Human feces on the streets

deep_dish

As disgusting as it is, this is not a Dublin-specific problem but a problem for cities with a large number of homeless people. There are many cities around the world that encounter this issue but I've lived in our city, between the canals, for the last 10 years and with the daily 5km walks I am seeing this a lot more regularly now than ever before.

Is there a number to call in DCC or an email address that deals with it? I'm aware it is a biohazard and cannot be easily removed but it needs to be removed nonetheless.

TheW1zard

Post a pic

Caranica

Oh it happens, I remember walking down Marlborough Street at lunchtime when a woman with her trousers around her ankles was openly defecating on the wall of the Department of Education. The school bell rang and she grabbed her jeans and stumbled off.

Glebee

Caranica wrote: »

Oh it happens, I remember walking down Marlborough Street at lunchtime when a woman with her trousers around her ankles was openly defecating on the wall of the Department of Education. The school bell rang and she grabbed her jeans and stumbled off.

A teacher:eek:

Caranica

Glebee wrote: »

A teacher:eek:

Clearly not a teacher, the bell was the end of the day for the junior classes, there are two schools on the campus of DES. At least the (presumed) addict had the "decency" to hide from the kids.

ShyMets

deep_dish wrote: »

As disgusting as it is, this is not a Dublin-specific problem but a problem for cities with a large number of homeless people. There are many cities around the world that encounter this issue but I've lived in our city, between the canals, for the last 10 years and with the daily 5km walks I am seeing this a lot more regularly now than ever before.

Is there a number to call in DCC or an email address that deals with it? I'm aware it is a biohazard and cannot be easily removed but it needs to be removed nonetheless.

I know. Its a really sh*t situation

howamidifferent

Bring some dog poo bags with you on your walks, problem solved.

Allinall

It's a crap situation.

maxsmum

I suspect this is a consequence of the usual spots being closed for public toilet use and exposes the reliance the city has had on coffee shops and pubs providing public toilet facilities for years! The only two I know of now are the pop up toilets in Jervis St and Stephen's Green, so not very handy unless you're on those streets.

TallGlass2

Monday Morning,

Heading into work at about half nine, cycling down Amien Street, look to my left down Preston Street, and some old lad, full on take taking a ****e.

Couldn't believe it, then again I realised that part of Amien Street any goes so it's not out of character for the area. Where else would you see open drug dealing within 10 metres of a Garda checkpoint.

Still gave me a good giggle.

annoyedgal

This post brought back the very unlovely memory of walking the prom in sandymount and seeing a woman stop her walk, drop her pants and take a dump by the rocks without a care in the world! Was about 4 in the evening and she actually turned her arse to the prom for all to see......

Pinch Flat

Junkies do it all the time. Saw a female junkie do in capel street a few years ago in broad day light like it was completely normal.

phonypony

Once saw a member of the community take one in a neighbour's garden after moving the contents of their skip into their van. To some it's just second nature, no shame.

Mimon

deep_dish wrote: »

As disgusting as it is, this is not a Dublin-specific problem but a problem for cities with a large number of homeless people. There are many cities around the world that encounter this issue but I've lived in our city, between the canals, for the last 10 years and with the daily 5km walks I am seeing this a lot more regularly now than ever before.

Is there a number to call in DCC or an email address that deals with it? I'm aware it is a biohazard and cannot be easily removed but it needs to be removed nonetheless.

Holy feck, glad I moved out of Dublin five years ago.

Council/Guards have given up totally.

SuperSean11

Where do you want them to go?

Have you ever been to san Francisco?

Seen a woman taking a Barry at a bus stop while the other people waiting didn't even flinch.
Thankfully I just passing on a team.

Mongfinder General

I believe it’s legal to take a dump in public but not to urinate.

boardise

Highlights the acute need for more public crapatoriums.

LessOutragePlz

Can't bate a poo in public!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfGsGSJOnS8

Wishbone Ash

'Feces'???

Reminds me of reading a report at work back in the 1980's about someone smearing 'faces' in public.

