7. Reader Cara Lorrimer is Fed Up with Poop
“I don’t know if you are aware of how much shit is all over the pavements on Highgate Road,” Cara wrote to us, perhaps a tad inelegantly (but let’s face it, we may as well call a spade a spade). “But it’s become a real problem! How can this area flourish if we don’t take care of it?”
So what has Cara done to tackle the problem? Made a sign, that’s what. “I just got so fed up with doing little dances around piles of poo in the street. My initial idea was to make signs on lolly pop sticks and stick them in the poo. After not wanting to touch the actual poo, I stuck a sign next to it which said – REALLY?! If you are incapable of cleaning your dog poo then you are incapable of having a dog for a pet.
“I stood watching people walk mindlessly along, texting, and daydreaming after a long day at work… the sign was not noticed. Some girls giggled at the crazy lady making sure the corners were stuck down properly. I counted 6 people in seconds doing the same dance I did minutes before, and realized my point.
So if you feel the same, get in touch. “I was just wondering if there were any other creative ways (which are not classified as vandalism) people in Kentish could think of to lessen the issue? Can we have some poo activists step forward?”
Just be careful to dodge the doggy-do.
Words: Conor Fisk and Stephen Emms
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24 thoughts on “Pinboard: Lucky Chip Kentish Town, plus Valentine’s Offers – and poop!”
The shite signs are great but a shame that they’re necessary. Walking from Gilden Crescent to Kentish Town west station everyday is a constant dogshit evading walk, it’s disgraceful.
The poo thing is getting worse 🙁
It’s a poo-ocalypse!
the new layout is nice – if a bit confusing… I couldn’t figure out why Dean was talking about dogshit when I was only seeing a story about lucky chip chicken…
Any tips for how us kentishtowners can help shebeen get their permanent late license? is there some sort of way to comment positively on the subject?
as far as the poop goes – maybe the traffic wardens should also be able to hand out tickets for illegal dog poop?! they sure are good at their jobs so if anyone is likely to be militant about it they are 🙂 I can see resorting to the signs but to be honest the sort of people who leave dog shit on the pavement are not the sort of people that will be shamed by signs I’d say.
Still can remember that odious Ben Denner refusing me some mayo for my chips at the Netil Market van (they had a huge pot in full view). ‘You can have it any way you want’ – well apparently not at Lucky Chips.
Does anyone know where in KT is the permanent locale for Lucky Chips?
The Grafton.
I mean after their temporary stay at the Grafton will they be taking up a shop front. I had heard Fortess Road.
As far as we know the residency is permanent. It’s the chicken that’s temporary…check out our review on the home page.
Cara, what a fantastic effort!
I live a road back from your signs and it is truly like running the Krypton Factor getting home in the evenings, trying to avoid the sh@t. If you’re successful there’s no prize, if however you’re not…
grrr its even worse in the dark… ill have to make glow in the dark signs too 🙂
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No pagination! It’s annoying, especially when I was reading this on my phone and had to click on the tiny page numbers. If you’re going to do it at least have a NEXT PAGE button.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/10/website_pagination_stories_should_load_into_a_single_page_every_time_.html
Next Page buttons will be ready tomorrow, but the Page numbers should now at least be larger and clearer. Thanks for the feedback.
Shebeen definitely needs a later licence, who would possibly oppose it? By the way is the Kentish Delight Wine Bar a real place??
We’ve only ever been in once, but we wish it was. What a fabulous name.
Can you please go back to the old format.. it takes too long to load up each page! Thank you.
From tomorrow you’ll still be able to view the Pinboard as a single page. Our tech guy is sorting it!
I live in Dartmouth Park and there’s a f***er with his big dopey dogs that he lets sh*t outside our house almost on a daily basis and I never get there in time to catch him. If I do I might be compelled to actually pick it up and throw it at him, I just cannot fathom how you can own a dog and not clean up it’s crap, it’s a part of responsible ownership. Sadly too many people are as thick as the stuff that comes out of their dogs behinds to care.
Not only is the dog poo disgusting, it also exposes our young kids to the risk of blindness by Toxicariasis (Angler’s Lane to Talacre playcentre from the high street is a particular hotspot).
Firstly, I’d like Camden Council (under a FOI request if necessary) to tell us exactly how many NW5 dog owners have been fined for dog mess, to see if they take this seriously (I doubt it).
Secondly, what about a ‘name and shame’ page on the Kentishtowner website where smartphone users can post pictures of irresponsible dog owners next to their ‘brown trophies’.
I have been on to Thomas Fenn at Camden Environment (thomas.fenn@camdn.gov.uk) and ward councillor Meric Apak (meric.apak@camden.gov.uk) for months on the issue, specifically where I live in the LEBOC area. We are blighted by dog poo as well as litter and fly-tipping and the responses I get are ‘we are working to educate people to be more responsible’, we have tangible examples of collaborative working between residents and council officers’. But daily I still walk past (sometimes through) dog poo when walking my kids to nursery and school.
I have asked them to come up with a way of increasing the frequency of cleans only to be told this week that ‘throwing resources at it will not resolve’. Surely we ask only that they manage OUR money more efficiently and with greater results by not just cleaning every road once a week – as confimed by Mr Fenn, but by analysing and redirecting resource from roads that do not suffer the same issue (there are many) to those that do.
I urge as many people as possible to contact Camden Environment and their ward councillor to get them to improve the way they spend our money on this issue. Phew, I need a lie down.
gratitude for your efforts 🙂
It has definitely got worse recently, the influx of french people turning the streets Parisian?
My sis signs are a wicked idea, glad someone’s actually making an effort and thinking about other people’s shoes!! We need to look after the pavements!
I visited the SeabrightArms Lucky Chip ‘residency’ twice, and my girlfriend did so three times. Painful waiting times, several menu items unavailable (inc fries!) and generally unimpressive. Walk down to Byron in Camden instead. They are deservedly doing much better – and im sure they wouldn’t run out of fries either.