Dog Owners: Use Caution around 454 Prospect Place

The only things that gets people more exicted than a dog poop thread is a bike thread, or a babies in bars thread.

Maybe we should have the babies on bikes in bars being pulled by dogs who are currently pooping super thread? We might just break Brooklynian if not the internet. 

Because I predate the internet, I know that I would be fine without it.

However, I wonder if it could survive without me.

Anyone had any experience with fines for not cleaning up after dogs? Signs are posted all over the place (with a very wide range of fines listed), but I don't know if it is ever enforced. I never saw it happening, and I never heard of it happening. 

I grew up seeing these signs:

 

I have never heard of anyone getting fined.

When I was a kid in the 80s, the section of Carroll Street where the store Reclaimed Home is now used to be  booby trapped with dog poop. I used to have to dodge it when I was on my way to school. That street is much cleaner now. 

The dog poop is an issue in my complex too; some use grass patches as a de facto doggy run and they don't pooper scoop.

Maybe the "broken windows" approach should be directed towards failure to clean up after one's dog too.

I have no doubt that not picking up after your dog in an Impact Zone, in the view if a police officer would result in a ticket.

For better or worse, those zones are not everywhere.

Some people do get fined.

Here is a list of how many tickets have been issued for not picking up dog poop, by neighborhood:

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140819/fort-greene/map-new-york-citys-most-dog-poop-filled-neighborhoods