ToughDiamond wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
ToughDiamond wrote:
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They were doing exactly that in one UK city at one time.
Doing the Lord's work.

Well, a chap might be forgiven for thinking that some British city councils think they're God. As well as DNA testing dog muck, one of them put up "bin cams" to catch people who weren't sticking to the recycling rules. It was a long time ago and it didn't catch on:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... -recyclingMeanwhile in rural Arkansas, I've never known anybody to recycle anything. Where I live there's just a communal skip. The landlord has a rule limiting each household to one bag of trash per week, but they rather stupidly forgot to specify the size of the bag. And some tenants put unwanted furniture in the skip. The rule is unenforcible and it shows.
And imagine my surprise on coming back to the UK after several months in the US to find a personally-addressed council letter for me, insinuating I'd broken the recycling rules and reminding me of heavy penalties for any future misdemeanours. There were also several letters from the BBC threatening to drag me through the courts for watching live television while I wasn't there. It's amazing the crimes you can commit in a place where you don't exist.
Personally, I view people who just leave dogshit laying around as a threat to the environment, as well as public health. Holding them accountable is the only way to disincentivize dog owners externalizing the cost of dealing with their dog's s**t.
It sounds like your landleech needs a camera to catch the people who are breaking the rules, and the ability to follow through with punishments for folks who insist on doing so. I guess that makes me pro-bin cam.
I've heard the UK takes TV taxes pretty seriously, but I guess that's why the BBC is so much better funded than CBC or PBS.
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