SuperSean11

Recording someone having a poo, that a fetish thing I’m not familiar with?

bb1234567

I was in Dublin city centre the other day and unfortunately had to use a laneway to pee as there was nowhere to go, I went to Templebar and omg I was astounded by the amountof human **** . Everywhere , all over the alley, along all the corners and edges, at least 5 or 6 individual turdds. Smell was too bad to even stick around for my whizz!

poisonated

Mongfinder General wrote: »

I believe it’s legal to take a dump in public but not to urinate.

For some strange reason I really doubt this...

AndrewJRenko

BrownFinger wrote: »

Have you ever been to san Francisco?

Seen a woman taking a Barry at a bus stop while the other people waiting didn't even flinch.
Thankfully I just passing on a team.

Username checks out.

San Francisco have it all sorted though. The tech bros have kindly provided the Snapcrap app for reporting issues.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SnapCrap-app-San-Francisco-poop-feces-dirty-street-13281837.php

OP - try customerservices@dublincity.ie for reporting here.

Del2005

deep_dish wrote: »

As disgusting as it is, this is not a Dublin-specific problem but a problem for cities with a large number of homeless people. There are many cities around the world that encounter this issue but I've lived in our city, between the canals, for the last 10 years and with the daily 5km walks I am seeing this a lot more regularly now than ever before.

Is there a number to call in DCC or an email address that deals with it? I'm aware it is a biohazard and cannot be easily removed but it needs to be removed nonetheless.

https://fixmystreet.ie/

jams100

LessOutragePlz wrote: »

Can't bate a poo in public!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfGsGSJOnS8

Ok, that's enough internet for today!

Muahahaha

bb1234567 wrote: »

I was in Dublin city centre the other day and unfortunately had to use a laneway to pee as there was nowhere to go, I went to Templebar and omg I was astounded by the amountof human **** . Everywhere , all over the alley, along all the corners and edges, at least 5 or 6 individual turdds. Smell was too bad to even stick around for my whizz!

Funny that as I had the same problem a few days back, was bursting for a piss. McDonalds near the Spire was open for takeaways but the security guard wouldnt let me use the toilet. Had no choice but to find a back lane. Went down Moores Lane at the back of Moore Street and yeah the whole place was like an open toilet, saw several ****es along the footpaths, one of them was right outside the back door of the same McDonalds, almost like someone had done it on purpose after being refused use of their toilet.

There are temporary toilets outside the Stephens Green shopping centre but I dont think they've put any on the northside or at least I havent seen any around. When I passed by the temporary ones in SSG the queue for the womens toilets was about 20 people long, easily a 45 minute wait.

JustAThought

phonypony wrote: »

Once saw a member of the community take one in a neighbour's garden after moving the contents of their skip into their van. To some it's just second nature, no shame.

Used to routinely see it in the SHOwER CUBICLES in a low price chain of gyms - funded by the Vincent de Paul for ‘community integration’ . Toilets not twenty steps away. You can’t help some people.

Also parkruns have A LOT to answer for. Someone should get on to their sponsor VHI - it used be an absolute disgrace —public toilets 5 mins away. Pulling up
in their audis and BMW’s and ****ting in the woods like animals.

Most ‘homeless’ shelters have drop in resources including toilets - dublin city is festooned with them. Should
just ban junkies from being out on the streets. a danger to
themselves and everyone around them.

AndrewJRenko

JustAThought wrote: »

Should
just ban junkies from being out on the streets. a danger to
themselves and everyone around them.

What a great idea. I can't imagine why no-one thought of this simple solution before. Maybe we should apply the same logic to other problems, like banning littering and banning mobile phone use while driving. That's bound to sort things out, right?

Grab All Association

Nenagh and Clonmel Co Tipperary were just as bad. In Nenagh for weeks outside zip yard there was human feces on the street. You’d think it would be solely the homeless and junkies, but I was passing through Clonmel back in 2016 at 2am. Stopped off at the McDonald’s there. Attractive blonde girl I a white dress pissed and **** herself outside the doors of McDonald’s. Clubbing at that time of night.

