Who does these things?

[orangesandlemonssaythebellsofstclements]

This is a confession thread and also a mystery solving thread.

There are certain things in life that everyone seems to hate, but I've never ever seen anyone own up to doing, and I would like these people to own up now because I need to know your demographic and why you do them. This is anonymous, you are safe here, tell the truth.

WHO are the people that hang dog poo bags on trees? Who are you and WHY?
WHO are the people that bought all the toilet rolls during covid?

Please add your own answers and your own confessions. Especially the dog poo one because it's everywhere, and yet I never see anyone doing it or owning up to it.

A phantom pooer sometimes leaves a bag of dog poo in our hedge. I wonder if it's someone who thinks I don't pick up after my dog? We should really have a look at the CCTV when it happens.

@orangesandlemonssaythebellsofstclements

I was the same as Octavia during Brexit and Covid. But I have always kept a good stock of things like toilet rolls and tin food, et cetera. It was how I was brought up. I didn't panic buy, I just gradually accumulated a stock of things.

it meant that when supplies of things were very low, I could leave them to the people that needed them.

It has also meant I have been well stocked in times when I have needed things and been unable to get or cope with unloading a delivery.

I'm not hurting anybody, so I don't see the problem.

I do not understand at all the people who fling Dog poo bags up into trees. I mean who goes to the Trouble of bagging it, to throw it like that? I absolutely disagree with it, but I can at least understand why people don't pick it up.

People begging and hanging in trees need to follow it up there themselves!!!

I think the demographic will be those that like the idea of a dog (insta-friendly frenchie) but without the reality of picking up poo.

Ooh that's very interesting. You may be right, it certainly makes sense.

I have never actually seen a person do it, but in my mind's eye it's boomers.
Probably deeply unfair but that's where my mind goes. I am interested to see if I'm right.

I stocked up on loo roll (through amazon, not tesco) when the lockdowns were in full swing in other countries and we were still in the "everyone is overreacting" stage. (To be fair, I generally have a stock of most things because we buy in bulk to save money, but we just bought a bit more)

Simple reason really, I wanted to be able to wipe my arse.

Never ran out. It was great. Also stocked up on pasta, flour and shelf stable stuff. I was one of those smug preppers 😏

Worked out really well because I was able to share with really vulnerable neighbours.

No-one bought all the toilet roll but lots of people bought an extra packet.

We bought a lot of toilet roll. I always buy it in bulk anyway. This household goes through a lot of it, and it’s cheaper to order in quantity.

Also, to a pp’s point, during Covid I would not have wanted the additional stress of worrying that children/teens, esp. one with ADHD, might not be ‘washing their arses’ and then their hands to a decent standard of hygiene every single time. I would have become worried about the state of our towels. Things were already tough at that time, and making sure we were well stocked up was an easy way to tick one thing off the list.

In-laws started dumping their rubbish over walls etc when bin charges first came in. Loads of people in their area still do it…

Some of my work colleagues have to deal with dog poo and fly-tipping. Costs fortunes to sort out, even before getting into hazardous waste like asbestos and old fridges, etc. One colleague was hedge-strimming a few years ago and his strimmer hit a couple of dog-poo bags strung up in the hedge that he didn't spot, the contents went everywhere. Including into his mouth.

It's better not to bag it up and just leave it on the ground, rather than bag it and sling/tie up the bags in trees and hedges. I think the Forestry Commission are actually advising people to do this now (leave it unbagged as opposed to the vile alternative).

Who actually orders a 3 course meal while companions order a starter and tap water, then suggests splitting the bill equally?

come on who does that?

Come on, someone own up to being a poo-bagger-and-leaver. There's so much of it around, someone here must do it.

With the toilet rolls, I don't think it was really people stockpiling. I'm sure there were some, but on the whole it was people buying them this week instead of next week and domestic use increasing, as no-one was going to work.

Supermarkets are stocked just in time, so if "everyone" buys one pack of toilet rolls this week, when they might otherwise have bought them next week, the supply chain soon fails.

OP the only way you are being unreasonable is in expecting a poo bag hanger to have the intelligence to be able to read your post!

Actually come to think of it I have seen my BIL hang poo in a tree, but only on a late evening walk in his local woods (no other walkers out in the dark) and always collected and binned on the way back. It was because he had a massive dog who would do a poo right at the start of the walk.

