Pooh On Street

[glasgowjohn]

When I lived in Spain , the custom was to buy a lottery ticket when you stepped on dog sh*t .

I would be bloody bankrupt if I had to do the same in Bs As........

 

[French jurist]

I was driving in BA last week (live in the Province), and saw a guy walking his labrador.
The dog had no leash, was in front of him by about 10 meters and made a big poo.
Some other pedestrians were walking towards the dog's owner. The dog's owner put his hand in his pocket like if he was going to take out a plastic bag, walked past the other people, looked around, and keeped walking.
A Classic.

 

[Yogur griego]

Where can I buy a bunch of little Argentine flags?

I was running at the Rosedal last summer when I came up on 2 women and their Lab. The Lab stopped and dropped a massive pile of used dog food. The women took note of the Lab's drop but kept walking as if they didn't see it. As I passed them I suggested that they clean up their dog's shit.

One replied to me, "Go home to your country!" At which point I ran a long wide loop back to the dog pile. I found a plastic bag nearby on the ground (no surprise), scooped up as much of the crap as I could, and then as I ran past them a second time I slapped the dog shit all over her shoulders.

I shouted, "Me encanta Argentina!" Vengeance 1. Diplomacy 0.

Don't you think throwing dog shit at people goes a bit too far, eh?

 

[Yogur griego]

When I lived in Spain , the custom was to buy a lottery ticket when you stepped on dog sh*t .

I would be bloody bankrupt if I had to do the same in Bs As........

Well, I have seen a lot more dog poo on the streets of Spain (especially in the south) than in BA. In Seville it's really disgusting.

 

[internationalguy]

Where can I buy a bunch of little Argentine flags?

I was running at the Rosedal last summer when I came up on 2 women and their Lab. The Lab stopped and dropped a massive pile of used dog food. The women took note of the Lab's drop but kept walking as if they didn't see it. As I passed them I suggested that they clean up their dog's shit.

One replied to me, "Go home to your country!" At which point I ran a long wide loop back to the dog pile. I found a plastic bag nearby on the ground (no surprise), scooped up as much of the crap as I could, and then as I ran past them a second time I slapped the dog shit all over her shoulders.

I shouted, "Me encanta Argentina!" Vengeance 1. Diplomacy 0.

No you didn't

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Don't you think throwing dog shit at people goes a bit too far, eh?

Unfortunate, perhaps, but it was by rights hers.

 

[jeff1234]

One private community in Florida required every dog owner to submit a sample of their dogs dna. When a pile of pooh was found its dna was analyzed and the owner was identified and fined. I haven't heard of other communities adopting this plan so it must not have worked too well.
Here in La Plata the pooh problem starts with the many owners that let their unneutered dogs run free all day. The dogs not only poop all over but get at garbage and create more dogs. With the mess that they create, it seems that everyone here has given up on having clean streets and sidewalks.

 

[internationalguy]

One private community in Florida required every dog owner to submit a sample of their dogs dna. When a pile of pooh was found its dna was analyzed and the owner was identified and fined. I haven't heard of other communities adopting this plan so it must not have worked too well.
Here in La Plata the pooh problem starts with the many owners that let their unneutered dogs run free all day. The dogs not only poop all over but get at garbage and create more dogs. With the mess that they create, it seems that everyone here has given up on having clean streets and sidewalks.

What? That's ridiculous. Feces have negligible amounts of DNA. The cost of such a database and analysis of the poo is simply not worth it. It could be a dog from other county and then the whole system would be useless, provided the little DNA in poo even worked.

 

[la_guachita]

One private community in Florida required every dog owner to submit a sample of their dogs dna.

That was an interesting story on This American Life.

The best is when you are wearing sandles and slide and it squishes between your toes and you are on the way to meet a client and then you have to find a dirty puddle to wash it off the best you can.

And telling someone to go back to their country when you are just requesting a little common decency would piss me off too. The poop is a pretty serious health hazard. There are even hundreds of visits the ER every year caused by (usually elderly people) slipping on dog poop, which often results in broken or fractured bones.

There are laws on the matter with fines starting at AR$240 to $500 for the third infraction last I read, too bad no one enforces it, but if you know who the owner is you can take a snapshot and make a complaint.

 

[GS_Dirtboy]

Don't you think throwing dog shit at people goes a bit too far, eh?

Technically, I didn't throw it.

Like I said, Diplomacy 0.