Tuesday, April 10, 2007

What's This About?: Dog Walkers' Dirty Protest


Clueless dog walkers in the Mersey Valley appear to be making a point by putting dog pooh into little plastic bags and if they are shameless Lib Dem types chucking them in the bushes or if clever Greens and Tories starting little cairns all over the place - where, presumably, they think there should be dog bins at their convenience.

Well, it's not big and it's not clever. Dog waste bins away from city parks, never mind in the middle of wild country, are hard to sustain. Do these idiots imagine a pack of pooh rangers with rucksacs touring constantly to keep these scenic bins from brimming over?

Apart from which dog pooh before insertion into plastic bags is bio-degradeable and enjoyed by small and microbial woodland creatures; so get a stick and move it out of harms way - off piste. Or if you really want to increase the amount of pooh in plastic bags in land fill or making black smoke over incinerators then bag it and take it home.

Making cairns of pooh-in-plastic is quite frankly idiotic.

UPDATE: This post is dedicated to "Anonymous Troll" and the featured pooh cairn has now been cleared.

7 comments:

jailhouselawyer said...

As you say, it is compost for the garden. What annoys me is that there are far more signs warning of the penalties for not picking up dog pooh, then there are bins to put it in.

Anonymous said...

Hi Chris
Anonymous Troll here. Nice to see you've found an appropriate subject matter for your 'lofty' standards of 'journalism.'
Only surprised you didn't get your well-used wooden spoon out to stir (sh)it.
Toodle Pip.

Chris Paul said...

Ho ho ho

lorenzo23 said...

Dog mess is a big contentious issue with the electors as anyone who has canvassed around Beech Road Park will tell you.

Good to see Cllr. Angela Gallagher has made it a feature on her latest leaflet. Cue picture of well groomed small dog, plus two police horses.

jailhouselawyer said...

lorenzo: Did you know that police horse shit is exempt from the legislation? And, they do bigger poohs. I think that the mounted police should carry a bucket and shovel and pick up their horses dung!

lorenzo23 said...

I buy horse pooh for my allotment. I'd probably buy Geoff Bridson's chicken droppings. I buy other crap as well - it's usually an electronic gadget that ends up in a cupboard. Let's take these comments into a new depths.

Anonymous said...

Marginally less entertaining than the Chuckle Brothers. Ever original by pinching somebody else's wit. Chris - we continue to count on you.