Dog-fouling detectives go undercover UK In the UK, dog cr*p is a big problem; well, it's a big problem everywhere else too. "Undercover surveillance could be used to crack down on dog-fouling in Copeland. The council's enforcement team have announced they are prepared to use "all action necessary" to stamp out on the nuisance." [does 'necessary' mean more violent means are possible: could we have a poop war?]

The dog poop problem is taken more seriously in the UK than in the good old USA. No... we Americans don't seem to care if our dog poops on the sidewalk, on yards, in the park, on the street, on jogging pathways. The fine for your dog pooping in Montgomery County, MD, is the same as the fine for killing someone's dog: $100. Now, either that means we don't care about our dogs or we really care about dog poop: I think it means we don't give a cr*p about our dogs; somebody needs to update that law. It's obvious nobody cares about the dog cr*p law here: I've given up on handing people baggies for their dog (I carry extra baggies, because our dog is a two pound cr*pper and I need two bags to clean it up.). They always look at me like I'm nuts and say: "it isn't that much" and "no way" am I picking it up.