""She'd already been out for her business that day and it was a very short walk through the town centre so I knew that she wasn't going to do anything," Paula said."
""Unusually, I didn't have any in any of my pockets, and so I was unable to say that I had a poo bag with me. "So what happened? I was fined on the spot, 100 for a poo she didn't do.""
""I honestly thought that I would be given words of advice, told off, told what the law was so that I knew for next time, but there was no movement," she added."
A woman walking a Welsh Springer Spaniel in Northampton was issued a £100 penalty for not carrying a dog waste bag during a short town centre walk. The dog did not foul during that outing but the enforcement officer fined her on the spot for lacking a means to pick up in a PSPO area. The woman expected a warning or advice but received a fine instead. Multiple people reported similar experiences and called for councils to issue warnings before fining for lesser-known rules. PSPOs allow councils to set local rules and breaching one without reasonable excuse is an offence.
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