Minnesota city stops providing free doggie bags

[a kennedy]

EDINA, Minn. (AP) -- Need to scoop up after your pooch in the affluent Minneapolis suburb of Edina? You'll now have to bring your own bag after the city stopped providing freebies. The Star Tribune reported Edina has been hit by thefts of city-provided dog poop bags, and also is looking to save money. So this year the city stopped providing the free bags at stations in Edina parks.

Director of Parks and Recreation John Keprios said park workers would fill dispensers in the morning and find them empty by noon.

Keprios said, "People walk up and take them until they're gone." He says it was "not just one isolated incident. It's everywhere and often."

It cost about $12,000 a year to keep the dispensers full at the eight parks with the stations.

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My first thought was they meant "doggie bags" for people leftovers..... :rofl:

[Angry Dragon]

1. At one time Edina was the place to live

if you wanted everyone to know that you had money.

[dflprincess]

2. Like the Guindon cartoon in the Strib years ago

The parent telling her child: "Mommy & Daddy weren't born in Edina. Mommy & Daddy achieved Edina."

[geardaddy]

13. My thoughts exactly!

I loved Guindon!

[geardaddy]

14. You know what Edina stands for, right?

Every
Day
I
Need
Attention

[Blue Owl]

3. If they were real, non-compostable plastic bags

then good riddance.

Enough with the petroleum-based plastics already.

[Angry Dragon]

4. I was wondering why you use

the old Red Owl Stores logo??

[Blue Owl]

5. 'cause it's a kick-ass logo!

Just changed the color to blue for democratic affiliation-related purposes.

[Angry Dragon]

6. Okay........used to work for Red Owl

[dflprincess]

7. I worked for them too!

[Blue Owl]

8. Somehow, that owl looks like it's thinking critically

I think that's why the logo appeals to me, in the end.

[Brickbat]

11. I've always loved the Red Owl logo.

He looks a little crabby, and sometimes when the sign was huge it was almost overwhelming. But awesome.

[Angry Dragon]

9. I worked in Hopkins

[dflprincess]

12. I was at the Valley West (Bloomington) store

it's been a Cub for a long time now.

[trotsky]

15. Another former Red Owl employee.

Was a bag boy / stocker in high school. Everyone should work in the grocery biz for a while - or at least some kind of customer service position.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. No problem: Edina dogs' poo smells like lilacs.