Amen!

Cool story, bro. You’re gonna change minds with this post!

Same goes for cigarettes buds and trash. If you live those in the street, you’re TRASH 🗑️

A few years ago I almost got in a fight because I called someone out for flicking their cig in front of me. Lol. People insecure and reactive, especially when they, at least unconsciously, understand they're in the wrong.

I would have been like “yo, trash, pick up your trash. Then stared them dead in the eyes.”

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that wouldve been so sick

Some of you Zoomers don't know this, as a Millennial, there was a time when there were no laws mandating disposing your dog's poop. I remember growing up seeing dog shit all over the place as a toddler. My mom would warn me not to touch the "brown stuff" that was in the sidewalks.

Where I grew up in Massachusetts, it was only until the late 1990s when Boston passed an ordinance ordering people to pick up after their dogs. They even posted signs all over the place. After that the dog shit disappeared off the streets, though some dog owners were a bit late in terms of getting along with the program.

Chills

Thanks, powerful stuff but it works. No one calls them out. 🤷‍♂️

Stepped in a giant pile of shit last week, walking my pup deep on our own front lawn. Some people are entitled fucks.

I once put out a small fire on GW's campus because some smoker had tossed a lit cigarette in mulch. The mulch immediately started to smoulder and then flame. I stomped it out with my shoe.

Username fits

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They know they are.... Problem is they don't care.

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Does OP happen to live in navy yard? Because it is the worst I have ever seen it over in this area. Every. Single. Day. I am constantly avoiding stepping in dog shit smeared on the side walk. The other day I was about to step in a literal puddle of dog shit. I just turned around. Nope.

I have also encountered human shit multiple times while "in the street" :/

I’m in Downtown.

This is honestly a great point and it could very easily be human shit

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Also food please, I hate when dogs get slivers of chicken bones slicing up their insides

Someone near me puts dog shit in bags and leaves them on the sidewalk. Why even bother with the bags. All it does is keep it from degrading so it stays there forever. They're working hard at being an asshole.

Maybe if we had decent public bathrooms people would not have to shit in the street. It’s a sad situation, but you can’t just. Not shit yk

One of my experiences was while walking through a neighborhood. Someone had shit their underpants, then thrown their underpants out their front door onto the sidewalk. This was not an accessibility issue.

That sounds fucked up, but definitely not the typical circumstances under which human waste is found in the street. My comment about public restrooms still stands

They were too busy taking Instagram photos for their dog to get clout.

YES. This. In my previous city this was a MASSIVE problem.

I understand if u ran out of poop bags on a rare occasion and went to look for some. But yeah, seriously not hard to pick up your dog’s poop.

Even earlier, in 1978, New York City passed poop scooping laws that were hilariously enforced by fed-up New Yorkers leaning out their windows and yelling at the scofflaws. I was there when the law was passed and remember hearing that people were letting their dogs loose rather than agree to pick up poop, with a radio announcer saying, “If you’re looking for a purebred dog, there are many to choose from in city shelters.”

This. Also, if you have food, throw it away in a garbage can when you're done. No one wants to see your nasty stuff

>If you leave your dog’s shit in the street middle of the hallway of your apartment building, you are also dog shit.

This happened twice last week in my building. Both times, the piles were dry and hard as if they had been sitting there for hours because the owners couldn't be bothered to come back and clean it up.

It's gotten so bad, there's a video camera developed to record dogs taking a shit and no poop bag used by owner.

My thought on this is that the people doing this have experienced a world that has been unkind to them. In turn, they treat the world unkindly.

It's not an excuse but just some food for thought.

I agree with you. 100%. But how do you feel about people putting their dog's crap (bagged, of course) in other people's trash cans?

A huge problem with navy yard is that there are blocks and blocks of dog friendly apartment buildings but not a speck of grass in sight. The dogs are forced to go on the sidewalk, and then even when it gets cleaned up there are still smears everywhere. Ugh.

Fyi the chicken wings are generally due to rats pulling them out of the trash, not people being shitheads. Doesn't make it any better though

Also not cool but better than the street because at least it’s going where it should (in the end at least).

I’ve gone back to get poop bags when I forgot to refill and felt like the biggest POS for leaving it for those few minutes. Also, if you stand on most streets in DC and just wait for like five minutes a fellow dog walker will usually pass and be willing to give you a bag.

Ive felt like the biggest POS ever doing that too. And true, fellow dog walkers are happy to give you a bag. Probably don’t even have to wait 5 mins most times

You might be a redneck…

Uh huh. Yeah I’m guessing you wouldn’t have done that

Evidence?

