To ring the council and ask them to deal with this

[EauDeLaPoisson]

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

It might have been one dollop by me but it's numerous on the way to school each morning and afternoon. I find it sad people are so apathetic about an environmental health hazard and feel the need to call me a liar/label me as having problems etc.

Do you ring about every poo you see on the way to school?

I didn't get the impression that people were apathetic, more that they take responsibility for their own environment. In an ideal world, all dog owners will clear up after their pets and this won't be a problem. Unfortunately, it doesn't happen like that.

I don't like clearing up dog shit from the pavement anymore than anyone else does, but given the choice between quickly doing it myself and calling out the council and wasting taxpayers money on clearing it (given that I know how much that costs), I'd rather deal with it myself tbh.

Thanks for the insight name change

Tbh I would love to read your blog about all the ridiculous calls!

My friend who still works there keeps saying she'll start a blog, I'll let you know if she does it!

This is a very strange thread.

It's no wonder the OP has got angry. If someone suggested to me I should pick up someone else's dog's shit I'd get angry too.

I think all the posters who said they'd move it themselves could come to my village, walk the school run in the mornings, there are piles and piles you could shift. I'd be very happy.

My dad used to clear the path by his house. The bucket of hot water trick. But he stopped - he said it was getting worse as people obviously thought "I'll let the hound shit here, the man who lives in number 30 will clean it up for me".

It's not the same as picking up litter.

Thank you ER at last someone with a bit of common sense

I too think you should write the blog (or at least encourage your friend)
I have a friend who works in a place not too dissimilar and she has been running a blog for some time now. It's very popular and has received attention from some of the TV channels.

It's not the same as litter ER, but it's also not the same as dumped vehicles or fly tipping, as the OP has also suggested.

Tbh, I think people would've had a lot more sympathy in their responses if Poisson hadn't been so raging from the start.

I could kick myself for not doing it now, there are a lot of things that would've been funny at the time, but it would only have worked as a blog/diary and it's been too long since I've worked there. I will encourage my friend though, she's got a wicked sense of humour as well so I'm sure it would be good.

and, this is AIBU.....

Anyone suggested poo cameras yet? (like speed cameras, you know)

I haven't read all the threads- quite frankly 337 posts about dog-shit is curdling my stomach.

But when my DC go to breakfast club there is often fox pooh and cat pooh in the playground.
I have, on numerous occasions, picked it up with a plastic bag and a tissue, if it's somewhere the children might step in it and walk it through the school (especially as it's in the Infant school area)

The school janitor goes round every morning with a shovel, but these damned foxes are productive little blighters.

Someone may have suggested DNA testing dog poo in my old office.

If I was in charge we would have a Dog Poo DNA Database.

Really - it could pay for itself as anyone caught would pay a fine. Or be sent to clean up other people's dog's shit.

And, while I don't want to pick up random shit piles, I'd happily sample them and post it off, knowing that the skanky owner would get their comeuppance.

Yes, I know there are more important problems in the world. But dog shit really does annoy me.

How about a small pecuniary reward for those delivering freshly harvested dog turds to a special depot where they could then be converted into fuel?

anyone caught would pay a fine

You'd think, wouldn't you?

In which case you'd have to get the magistrates who do not live in terraced, pavemented urban environments to get real.

My council issues Fixed Penalty Notices. But suppose Mr Dog-shitter decides to ignore his. Council at some expense takes him to court. Mr Dog-shitter claims that he didn't know he was being a nuisance letting his dog have a crap on the pavement and how the council hasn't ever publicised this to his knowledge. The magistrates whinge on about how awful the council is with its 'disproportionate and draconian' measures and either null the fine or reduce it to a tenner, costs awarded againt the council.

Magistrates do not live, for the most part, in terraced streets where dog fouling is a real problem.

Linerunner, that's bollox, so many inaccuracies I don't know where to start.

Where do magistrates live then? Got proof?

I will be phoning my council's Log a Dog Log first thing tomorrow and wait for them to spring into action.

Just discovered my council have a form on the website! Have a look, you could be sending in a report now.....

I might actually contact them about the path at the back of our school though. It's foul. Someone put lots of little notices up saying "this is a primary school, not a dog toilet" or words to that effect, but it didn't do much good.

MrsPeterD, there was a big 'to do' in the NE about this a couple of years ago. The magistrates' bench, none of whom lived in actual Elswick or Benwell, wrote to the council and said they were unhappy with the levels of FPNs, and that dog owners needed more 'advice'.

Sorry MrsP I should have added, please please let me know how it is different where you live because we are so utterly fed up with dog fouling where I live, and we would love to be able to do something just as a street to stop it.

We do have council workers and PCSOs that we know but they all say that prosecution is a bugger.

I think that Mr Dog-shitter should get some combination of a) paying his bloody fine; b) paying the council's legal costs; c) being sent to English literacy classes. It must be awful, being unable to understand those little stickers on lamp-posts, after all.

The exact combination would depend on how much I believed him, and how much I'd want to smack him with a bag of toilet tissue rolls.

^The above opinions are why no-one sane would put me in a position of power.

I got so fed up with the huge amounts of dog poo on the way to school and scraping it off the children's shoes, that I made lots of little flags with 'please pick up your poo' on them out of cocktail sticks and post-it notes and stuck them into the offending turds. It looked quite jolly, like a teeny-tiny, stinky jubilee celebration.

It did the trick too. Dogs clearly intimidated by the 'mad poo lady' approach.