Earlier this week we had a flyer taped to our front door by a neighbor neither of us really knows. Apparently this person canvassed the whole subdivision with the notices that were captioned by a large "$50 Reward" headline.
What is the reward for, you ask? Information leading to the identification of a dog owner.
The full-page flyer includes a grainy black-and-white photo of the dog suspected of decorating this person's yard, and an excerpt from a city ordinance proclaiming the illegality of allowing your dogs to crap on someone else's lawn.
This neighbor says that he has "tried everything" to keep the dogs off his yard (except the old fashion .22, I suppose), and it "was the last straw!" when he and his son found new deposits in his grass TWICE this week.
He leaves his name and phone number and promises to anonymously reward the person who tells him the owner of the dog(s) he describes.
Who knew that in these trying economic times, such a problem could be so consuming, that you would not only offer a fair amount of money to entice a snitch, but also spend the significant time it must have taken to distribute the flyers all around Hawks Landing?
I could definitely use the $50, but even if I did know the identity of the scandalous dog owner, I think it would be much more fun to keep the information to myself and see if this neighbor takes even more drastic measures to squash out such an apparently outrageous problem.
