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Original poster

To ring the council and ask them to deal with this

355 replies

EauDeLaPoisson · 05/03/2012 09:12

Some c**t has kindly allowed their dog to shit on the corner outside our house- a route commonly used by kids going to school/oldies on their merry way. I cant bring myself to move someone elses dogs shit nor should I have to but I dont want it sat outside the house being trod in and walked all around the neighbourhood. WIBU to ring the council and ask them to sort this environmental health risk as tbh im fucking fuming

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sixlostmonkeys · 05/03/2012 14:42

darn, I'm too slow in replying!

glad too see the crap humour is still flying Grin

PandaWatch · 05/03/2012 14:42

Should I be in trouble because that was my question but someone else had to clear it up for me? Grin

GetOrfMoiiLand · 05/03/2012 14:42

They get their horrible mutts to jump and hang by their teeth from the branches of the new trees that are planted in the parks. The branches are snapped off and the trunks are attacked until the tree is destroyed.

Christ grotbags I had no idea. That is bloody awful.

And I thought it was just squirrels who killed trees.

WHAT ABOUT SQUIRREL SHIT?

PandaWatch · 05/03/2012 14:42

Haha - x posted there!

PandaWatch · 05/03/2012 14:43

Never mind the squirrels - what about the birds? Big gangs of them flying around, shitting everywhere and no one ever says anything! I bet no one can say a dog has ever pooed on their shoulder Angry

sixlostmonkeys · 05/03/2012 14:44

WHAT ABOUT SQUIRREL SHIT?

Cadbury takes it and covers it with chocolate

PandaWatch · 05/03/2012 14:46

They get their horrible mutts to jump and hang by their teeth from the branches of the new trees that are planted in the parks. The branches are snapped off and the trunks are attacked until the tree is destroyed.

This is what lead to the Great Beaver Massacre of '72

PandaWatch · 05/03/2012 14:46

Wait - are you sure they are dogs and not beavers?!

GetOrfMoiiLand · 05/03/2012 14:46

Yes what about the birds.

Big bloody seaguls swooping about and shitting all over my car.

I don't even live anywhere near the sea

GetOrfMoiiLand · 05/03/2012 14:47

Beavers? Eh?

ilooklikegrotbagstoday · 05/03/2012 15:23

Just another form of antisocial behavior but hey, that's why this country is going to the dogs.

PandaWatch · 05/03/2012 15:29

Seriously though Grotbags you should report that to the police and council as it's criminal damage.

ilooklikegrotbagstoday · 05/03/2012 15:36

Actually i just ran into a local councillor whilst collecting DS1 from school. I was all het up about it after being on here. She said the council are starting a big campaign on the very subject. We shall see Hmm

ThePathanKhansWitch · 05/03/2012 15:38

If they're anything like my Council, the dog shite will be a nice shade of F&B pale by the time they get to it.

RuleBritannia · 05/03/2012 15:42

I thought that new tree saplings always had protectve cylindrical contraptions around them to stop animals spoiling them.

ilooklikegrotbagstoday · 05/03/2012 15:45

Doesn't stop the owners from pulling it down and letting the animals spoil it

Gribble · 05/03/2012 16:14

hahaha at this thread

OP you could call the DM and tell them how you have been stuck in your house all day because a threatening turd has you trapped. You could have a pic of you with a Sad face pointing at it and then they could print the usual pic of a snarling SBT to depict the source of said turd and how after basking in the glory of its shit fest it went on to swallow 3 children without chewing.

OR you were really worried about health and safety and it being walked around the place you could have just gone out with a kettle of water and sloshed it away down the grid as others have suggested.

Im totally with you btw, just dont lie and say you're bovvered about H&S when really, you just dont want to pick up a dog shit. By the time 'Keith' on Environmental Services has it on his work sheet it will have dried up and the dust been blown into your house anyway.

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EauDeLaPoisson · 05/03/2012 16:48

Hardly been trapped in the house ive only just got back from someone from works leaving do. The turd has gone and the pavement has been sprayed orange, a sign warning dog owners they face a £500 fine is now adorning the nearest council.
So no sarcasm or stupid posts needed really as im apparently unreasonable for not cleaning it up- but luckily my local council dont feel the same and have sorted it!

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fuzzypicklehead · 05/03/2012 16:56

I will certainly clean up any spare deposits outside my house, whether they be from dog, duck, or any other creature. And if I am walking my dog, I will not only bag any poo that he makes, but any other abandoned poos that I spot. If I have no bag, I make sure to warn approaching people so that they don't tread in it.

I've also been known to tidy up litter and broken glass that I encounter. I'm not getting paid for it, nor do I enjoy tidying up crap, but somebody needs to do it and I happen to be nearest at the time. Have you heard the phrase "Be a part of the change you want to see in the world"?

When you see a problem, you can ignore it, bitch about it, pass it on to somebody else... Or just fix it. I know which person I'd prefer to be.

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EauDeLaPoisson · 05/03/2012 17:00

What the actual fuck is wrong with passing a problem on to someone who deals with it? So we have a giant thread with people saying of course you should have a cleaner if you dont want to do housework- but if you get the council to clean up dogshit you are some lesser being?

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Gribble · 05/03/2012 17:16

Nothing is wrong with it from my POV OP, if you had just said you simply dont want to pick it up. But you have banged on about it being a risk, old dears might trip on it, kids walking past, its a hazard etc. Just seems you're not that arsed about it being a hazard given that it was sat there for hours on end when you could have just washed it away down the grid.

Anyway, seems your council are alot quicker than mine. As a pp said Id have still been on the phone trying to get the right department by now. Its amazing they came out so quickly given all the other problems they must have to deal with. And you have a nice orange pavement aswell to mark the scene of the crime.

blushingcrow · 05/03/2012 17:21

Oh lovely, a dog shit thread for a change.

woollyideas · 05/03/2012 17:35

Where do you live, Poisson? Utopia? I have never known the council around here move so swiftly to deal with anything.

sixlostmonkeys · 05/03/2012 17:38

The council have been out already and cleared sprayed and postered?!
I can't believe it!

no seriously.... I can't believe it.

PandaWatch · 05/03/2012 17:55

Last summer our old next door neighbours had left sofas and rubbish in their garden which got infested with rats which kept coming into our garden. It took 10 days for the council to send someone out by which time I had tracked down the landlord and harrassed him into sorting it out (which he ironically started doing the morning the council eventually came out).

You are clearly very fortunate where you live OP.

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