I was once in Heatons in Thurles buying a pot and heard something like the sound of a duck quacking, then the smell of slurry looked around seen nothing. Went back to looking at the pots and then seen a mid age woman running out with her hand on her ass and diarrhoea seeping through.

It’ll happen to the best of us at one point! Even OP

gctest50

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

What a great idea. I can't imagine why no-one thought of this simple solution before. Maybe we should apply the same logic to other problems, like banning littering and banning mobile phone use while driving. That's bound to sort things out, right?

I'd imagine a heroin habit is expensive

How do they fund it ?

assaulting people and robbing money and phones ?

Just bring in sensible vagrancy laws

The Gardai already have Drager Drugtest 5000s they use at checkpoints - tests for opiods, benzos

Thanks gaa fan. Made my Saturday afternnon

BrianD3

Grab All Association wrote: »

I was once in Heatons in Thurles buying a pot and heard something like the sound of a duck quacking, then the smell of slurry looked around seen nothing. Went back to looking at the pots and then seen a mid age woman running out with her hand on her ass and diarrhoea seeping through.

I laughed so hard at the quacking description.

This thread has the potential to be both hilarious and serious.

I was in a couple of shopping centres recently (they have large supermarkets) and most shops were open but the toilets were shut. People, both customers and non customers depend on these facilities and could easily be caught out. Whether toilets are shut or not seems to depend on whether they can be well ventilated by opening windows.

Lack of open facilities is just another miserable aspect of Covid and maybe will normalise the practice of public defecation/urination to some extent.

I'd have no qualms about sh*ting behind a bush etc. if it was necessary and if I was pretty sure I wouldn't be disturbed.

I might be wrong but I doubt that there are people sh*tting in public because they can't be bothered waiting till they get home, these are surely urgent situations.

barneygumble99

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Thanks gaa fan. Made my Sa’turd’ay afternnon

Fixed!!

Purple Mountain

Grab All Association wrote: »

Nenagh and Clonmel Co Tipperary were just as bad. In Nenagh for weeks outside zip yard there was human feces on the street. You’d think it would be solely the homeless and junkies, but I was passing through Clonmel back in 2016 at 2am. Stopped off at the McDonald’s there. Attractive blonde girl I a white dress pissed and **** herself outside the doors of McDonald’s. Clubbing at that time of night.

I was once in Heatons in Thurles buying a pot and heard something like the sound of a duck quacking, then the smell of slurry looked around seen nothing. Went back to looking at the pots and then seen a mid age woman running out with her hand on her ass and diarrhoea seeping through.

It’ll happen to the best of us at one point! Even OP

I was at a match in Semple years ago. I was the driver. A few of us stayed in Thurles all day visiting the pubs etc.
Getting the car out of the carpark on the Slievemanon Road later that night, I nearly vomited.
My car was parked up against the outside wall and the smell of human sh*t from there turned my stomach.
I got into the driver's side very trepidly, afraid I'd trod in it.
The gang that were with me were too drunk to believe the smell was human but there was no mistaking it.

Caranica

Grab All Association wrote: »

I was once in Heatons in Thurles buying a pot and heard something like the sound of a duck quacking, then the smell of slurry looked around seen nothing. Went back to looking at the pots and then seen a mid age woman running out with her hand on her ass and diarrhoea seeping through.

It’ll happen to the best of us at one point! Even OP

Sounds like it could be Crohn's disease to me. Not very funny. I've got several friends with Crohn's and they've been effectively housebound for the past year because they can't rely on access to toilets if they go out.

Ben D Bus

Muahahaha wrote: »

There are temporary toilets outside the Stephens Green shopping centre but I dont think they've put any on the northside or at least I havent seen any around. When I passed by the temporary ones in SSG the queue for the womens toilets was about 20 people long, easily a 45 minute wait.

There are temporary toilets on Wolfe Tone Square on Jervis St.

bb1234567

Muahahaha wrote: »

Funny that as I had the same problem a few days back, was bursting for a piss. McDonalds near the Spire was open for takeaways but the security guard wouldnt let me use the toilet. Had no choice but to find a back lane. Went down Moores Lane at the back of Moore Street and yeah the whole place was like an open toilet, saw several ****es along the footpaths, one of them was right outside the back door of the same McDonalds, almost like someone had done it on purpose after being refused use of their toilet.

