BRUNETE, Spain —
In the worldwide battle to get dog owners to clean up after their pets, enter Brunete, a middle-class suburb of Madrid fed up with dirty parks and sidewalks.
Some cities hand out steep fines. But in these tough economic times, the mayor here, Borja Gutiérrez, did not much like that idea. Instead, this town engaged a small army of volunteers to bag it, box it and send it back to its owners.
“It’s your dog, it’s your dog poop,” Mr. Gutiérrez said. “We are just returning it to you.”
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Paid for by taxes, of course.
If not the volunteers, then the bags.
It's really funny, except for the misuse of the dog license registry. ;-)
I've linked to a video of the "direct marketing" campaign.
@Synova...
I think you are right. They should've come up with some other way of finding out the owners address which didn't involve the use of the license.
Maybe the privacy laws in Spain are not as stringent as they are here.
For two weeks, no one complained, the mayor said. But then he got a few calls. Some people who had been sent the boxes said that City Hall had gone out of its way to humiliate them.
The mayor said that pretty much everyone in town knew who had gotten a box. He himself could not resist a peek at the list.
I never found out who the top "dirty dozen" where.
Maybe I shouldn't have unearth that up.
Now why couldn't we do this to whoever owned those unleashed Occupy poopers. At least a dog looks embarrassed when he's doing it.
Score Update : Sox 7, Astros 5 top of the nigh.
Drew hit a three run homerun in the ninth, to put the Sox on top.
I know every good fan worth his salt? says I have a good feeling this year.
I consider myself an average fan. I recent past I would not have stayed up to watch, if the Sox were loosing in the ninth.
This season, I'm watching almost every game until the end. Wins and loses.
It helps we have the second best record in the majors.
Dog poop became a public problem in 70s.
Before that it was a complaint limited to sociopath neighbors.
Score Update : Sox 7, Astros 5 top of the nigh.
It was that close against the Astros? The Sox's let the Astros take game 1? The Sox's gave a 5 run lead to the Astros in game 2? This is the Astros!
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