THESE crappy neighbors have really stepped in it now.
Fort Greene dog owners who don’t scoop their pooch’s poop could find videos of their small crimes blasted online as disgraced inductees of a Brooklyn group’s “Dog Walkers Hall of Shame.”
“It’s about personal responsibility,” said South Oxford Street Block Association president Abby Weissman, who launched the Facebook public shame campaign two weeks ago.
“We live in a world where people think they’re entitled to whatever,” he added.
Weissman decided to call out flagrant lawbreakers after his home surveillance camera recorded a woman yapping away on her cellphone as her brawny pooch unloads twice on the pavement.
The two then saunter away, leaving the mess behind, footage shows.
“There are no excuses for this behavior,” Weissman wrote on Facebook. “If you can’t clean up after your dog, you shouldn’t have one.”
Dog poop has always soiled Fort Greene’s sidewalks, but the problem has worsened in the past five years as gentrification sweeps the neighborhood, Weissman said.
New residents came toting hundreds of their four-legged friends who drop little landmines on their way to Fort Greene Park, he said.
It prompted director Spike Lee to compare the park to “the motherf—-n’ Westminster Dog Show” during a February rant at Pratt Institute, where he was speaking in honor of African American History Month but got sidetracked when gentrification came up.
Weissman is encouraging others to post photos and videos of offenders on the association’s Facebook page and install their own surveillance cameras.
There’s a $250 penalty for those who flout the law, but rule-breaking dog owners are tough to catch in the act, said Weissman who has previously launched campaigns against illegal barbecues and people who leave too much space between cars when parking.
“If you’re lazy,” he said, “it’s easy to keep walking.”
After the on-camera crapper hit his sidewalk, he left the evidence on the street for three days and posted the video, hoping a public shaming would persuade the owner to take care of her mess.
“I just wanted her to clean it up, which didn’t happen,” Weissman said. “I ended up cleaning it up myself.”
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