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

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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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InfoSecInTheCity · 14/03/2025 14:24

ArtfulBear · 14/03/2025 14:21

In my ordinary household waste bin, yes. Which would be grim altogether but people do it after it's been emptied, so are expecting me to just have dog shit in my bin for a fortnight.

I like the idea of the stickers but I suspect they would encourage some of my neighbours. And I'm not sure locks would work, even a gravity lock I'd have to take the padlock off for collection so people could access it.

Everyone else in the terrace runs out to collect straight away - for obvious reasons - so I'm the only target.

The gravity locks don’t need padlocks. They are designed so you have a key to open it, but the bin men don’t need one, the act of tipping the bin upside down automatically unlocks it. So when they put the bin back down it locks and no one else can access it except you with the key.

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ArtfulBear · 14/03/2025 14:23

notacooldad · 14/03/2025 14:19

Honestly, as long as be bag and tied it doesn't really bother me. I'd rather it was in a bin than dangling from a tree or worse, left on the pavement. I get the bin cleaned every few of weeks and in summer I usually bleach it myself.

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.

And I don't have a dog so therefore I shouldn't have to deal with any dog shit.

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Mushmemellow · 14/03/2025 14:21

I covered a distance of 3 miles this morning on my run and I lost count of the amount of not only dog crap on pavements but of bags of shit too. Unfortunately nothing will get done about it and we’ll just keep on adding to the dog population with all these issues that this brings.

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ArtfulBear · 14/03/2025 14:21

In my ordinary household waste bin, yes. Which would be grim altogether but people do it after it's been emptied, so are expecting me to just have dog shit in my bin for a fortnight.

I like the idea of the stickers but I suspect they would encourage some of my neighbours. And I'm not sure locks would work, even a gravity lock I'd have to take the padlock off for collection so people could access it.

Everyone else in the terrace runs out to collect straight away - for obvious reasons - so I'm the only target.

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notacooldad · 14/03/2025 14:19

Honestly, as long as be bag and tied it doesn't really bother me. I'd rather it was in a bin than dangling from a tree or worse, left on the pavement. I get the bin cleaned every few of weeks and in summer I usually bleach it myself.

Vkad · 14/03/2025 14:18

I've had this done to me as well and it really, really pisses me off. Stinks the bin out whether or not the shit is bagged and tied.

DenholmElliot11 · 14/03/2025 14:17

In your ordinary household bin?

Vkad · 14/03/2025 14:16

The short answer is that the people doing it are selfish cunts.

The first thing I would try is a no dog waste sticker (or two of them), like this:

No Dog Waste from Safety Sign Supplies

No Dog Waste from Safety Sign Supplies

Search Safety Sign Supplies

https://www.safetysignsupplies.co.uk/search/sign-classification/prohibition/no-dogs/product/739870/

Yellowhammer09 · 14/03/2025 14:13

YANBU! I saw a tosser doing the same to my bin, but by the time I'd gotten out the house he had gone. I looked in the bin and he hadn't even bothered tying the bag up.

Mareleine · 14/03/2025 14:12

YANBU that's grim. Can you get a bin lock to stop them doing it?