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

I am not sure I would condem the lady in question as clearly the rubbish was out for collection and the course of action had no real negative effect on the person responsible for the bin. Live and let live perhaps?

David 

David, Normally, that would be my stance, however, it DID have an effect on ME, I don't expect to be insulted on my own drive because someone else has made an error by being too lazy to take their dogs rubbish home with them or even bothering to see that the bin had been emptied!

She walks the dog past every day, what does she do when the bin is not out? Chuck it in someone's garden / hedge??

I amended it to give people an idea what the thread was discussing as so many people start a thread with exactly the same title.  

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Its called the principle of the thing.  I would not want my bin used for other people's rubbish, whether its outside on the pavement or not.  Your bin is not a Council bin.  Surely she would pass a Council bin (put on footpaths) on her way home.  Just bone idleness.  I would rather carry my pet's scoop home rather than use somebody's else's bin.  Would she let her dog pee on other people's property just because its grass and happens to be on her way somewhere with the dog?

I have not used other people’s dustbin myself but I have seen other dog walkers doing it while on my country walks with the dog. The girl was wrong IMO but I wouldn’t have confronted her, just been thankful she picked it up in the first place.

How ridiculous. How can a tied up bag of dog poo be any worse than the bags of rotting food waste that are legitimately discarded into black bins ?

As for getting all possessive over 'my bin', and stuff that is being discarded in any case ....

I would have no problem with the action at all. It's a bin, I don't rake around in it, the poop was bagged & binned. The fact it'd been bagged & binned would be good enough for me. My rubbish bins are not that precious to me. Picking up/bagging/binning poop is

 

I am not sure I would condem the lady in question as clearly the rubbish was out for collection and the course of action had no real negative effect on the person responsible for the bin. Live and let live perhaps?

David 

 

David, Normally, that would be my stance, however, it DID have an effect on ME, I don't expect to be insulted on my own drive because someone else has made an error by being too lazy to take their dogs rubbish home with them or even bothering to see that the bin had been emptied!

She walks the dog past every day, what does she do when the bin is not out? Chuck it in someone's garden / hedge??

Yertis

Sorry I didn't mean to imply that she was right to verbally abuse you. Obviously she should accept your request not to use your bin as you had taken the trouble to mention it. On the otherhand I can't see it as being a major problem if the rubbish was out for collection. Different matter had she walked into a garden and put it in a bin not being collected for several days.

David

How ridiculous. How can a tied up bag of dog poo be any worse than the bags of rotting food waste that are legitimately discarded into black bins ?

As for getting all possessive over 'my bin', and stuff that is being discarded in any case ....

Hardly ridiculous Richard, it's the principle and the insults that are ridiculous. Obviously, you have different standards to me.

If everyone took your stance then we could just have a communal bin in the centre of the street!

Hope I meet you onsite sometime as I may need use of your waste bin 

I would suggest that it was your initial approach that provoked the 'insults', not that this excuses them. But a rubbish bin is for putting rubbish in, and is not as if you had put a rubbish skip out in your driveway and awoke to find it full of your neighbours rubbish.

I remember that 'One Foot in the Grave' sketch very well ...

How ridiculous. How can a tied up bag of dog poo be any worse than the bags of rotting food waste that are legitimately discarded into black bins ?

As for getting all possessive over 'my bin', and stuff that is being discarded in any case ....

What a sensible response, +1

As for any insults that's a different matter, uncalled for but probably an escalation.