Is it just me? - using my bin for their dog poo

Yertiz replied on 26/03/2016 09:41

Posted on 26/03/2016 09:41

I'm beginning to wonder if I am really becoming a grumpy old man and just wondered if it's just me?

We live on a corner of a busy road and have a lot of dog walkers taking their pets for walkies past out drive.

Yesterday, as I was looking out the window I spotted a young, 20ish female with her pooch at the top of the drive with a poop bag in hand, great, I thought a caring owner. The thing that rattled my cage was that she then promptly opened our Black Dustbin that was out for collection and deposited her dogs do-doos in our bin!!!

I went out to speak to her and asked her why she was using our bin, her reply was "it's a bin!"and I was being a nasty old man for questioning her right to do this.. They obviously live in the area as I have seen them pass every day but I was gob smacked by her comments.

We have been dog owners in the past but I would never have dreamed of using someone elses bin to put any droppings in. Still can't believe it really.

My question is, is it me getting old??

Pippah45 replied on 26/03/2016 10:48

Posted on 26/03/2016 10:48

I would tip over the bin - and retrieve and take to her garden!  Or soft option would be a dog bin.  Horrid to have it there for 2 weeks Yell I find it really scary these days that you can't tackle someone without getting a load of abuse - I never used to worry about it but people seem to be so angry these days. 

Cornersteady replied on 26/03/2016 10:49

Posted on 26/03/2016 10:49

Ah, now if the bin had been emptied that does change things. No, that was definitely wrong then.

yes, agree, now completely in the wrong and she should have noticed that when she opened the bin

Yeritz - you have been cleared of any grumpiness 

Yertiz replied on 26/03/2016 10:52

Posted on 26/03/2016 10:52

Ah, now if the bin had been emptied that does change things. No, that was definitely wrong then.

yes, agree, now completely in the wrong and she should have noticed that when she opened the bin

Yeritz - you have been cleared of any grumpiness 

Thank you for that. The thing that has really made me sad is her comment about me being a "nasty old man"

I'm still in my 20's in my head, I just appear to look like a 65 year old!!Winking

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Metheven replied on 26/03/2016 10:59

Posted on 26/03/2016 10:59

I think I would have taken umbrage, after all its my bin, my responsibility, just mine Undecided so far I'm grumpy. Then again she did pick it up and disposed of it Happy not grumpy. But the bin was empty and although collection was 2 weeks ahead, it is bagged Undecided Oh, I don't know, suppose it depends on how I feel on the day. Must admit to having done this in the past Innocent

Bugs replied on 26/03/2016 11:06

Posted on 26/03/2016 11:06

The family who live in a house not far from Bugs Towers occasionally put things in our bins if theirs are full. They never actually asked if they could, just started doing it. I don't mind as, with children, they generate more rubbish than we do.

I must admit though to feeling a bit prickly the day I saw them picking strawberries from the bushes beside the North Lawns.........

Bugs

IanH replied on 26/03/2016 11:10

Posted on 26/03/2016 11:10

You have strawberry bushes, Bugs?

I agree with the op......very wrong if the bin had been emptied.

huskydog replied on 26/03/2016 11:12

Posted on 26/03/2016 11:12

A twist to this , our wheelie bin is lent to us from the council so techniclly we do not own it ,so can we stop people putting rubbish in it on the day of emptying, the rest of the time it lives round the back of the house...............

moulesy replied on 26/03/2016 11:14

Posted on 26/03/2016 11:14

Ah, now if the bin had been emptied that does change things. No, that was definitely wrong then.

It was definatley wrong in the first place.

Yes, briang, now that we know the bin had already been emptied, it was definitely wrong. But are you saying I was in the wrong by doing what I did when the bin was still waiting for emptying? Don't see your point in that case.

moulesy replied on 26/03/2016 11:16

Posted on 26/03/2016 11:16

A twist to this , our wheelie bin is lent to us from the council so techniclly we do not own it ,so can we stop people putting rubbish in it on the day of emptying, the rest of the time it lives round the back of the house...............

Good point, HD. And what if it hadn't been a poo bag? If she'd just, very public spiritedly, picked up some litter left on the path and placed it in the bin?

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