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Post by pcpa on Feb 14, 2023 14:27:56 GMT 1
According to an article which is only accessible to subscribers the answer is yes!
Below are a couple of extracts:
Le maire de cette commune du sud de la Somme a pris un arrêté le 8 février 2023 imposant aux personnes accompagnées d’un chien d’être en possession de deux sacs de ramassage de crotte de chien. Ceux qui ne respectent pas cette loi seront réprimandés d’une contravention de 2e classe.
le maire a décidé de prendre un arrêté. Lors des balades quotidiennes, les maîtres devront obligatoirement se munir de deux sacs à déjections canines. Les gendarmes et le garde particulier de la commune peuvent verbaliser ceux qui ne respectent pas cette règle.
Ces derniers s’exposent à une amende de 35 euros, pouvant aller jusqu’à 750 euros. « Je ne ferai pas de cadeaux. Si on doit arriver à cette somme, je ne m’y opposerai pas. »
Can a Maire really be judge, jury and executioner? Or is it already law that you have to carry poop sacks with you when dog walking?
As someone who took to vigilante action for the same reasons I can see that he has his work cut out:
Il a essayé de faire de la prévention et d’aller à la rencontre de certains maîtres avant d’en arriver à cet arrêté. Mais rien n’y fait. « J’ai été obligé d’en arriver là ! On m’a insulté, fait des doigts d’honneur. Il n’y a même plus de respect pour le maire ! »
La preuve sous nos yeux avec cet habitant dont les chiens venaient de faire leur besoin devant la mairie, et qui a commenté : « J’en ai rien à faire, je me torcherai le derrière avec votre contravention »
Torcher le derrière -That is my phrase learned for today!
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Post by gigi on Feb 14, 2023 14:45:14 GMT 1
i hate dog mess hugely; there’s a lot of it in the small town in the aGard we live in part-time, although it has improved a little in the 15 years we’ve owned our apartment there.
Nasty, anti-social people are around, unfortunately. I feel sorry for the maire, trying his best to make the area more pleasant for everyone.
Maybe the maire needs a few more decrees up his sleeve to apply to people such as the one who would ‘torcher le derrière’ with the ticket.
Maybe his dog’s contributions could be collected and returned to him via his letterbox - all nicely placed in clean poop bags, of course - wouldn’t want to make his house as unpleasant as the areas his dog makes deposits in.
Actually, could his dog’s deposits not be classed as litter and fine him? It would take time, and therefore money, but persistence can work well.
A pity stocks went out of use!
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Post by suein56 on Feb 14, 2023 16:08:20 GMT 1
According to an article which is only accessible to subscribers the answer is yes!
Torcher le derrière -That is my phrase learned for today!
Yep .. I hadn't heard that before so had to look it up. |
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Post by Loiseau on Feb 14, 2023 16:27:11 GMT 1
I had no trouble guessing the meaning!
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Post by pcpa on Feb 14, 2023 17:58:26 GMT 1
Me neither, I didn't look it up but am fairly sure I did not take the wrong meaning, I will be traumatised now whenever anyone offers me a Torchon to dry my hands!  Maybe his dog’s contributions could be collected and returned to him via his letterbox - all nicely placed in clean poop bags, of course - wouldn’t want to make his house as unpleasant as the areas his dog makes deposits in. That is quite close to what I did to a neighbour when I returned after a prolonged absence, they were doing to me what the guy did to the Maire, I collected it with a Pooperscooper and returned it to their doormat. When they moved out the womans boyfriend laid a cable in my box trailer or maybe they lifted a very big dog in their to do his business, people like that in small upper floor appartments always buy puppies that are going to grow into hulking brutes, but I think the crotte was human. |
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Post by houpla on Feb 14, 2023 21:12:35 GMT 1
Well chapeau to the Maire! AFAIK they do have quite comprehensive powers, and can apply to the Préfet for further powers in exceptional circumstances.
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Post by Nifty on Feb 14, 2023 21:34:07 GMT 1
‘A pity stocks went out of use! ,
Definitely.
They should bring back burning at the stake while they are at it.
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Post by houpla on Feb 14, 2023 21:41:39 GMT 1
Owners or pooches, or both?  |
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Post by annabellespapa on Feb 15, 2023 8:52:38 GMT 1
In Brittany, we are the only ones who walk with our dog in a commune of 30+ houses and probably 30+ dogs, they even let their dogs out to poop in and around the neighbourhood. Why have a dog ?
In our village in Worcestershire, we have recently had 45 new executive/aspirational type houses built. All appear to have two 4x4 per house and a least one dog. There are now full poop bags everywhere around the fields and local dog walks, why do they go to the effort of bagging it and then hang it in a tree or fling it under a hedge, surely it is easier and kinder to the envirement to flick it with a stick into the hedge or cover it with long grass. Yesterday I counted 5 full poop bags on a 25 minute walk.
Whilst living in France 10 years ago our French neighbour could not believe it when we picked up after our dog. Her expression was- You don't pick up the sh!t otherwise the dog thinks he is in charge.
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Post by Nifty on Feb 15, 2023 9:33:20 GMT 1
Owners or pooches, or both? A punishment that should be reserved specifically for bent bankers and so called politicians. |
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Post by woolybanana on Feb 15, 2023 14:43:35 GMT 1
Maires can have considerable powers up to declaring a state of emergency and even calling out the riot squad though I doubt the préfet would be best pleased. One of his roles is to oversee mayors administration of their communes and to ensure they apply the law of the land.
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Post by annabellespapa on Feb 15, 2023 17:52:35 GMT 1
A few years back our local village flooded on the spring tide and a lot of rainfall, the sluice gates were open and should of been ok, however a town nearer the coast had shut their sluice gate and all the water came back, flooding the village. The next day wearing waders the Mayor visited all the affected homes and businesses and handed over emergency cheques to get people up and running asap and sort the actuals for the insurance later. Brilliant service, I wish we could have that kind of service in the UK.
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Post by houpla on Feb 16, 2023 9:09:57 GMT 1
It was a surprise to discover just how hard most Maires in France work. The sole contribution of our erstwhile Mayor in UK was to don his chain and stuff himself silly at functions at the taxpayer's expense. Our lovely Maire is getting where he's aiming for. He was at Matignon yesterday, hob-nobbing with Mme Borne Probably mentally sizing up the wallpaper and new carpet requirements for when he moves in |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2023 12:30:28 GMT 1
Our Maire was fantastic he didn't have the power to move a 40kph sign 100 metres to include our house. However, he told us to make a couple of temporary signs saying "children playing" to put out when we had children visiting and that he would tell everyone around to obey them! When we left a young farmer friend of ours asked if he could have them. He actually put them up permanently on farm buildings.
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Post by pcpa on Feb 16, 2023 13:14:42 GMT 1
He would tell everyone around to play like children?
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