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2006

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2004

History of the Bells

New Bells June Dedication

Writtle Fun Day

2003

Broadband Easter meeting


Writtle Annual Meeting

Writtle Local Elections

 Wear Pond Expansion

New Visitor to Writtle

Broadband
Writtle Update

December 2002
They don't apply to me

Italian Job

Police Presentation

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A Lid too Far

On the Buses Update

Village Meeting

Teddy Bears
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 April 2002
The Queen Mother

On the buses in Writtle

 The Hunting debate

 Feb 2002
Lodge Road
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2001 fete
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2001 Archive
 Dec 2001

Christmas Fable

Community Policing Writtle Style

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Part 2
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Festive Gruel 

 July

Pooper Snooper for Writtle?

Writtle Fete

All Saints Bell Appeal Barndance

Hannibal the Terrapin of Wear Pond


The Great Post Box debate Update 

Election Results

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 May
Writtle Parish Annual Meeting

The Great Post Box debate

The Green After the Circus

Albania Calling

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Teddies Galore!

All Saints Bell Appeal

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Previous Issues
April, May

Dog Poo
and related matters


Road traffic,  
a  problem?


On Writtle pond 

Fuel Prices etc

What is Art? 

What is Philosophy?


Boulder Pooper Snooper, a kindred sprit!

I found this story during my normal morning trawl through the daily newspapers.  Maybe we should invite him over to Writtle?
Extracted from the Daily Telegraph Monday 23 July

Satellite 'pooper snooper' in the clear
By Ben Fenton
(Filed: 23/07/2001)

USING global positioning satellites to prove that dogs were polluting his corner of the planet, Patrick Murphy has catalogued 661 reasons to tread cautiously on his local school playing field.

For instance, 40deg 1min 41sec N, 105deg 16min 85sec W was a good place to avoid on March 4, when Mr Murphy conducted his comprehensive stool survey of the 4.5-acre baseball pitch and adjacent playing field.

He was so incensed at the way dog owners flouted the laws of Boulder, Colorado, which require them to remove evidence of their pets' passing, that he videotaped offenders, handed the tapes to police and demanded that they press charges.

He made more than 160 complaints in four years. But the crusading zeal of Mr Murphy, nicknamed the "Boulder pooper snooper", was too much for two dog owners and they brought complaints of harassment against him.

Police had already warned Mr Murphy that his decision to challenge James Chanin over the by-products of his two golden retrievers came close to the legal definition of harassment.

So when he later dogged the steps of Holly Mirabile as she returned to work after letting her pet add to the faecal pollution of Casey Park, and then presented his videotape at a local police station, he was arrested.

In his defence, Mr Murphy, 50, a plant ecologist, produced his GPS chart, logging each pile of pollution to an accuracy of 4.5 feet.

A jury speedily decided that in pursuing Miss Mirabile he had not harassed her but merely sought to see that the state's law was enforced.

Mr Murphy said he had made his chart not because he was obsessed with canine excrement but to show the environmental damage done by a growing number of dogs to plants and river banks of the Sanitas Valley.

He said: "Wildlife biologists know that if you count poop, you get a population estimate for the species."

 

 
 

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