By Louise Allingham For Daily Mail Australia
07:22 22 May 2023, updated 07:22 22 May 2023
- Neighbour pens angry message to dog owner
- The owner leaves their dog’s poo on a public lawn
A handwritten flyer accusing a pet owner of leaving their dog’s droppings on their front lawn taped has raised a few eyebrows.
The note was a warning to a mystery dog owner who had been leaving their pet’s faeces on the lawn outside a young family’s house causing them to trod through it and be late to school.
According to the poster, which was taped to a telephone pole, the saga escalated when someone smeared dog poo on the car of the person they wrongly thought was the culprit.
A resident of the Sydney suburb of Balmain spotted the message taped in the neighbourhood and shared it online leaving many wanting more details on the dog poo drama.
‘The person who left their dog’s poop on the grass in our street, not only is it extremely unpleasant for us to step in, it has also been causing us to be late to school because my kids have stepped in it two days in a row,’ the note read.
‘It seems your dog has been doing a poo in approximately the same location every night.’
The parent then slammed another neighbour who took to solving the issue of the unclaimed dog poo with their own version of vigilante justice.
‘To the person who put poo on my door handle of my car, please do not take such a low act just based on a false assumption that the culprit was my dogs,’ the end of the message read.
Balmain falls under the Inner West Council which fines pet owners for not properly disposing of their dog’s waste.
The crime carries a minimum on-the-spot fine of $275 and the penalty can reach $880 should the matter proceed to Local Court.
Passive-aggressive neighbourhood notes are becoming increasingly common in Australian neighbourhoods.
Previously, a furious resident received a surprisingly well-mannered response after writing a expletive-laden note telling his neighbour to keep the noise down at night.
The heated exchange between the Perth neighbours was shared to news satire site The Bell Tower Times 2.0, leaving viewers eye-rolling.
The disgruntled Mosman Park local penned an angry note to the noisy neighbour telling them to stop playing videos at loudly at night and taped it to a wall in the complex.
‘Just a tip. Don’t play your personal growth videos at max volume at night, you inconsiderate f*** wit,’ the notice read.
Despite the rude tone, the resident the message was addressed to wrote a polite response on the back of the page apologising for causing a disturbance and requesting the note-maker clean up their language.
‘Sincere apologies if my podcast bothered you. I’ll adjust the volume and placement of my speaker. It was not anywhere near max volume but appreciate the sound must travel and I’m sorry,’ they wrote.
‘I also have a tip that swearing at your neighbour isn’t very nice or considerate either. Simply bringing an issue to their attention is quite enough. Peace and love xoxo.’
People in the comments were impressed by the ‘restrained’ and reasonable response and joked the resident who wrote the mean message may need to listen to a ‘personal growth’ podcast them self.
‘I think the personal growth podcast needs to actually be turned to max volume… the neighbour obviously needs them more,’ one woman laughed.
‘The f*** wit call was a little blunt but I really appreciate the restrained yet rapidly simmering tension as a dynamic,’ responded another.
‘Yeah maybe just ask the guy nicely. That seems to work in most parts of the world,’ agreed a third.
‘Those podcasts must work, well handled,’ one man laughed and another said: ‘Someone got TOLD’.