{"id":536,"date":"2007-10-04T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=536"},"modified":"2009-10-31T17:19:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T17:19:58","slug":"dog-fouling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"Dog Fouling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/1463354116\/in\/set-72157601923000276\/\" target=_blank title=\"Dog Fouling\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1144\/1463354116_add9bca6f8.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=Indent>One of the interesting things about being in another country is the signage.  Amongst the odd street signs (yield signs are apparently painted upon the ground here as upside-down triangles, rather than being upon a post as they are in the US), we found this beauty.  It&#8217;s outside the park next to our building, and is absolutely fabulous.  In case you can&#8217;t read the fine print:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Allowing your dog to foul this place is an offence and may result in you being prosecuted and fined up to <b>\u00a3500<\/b> unless you immediately &#8220;<u><b>Lift it, Bag it and Bin it<\/b>.<\/u>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not that anybody actually pays attention to the sign, mind you, except to encourage their dogs to foul the sidewalk around our building rather than the park.  I&#8217;d imagine that the threat of that fine is an awfully good incentive &#8211; as, in US Dollars, it works out to $1,020.  That&#8217;s an awfully big incentive.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent><i>&#8211; D &#038; T<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/80x15.png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>This work is licensed under a<br \/>\n<a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the interesting things about being in another country is the signage. Amongst the odd street signs (yield signs are apparently painted upon the ground here as upside-down triangles, rather than being upon a post as they are in the US), we found this beauty. It&#8217;s outside the park next to our building, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}