Who does these things?

I will admit that I sometimes leave poo bags.

If my dog poos at the start of a walk then I'll leave it somewhere out of the way and pick it up on the way back again.

And I did stock up on toilet rolls before covid too, and everything else, and I'm glad I did. Always been a bit of a prepper, but I did do extra before the lockdowns hit.

It was just me and 6 kids in the house though, I also had cancer, so I had to be very prepared, and even then I could only get 2 of each item when shopping during covid so I would have been screwed if I hadn't.

I bought one pack of toilet rolls, but it was a big one, I usually buy a 4 pack, I bought a 9 one. Just in case.

I never hung a poo bag up a tree, however I left some in front of shops if I needed to go in, to pick it up afterwards. I may have been guilty of forgetting one once or twice in my dog owner's lifetime.

Not where I am. I worry sometimes that I'll go out for one of my night time walks and get smacked in the head by a bag full of poo.

So this thread is all toilet rolls and dog shit and I was looking forward to the drink every day and take drugs every weekend . 😔.
I'm not confessing to anything without someone else going first.

I want to know who are those people who smear shit all over the inside of toilet cubicles.

I was in Sydney once and went into a public loo near the Japanese gardens and one cubicle was completely smeared on all three walls with shit. It was unbelievable.

Then I saw the same thing again when I was using a public loo in a town in Devon recently.

Just... how does that even happen? Surely these people are walking around covered in shit afterwards? Is it a mental illness or what?

The toilet roll thing was simple panic buying.

It was a domino effect, people mistakenly believed that it was going to run out, word spread around and it blew out of all proportion.

Also probably makes them feel more in control by doing something proactive, even if it is a ridiculous thing.

I think the answer to your question is mostly that a lot of people are irrational and also not very smart.

The circles you move in are likely similar to you so if you don't think this way yourself then your friends are unlikely to.

50% of the population have below average intelligence - and average intelligence is pretty low.

Lol at the we shared with all our neighbours its the same, as every landlord on mn charges less than the going rate for their properties and everone paid their cleaner all through lockdown and gives christmas bonuses aye sure you did 😂

No, the bags are usually well out of reach.

Some people are simply stupid. An utter embarassment to responsible dog walkers.

This.

Same as soap and eggs and flour.

I mean, I already had a load of toilet rolls in as we buy 5 packs of 18 from Farm Foods for a much better price, when we need them, and I just happened to have bought the next batch before the pandemic broke, but that was just coincidence.
When I saw eggs or hand soap or flour though, I bought it, as we were then able to share with other people in our road whatsapp, and other people in the family who hadn't been able to get some. I do think news of a potential shortage is what creates an actual shortage much of the time though.

Also, as @Saveafun said, we suddenly had 5 adults in the house 23/7 instead of us all being out for most of the day.

As an aside, maybe the hanging poo bags on trees is a local tradition as it isn't something I've ever seen.

Quite a lot of the toilet roll shortage was caused by people thinking they'd just pick up an extra packet or 2 in case they couldn't get out to the shops for a bit - see also pasta, flour etc and then there being shortages developing which were overreported by the media so loads more people panicked and went out to buy as much toilet paper as they were allowed causing more shortages (certainly guilty of doing this and sending dh in separately so we could get extra!)

I've seen poo bags left on trees 20 bloody metres from the poo bin

The dog shit hangers are one thing, no excusing them, but I think the toilet roll hoarding isn't really correct.

The problem wasn't a few people buying thousands of toilet rolls, it was a lot of people buying a few more than they normally would. This threw the supply chain out because shops order the amount they expect to shift in a few days. Any break in the supply chain or increase in amount purchased breaks the process. Once broken it becomes a vicious cycle, people buy when they can rather than when they need to, because when they need to they might not be able to.

I have one of those phantoms too. But no dog to justify feeding the hedge with dog shit. These people don't need a reason.

