Austrians Urged to Count Dog Droppings

The Associated Press ^ | 14 Sept 2006 | Staff

[Kitten Festival]

VIENNA, Austria -- Organizers of a campaign trying to clear Vienna's streets of dog droppings urged residents Thursday to record how many turds they see in the space of five minutes and report the figure as part of an impromptu census.

The Vienna Dog-Dropping Initiative said it would compile the figures and present them to city officials on Monday as part of its stepped-up effort to pressure the Austrian capital to deal with the problem.

[Kitten Festival]

Why does anyone need to count dog droppings before calling in the Albanian street sweepers for a big job?

This is a question for Freud.

[kiriath_jearim]

"And though the turds were rather small...they had to count them all...Now they know how many turds it takes to fill the Albert Hall...I'd love to tu-u-u-u-rn you-u-u-u o-o-o-o-onnn!

[Kitten Festival]

I couldn't read that far, I was too flabbergasted. Those people are nuts! No wonder Ahnuld had to get out!

[gcruse]

I want to know what safeguards are in place to prevent the same turd being counted more than once.

Maybe each count should require initialing the poop.

Inflated threats lead to disproportionate responses, after all. Fido pooped, Siegmund duped.

[Kitten Festival]

And in the first paragraph no less!

[KJC1]

I found one!

[Ditter]

Good thinking. Maybe small paper flags could be made with toothpicks and colored paper, or how about if each poopcounter carried a can of spray paint and they gave each poop a spray, or they could draw a circle around the poop with colored chalk. (The ideas are just piling up in my head!)

I am really getting into this, does anyone have a mailing address so we could get our ideas to the right government office? ;9)

[gcruse]

" draw a circle around the poop with colored chalk."

I like that.

"(The ideas are just piling up in my head!)"

There's a pile of something in there, alright! ;)

[Ditter]

;9) Yes you guessed it, it's piling up in my yard too. LOL!


(Am I worthless or what, freeping the day away.)

[KarlInOhio]

You could probably count a lot more if you went inside city hall.

[ichabod1]

THey could just throw it away...

[arkady_renko]

Oooh...this sounds like fun. One turd. Two turds. Three turds....

[bikslick]

This is a big problem in France. The people do not curb their dog, nor do they clean up. The clean up is done by the street sweepers each morning.

In Lyon there are several motor cycles with a vacuum mounted on them. The driver vacuums up the poop.

[Sam Cree]

Sometimes Teutonic folks are just plain weird.

[Yaelle]

PLEASE don't make the Genevois do this. Geneva, Switzerland may have the most poupe du chien (LOL) per sidewalk square in the world.

[Ditter]

If they threw it away how could they prove that it was really there? The people who hate poop in the street would say they found 100 poops and the people who let their dogs poop in the street could say they found 2. The government wants a count don't they?

I KNOW! They could take a picture of it before they threw it away, then they could submit the pictures to the government for the count.

I knew I had what it takes to figure out this sticky problem! Or should I say this stinky problem! ;9) (I really have to get up and get some things done around here, I wish you people would stop encouraging me)

[abovethefray]

Austrians to count dog droppings...muslims angered!

[Pajama Blogger]

I guess they're tired of " Whiffin' Poop".

[SampleMan]

record how many turds they see in the space of five minutes and report the figure as part of an impromptu census.

For me it depends on whether I'm watching Network News or Fox. Just joking. I never watch Network News.