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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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PandaWatch · 05/03/2012 19:17

I don't really care if this is a troll thread as its c

PandaWatch · 05/03/2012 19:18

Argh! iPhone!

I was going to say its completely brightened my day! :)

iamme43 · 05/03/2012 19:23

You called me knucklehead....... twice Sad

faeriemoo · 05/03/2012 19:28

Is that the first time some manky cunt hasn't picked up after their mutt near your house?

Get it all the time round here. Dirty bastards.

One in particular, goes to all the trouble of half putting it in a bag, then leaving the bag on the pavement to be squelched through.

my2centsis · 05/03/2012 19:29

Congratulations OP you have officially won the award for the most stuiped thread I have ever read!

When did people get so fricken lazy as to have to ring someone to pick up a bit of dog shit? And the fact that you were so angry about it is ridiculous!!

You do know that there are people starving and dying in the world? People with no homes? People that actually have some thing to be angry about? Not someone too precious to spend 2min picking up a bit of shit?

I'm amazed that so many people agree with you! Yea the owner should of picked it up but SHIT HAPPENS!!

It pisses me off when I have to pick some one elses dogs shut off my front lawn before I can mow it but I definitely don't rant on about it on the Internet and ring someone else to clear it up because I don't have a posh too cool too pick up shit stick up my ass.

Btw I'd love to be at the council office when people ring up to report shit. I wonder what they would have to say once hanging up the phone Grin

namechangeforthethread · 05/03/2012 19:42

my2centsis, just for you I have NC'd. :)

I have worked in the department of my local council that takes the calls like the one the OP made. The calls with information on who is not clearing up after their dogs are generally actioned. They are the useful ones because we could send out letters and 'police' the area in some way.

Calls from people who are ranty about one bit of crap on the pavement will also be actioned, but some choice words might be said afterwards. Grin Especially if they were as 'impassioned' as the OP....

I should really start a blog based on my time working there. The daft calls I had to take ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous. But then the public can talk to you any way they wish and you can't say a word back without getting crap for it. They pay your wages, dontcha know? Grin

woollyideas · 05/03/2012 19:49

So, namechanged, would you have sent the flying shit squad around immediately? Are there people whose job it is just to sit in a van and wait for the call and then go rushing around with their orange paint? It doesn't sound a very cost-effective way of going about things. I'm dying to know how this works in reality.

southeastastra · 05/03/2012 19:52

wow some posters on here need to take their own advice and chill out themselves!

not the op obviously!

namechangeforthethread · 05/03/2012 19:53

Not in a million years woolly. The procedure from taking the call would be something like logging the call, waiting for the officer who covers the area to come into the office to pick up the call, they would go to the area and check it and then if necessary, they would put another call into the street cleaners and ask them to clear the turd.

So in answer to your question, no there are not people whose job it is to just wait for the call! They have many other things to do, they deal with any issue that come up in a particular area. The area generally cover multiple towns and villages. It's not an instant thing.

namechangeforthethread · 05/03/2012 19:55

Different councils will have different procedures of course, but unless we're talking about 10 dogs having diarrhea on the same footpath, it won't be an extremely quick turnaround.

woollyideas · 05/03/2012 20:06

So what department would I ask for, namechanged? I honestly didn't know councils were so reactive - I'm impressed! It's like a shit scooping emergency service.

iamme43 · 05/03/2012 20:13

I think we should gather up some poop and lay it on a path near our house and call the relevant dept at 9.48am on weds and see whose council is the best and whose is the worst............

Original poster
EauDeLaPoisson · 05/03/2012 20:15

The dedicated dog fouling line was engaged for ages this morning so I imagine they have lots of similar problems reported!!!

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iamme43 · 05/03/2012 20:16

Or they take the phone off the hook.......Wink

faeriemoo · 05/03/2012 20:16

namechange

So someone would be sent out there to look at the shit, then s/he'd call someone else to come and pick it up.

That is awesome.

Animation · 05/03/2012 20:16

Is this an early April Fool??

BeerTricksPott3r · 05/03/2012 20:18

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namechangeforthethread · 05/03/2012 20:18

Depends where you live woolly. A minority of councils will have their Environmental Health department deal with it, but it depends how they divide up their services. If they see it as a street cleaning issue, it will more likely get lumped in with their refuse service.

I am totally in support of iamme43's idea! Grin

Animation · 05/03/2012 20:18

"The dedicated dog fouling line was engaged for ages this morning so I imagine they have lots of similar problems reported!!!"

Confused
namechangeforthethread · 05/03/2012 20:20

They may say it's a dedicated dog fouling line, but it won't be. It will be their standard line for reporting anything. There was a similar dog fouling hotline when I worked for the council, those of us who worked in the office had no idea it was being marketed that way until someone actually asked 'is that the dog fouling hotline?'.

namechangeforthethread · 05/03/2012 20:21

faerie, essentially, yeah.

Original poster
EauDeLaPoisson · 05/03/2012 20:21

Oh ok. But maybe posters will stop being so arsey and accusing me of lying now?

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OriginalJamie · 05/03/2012 20:22

It would never occur to me to get someone from the council to pick up dog poo, just as it wouldn't occur to me to call them to pick up a kebab wrapper. I'd
a) confront the person who dropped it, if I could

or

b) pick it up myself

namechangeforthethread · 05/03/2012 20:23

Well tbh, Poisson, it's a massive shock to me that anything happened that quickly.

And I don't think people are actually being arsey with you, you just seem disproportionately angry over one dollop of shit.

iamme43 · 05/03/2012 20:25

I am off out now to gather some poo, for my experiment.

I won't use my own dogs poo for fear the DNA has been extracted from him and he/me will be up in doggy court by the end of the week.

I may report back, but I doubt it I frankly have lost the will to live keeping up this thread.

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