Heroes

[Penninetrader]

That's the thing. I am very busy looking after a young family and working full time. The tiny amount of hours left in a week to myself are for enjoyable activities. People need to clean up after themselves and be responsible.

Whilst looking after my grandchildren and then working weekends to make up time I engaged them during our visits to the parks in cleaning the play areas before engaging in play. They still have those habits. I have children, grandchildren and great grandchildren plus a great many nephew and nieces and on and on, they have all been influenced and are a positive force I am very proud to say. I am not asking that you go on a crusade just bend down pick a little little and deposit in bin I observe that many will step over rubbish on their own doorstep, weird

 

[user 22450]

If I witnessed that my response would be classed as provocative to say the least.

As would be my response to the types who think it acceptable to lob their used dog bags into trees overhanging footpaths. We have such a track on the way to our allotments, fortunately wide enough to allow vehicles. Thankfully, the majority of dog walkers show consideration.

 

[pargyle]

They do that so if being watched they appear to be good guys but once out of sight slyly drop said bag, I have watched motorists when parked open their door just enough to dispose of rubbish beneath the car so as not to be seen. Unacceptable.

It's fair to say that I bag up our dog's poo and when we do an 'out and back' walk as opposed to a circular route I will leave a bag of poo hanging on a branch or tucked into a fence on the way out and then collect it for disposal on the way back.

I know my regular route down the side of the Titchfield canal and this morning I was disappointed to see that some antisocial dog walker had bagged up some poo and had thrown it into the midde of a bramble bush ... it was not there yesterday morning so it was either last night or prior to my walk this mornng. There was clearly no intention of them returning to get it as it was totally inacessible ... what is the matter with these people ? It just winds me up ...

 

[rossbyjove]

Shouldn't that be dilating?

I don't really want to think about that !

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

many years ago my sister, who lives on the 'main' road was daily finding a fresh hoo normous dog turd deposited by their front gate in the morning as she set off for work, so one day my brother in law (who drove the bin lorries at the time) took a late start but still got up early and sat in the bedroom window on turdwatch. He found the culprit (we had guessed who it was -he was notorious and actually proud of refusing to clean up after his dog.) who only lived a few doors up, so Mike quickly went downstairs picked up the still steaming growler (he was wearing his full council PPE including gloves) and followed him home, knocked on the door and just handed the turd back.
It never happened after that.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

many years ago my sister, who lives on the 'main' road was daily finding a fresh hoo normous dog turd deposited by their front gate in the morning as she set off for work, so one day my brother in law (who drove the bin lorries at the time) took a late start but still got up early and sat in the bedroom window on turdwatch. He found the culprit (we had guessed who it was -he was notorious and actually proud of refusing to clean up after his dog.) who only lived a few doors up, so Mike quickly went downstairs picked up the still steaming growler (he was wearing his full council PPE including gloves) and followed him home, knocked on the door and just handed the turd back.
It never happened after that.

Perfect!

 

[Sutty]

I used to have a house on a corner plot with an open drive. I was getting almost daily dog turds on the lawn next to the drive. One day sorting through cupboards I found a large bag of very out of date chilli powder. This got sprinkled all over the lawn. Problem solved! I felt sorry for the sniffing dog, but if I couldn't educate the owner, I could certainly educate the dog!!

 

[Penninetrader]

many years ago my sister, who lives on the 'main' road was daily finding a fresh hoo normous dog turd deposited by their front gate in the morning as she set off for work, so one day my brother in law (who drove the bin lorries at the time) took a late start but still got up early and sat in the bedroom window on turdwatch. He found the culprit (we had guessed who it was -he was notorious and actually proud of refusing to clean up after his dog.) who only lived a few doors up, so Mike quickly went downstairs picked up the still steaming growler (he was wearing his full council PPE including gloves) and followed him home, knocked on the door and just handed the turd back.
It never happened after that.

Top man

 

[rossbyjove]

I can't imagine having the time to pick up someone else's waste. perhaps when/if I'm retired

Went for a walk down by the banks of the river Avon and came back with a bag of plastic rubbish....retired.

 

[ericbeaumont]

clean up after his dog

Thirty years ago I was sitting on the pavement working on the car brakes and saw an old Alsatian coming up with it's shabby owner. Dog stopped behind me and when I turned I saw a large pile from its back end right in our gateway. 'Am I supposed to clear that up?' Reply: 'F off'. Found a trowel, followed him to the next road and left it on his doorstep.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Thirty years ago I was sitting on the pavement working on the car brakes and saw an old Alsation coming up with it's shabby owner. Dog stopped behind me and when I turned I saw a large pile from its back end right in our gateway. 'Am I supposed to clear that up?' Reply: 'F off'. Found a trowel, followed him to the next road and left it on his doorstep.

best trick I've heard is, put offending turd into strong brown paper bag, ensure offender is at home, stand on the doorstep, knock on the door, wait 30 seconds, set light to said paper bag and post it through the letter slot..........
then wait and enjoy listening to him stamp out the flames.

 

[Penninetrader]

On a slightly lighter note: the disgusting practice of some road users of urinating into bottles which they discard onto the roadside takes a new twist with this report: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20g1exx3xko . [I'm unsure that the intended hyper link works]. Maybe the consequences of such actions are not easy to anticipate!

Really interesting story, whether their reasons for it being there are valid I somewhat doubt. Around 3 years ago I had to repair a silt trap chamber which measures approx. 5' x 7' x 6' high , it is concealed by 2 very thick flagstones. Water coming down from the moors traverses over a railway tunnel through a pipe/culvert and at quite some force in heavy rains, after the trap it continues on culveted into the river Roach. The outlet and stepped stonework had collapsed which would have caused considerable damage if left to block the remaining culvert.When I cleared the collapse and took down some additional loose material I discovered a beer bottle discarded there by the original builders. The bottle was from Moorhouse brewery at Burnley along with the usual broken clay pipe, unfortunately I broke the bottle. It would have been entirely normal for the stone masons to be drinking beer whilst they were working and puffing on their pipes. The original build date of the chamber was around 1900. Most builders who have worked on old properties will tell much the same stories.
I have just discoverd that much of the beer produced by Moorhouse at that time was basically non alcoholic. So possibly temperance connections, a temperance bar still exists in Rawtenstall I think.