And now Austria wants to use DNA to catch dog's that poop in public places. If dogs must be allowed in public places, then their owners should certainly keep them leashed and pick up their poop. Although using DNA to catch spitters seems excessive, I'm all for catching dog poopers using whatever technology is necessary, including UAVs and undercover spies dressed like trees.
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Wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to just have somebody pick up the poop and dispose of it than to pick up the poop, run DNA tests on it, get DNA samples of every dog including all the strays, look for matches, and track down the owners? We are, after all, talking about taxpayer money here. I don't like dog poop and I growl every time I have to tell my kids not to step in the steaming pile next to the "No Dogs" sign at the park, but this solution to the problem seems to violate the KISS principle.
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WH is correct. Instead of hiring a $8-12 dollar an hour cleanup crew for trash in general, we now have forensic experts, DNA tests, Labs, technicians, enforcement, and most likely court costs such as lawyers fighting tickets. I didn't even mention the cost for running a dog DNA Database and matching software plus maintenance and setup fees. We are talking OBSCENE amounts of money because someone doesn't like dog poop. Best bet is to get rid of the politician who sponsered that bill. What retards! And to think, they want to do similar schemes here in the US!
WH: Yeah, but all that cost can be passed on to the dog owner, and doubled!
Oh yeah, Michael? Suppose we do this and a few dog owners get slapped with million-dollar fines. What do you think they're going to do? If they don't have the money, how will we make them pay? And when million-dollar fines are so effective that no dog owner dares leave poop around, who's going to pay for the cost of maintaining the database and all the testing of the poop of stray dogs? It just doesn't make sense.
WH: A million dollars seems a bit high. How about $100, or $300, akin to a traffic violation? If you get too many fines, we just confiscate your dog, as we would the car of a reckless driver. If, in the end, the system doesn't break even, so what? The point isn't to make a profit (as is done with traffic tickets, to my chagrin) but to rid ourselves of poop.