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[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

I wish my problems were so fucking pathetic.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Next time put it in top of the can.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 hours ago

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.

[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

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.

[-] MrShankles@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

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

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago

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

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I generally don't care but by god if you do this after it's just been emptied i will fucking end you

Do it to my recycling bin and i come after your family too

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 7 points 4 hours ago
[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago
[-] Mac@mander.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago

There are poetry communities

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 11 points 5 hours ago

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

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 59 minutes ago

Is anyone still using non-degrading bags? They’ve been around for a long time at this point.

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I can tell the creator of this picture is a cat owner. As a dog owner, I just carry their shit home. But sometimes you just need to get rid of it.

[-] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 8 hours ago

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

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 44 points 9 hours ago

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 🤷

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 23 points 9 hours ago

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

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[-] EveningPancakes@lemm.ee 38 points 9 hours ago

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.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 8 hours ago

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.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours 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.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 4 points 5 hours ago

A bad smelling trash bin you say?

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[-] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 7 hours ago

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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[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I had some Karen type yell at me for doing this. So I pointed at the side of the can, which did not in fact say her name, but instead said Borough of Naugatuck, and reminded her that as a resident of Naugatuck I had as much of a right to its garbage bins as she did.

People downvoting this probably also get pissy if you park in the street in front of their house. ITS EVERYBODY'S STREET YOU SCHMUCK

[-] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 14 points 4 hours ago

Trash disposal isn't free, yea the dog poop is probably a negligent amount, but most people have to explicitly pay for trash disposal, and so filling up other people's trash cans can either cause an additional financial burden on them, or mean that they can't effectively dispose of all of their trash.

It looks like in your case, each unit gets a can assigned to it, and service fees and replacements cost the individual directly, additionally, there are fines for trash violations, so having other people put unknown trash in your bins can result in a direct financial burden. I think it's pretty reasonable to be relatively protective over your trash bin if you are the one that has to pay for service, replacements, and fees.

[-] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 hours ago

My trash pickup is municipal. Even if it wasn't I'd rather just take an extra kilo of trash than have it in the street.

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Trash pickup is paid for by regular local taxes in Naugatuck Connecticut. The town gives each household a trash bin and a recycling bin with instructions to fill them and leave them by the curb on a specific day. Nobody weighs them. The bins say 'Borough of Naugatuck' on them, because the town owns them, which makes them fair game.

[-] Bezier@suppo.fi 1 points 4 hours ago

I don't know how trash disposal works wherever Naugatuck is, but it is usually a paid service. It makes no difference whatsoever which party owns the container serving that household.

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

It is not a paid service in Naugatuck. It's a municipal service. That's the case in most of Connecticut.

[-] wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago

I'd like to imagine that the old lady took this photo. Then she printed it out, wrapped it around a big ol stinky dog turd, and dropped it in the can.

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