There are temporary toilets outside the Stephens Green shopping centre but I dont think they've put any on the northside or at least I havent seen any around. When I passed by the temporary ones in SSG the queue for the womens toilets was about 20 people long, easily a 45 minute wait.

There is also one on Wolf Tone Square for the North, but two toilets is **** for the whole city centre. Dublin needs a rollout of the Dutch style urinals! You can see people's heads and feet so no funny business allowed in them, they're everywhere and in prominent locations which also deters unsavoury acts like drug/sex being done in them, and the fact they're open to the air means they don't stink as bad as the portaloos or whatever is used in Dublin/Ireland aat events and festivals. They take very little maintenance and are absolutely everywhere in Dutch cities, and whatever maintenance they do take is gained back by the fact nobody will be pissing and ****ting in laneways so less cleaning of them needed.

jams100

bb1234567 wrote: »

There is also one on Wolf Tone Square for the North, but two toilets is **** for the whole city centre. Dublin needs a rollout of the Dutch style urinals! You can see people's heads and feet so no funny business allowed in them, they're everywhere and in prominent locations which also deters unsavoury acts like drug/sex being done in them, and the fact they're open to the air means they don't stink as bad as the portaloos or whatever is used in Dublin/Ireland aat events and festivals. They take very little maintenance and are absolutely everywhere in Dutch cities, and whatever maintenance they do take is gained back by the fact nobody will be pissing and ****ting in laneways so less cleaning of them needed.

But only males could use these, and only for going for a piss. Only partially solves the problem

Sardonicat

jams100 wrote: »

But only males could use these, and only for going for a piss. Only partially solves the problem

Are there handwashing facilities in those things?

Purple Mountain

Sardonicat wrote: »

Are there handwashing facilities in those things?

I doubt it
Sure, it's just basically p*ssing up against a metal wall.

um7y1h83ge06nx

Jesus, most of these fcukers should be put into the zoo. Hopefully they won't sling sh*t at the visitors.

Could do a few matchups - Junkie Vs Hyena for the belt. Paddy Power could sponsor.

Sardonicat

Purple Mountain wrote: »

I doubt it
Sure, it's just basically p*ssing up against a metal wall.

Oh, I'm never going to shake a Dutch man's hand.

kravmaga

Mimon wrote: »

Holy feck, glad I moved out of Dublin five years ago.

Council/Guards have given up totally.

Where did you escape to ?

kravmaga

Caranica wrote: »

Sounds like it could be Crohn's disease to me. Not very funny. I've got several friends with Crohn's and they've been effectively housebound for the past year because they can't rely on access to toilets if they go out.

I thought suffers of crohn's disease have colostomy bags?

Caranica

kravmaga wrote: »

I thought suffers of crohn's disease have colostomy bags?

Only if they've had major surgery, some cases can be managed fairly successfully with medication or small surgeries.

Viscount Aggro

Walking past the lane at back of the Pro cathedral. I had to do a double take. I saw this lady standing up, doing a number 2
Was coming out like toothpaste.

Biker79

This video below is about similar problems in San Francisco. I believe Dublin city is on the same trajectory.

I say that because the same ' virtue signaling ' types are in control at Dublin City Council. Just like San Francisco, policies are well intended but despite this problems don't get solved and only seem to get worse. What's that saying about the road to hell...

Its uncanny how similar Dublin is getting to San Fran, with respect to these issues.

https://youtu.be/uw8MACDZ3RI

deep_dish

Great video - we are definitely sleepwalking into a similar scenario

Gruffalux

Oh my God

Can they not take a shovel and go into the woods and bury it. Yuck.

MarkY91

Can't blame them having a **** down a lane. Had to wait for my girlfriend who was queing up at stephens green temporary toilets, the que went all the way down to top shop... Imagine having to que up for half an hour to use a toilet. The only alternative is to piss down a lane ffs.