it was dog shit?

Could've been the owner's. Sign didn't say anything about picking THAT up...

Apparently.

AKA recent coyote meals

Who bags their dog’s shit; but leaves the colored bag in your lawn ,
Unreal

and picks it up when he passes again ... so he doesn't have to carry it the whole time.

Dog would poop and we'd bag it, leave it by the entrance, then grab it on the way home.

Unspoken rule, few folks violated it. Lots of dogs off leash against regs, though.

He’d never get away with that in my neighborhood

That it was a rural mountain road with the houses spread out about 1 every 1/4-1/2 mile. If you don't want to pick it up, fine, just kick it to the side and the flies will eat it in a few days, but don't bag it, that just means someone has to deal with the damn bag.

Used to have neighbors that would ride their horses and leave their leavings in the road too... always thought that was a bit rude. But after afew days it'd get run over by enoigh carsto more or less disappear.

Dog shits at the beginning of a walk. Person bags it, then figures they don’t want to carry it for a mile so they will just stash it over here and pick it up on the way home. Life happens and they forget. That’s my charitable explanation.

I live in a suburb with about 300 homes on 6-7 streets. People bring bags because they know people will see their dog crapping and be on alert to see if they bag it. I know I will take notice to see if that happens. So they bag it and move along, but when they are in an a more private area when nobody is looking they drop it and keep moving.

I'm racking my brain trying to understand what would motivate one to drop the bag and leave it. Here's where I've landed: Carrying a tied bag holding it from the top is annoying. Your hand is encumbered, and although the bag is not heavy, grasping it continuously for a long time is a nuisance. Holding it from the bottom is just yuck. So the assholes among us drop it when they figure they can get away with it.

With a simple slip knot I make a ring with the clean part of the bag that I then slide my pinky through and then tighten. Solves the problems above. My hand is mostly free to do whatever I'd like with no trouble. I have zero issue holding the bag throughout long 30-45 minute walks, after the dog poops 3-5 minutes in.

This is infinitely more detail than I ever thought I would write on how to carry a dogpoop bag. Now back to my day.

on their lawn.

Along with knee- high weeds and car parts strewn about.

There was this sign (was off Sugarloaf)

Shotgun blasts galore on the sign that showed a map of the trails.

The steppe is wild.

We have a sports complex (3 baseball fields, lacrosse & soccer fields). It is on donated land that is managed by a recreation commissioner. I am on the board and am one of the commissioners of said field. The fields are intended to only be used for youth sports, but it is seen as a community resource and generally everybody plays nice. We have a big sign at the entrance listing field rules, one of which is no dogs allowed. Right next to the sign we have a dog poop bag dispenser, which we maintain and supply.

Ok?

Unleashed dogs are ok to poop anywhere they want because their owners never see where they do their business. City leash and poop ordinances don't apply to these special dogs.

after all, it is an election year...

You might want to give him the benefit of the doubt until more facts are uncovered. You may also want to hedge your bets, regardless of the outcome, by demanding make up sex from his wife, her bridge club partners and her cleaning lady.

would've been to assume something like this was a kid's prank.

Sadly, these days, that is no longer an assumption I'm willing to make. Too many adults have left the room.

Whoever smeared “it” is a fucking asshole. I have two large dogs and walk them every day and always clean up their mess. Have even gone back in my car to clean up when I’ve come up a bag short.

To finding backyard bombs prior to mowing

My three dogs are nodding, too.

Jeremiah was a bullfrog!