Cameras Scoop Up Canine Offenders on Paris Streets
Parisian dog owners beware. If you flout the pooper-scooper law you could now be caught on a closed-circuit television camera.
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The southeast Paris suburb of Montereau-Fault-Yonne has come up with an innovative way of curbing dog droppings on local streets.
Local police will start using a decade-old network of CCTV cameras to spot dog owners who are not picking up after their pets.
"This will allow us to identify and seek out pet owners with no sense of civic duty and, in the event of repeat offences, to fine them 35 euros,” town mayor Yves Jego told AFP.
Jego added that cameras would not be an invasion of privacy because they wouldn’t be filming people at home.
Perhaps this tactic means NPR’s Eleanor Beardsley could soon retire her spray cans, should more Parisians make their dog’s business their own.
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