Fight me TRASH

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Look at your username

>Fyi the chicken wings are generally due to rats pulling them out of the trash

The fuck they are.

Idk - once saw a pile of chicken bones on metro. I doubt a bunch of rats piled them on the chair lol

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You can say that again

And do not EVER dump your shit in someone else's trash bin. It is YOUR shit so please deal with it properly and don't make it someone else's problem.

/rant

Interesting. Where I live, the bins are public, owned and provided by the city. How does one acquire a "private" trash can in DC? IS this an HOA or apartment thing?

At the end of the day as long as it ends up in waste I’m good

and Chicken Wings too.

Navy Yard is disgusting in this regard. The entire sidewalk of any street has spots with poop

YES

I am a Boomer and we grew up with German Shepards. Whether in our yard or while we were walking the dogs, we cleaned up after them. My Dad had a term for it - “honey dumping.” It was the kids’ job to do it, as well as changing the cat’s litter box at home. Although we weren’t fond of doing it, we had no other chores at home besides clearing the table and loading the dishwasher after dinner. There were three kids, so not onerous. Not going to comment on why you have to be told to pick up poop.

I'm not who you asked, but I believe that most single-family homes and similar dwellings (duplexes, rowhouses, etc.) are typically provided with a trashcan & recycling bin by DC govt. In my neighborhood the weekly pick-up is from the alley, so lots of folks leave their bins in the alley 24/7. I'm assuming u/ekkidee is referencing a similar set-up.

Personally, I'm torn on this particular circumstance. If the trash collectors dump the entire can/bin into the truck, then a couple loose poop bags shouldn't really matter. But if they instead grab the bags by hand & toss them into the truck, then those little poop bags will usually get left behind, sometimes for weeks, and that's a very unpleasant smell, especially in the summer. Obviously trash rarely smells good, but aged dog poop is it's own special level of yuck.

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If you throw your shit bag in my trash can, I'm taking it out and throwing it in the street

Common sense and basic consideration for others like this doesn’t fit the [insert scapegoat] narrative.

God forbid you intervene and call out someone and it escalates, because then you end up the bad person nowadays.

If people can't properly care for their dogs and pick up after them, they shouldn't have dogs.

Well that’s counterproductive

But if it's going into the trash either way?

So then you're apart of the problem?

that's anecdotal, it doesn't cover the issues of infrastructure, housing, or general accessibility. if it's happening often (which it is) there's a bigger issue than the individual person you experienced; and you don't know the full accessibility needs or obstacles that person may have

And you do? Stop assuming so much.

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I've been stepping over more than usual lately

NE DC needs more public trash cans, only 1-2 in a ten block radius near my house. And the few we have are almost always overflowing. Meaning there is usually dog shit all over the ground and it’s a biohazard and breeding ground for parasites for other dogs. People also need to just pick up the dog poo and put it in their own trash.

Lol actually it was the one outside of the Park Chelsea on New Jersey so across the street 😅

I'm a dog owner in Navy yard and it sucks. So many entitled owners that don't pick up their shit and let their dogs off leash in canal park. So frustrating because it gives the rest of us a bad name

I, of course, agree with the OPs point, but this one seems a little too close to asking the city to adapt to your personal lifestyle. If you are walking a dog on the streets, it's your responsibility to make sure it doesn't eat random shit. This is one of the reasons I don't own a dog despite liking them very much.

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Sometimes you gotta get creative. I've grabbed an empty pizza box from the gutter to pick some shit up before.

It's a city bin but it's assigned to a household, so it's not "private."

If someone dumps their dogshit in the bin, it falls to the bottom and it is not collected by the city. It then sits there until someone in the household goes in and fishes it out.

Yeah. No. Dog walkers are making their dogshit my problem. Fuck that all week long.

The end.

>But if they instead grab the bags by hand & toss them into the truck,

That is exactly what happens. And I don't leave bins in the alley; the dumping seems to happen on trash collection days.

It's not. City trash collectors grab the bags one by one and toss them into the truck. That causes the poop bags to fall to the bottom, uncollected. I can't blame the collectors because the bins are too heavy to pick up as a unit, and there is no equipment to grab the whole thing and turn it upside down.

What a deranged take. Bones and rotting flesh littering the street is unpleasant for just about everyone, dog owners aside.

As for the dog owners, it's not so simple as just 'making sure it doesn't eat random shit'. Chicken bones are small. They often blend in with the sidewalk. A dog will smell it long before the owner sees them.

Totally fair. I've grown up with dogs in addition to being a paid dogwalker, and I hear you.

I wish there was more consistency in how the cans were emptied, so that walkers could use any old bin & it wouldn't affect the bin owners like yourself. But heaven knows I'm not about to try & tell garbage collectors how to do their jobs.

