To ask why people hang poo on trees?

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This perplexes me. I can’t think of anything more disgusting than hanging a bag of shit on a tree. Yet they are everywhere.

Someone on here must know someone who does this. What is going through their heads when they do it? Is it a massive “fuck you” to society now expecting poo to be scooped up (I grew up in the 70s/80s when it was acceptable just to leave it on the pavement)?

Or do they think that somehow hanging it like a macabre bauble is what they are meant to do? Do they believe that the Faeces Fairy will come and clear the trees at night time?

Oh it will end up on a shoe eventually. A few years ago (when we still did the primary school run) there was a bag of shite on the pavement that was so big (is elephant cross a thing?) and there so long it nearly achieved monument status. Eventually it looked like a bike or pram wheel had gone over and burst it - because the bagger hadn't gone to the trouble of taking their air out when they knotted the bag. A shoe print was eventually added.

See also just poo left in bags by the side of the road. Very confusing

How awful - didn’t think of pushchairs etc ripping the bag. I don’t understand why you’d go to the effort of picking it up but then leaving it behind anyway! It winds me up when I see it as a dog owner.

I have to keep cleaning the pavement in front of my gate because dog owners constantly let their animals pee on the front hedge or squat on the pavement.

One smiled at me the other day as his dog piddled on the hedge whilst the bitch piddled on the pavement.

Well that’s clearly bullcrap because they wouldn’t all be still hanging on a tree would they? ??
I suspect the lazy fuckers think they’re being ‘helpful’ for the magic poo fairy who’s going to come by and clean up after them and are avoiding throwing plastic in the undergrowth or in the plants.
Obvs the answer is - carry it with you on the walk, or do what we do - stay nearer a bin til the dog goes. Not as hard as you think, if we come straight from the house dog is almost certainly going to go early on… may go again on the walk but that’s okay too. You just have to carry it til you’re somewhere to deposit it - and yes sometimes that does mean double bagging and bringing back in the car

The only other unsettling thing hanging from trees I've seen are the creepy dolls posted on MN a while back.
Poo bags hanging from trees that's one I haven't seen yet probably because nobody picks it up around here. I went to northern Ireland this year and no dog shit, it was bliss, they get fined if dog dirt isn't picked up. Not quite sure how they'd catch people but they need something like that in England. I'd rather it hung on a tree than my child stepping in it. I'm cleaning dog shit off shoes every other day it seems. Drives me mad.

Not surprised at all. As a gardener, I've had to shed some disgusting, lazy and disrespectful customers since the pandemic because they're too bone idle to clear their smelly, shit ridden lawns!