Sounds lovely 😏

At least it isn't thrown into the woods. There are lots of colorful bags of dog poop in the woods behind my apartment, slightly torn open from getting stuck in branches. I don't like seeing poop hanging from the trees, so in the winter I go out there with latex gloves and collect them all up.

It's sometimes a challenge to dis-entangle the bags caught in thorns without tearing them open. Since some have been hanging out there for weeks, the poop is rancid so if they tear open it smells really bad.

Yeah... their dog...

https://old.reddit.com/r/ColumbiaMD/comments/111bvj8/alright_which_one_of_you_did_this_to_my_neighbor/

I am not excusing, because it would drive me batty. But in our old neighborhood (not Columbia) our nightly dog walk routine involved passing a poop station, walking down to the water, the turning around and coming back. If my dog pooped once we passed the poop station, my husband would set the bag on the ground/curb to wait for his return. He did always grab it on the way back up.

I have one of those doggie poop stations near my house that I frequently walk by. You’d be surprised how often I see piles of shit literally right next to the trashcan where there are always free plastic bags stocked up in the dispenser. It’s ridiculous, some people around here just suck. It’s a losing battle

For real? It's disgusting, and I am a dog owner. It takes literally seconds to clean up and if you do it right, you won't get any poop on your hand when you clean up.

My neighborhood has two dispensers with free poop bags and a dedicated poop bag trash can. People still leave their dog's poop on the ground, and they can't even use the forgotten poop bags excuse. People just suck.

You know what I can’t understand? The idiots who put their dog shit in a bag but just leaves the bag on the ground.

As a NYer, I never give money to anyone in the streets/sidewalks/ traffic lights or whatever. I always just assume it's a scam. If people are trusting / want to give others their money, they have a right to.

Once or twice if they ran out of bags or something and they come back, I get it. But yeah, constantly leaving them is just wrong. I lived in the city for a while and in the building I was at people started letting their dogs shit literally in the hallways and not cleaning it up. It was so disgusting and I ultimately learned and decided it’s a respect thing. People who don’t understand it or are selfish and only care about themselves can’t comprehend that it’s a moral and respectful thing to clean up after themselves

We have a hunch who it is here. There’s one owner who has no control over the dog and lets the dog go on everyone’s front lawns instead of curbing it and it really made my dog territorial so now they’re sworn enemies. One day we saw on our camera the dog got off the leash and ran up to our house and jumped all over the windows and into our flower beds and damaged the shutters and plants. The owner also broke a lantern on our walkway trying to control the dog. Once she got control they just walked away without saying anything to the camera or cleaning the broken items and debris up. Just left it all there. So messed up

There's a big dog leaving massive turds in my neighborhood & I haven't been able to pinpoint who it is. It's super frustrating, and must be a huge dog judging by the size of them. I'll never understand why people think it's ok to leave poop especially when it's such a large quantity.

That's shitty.

Trail Cameras.

I bought one some years ago for a similar issue. They're way more advanced now with wifi and bluetooth, but you don't need all that tech. They're easy to hide in a tree, just make sure it's on your property or someone you have permission from.

I live in River Hill, and I do think that community at least is more segregated than others. It has far fewer apartments/condos/townhomes than other communities, and the ones they do have are expensive. While it is diverse in a way, it has relatively few Black households. The last village newsletter I got led with a clearly NIMBY article, backed by all the River Hill leaders, fear-mongering that Howard County’s plans might cause more density or more people to move in (and making what seemed like a bunch of false assertions to support their position). To me, all of this is the opposite of what Jim Rouse wanted… vibrant communities that mixed rich and poor, black and white, apartments and SFHs. Unfortunately once in place, people start prioritizing keeping home values up by keeping other people and new construction out. Made me think, if all the River Hill leaders really want is to live in Clarksville, why didn’t they just move there and save the HOA fees?

We don't know who it is. No one's doorbell cameras are positioned to see the area. Hoping someone eventually sees them in the act and asks them to stop.

Here's your solution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9GsispJr74

'Islands' are County property. Let them know who it is anonymously on Tell HoCo.

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Thank you. Owen Brown is a great example of trashy people bringing down a place that was supposed to be a "utopia." Columbia is just another place where working class meets entitled class anymore.

Someone from another street recently decided the center island in my court was their dog's designated poop spot and they don't have to clean it up. So obnoxious.

Me

I can think of a few neighbors that desperately need this

Is it the same guy that was at giant in forest hill/ bel air? White violin? Gave that mf ten bucks lol dammit.

I've seen him at various lots, and he appears to get tips way faster than the people who aren't able to afford a sound system.