The dog owner fined £100 for daring to venture out the house without a plastic bag

A dog owner was fined £100 for walking his Welsh Springer Spaniel without a litter bag.

Paula said she was stopped by a council officer in Northampton city center ‘for a poop that my dog ​​didn’t make’.

Paula said she was fined for forgetting to bring a plastic bag, even though she said her dog didn’t foul out on the sidewalk.

“He was already out for work that day and it was a very short walk through the city centre, so I knew he wasn’t going to do anything,” Paula said.

‘Unusually I didn’t have any in my pocket and so I couldn’t tell I had a poo bag with me. So what happened? ‘I was instantly fined £100 for a poo he didn’t do.’

He added that he knew it was a legal obligation to clean up dog mess, but there were no rules about carrying bags.

‘Honestly, I thought I would advise, scold, explain what the law is so I would know next time, but there was no movement,’ he said.

The surprising fine comes after a woman in Richmond, west London, was slapped with a £150 fine by council officers for dumping the remains of her coffee down the drain.

Paula, who did not want to share her surname, described the bailiff as ‘polite but very determined’ but felt he ‘was an easy target’.

A West Northamptonshire Council spokesman said: ‘It’s really important that if people walk their dogs in a Public Places Protection Order (PSPO) area they have the means to pick them up after them if they get foul in public.’

Established in 2014, PSPOs allow councils to set local rules to solve social problems.

A council spokesman said officers will issue fines to dog owners who do not have the means to clean under PSPO requirements.

Paula was one of hundreds of people who shared their stories through. Your Voice, Your BBC after a woman in west London was fined £150 for spilling coffee into a stream on the road.

Burcu Yeşilyurt, from Kew in west London, said she spilled a small portion of the drink from her reusable glass into the road canal because she did not want to spill it inside the bus.

But moments later, while standing at the bus stop near the Richmond station, she was ‘shocked’ to see three male law enforcement officers ‘chasing’ her down the street.

Officers fined him £150 under Section 33 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990; It is reduced to £100 if paid within 14 days.

Burcu Yesilyurt (pictured) was fined £150 by council officers for dumping the leftover coffee down the drain

Richmond-upon-Thames Council insisted its officers ‘acted professionally and objectively’ and were ‘right’ to impose the penalty.

The council later said it had rescinded the penalty and was ‘reviewing our advice on the disposal of liquids in public places’.

Also in west London, a woman said she was fined for fly tipping after an unopened envelope with her name on it was found in an alley near her home.

Victoria said she was ‘shaking’ and ‘burst into tears’ after receiving the council letter.

He responded to the council’s letter by saying he had never seen the envelope but still gave £400 to prevent the sum rising to £600.

However, after contacting the local councillor, he later had the fine canceled and refunded.

An Ealing Council spokesman said they followed the ‘usual process’ to place the packet on a fly tip containing the resident’s details.

But they added that the sentence was wrong and apologized to Ms Wells.

A man in Birmingham said he was fined £100 for dropping a strawberry stalk into a roadside drain during a bin strike in the city.

Kleo Papas, 58, who was on a business trip in Birmingham, said she was fined £100 for dropping a strawberry stalk into a roadside drain during a bin strike in the city.

Kleo Papas, 58, who was on a business trip, finished the strawberry and decided to throw it into the sewer when she couldn’t find a trash can.

A bailiff from the council then approached him and said he had ‘filmed it all’.

He believed that because it was organic matter, it would be okay to throw it down the drain, ‘if he had thought it meant garbage,’ he added. [he] I would just put that [his] pocket’.

Mr Papas appealed the fine but was unsuccessful and said he paid the £100 fine, which he felt was excessive.

A Birmingham City Council spokesman said: ‘We have found no record of Mr Papas receiving an FPN for destroying the strawberry stem.’