even when my bins are in the street I can see them on my phone, which is linked to the camera.
Could you possibly put up some sortt of camera that would cover the bins in the street?.If you caught on film who was actually doing this disgusting thing you could report them to your council as this is a form of fly tipping.

Vkad · 14/03/2025 14:41

TotallyAddictedToCoffee · 14/03/2025 14:37

I only ever put used poo bags in other people's bins (when out walking) if they're due to be emptied - never in one that's just been emptied (unless it's my own)

Unfortunately, some people just don't give a shit (no pun intended)

That isn't OK either. I put my bin out to be emptied late the night before. Next morning, I went to add another sack of rubbish before it was emptied. I opened my bin to a filthy smell because someone had deposited their dog shit on top of my rubbish. It doesn't matter if it's bagged and tied - I got a facefull of dog shit smell and that is an antisocial thing to do to me.

If you don't believe that bagged shit smells, put a bagged dog shit on a bin liner in your living room and then go in and see what the room smells like half an hour later.

I sometimes have to lift out the sacks and drive them to the tip if there's a problem with the bin collection as well.

You should not be using other people's bins in this way and you will be upsetting people by doing so.

user1497787065 · 14/03/2025 14:39

I have a dog and have often been tempted
to put the bagged poo in a bin awaiting collection but never have. Equally in twenty years of dog ownership and putting bagged poo in my own bin, not once has the bag split and never has there been a poo scent when opening the bin.

TotallyAddictedToCoffee · 14/03/2025 14:37

I only ever put used poo bags in other people's bins (when out walking) if they're due to be emptied - never in one that's just been emptied (unless it's my own)

Unfortunately, some people just don't give a shit (no pun intended)

CarpetKnees · 14/03/2025 14:32

My bin lives on the edge of my property and people put stuff in there occasionally - including bagged dog waste, which I can't say has ever burst.
Doesn't bother me at all.

However, as it bothers you, why not ask one of your neighbours to bring it in once they have been emptied ?

FirFoxSake · 14/03/2025 14:30

It's happened to me three times, in two different houses.

The first, we had a shed-style door to the bin, attached to the front of the house (like an integral garage, but just a bin store) which someone had gone to the effort of opening, depositing an UNBAGGED shit in, and closing the door. It was on a street with dog poo bins yards away.

Twice in my current home, we have a front garden this time, but a low-level wall at the front, and people put poo in my main bin, and once in the recycling tub. Like, reached over my wall to do this.

BigDahliaFan · 14/03/2025 14:29

Gravity lock. You don't need a padlock.

notacooldad · 14/03/2025 14:29

But it's not. It's been in a bag, but has left said bag and is now stuck around the inside of my bin. Which has to live in my yard under my living room window, in the sun.
Yeah, that is grim. I leave my bin on the street for collection and have seen people put a bag in my bin.
However I usually bring the bin in straight away the bins are collected just after 7am, so shit bags aren't hanging around between collections.

DuckieDodgyHedgyPiggy · 14/03/2025 14:27

Could you ask a neighbour to bring your bin in, and tell them why? I would happily do this for a neighbour.