Dear Sir:

[conuly]

If you aren't committed to teaching your child honesty, you might at least commit to teaching him how to lie well. You and I both know that if you had seen me, or anybody else, leaving dog poop in front of your home you would've said something at the time. On that note, I understand that your wits are clearly a bit scattered from the stress or you probably would've had the sense not to harass somebody who is currently holding a bag of poop and thus NOT the culprit, but you still should've expected that the obvious rejoinder from an innocent woman to "I have video evidence" would be "Yeah? Show me!" and had a back-up plan. Your kid is right there. If you don't intend to teach honesty, and you don't intend to teach good lying, what are you going for here, showing your child to throw tantrums in the street?

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[brokenallbroken]

Took me a couple sentences to realize you weren't subtweeting the Trumpsterfire.

[conuly]

Hah. No, this was a personal dipshit.

Having failed on "I saw you with my own eyes" and then "I have video" he also tried "and so do my neighbors". I ought to have asked when those neighbors would be home so I could get to the root of this slander.

Like, I'm usually pretty good about picking up their poop to begin with, but in his case he's got all these signs up, so I'm extra super duper diligent. (Though I think he'd get better results if he put up a bag dispenser with bags.)

[brokenallbroken]

It's like his brain went straight from dog -> poop on the lawn without stopping to compute what happened immediately after.

[conuly]

The dog hadn't even pooped in front of his house! The poop happened half a block down, I was just carrying the bag until we reached a garbage can.

[delight]

This is like the guy who constantly accuses my HUGE dog of being the source of the TINY poops in front of his building (my dog's intestines could not possibly produce something that small even when constipated) but worse.

[conuly]

SERIOUSLY.

[cellio]

Sounds like he needs a demo, up close and personal!

[gatheringrivers]

I'm the kind of smartass who'd be reaaaaaally tempted to leave a "deposit" of my OWN on his lawn, just because he's a twerp.

....maybe I'm having one of those days...

[conuly]

I did have a little daydream, but I'm not gonna do that.

[greghousesgf]

there was no dog crap involved but my neighbor's rotten little kid once left a note on my doorstep saying he was going to "come and get" me if I didn't give him fifteen dollars. I showed it to his mom and she denied him sending it (even though he put his name and address on it) so I saw no point in arguing with her and just left the note with her. When his father came home that night I heard a lot of screaming and he left me alone after that.

[silveradept]

That seems remarkably like someone who wanted to lash out at someone and thought you would be an acceptable target.

[conuly]

Ya think?

And I get that having people let their dogs poop in front of your house is annoying, but you know what? It happens to all of us, but we don't all scream at any hapless dogwalker to cross our path.

[silveradept]

Indeed. And the responsible owners pick up after their dogs and try to train them to relieve themselves somewhere that won't be someone's yard. Where possible, anyway.

[cloudsinvenice]

I wonder constantly about this when I see parents giving their kids unfortunate examples - both how long it takes for them to reap the whirlwind, and whether it has any impact on how they raise subsequent kids...

[conuly]

I wonder how this man acts in his home. I get that dog poop is annoying and frustrating, but I hadn't even stopped in front of his house. I just was walking by, with the dogs on leashes and a bag of poop in my hand.