You know how it is, it's a Saturday so you go out into the garden for a quick interface with nature before the next 10 hr Fortnite / Netflix combo binge to find your dog has left numerous piles of digested food all over the place. What do you do? Get online to AirTasker to post a job requesting someone come over to pick up the shit. Yes, seriously, that's what they do these days when help is just a click away. Need a pack of ciggies but are "too unwell" to go get them for yourself? Airtasker! Need a couple of vibrators in a hurry? Yep, someone on there will help you. For a price. Just when we thought with Facebook that humanity had hit rock bottom. How low can we go?
(Score: 3, Informative) by nobu_the_bard on Thursday January 24 2019, @03:12PM (2 children)
Yeah there's a ton of these services.
Actually the housing authority near here contracts one such. That might seem strange, and I asked a lot of questions about it because I'd have liked a new PoE switch or two instead, but these guys work at scale and focus on efficiency - the guys clean up several large properties on a regular basis. It's unskilled part-time work that employs people otherwise hard to employ (students, illiterates, etc), which is also in the authority's interests. The guys themselves also do work for some of the neighbors apparently.
The housing authority has limited resources to stop the messes, as at least some of it is from people in neighboring properties at night (the new security cameras have gotten a few people fined at least) and some of it is wild animals; the authority takes what preventative measures it can, but there's only so much you can do within reason. The authority's maintenance crew are too valuable to waste time on this. In the end, a periodic visit by the "shit crew" keeps the lawn looking presentable for a decent cost.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday January 24 2019, @03:55PM (1 child)
Yeah, I bought a house once that had periodic giant turds appearing in the fenced backyard - it was a mystery for a few months until I saw the giant opossum.
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(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Thursday January 24 2019, @06:43PM
And you call yourself a nerd? It's right there in its entry in the Monster Manual.