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The Dog Doo Days of DNA
Reader Chris Krok sends along one more reason to be suspicious of Germans:
DNA analysis is useful in solving crimes, determining parentage and making medical advances. Now, officials in Dresden have decided it can also help get rid of a nasty nuisance littering city sidewalks.
Dresden politicians have finally had enough. They're sick of the daily obstacle course on their city's sidewalks. Tired of searching in vain for a clean spot to picknick in the park.
They're ready to employ high-tech methods to crack down on a public plague -- doggy doo.
The advisory council for a Dresden city district received resounding support for a proposal to take saliva samples from all local dogs.
Modern DNA analysis techniques would then be used to locate the dogs responsible for the offending piles, so that their owners can be punished for neglecting to poop and scoop.
The district's proposal is not yet binding, however. For it to become law, the idea has to pass a vote in the city council.
Finally, a potential CSI spinoff that could star Scooby-Doo. Whole thing here.
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|3.28.05 @ 2:54PM|#
Now see, I always thought the removal of dog feces was paid for through the German dog tax.
|3.28.05 @ 2:56PM|#
I want the job of being the poo collector!! After the first 200 or so tickets, people would start cleaning up after their dogs and there would be nothing to do but walk in the park all day. WAIT!! Better still, I want the job of the guy whose dog is SUPPOSED to poo in the park, to make sure the poo collector is doing his job.
|3.28.05 @ 2:58PM|#
I betcha they didn't have this problem in East Germany prior to reunification!
|3.28.05 @ 3:05PM|#
To avoid Trademark violations, better call the TV show about identifying dog feses Scoopy-Doo
|3.28.05 @ 3:13PM|#
Just call it Scrappy-Doo. He is a little shit, is he not?
|3.28.05 @ 3:29PM|#
I think O.J. should lay a steamer over by the swingset just to confuse the hell out of them.
|3.28.05 @ 3:33PM|#
TomHynes wins the award for best post today!
Ron Hardin|3.28.05 @ 3:46PM|#
You could use it to nail bears that use our forests as toilets, too.
|3.28.05 @ 4:06PM|#
For all the other nonsense Bloomberg inflicts on us, why doesn't he do this? the only people with dogs in NYC are rich ladies or seriously crazy neighborhood locals
|3.28.05 @ 4:08PM|#
Here's another case for this technology!
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Student defecates in RA's dorm room
http://www.studlife.com/news/2005/03/25/News/Student.Defecates.In.Ras.Dorm.Room-902741.shtml
|3.28.05 @ 4:37PM|#
Will Kurt Vonnegut write about about it? :)
|3.28.05 @ 4:42PM|#
I betcha they didn't have this problem in East Germany prior to reunification!
No, they didn't have this problem. The problem they had, was that there were too many doggy-do inspector jobs to fill there. Their economy was actually running so smoothly, that they couldn't fill all their jobs! (Cited from E.German propaganda pamphlet c. 1967)
tomwright|3.28.05 @ 8:47PM|#
Great, the THIRD German Political 'movement'
FECEISM!
Tom
|3.28.05 @ 8:49PM|#
Lets not forget Scooby-Dumb, or was that Scooby-Dump?
|3.28.05 @ 9:09PM|#
Ruh-roh!
David|4.29.05 @ 6:52PM|#
What about digested food makes them think there will be DNA from the dog who dropped it?