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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

Idk I'd rather a passerby toss their poop or other trash in my can rather than throw it on the ground. Hell if you're really desperate and can't afford trash service I'd even tolerate a bag. But don't be filling up my can.

I used to like in a neighborhood where one lady would randomly throw her trash bags in someone's yard or behind my fence. City wouldn't do shit about her. I didn't like any of it and never did figure out where she lived but I was at that point of just telling her to put it in the fucking can because at least I wouldn't have to pick it up after the raccoons got into it and scattered it in the grass behind the fence.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Sounds like a terroristic threat to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Am I the only person that makes my dog carry her own poop bag? I just double knot it and attach it to where the leash attaches on her harness. All these people talking about putting bags in their coats or carrying them...I don't get it.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (8 children)

My friend (who's an engineer) is so fed up with a neighbor doing this he's building an electric dog whistle that'll automatically go off. Seems a bit petty to me but 🤷

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If he asked nicely first, he's not in the wrong. Post vids, sounds hilarious.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Who cares, it's all going to the same place. You parted with your trash, it's not like it's a storage bin for you to get stuff out of later.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 week ago (38 children)

As someone whose bin receives unwanted poop, the issue is that it goes straight to the bottom of the bin and never leaves because they don't lift the cans up all the way. Then it gets smashed by my own trash, so now I have a permanently poopy-smelling trash bin that receives weekly deposits.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

my dad found that putting a big, heavy rock on top of the bin was enough to stop this from happening to him. (he removes the rock before the crash gets collected.) from his perspective, the people who use other people’s trash cans to throw away their dog poop are doing it because it’s the most immediate and convenient option. if you find a way to make it slightly less convenient, they’ll look for something else.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Many people do this after the bins have already been emptied, meaning that for the next week, you have to deal with a bin that smells like dog shit.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago

I wish my problems were so fucking pathetic.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Assuming it's sealed in a plastic bag and the night before collection, who cares? The alternative is carrying around a warm poop bag in your coat pocket until you get home. Seems completely reasonable to take care of it this way on trash night. If it's not meeting those above two criteria, then hell yeah, it's time for a new hood ornament.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Ah.

If it's the night before collection, no one would notice or care. People who do that are not the people anyone complains about.

What happens is people dump their plastic bag of dog poop in the empty can. So it stays there.

Next pickup the resident's trash bags go on top of it. The trash men never manage to get the poop bag out. After a couple weeks of hoping it will disappear next time, the person whose can it is has to dump it out and put it in a bag with their trash.

People who dump their dog's poop bag in other people's cans should be force fed the bag.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ehh, I'd prefer they bag it and put it in my trash bin, rather than just leaving a pile of shit in my yard. I'd honestly prefer neither, but using my bin to throw poop bags or even loose trash doesn't bother me too much

But my bin is also only on the curb when it's trash day. And they pick them up twice a week here, so a poop bag won't necessarily "marinate" in there for long. And I rinse the bin with a hose if it becomes gross, but that's rare because usually the rain will handle most of it

But that's just my particular situation, so it doesn't bother me as much. I could easily see how a multitude of different factors, might make the situation aggravating/infuriating

Never thought I'd feel lucky about my trash bin situation though. Sometimes it really is the little things I guess

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Trash collectors on my street don't empty the can into the truck, they just grab the bag I put in and throw that in. That dog shit bag would stay in my can until I moved it to the larger bag. I should not have to do that.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Very well. I'll leave it in the yard, then.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where is the poop supposed to go then?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

In the old ladys trash can, some people just don't want dog shit smeared in theirs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And threatening to behead an old lady is totally an appropriate response.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Never said it was 🤷

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You're making a lot of assumptions, about the availability of trash cans in the area.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (10 children)

It's in a bag, though, right? I mean, if old lady is just naked hand fisting shit into the trash can there's bigger problems to tackle there.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Next time put it in top of the can.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Let's take the most biodegradable substance on earth and wrap it in eternal plastic

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Must be a posh nimby, don't know why anyone would willing carry dogshit around with them, especially if there's no public bins available, just don't use the same one every time.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I always feel like a douche when I do this, but sometimes I'm in a bind. Soz bro.

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