To put dog mess in a strangers bin?

The bin van was coming round the corner? Can't see the problem. I wouldn't have minded if it were my bin.

You were unlucky to get caught but it wasn’t a nice thing to do. YWBVU.

'And a bag left as you describe won't have dirtied the bin'

No matter how fantastic the mechanism is for emptying bins contents can burst and unless bin liners are used there could be dog crap all inside the bin.

It's like people who leave their shit bags on a path or hanging from a fence. Just put them in a council bin! It isn't rocket science.

You can buy special deodorising disinfectant powder for bins.
I used to use it.
Also many people near here pay for a bin cleaning service.
A man with a power washer jet hose comes round.
I think bins will have to have a locking device soon.
Once they start charging by weight.
There is already the problem of passers by contaminating the bin with the wrong type of waste.
Most unfair to blame the householder for this.
The collectors can refuse to empty the bin if it has the wrong contents.

I can never understand why some people are so bloody recious about their bin once its been left out for collection.

A relative was walking along and took out the last cigarette from a packet. It was bin day so he threw the empty pack in the nearest bin. It was the correcrt bin for paper/card and the bins were out along the pavement. The women took it out and threw it in the road and yelled something after him. He took no notice. Would it have been better to throw litter in the street?

Yeah so it's a bin. Who cares. I have no issue whatsoever if someone put their dog poo which was in a bag in my bin if the lorry was approaching.

Besides, the bins are owned by the council and it is on public land so actually you haven't broken any rules or done anything wrong.

It would never occur to me to get upset about this.

You were totally fine. I have also done this though given the outrage I will think twice in future. A bin isn’t exactly pristine anyway.

No you weren't in the wrong but you shouldn't do it again for your own safety. You never know when one of these lunatics is watching you from behind their curtains!

I have only read page one, but to buck the trend I do not think you were being unreasonable as it was bin day and the bins were already on the street.

I agree with others that finding a stranger's poo bag in your bin is not pleasant, but in the scheme of things it is hardly a capital crime.

For what it's worth, I've also been known to pop an empty Costa cup into someone's bin when there were no public bins and I was confident noone from MN was around to see. 😱

Yes. You weee unreasonable

In one sense you didn't do anything wrong, @AnnaQuayRules , because objectively the bin owner would not have been left worse off. I do believe that when the bins are machine-emptied by being hooked onto a tipping mechanism on the back of the lorry, we can feel confident that they will be fully emptied. And a bag left as you describe won't have dirtied the bin.

But in another sense, you were unreasonable: Our sense of disgust often isn't tied precisely to the level of objective risk of contamination. It is shaped by evolution, which has programmed a rather excessive avoidance of all things associated with offensive material. (For example, it disgusts me to sit on a toilet seat that is still warm from the previous occupant, even though that warmth is not indicative of any additional hazard.)

It is a completely reasonable expectation, on the part of bin owners, that other people should not use their private bins in a way that commonly triggers disgust , even if they do so in a way that is not objectively hazardous.

So, I think you were wrong to use his bin, but also that you shouldn't be too hard on yourself about it. Just treat it as a lesson learned for the future and move on.

I get your thought process but it wasn't your bin to put rubbish in let alone dog poo. You should always take it home with you and put it in your own bin. Would you put a child's dirty nappy in someone else's bin in the street?

As everyone else has said this is gross and taking the piss op. Wheelie bins are for the residents of the house they are outside.

There are bins for public use everywhere. Use them.

I'd be annoyed if you came on my property/if the bin wasn't due to be collected for weeks. Otherwise, it wouldn't bother me personally, but then I'd be at work so I would never know you'd done it.
My mum did something similar with nappies once, but the homeowner worked so they wouldn't have known. Wouldn't do this myself though.

Oh OP (if this is real and I suspect not) you must surely know that this isn't the place to ask this question!!

How can anyone possibly think that someone charging out of their house and shouting at you is normal behaviour? It's complete insanity.

And as I always say on these threads, my mum (the same as many elderly people) became obsessed with the contents of her bin as she got older and started developing dementia. A normal, non-demented/mentally ill person would not give the contents of their bin much thought.

I say this as someone who always picks up poo and puts it in the bin.

To be honest I wouldn’t have cared if you had put it in my bin!

I would go batshit bambarta if someone dumped dog-do in my bin, especially since I've newly wallpapered and carpeted it, and installed state-of-the-art A/C and air-freshening system.

My bin is also fully internet-equipped so footage of you doing the deed would immediately be uploaded to YouTube, X, the local police station, NATO, the UN and the Daily Mail.

Exactly. Some of these comments make it sound like OP has put it through someone's letter box. It is a bin, it was collected shorty after.

I wouldn't care if it was in my bin as long as it is bagged up properly , I dont tend to sniff bins

Whilst I would logically see that a bag of dog poo placed in the top of a bin about to be emptied wouldn’t actually cause me any issues, this would still piss me off. I think it’s because I’m so fed up of dog shit on the pavement that has to be dodged, and absolutely gross bags of dog shit hung from trees that I just want dog owners to deal with their own dog shit.
You get a dog, you carry the bag of shit home.

Wouldn’t have bothered me if the bin was out and you weren’t walking into my garden to do it. Mine usually has bagged up cat shit in it anyway. I’d rather it went in my bin than left on the floor.

I wouldn’t mind if someone did what you describe with my bin, but many people would and I’d never do it myself so I’ve got to say YABU.

I wouldn't care if someone did this. I wouldn't care if someone did this on Monday night after the bins were emptied.

I don't even like dogs.

l have to laugh at some of the frothing on here. You put something in a bin knowing it would be collected immediately and would not disadvantage the owner of the house in any way.

I personally don’t see the issue, if its bin day and the bin is at the end of the drive and the bin lorry is coming, i would probably do the same (although currently rethinking given the outrage indicated on here).

Our bins just get tipped into the back, therefore bin men aren’t handling the waste etc, our bin men also don’t check the bins etc.

It would be different if the bin was empty or you had walked up someones drive / onto their property. But noted that this is not classed as acceptable