I always thought the poo bags in trees/bushes was a weird passive aggressive act of dog walkers protesting that there are not enough poo bins from the council & so they dump them there - next to an overflowing & never seem to be emptied poo bin. That’s on a popular dog walk near me anyway. I think then pple see them there & think oh that’s what you do with them I’ll blindly & ignorantly just do the same then as I cldnt possibly walk with my dog’s poo or take it home with me 🙄 I hate the logic that they’re hanging there temporarily until they’re collected on their return from their walk bcos they invariably never are. Why is it so inconvenient to carry your dog’s poo in a bag for the duration of the walk-in & deposit it in your own bin at home or a poo bin that’s available?? No it’s not particularly “nice” but neither is picking it up in the first place but we all do that. No different to having a dirty nappy to dispose of. Locally to me there are so many bins it’s great. But whenever I see the hanging bags it’s usually bcos there’s a lack of bins /bin is not emptied sufficiently.

We have a horrible neighbour, another neighbour told me with some glee, that said horrible neighbour was fined for not picking up his dog poop in the village, didn’t surprise me.

I do see lots of left behind dog poo bags - I think people do it when there aren't many bins. They think they'll remember to pick it up on the way back but don't. It is annoying carrying a bag of poo around when your dog poos half way through your walk.

I've got one of these attached to the dog lead which holds the poo bag leaving you hands free. www.petsathome.com/product/3-peaks-silicone-dog-poop-bag-carrier-black/7149989P

I actually busted someone yesterday doing the dog poo bag in the tree thing! I know them from the village and it is the most unlikely person I could imagine to have done it. I was walking my dog around some fairly remote fields and they doing the same route but the opposite way. You can only enter this route one way in and out and when the person walked by me, they were carrying a certain brand of dog poo bag. As I exited the field after my walk, the poo bag was hanging in the tree by the gate -it wasn't there on entry, nobody else was around walking and it was the same brand as I'd seen him carrying. Unfortunately, I didn't catch them in the act to ask them what the fuck they were doing. Bizarrely, they had carried it around the field, but not to the dog poo bin a few yards away from the gate. I would NEVER have envisioned this person doing something like that - primary school dad, school governor, very vocal in the community about rubbish etc. There would be no reason to hang it there to collect it later as there is a poo bin so close to the gate. I'm determined to catch him in the act now as it's infuriated me!!!

I watched two guys in their mid 20’s to early 30’s the field behind me, finish their drinks and throw them into the wooded long grass area behind the seat, where they were sitting enjoying the countryside, having a chat

There are bins near the field entrance, they would have had to carry them for 5 minutes, but they were tossers, literally.

That's called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.

I see a few round my area (rural, lots of footpaths around the fields).
They tend to be tied to the tree rather than thrown into it (though maybe I haven't looked high enough to spot the hurled ones!).
I think it's disgusting and lazy, but it's one rung above not picking it up at all on the ladder of 'how to deal with dog shit'. It's very hard to see when it's on a footpath around a field.

Don’t think I have seen dog poo bags hanging on trees either but maybe if I looked I would see them, will probably see them everywhere now!

I didn’t buy massive quantities of toilet rolls during Covid either as I thought the whole ‘toilet roll thing’ was absolute nonsense, diarrhea wasn’t even a common symptom of Covid

I caught a litterer this morning! She was emptying out her bag of used tissues and other rubbish and throwing it into the hedge at the end of my road . So I wound down my car window and said very loudly “ Why are you throwing your rubbish there ? If you turn round there is a bin on the other side of the road , or you can take it home and put it in your dustbin.” She looked a bit shocked. 😄

Actually come to think of it I have seen my BIL hang poo in a tree, but only on a late evening walk in his local woods (no other walkers out in the dark) and always collected and binned on the way back. It was because he had a massive dog who would do a poo right at the start of the walk.

OP the only way you are being unreasonable is in expecting a poo bag hanger to have the intelligence to be able to read your post!

With the toilet rolls, I don't think it was really people stockpiling. I'm sure there were some, but on the whole it was people buying them this week instead of next week and domestic use increasing, as no-one was going to work.

Supermarkets are stocked just in time, so if "everyone" buys one pack of toilet rolls this week, when they might otherwise have bought them next week, the supply chain soon fails.