On Friday the Council removed all the dog bins.  The idea was to save money by getting people to put their dog mess in the normal litter bins, thus enabling the council to cancel the contract for collecting waste from the dog bins.  Never mind what I might think of that as an idea, unfortunately somebody decided the savings had to be made IMMEDIATELY, before the end of the financial year.  So on Friday 27th March,  all the bins were removed.   But because they hadn’t told anybody what was happening, and didn’t put up any signs, nobody knew they could now use the normal bins – if there was a normal bin, that is, as in a lot of places apparently there isn’t one. 

 

So what happened?  Exactly what you would expect.  A lot of wooden posts which dog bins used to be attached to are now festooned with little plastic bags full of dog poo.  Delightful.  I wonder who is going to have to clear that lot up?

You couldn’t make it up.

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