I caught a litterer this morning! She was emptying out her bag of used tissues and other rubbish and throwing it into the hedge at the end of my road . So I wound down my car window and said very loudly “ Why are you throwing your rubbish there ? If you turn round there is a bin on the other side of the road , or you can take it home and put it in your dustbin.” She looked a bit shocked. 😄

Don’t think I have seen dog poo bags hanging on trees either but maybe if I looked I would see them, will probably see them everywhere now!

I didn’t buy massive quantities of toilet rolls during Covid either as I thought the whole ‘toilet roll thing’ was absolute nonsense, diarrhea wasn’t even a common symptom of Covid

Gross. What a disgusting and selfish individual. I can't stand litter.

I was once waiting at a busstop and a man in a flat a few floors up just casually opened his window, tipped a whole kitchen bin out onto the street below and closed the window. I was shocked. His own street. What the hell.

That's called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.

I see a few round my area (rural, lots of footpaths around the fields).
They tend to be tied to the tree rather than thrown into it (though maybe I haven't looked high enough to spot the hurled ones!).
I think it's disgusting and lazy, but it's one rung above not picking it up at all on the ladder of 'how to deal with dog shit'. It's very hard to see when it's on a footpath around a field.

I watched two guys in their mid 20’s to early 30’s the field behind me, finish their drinks and throw them into the wooded long grass area behind the seat, where they were sitting enjoying the countryside, having a chat

There are bins near the field entrance, they would have had to carry them for 5 minutes, but they were tossers, literally.

I actually busted someone yesterday doing the dog poo bag in the tree thing! I know them from the village and it is the most unlikely person I could imagine to have done it. I was walking my dog around some fairly remote fields and they doing the same route but the opposite way. You can only enter this route one way in and out and when the person walked by me, they were carrying a certain brand of dog poo bag. As I exited the field after my walk, the poo bag was hanging in the tree by the gate -it wasn't there on entry, nobody else was around walking and it was the same brand as I'd seen him carrying. Unfortunately, I didn't catch them in the act to ask them what the fuck they were doing. Bizarrely, they had carried it around the field, but not to the dog poo bin a few yards away from the gate. I would NEVER have envisioned this person doing something like that - primary school dad, school governor, very vocal in the community about rubbish etc. There would be no reason to hang it there to collect it later as there is a poo bin so close to the gate. I'm determined to catch him in the act now as it's infuriated me!!!

I do see lots of left behind dog poo bags - I think people do it when there aren't many bins. They think they'll remember to pick it up on the way back but don't. It is annoying carrying a bag of poo around when your dog poos half way through your walk.

I've got one of these attached to the dog lead which holds the poo bag leaving you hands free. www.petsathome.com/product/3-peaks-silicone-dog-poop-bag-carrier-black/7149989P

We have a horrible neighbour, another neighbour told me with some glee, that said horrible neighbour was fined for not picking up his dog poop in the village, didn’t surprise me.

I always thought the poo bags in trees/bushes was a weird passive aggressive act of dog walkers protesting that there are not enough poo bins from the council & so they dump them there - next to an overflowing & never seem to be emptied poo bin. That’s on a popular dog walk near me anyway. I think then pple see them there & think oh that’s what you do with them I’ll blindly & ignorantly just do the same then as I cldnt possibly walk with my dog’s poo or take it home with me 🙄 I hate the logic that they’re hanging there temporarily until they’re collected on their return from their walk bcos they invariably never are. Why is it so inconvenient to carry your dog’s poo in a bag for the duration of the walk-in & deposit it in your own bin at home or a poo bin that’s available?? No it’s not particularly “nice” but neither is picking it up in the first place but we all do that. No different to having a dirty nappy to dispose of. Locally to me there are so many bins it’s great. But whenever I see the hanging bags it’s usually bcos there’s a lack of bins /bin is not emptied sufficiently.

I have one of those phantoms too. But no dog to justify feeding the hedge with dog shit. These people don't need a reason.

The dog shit hangers are one thing, no excusing them, but I think the toilet roll hoarding isn't really correct.

The problem wasn't a few people buying thousands of toilet rolls, it was a lot of people buying a few more than they normally would. This threw the supply chain out because shops order the amount they expect to shift in a few days. Any break in the supply chain or increase in amount purchased breaks the process. Once broken it becomes a vicious cycle, people buy when they can rather than when they need to, because when they need to they might not be able to.