IDK if it would solve anything, but if you feel so inclined, you could put a "No Poop Bags, Please" sign on the inside of your trashcan lid. Some people genuinely might not realize that the bags are grabbed individually, rather than the whole can getting upended into the garbage truck.

Edit: actually, this would be a great opportunity for an XKCD-esque diagram illustrating why you don't want poop bags in your bin. Should such a sign be necessary? Ehhh, probably not. Could it be effective? I'd like to think so, but I'm an optimist. YMMV.

This rule especially applies to the person that keeps defecating on the corner of Potomac St NW. Ain’t no way that is a dog doing that.

Your dog.

Your shit.

Your responsibility.

And that means not using someone else’s trash can.

Damn, thankfully, I leave mine on the sidewalk.

That was close.

The city of Perpignan, France has such a problem with this that they pay someone to ride around on a motorbike and vacuum it up into a special poop backpack.

Honestly I wouldn't mind at all if the bins were totally emptied. You know, out of sight, out of mind. It's gone when I roll 'em back up to the rear.

+1 on the XKCD thing.

While you're at pick up the foxes and cats and squirrels mess while you're at it.

Maybe it was an awkward first date?

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Then why do you own a dog and walk in an environment that is harmful for it? Do you not see that expecting the city to adapt to your lifestyle is a bit entitled?

Damn.

So then if they tie the bags, then it's fine?

It’s not the dog-owner’s lifestyle that i would expect the city to adapt to. It’s the life (not life-style) of household pets. Not sure why anyone would have a problem with making a city more pet-safe, given the fact that pet ownership has been core to the human experience since pre-civilization days. I could understand the reluctance if the pet owners were issuing pain in the ass demands, but in this case it’s literally just “don’t throw chicken corpses on the sidewalk”.

I walk dogs and I’ve had to pry so many chicken bones and ribs out of their mouths! People just toss them on the sidewalk and it’s such a pain.

Username checks out.

Disgusting! Every time I walk the dog or just by myself and see a chicken bone, I'll either try and throw it away or kick it in the street so that dogs don't get it

Navy Yard every morning just has endless smears of dog diarrhea from the hundreds of morons here with big poodle mixes living in 1 bedroom apartments.

How did you know it was human shit?

Have this issue where I am too… people just let their dog poop on the sidewalk and then leave it. Someone is also letting their dog have massive diarrhea in the grass… not picking it up but just marking it with a fucking stick so no one steps in it…

You… lack experience

One of them was in human underwear. Another had lots of corn. And I know how to identify common animal droppings.

The other day my husband used an old face mask in place of a bag. Luckily had only a short distance to a bag station.

Atlanta?

Yup!

It's so bad in Navy Yard. It's because in all of these huge apartment complexes it seems like more people have dogs than don't. Maybe it's controversial, but I feel like people used to be more careful about having large breeds in small spaces. Seems like no one cares anymore.

Easy guess.

When I take my dog for a walk in the park and they sniff out a chicken bone in the grass that I can't see, that's my fault? Hell, the other day I turned a corner with my dog and there were more than a dozen chicken bones scattered on the ground, each with a possibility of tearing up my dog's insides. I couldn't have seen them until we rounded the corner, but she could smell them and was ready to go. Luckily, I managed to get her away before too much damage was done but there was a garbage can maybe 5 feet away.

I feel like asking people not to throw something that is both delicious and deadly to dogs on the ground is a reasonable ask.

I will add that I also have a poodle mix, but I have never contributed to the dog diarrhea that is smeared on the sidewalks on a daily basis. Even when my dog has had diarrhea, he still has to find the perfect spot, which is usually in the grass. And when that has happened I still try to pick it up. They need to start power washing the sidewalks down here it’s gotten so bad.

I' m in Foggy Bottom and I see dog shit all the time.

I have a dog, I pick up my dog's poop. It's that simple.

I wish DC would do what Vienna does and put poop bag stations and trash cans on more corners.

Shout out to the poor trees there in front of the I street cvs. I'm terrified to let my dog stop anywhere near around those trees. There's so much poop.

Navy Yard literally smells like dog piss and there is so much dog poop everywhere

Thanks for the heads up. I live in NoMa and think it’s disgusting. Had no idea it’s worse over there.

Bold of you to assume it is from a dog....could be very likely human 🥴

The city took our trash can away because it was always full of lil baggies of doo and they couldn't be bothered to empty it weekly. There isnt a can in several blocks now and lots of trash.

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5th and M NW

This is the most absurd take I’ve seen in awhile.