I didn't know this was a thing until I bought my house. People do this on my street. When I moved in, the contractors the previous owner had working on the house left a huge can of their construction trash (which I had to haul away to the Reisterstown Road station myself, but that's another story) that smelled like death. I just knew I was going to find a dead animal in there.... nope: like 10 bags of dog poop. No telling how long they had been in there, either. After this, I learned to never leave my can in front of my house for an extended period of time beyond trash day itself. I work from home 85% of the time and always on trash day, so this has helped a lot. But the problem is the dumbasses who put the bagged poop in on trash day.

One day I was moving my car for street cleaning, and I "caught" a woman with her dog, putting bagged poop in someone's can. For some reason I thought it would be a guy. Wrong. Smh.

I put dryer sheets in the bottom of my can. They absorb (some) of the smell and some of the exploded bagged poop. Other than writing a message on top of your can, I'm not sure what to do. Think about the poor trash collectors: you're supposed to bag the trash... but now imagine them dumping your can of bagged trash and having to deal with literal bags of dogshit loose and possibly exploded in the can.

If you are someone who does this and you are reading this, yes, you are an asshole and also disgusting.