These are the people who gave birth to our Republic?

Dateline UK: Big Brother spray-paints circles around dog poop.

No, honest!

Pedestrians in Cheltenham have been playing an impromptu version of
hopscotch since the local council ordered street cleaners to leave dog mess
where they find it.

Instead, the cleaners have been instructed to call a dog warden,
who arrives with an aerosol and sprays a red circle around the mess. If it is
still in situ a week later, a yellow circle is added and, after a further week,
a white one.

Your tax euros at work.

UPDATE: Our friends north of the border seem to be more appreciative of poop. Or depreciative of their mothers; I can't tell which.