Police at my house
So I’ll tell you the end of the story first to make it interesting. The police showed up at my house.
Now I’ll start at the beginning. We were out for a walk with Melissa’s parents and their dog. Normally when we go walking, Melissa’s mom keeps a Ziploc bag and a paper towel, in case the dog poops on someone’s yard. Of course tonight, she forgot. We walked about 2 streets down, and came upon a corner lot. The dog left a little pile of poop, and we couldn’t clean it up at that time. Se we kept walking down the street. After a few minutes, the homeowner pulled up beside us in his Trail Blazer. He started complaining about it, and said he was going to follow us home. We kept walking down the street, and realized that he was completely serious. He followed behind us in his car, not knowing that we were actually walking away from our house. We decided to talk to him to see what we could do to remedy the situation. When I asked, he started telling us that anytime you walk with a dog, you should have something to clean it up. He said that lots of dogs like to crap on his property. I asked him again what we had to do to make things right. He insisted that we immediately return to the property and clean it up. We explained that we needed to get something from the house so that we could get it. We offered to let him drive us home to pick something up. He then asked for our address so that he could call the police. I wouldn’t normally give someone like this our address, but I thought it would be a good idea to have some police intervention. He then drove away.
On the way home, we found a piece of paper, so we went by his house, and picked it up. We kept the evidence available in case someone did show up. Of course, in about 10 minutes, a cop showed up. We explained the entire situation, just as I have here. He said that was fine, because the home owner was under the impression we never cleaned it up. He just told us that we could get a citation if it happened again. I asked him if everyone in the group would get a citation, and he said only the dog owner would. We don’t even own a dog! That was the strangest part of the whole situation. The angry home owner was mad at us, yet it wasn’t our dog!
So to add more irony to the situation, we live on a corner lot just like he does. I could really care less if a dog poops on our lawn; I usually just rake it in, or use it to fertilize a tree. It is pretty scary when you meet people that eccentric about something.
I hate dogs shitting in my lawn I wish you and all of your dog gang were arrested. I am sure that justice will provail in future encounters with caring citizens like your neighbor.
Signed,
The Crapper
I don’t overly like it when I find dog crap in my yard and having 4 mailboxes in my yard does attract some of it, however, I don’t think that calling the police is quite the right answer. It can be if he knew you were some repeat offender but think of the time and money he wasted both for himself and for the police and how many times he could have picked up the dog crap himself for the same. Just makes you wonder if it really is worth it and like Jason said, crap is good fertilizier.