Poodunnit: dear fellow dog owners, why do so many of you bother to bag pet mess then not bin it? | Paul Daley

A woman in front of me who I’d not previously seen in the ’hood had her labradoodle on a lead.

She was bagging the poo her dog had just laid on the nature strip in a blue plastic bag.

Because her back was to me she had not seen me when she tied the bag up and promptly tossed it over the low front fence on to the middle of the front lawn of the house she'd halted in front.

I suspect I was open-mouthed, dumbstruck. I did nothing, kind of shocked at what I'd witnessed and pondering the harm the woman’s act might have caused the reputation of neighbourhood four-.

This I find more deeply weird for all of its implications of premeditation and bold defiance of societal expectation, than just leaving the dog’s shit where it was deposited alfresco. Is it, I wonder, some sort of anarchic anti-authoritarian message of protest? Or might I be overthinking this?.