It's not OK to put your dog crap in my wheelie bin

[fortifiedwithtea]

The bin men have changed our collection time its now late afternoon. DD2 and I went to the post office and when we came back bin emptied. All good so far. DD2 asks are we going to take the bin in but because I couldn't be arsed to wash my hands yet again, I said no leave it. Then I forgot about it until next morning.

Next morning went to retrieve bin and throw a black sack in and there in the bottom was ...... a package of dog poo.

Why?

If I wanted dog poo in my bin, I'ld have my own bloody dog. I am now the custodian of poop for a week. Why should I be just because I didn't take my bin in quick enough.

I suspect it was the woman who deliberately brings her greyhounds to the small greenward in front of my house to let her dogs have a crap and piss up the cherry trees. She lives about 2 minutes walk away. I suppose the doggy brigade will say be thankful she bags her dogs poo. So why then be so inconsiderate as to dump it in my bin.

Yes I'm annoyed.

Brycie you still haven't told us what you do with things like dirty nappies, sanitary protection, rotting meat etc.

Because that could also be in a bag that bursts and goes on someone.

ForEsme you seem to have a lot of love for the squalor of bins and dog poo.

Ho, ho, ho.

YABU I would rather it was in the bin than on the street, end of. if however, it was a regular thing, some laying in wait would have to be done, and some righteous rage unleashed

I can't get too wound up by this, I would rather it be in my bin than on my lawn, to be honest! It isn't as if I will be doing anything with the bin except putting rubbish in it, so being the "custodian" of poop wouldn't bother me, the poop wouldn't even register!

You're interested? They are inside bags which I then put in a bin bag which goes in the bin. I wrap broken glass, sometimes I double bag. I make sure it's as easy and efficient and hygienic as possible. If I have dog poo from a garden it's in a bag, or a number of bags, which is then inside a bin bag. I don't have wheelie bins. The bags come out of the dust bin and are carried out by me or the dustbin men. Did you really need all that information to understand that a bag with dog poo in can burst when you put something heavy on top of it?

You seem to have a rather solipsistic view of life, Hope. A number of posters have described being revolted as they picked bags of dog poo out of their bins.

Brycie seriously, take a chill pill. Your passive aggressiveness is blasting me from here.

I'm glad that you take such care to wrap stuff up. But what if ONE bag burst and then THE OTHER bag burst? And then the bin man got your menstrual leakage on him?

It could happen. Don't you care about bin men getting menstrual blood on them?

squoosh I have literally never been as fascinated by a thread as I am by this one. Or possibly by anything else in life in general.

It amazes me that people are pissed off that I wouldn't care that someone else put something in my bin. Not that I put something in a bin. That SOMEONE ELSE did.

That level of interest in someone else's feelings just astounds me.

But I am chilled. I was asked a question, so I answered it. It's other people who seem overexcited - I don't understand it.

In the case you describe, I would have taken all precautions possible to be hygienic and considerate. That's different to throwing dog poo in a bin and a bag that might burst. Of course it is. I know it's hard being wrong but you are going to greater and greater lengths to imagine more and more exdtraordinary circumstances to try to be right.

Ha ha ha. Yes, that's right Brycie. I just can't accept your utter utter rightness.

It is ridiculous to imagine a bag might burst in a bin. Have never seen it happen once.

It's when you say passive aggressive stuff like " Did you really need all that information to understand that a bag with dog poo in can burst when you put something heavy on top of it? " that I get the feeling you're a wee bit wound up.

Why is it that you can imagine that one bag might burst, and that it is so likely to happen that we must take every precaution possible, yet you can't imagine that TWO might burst? No, in Brycieland, that's ridiculous and I am just bringing it up because I am so gutted that I have lost the argument of not caring what other people put in my bin.

Calm down Esme. Some people aren't as considerate as others - that's become obvious. If you can't understabd that a plastic bag full of poo thrown loose into a bin, on the outside of a bin bag, which could have something heavy thrown on it, is more likely to burst than securely bagged and double bagged rubbish, then there is nothing that will convince you. You carry on - you are the way you are.

Oh my giddy aunt those poor bin men.

They are now festooned in rotten meat and menstrual fluid

Well no not mine because I bag it and put it inside a bin bag.

I would be revolted if someone put dog shit in my bin, bagged or otherwise. This is because round here the bin men just lift binbags out of the bin rather than tipping the whole thing up so it's very likely that a small bag of dog shit at the bottom of the bin would stay there until I took it out myself. Which I do not want to do. I do not have a dog, do not like dogs and am frankly repulsed by dog shit. Why should I deal with someone else's dog's shit?

You know what, I bloody hate people putting crisp packets in my bin because I have to get them out myself. Dog shit is a whole other level of vileness.

Yes, Brycie, I am the way I am. A woman who doesn't care if people put stuff in my bin.

When will I ever learn?

That's ok for you - it's about putting poo in other people's bins and whether or not it's considerate to do that.

Here's the thing I don't get.
Just about all the dog owners have testified that the bags they put the poo in never ever break. They also seem to believe that dog poo is not an offensive thing to have put in your bin.

If your dog poo is so pleasant to you then where precisely is the harm in keeping it in your possession until you get home to your own bin or go past a council bin for that purpose?

Where has anyone said dog poo is pleasant?
A bin is a bin. The stuff you put in it is rarely pleasant.
People should stop being so precious.

YANBU, of course! The owners of the shitty dogs should put the shit in their own or a designated bin!

Nobody is precious. People are being selfish and inconsiderate. I don't know why it is so difficult to understand that a bag full of poo can burst or ooze if you put something heavy on it. A three year old could understand it. You might not mind it in your own but you should be considerate of others and of the bin men who really, really don't want to get dog poo on their hands or clothes.

I am now smiling a bit at the people who are desperately insisting that it really isn't inconsiderate.

Actually?

OK, I've learnt my lesson. I'll never put anything dirty in a bin ever again.

After all, it is a bin. Dirty things shouldn't go in there.

I'm grinning quite a lot.