South Hill bluff vandal makes Doo Crew do double doo-tee
TRAILS -- It's bad enough that a small group of people -- they call themselves the Doo Crew -- must step up to deal with the proliferation of dog poop along the South Hill bluff trails.
But now these volunteers have to deal with the chicken sh... excuse me, the chicken pooper who's ripping down their dog-poo bags and disposal buckets and throwing them down the bluff.
Certainly there's room for debate on how to handle the problem of people enjoying the trails without taking the responsibility of picking up after their dogs. If you have a concern, or if you want to help deal with the problem, contact the Crew directly by email: Dogdooduty@yahoo.com
Indeed, the women who've stepped up to address the problem don't relish putting out bags and emptying the several collection buckets they've put out along the High Drive portion of the trails.
As my story pointed out in May, they want to clean up the place while raising awareness with the hope that users soon will doo the job themselves. And as everyone can see and smell, it's been working. As one Doo-Crewer told me, "The baby step was to have people pick it up themselves; the next step is to have them actually carry it home."
But someone who's not mature enough to step up and work out a solution is tearing down the bag holders and throwing the buckets and collected plastic doo bags down the hill. Brilliant!
Read on for the this week's report from a discouraged Doo Crewer:
"Went to the bluff this morning to do my doo duty and found that two of our buckets had been cut off of their rope and flung down the hill. The top bucket at the Manito Blvd trail head and the one that is on the straightaway below Manito (it used to be a yellow bucket) were missing. Diana found the lower one missing and collected the cut yellow rope. This most likely happened early last week as I only found one full doo bag in the trajectory of the buckets."This is the second time I have had to stumble down the steep slope in search of a missing bucket. I suspect it is the same person. I wish he/she would have a backbone and confront me about his/her objections! Needless to say, all the bags which Jenny but out at those stations are gone."I will replace the missing rope and bags."
