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
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.
It is not a paid service in Naugatuck. It’s a municipal service. That’s the case in most of Connecticut.
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.
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.
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.
I always feel like a douche when I do this, but sometimes I’m in a bind. Soz bro.
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 🤷
If he asked nicely first, he’s not in the wrong. Post vids, sounds hilarious.
Even dog shit in a trash can is super polarizing. This was the first comment I saw even mentioning asking the person nicely to stop first. Like maybe put up a sign saying ‘No dog poop please’ before making a threat or a thing meant to bother the dog.
Oftentimes, these kinds of people don’t bother to check if the bins have already been picked up or not, so you get a bin that smells like dog shit for the next week.
Your friend sounds very creative, I’d personally go for gluing a piece of velcro to the inside lip of the handle with razor blades on it. Of course, I’m also not an engineer, just somebody whose grandfather was friends with the #2 Hell’s Angel for a state who would ask if he wanted him to “take care of” problems like that. The old razor blades and broken glass in the root ball trick worked wonders when somebody was repeatedly stealing the shrubs out of my grandfather’s pots.
Maybe try asking them nicely first, or putting up a sign that doesn’t have a threat in it? Like, I get it, someone slighted you so you got to make them think twice before crossing you again, but going straight to building a trap with razor blades is a bit extreme and will probably land you before a judge.
razor blades
That’s just asking for a lawsuit in many states.
The dogwhistle… not so much.
Ya. Also asking to hurt innocent people in somewhat unusual situations.
Neighbor noticed your can blew over or the garbage truck spilled some of your trash setting your can back down…
… or a moltov
I surely don’t know what you mean. They’re to keep the raccoons out! That’s why they’re on a piece of velcro, so they’re removable!
Sarcasm aside, absolutely. Even if you wouldn’t get in trouble for people hurting themselves by going into your bins, you could probably get in trouble for messing with town property or something. It’s just the kind of thing I immediately think of after growing up with stories of “Let me take care of that for you” about a guy who’s probably doing 30 to life for prostitution and selling heroin/whatever else the Hell’s Angels get up to.
This has “I chose to buy or rent in a high foot traffic area and am now mad at the side effects of living in a high foot traffic area” energy. I am on a street corner by a dog park. I picked this spot because I want to be near the dog park. I also drop a $.10 paint tray liner in the bottom of my trash can every week. Over ten years that’ll add up to roughly $50. How much is he spending on his dumb ass contraption.
I also sort my recycling for the homeless guy so he doesn’t whip my trash into my yard anymore when digging for cans.
Adjust to your surroundings or pick somewhere different to live. You aren’t going to change other people.
Sounds like a terroristic threat to me.
If someone did this in my neighborhood, every single dog walker in the area would go out of their way to deposit 100% of their poop babies (autocorrect but I’m leaving it) in this trash can only. If I was still in Texas, we’d open carry while doing it!
Seriously people. No one should tolerate elder abuse.
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.
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.
Speaking as someone with no skin in the game (I have no pets and I’ve never had weeks old bags of dog poop in my bin), does any dog poop keep the racoons away from your bins?
I also don’t have racoons getting into my trash (I do not overfill my trash bin and it is always left closed) but I do see their little paw prints appear on my trash can sometimes.
Idk I’d rather a passerby toss their poop or other trash in my can rather than throw it on the ground. Hell if you’re really desperate and can’t afford trash service I’d even tolerate a bag. But don’t be filling up my can.
I used to like in a neighborhood where one lady would randomly throw her trash bags in someone’s yard or behind my fence. City wouldn’t do shit about her. I didn’t like any of it and never did figure out where she lived but I was at that point of just telling her to put it in the fucking can because at least I wouldn’t have to pick it up after the raccoons got into it and scattered it in the grass behind the fence.
Must be a posh nimby, don’t know why anyone would willing carry dogshit around with them, especially if there’s no public bins available, just don’t use the same one every time.
I wish my problems were so fucking pathetic.
sounds fair
Let’s take the most biodegradable substance on earth and wrap it in eternal plastic
Is anyone still using non-degrading bags? They’ve been around for a long time at this point.
In my experience people just reuse their grocery bags
sweet sweet suh-suh-suh-sweet can
Old Lady should turn that period into a comma next time she’s putting poop in the bin. Or maybe just put white-out on it.
