Why would you think it is okay to put dog shit in someone's bin?

[ArtfulBear]

I've recently moved into a new house. It's not in the nicest area of the city, but it could be worse. I've had a bit of a rough time of it recently and am finding adjusting to my new life difficult which is probably affecting my resilience and ability to let things go.

Our bins are collected fortnightly on the day I happen to work late. Every sodding bin day at least one arsehole chucks dog shit in it after they're emptied. This week, two arseholes have done it and both bags have burst so, yet again, I have a filthy stinking bin to clean out.

I'm angry and upset, both about the shit and the fact it's really getting to me. I can't take the bins in straight away because I have to be at work!

YANBU that's grim. Can you get a bin lock to stop them doing it?

YANBU! I saw a tosser doing the same to my bin, but by the time I'd gotten out the house he had gone. I looked in the bin and he hadn't even bothered tying the bag up.

The short answer is that the people doing it are selfish cunts.

The first thing I would try is a no dog waste sticker (or two of them), like this:

No Dog Waste from Safety Sign Supplies

In your ordinary household bin?

I've had this done to me as well and it really, really pisses me off. Stinks the bin out whether or not the shit is bagged and tied.

Honestly, as long as be bag and tied it doesn't really bother me. I'd rather it was in a bin than dangling from a tree or worse, left on the pavement. I get the bin cleaned every few of weeks and in summer I usually bleach it myself.

In my ordinary household waste bin, yes. Which would be grim altogether but people do it after it's been emptied, so are expecting me to just have dog shit in my bin for a fortnight.

I like the idea of the stickers but I suspect they would encourage some of my neighbours. And I'm not sure locks would work, even a gravity lock I'd have to take the padlock off for collection so people could access it.

Everyone else in the terrace runs out to collect straight away - for obvious reasons - so I'm the only target.

I covered a distance of 3 miles this morning on my run and I lost count of the amount of not only dog crap on pavements but of bags of shit too. Unfortunately nothing will get done about it and we’ll just keep on adding to the dog population with all these issues that this brings.

But it's not. It's been in a bag, but has left said bag and is now stuck around the inside of my bin. Which has to live in my yard under my living room window, in the sun.

And I don't have a dog so therefore I shouldn't have to deal with any dog shit.

The gravity locks don’t need padlocks. They are designed so you have a key to open it, but the bin men don’t need one, the act of tipping the bin upside down automatically unlocks it. So when they put the bin back down it locks and no one else can access it except you with the key.

Could you ask a neighbour to bring your bin in, and tell them why? I would happily do this for a neighbour.

But it's not. It's been in a bag, but has left said bag and is now stuck around the inside of my bin. Which has to live in my yard under my living room window, in the sun.
Yeah, that is grim. I leave my bin on the street for collection and have seen people put a bag in my bin.
However I usually bring the bin in straight away the bins are collected just after 7am, so shit bags aren't hanging around between collections.

Gravity lock. You don't need a padlock.

It's happened to me three times, in two different houses.

The first, we had a shed-style door to the bin, attached to the front of the house (like an integral garage, but just a bin store) which someone had gone to the effort of opening, depositing an UNBAGGED shit in, and closing the door. It was on a street with dog poo bins yards away.

Twice in my current home, we have a front garden this time, but a low-level wall at the front, and people put poo in my main bin, and once in the recycling tub. Like, reached over my wall to do this.

My bin lives on the edge of my property and people put stuff in there occasionally - including bagged dog waste, which I can't say has ever burst.
Doesn't bother me at all.

However, as it bothers you, why not ask one of your neighbours to bring it in once they have been emptied ?

I only ever put used poo bags in other people's bins (when out walking) if they're due to be emptied - never in one that's just been emptied (unless it's my own)

Unfortunately, some people just don't give a shit (no pun intended)

I have a dog and have often been tempted
to put the bagged poo in a bin awaiting collection but never have. Equally in twenty years of dog ownership and putting bagged poo in my own bin, not once has the bag split and never has there been a poo scent when opening the bin.

That isn't OK either. I put my bin out to be emptied late the night before. Next morning, I went to add another sack of rubbish before it was emptied. I opened my bin to a filthy smell because someone had deposited their dog shit on top of my rubbish. It doesn't matter if it's bagged and tied - I got a facefull of dog shit smell and that is an antisocial thing to do to me.

If you don't believe that bagged shit smells, put a bagged dog shit on a bin liner in your living room and then go in and see what the room smells like half an hour later.

I sometimes have to lift out the sacks and drive them to the tip if there's a problem with the bin collection as well.

You should not be using other people's bins in this way and you will be upsetting people by doing so.

I've got a wee Tapo security camera on my bedroom window ledge and it covers quite an area of the garden plus the pavement outside my house. So even when my bins are in the street I can see them on my phone, which is linked to the camera.
Could you possibly put up some sortt of camera that would cover the bins in the street?.If you caught on film who was actually doing this disgusting thing you could report them to your council as this is a form of fly tipping.

Someone has just put some in mine

fuckers

Ooh, I will investigate the gravity locks further! Thank you!

Dog owners 🤬 (not all of you - but way too many). Some dog shat on the road outside my property this week and I stood in it.

I think all dogs should be licensed and also made to go to toilet in the their own gardens (so, no garden, no dog!). The amount of times I’ve seen a dog pissing on someone’s recycling bags/containers too. Disgusting and the owners clearly not giving a toss.

@TotallyAddictedToCoffee And you honestly think putting your dog shit bags in someone else's bin at any time is ok??? Find a public poo bin or take it home FFS! Would it be ok if I dumped a bag of rubbish, rotten food or dog poo in your bin???

OP- When renovating, I bought a fake camera from amazon for less than £10. It uses batteries and has a flashing, red light. People were throwing poo bags into our skip, so I added a sign 'SMILE- you are on camera'. The bags soon stopped. you could try this, in additional to the gravity lock.

We now have proper cameras. Last week, our bin up the drive- not anywhere near the road. A woman came walking up our drive, scraping shit off her shoe with leaves and proceeded to put them inside out wheelie bin! Thanks for that!

Never and I have dogs.

Yanbu. Selfish cunts.
It's happened to me twice. The bin stank and I had to find a stick to hook it out with.