“Dear PoPville,

I found the attached note on a car2go I picked up this morning in front of a row home at 2nd Street NE and Uhland Terrace NE in Eckington. I checked the area, and there aren’t any no parking, restricted parking, or handicap parking signs. Apparently this is just how Trump administration staffers are now using their Official Government Intimidation Stationery. I was very tempted to write at the bottom “This isn’t how public sidewalks and streets work – get out of our city if you want a private driveway” and tack it to their tree.”


Period. hahaha. Thanks to Cameron Austin for sending from Adams Morgan/Kalorama.

But maybe we should take this opportunity to solve the whole dog poop refuse problem. What if the District deployed some dog poop only public receptacles. Can we follow in the footsteps of our neighbors to the north: “Waterloo will soon be the home of a pilot program that will turn dog waste into energy, using a process called anaerobic digestion that happens when organic waste breaks down in an environment without oxygen.”


Thanks to Julie for sending from Logan:

“At 15th and R Streets in a tree box, a sign newly nailed to a tree:

My Garden I fret
Is at times beset
With waste foul and wet
Please curb your pet

A rejoinder on cardboard:

This tree box you claim as “your garden”
Is public right of way
So I do beg your pardon
The pups shall poop where they may.”


A reader reports:

“Graffiti’ed shot is from Sunday night but by Monday night they had cleaned it up — rather nicely I’d say. Defacer is 100% correct — this is one block East of Meridian Hill Park. Guess this naming gaff would’ve been funnier was if the seller was Compass.”


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