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Croydon unleashes cyberwar on barking dogs

Michael Sheils

Works in Firefox 

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Just tried it and it worked fine for me, doesn't seem to be a stupid site that only works on IE at all.

Perhaps you should try things more than once before declaring them broken.

Anonymous Coward

Absolutely Barking Mad 

Unhappy

What a waste of time and effort this is.

Still, if they extend it to crying babies, then I'm sold!

Steve Jones

Priorities? 

What a shame they didn't think to extend this to "report a bunch of knife wielding feral chavs" . . . but I suspect the police are far too busy filling in forms as it is.

Keith Turner

Fun time in Croydon 

Boffin

Right then, I'm off to buy a shedload of 'barking dog' doorbells.

They only need a small timer to set them off, say, once every twenty minutes or so.

Mind you, the likelyhood of getting shot planting electronic devices increases a wee bit.

Not entirely sure what the point of it is other than being a publicity exercise demonstrating that the council have spent more money on trying to bring a shine to a lack-lustre jobbie.

Tim Spence

Michael Sheils 

Coat

Someone doth protest too much - your work email address isn't michael.sheils@croydon.gov.uk, is it?

Stuart Harrison

Erm... 

Are you sure this isn't part of a much bigger forms system? Granted, it'd be a bit of a waste of time to spend ages developing a system to report a barking dog, but this could've been created by a system that creates forms on the fly so people could report fly tipping, roads problems etc, which would be very useful. Hell, I've used a similar system to report problems like the above a few times...

Anonymous Coward

chavs vs dogs 

Happy

@Steve Jones

because if it was aimed at reprotign " "report a bunch of knife wielding feral chavs" it woud break under the strain.......

i am so relieved in the evenings when i can leave east crydon station for the safety and civilistion of SW london

Anonymous Coward

Government Buildings in Croydon 

Coat

whats the bet that the "job centre plus" and immimgration buildings in Croydon get lined up for lots of hoax dog barking calls!?

There was a Tax (collection) Office, but they just demolished that, apparently there was no need for it!?

Anonymous Coward

Barking... 

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Interesting forms to fill in, especially the list of categories for the complainant, whose options include:

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White Irish

White Other

White UK

Give it a year & we'll see "Croydon White Irish complain most about barking dogs, Mixed Black and White Other's don't care"...

Francis Irving

Fix My Street 

Go

Meanwhile, you can report anything broken in your street (like graffiti, fly tipping, broken paving slabs, or street lighting) in a properly web accessible way, wherever in the country you live.

That's over at mySociety's http://www.fixmystreet.com

Sorry we don't support barking dogs or crying babies yet! You can report dog poo though.

Darren

Croydon.... 

Pirate

I live in Croydon, unfortunately.

Should just be a yes/no vote on

"Should Croydon be bombed?"

it would save a lot of hassle and raise the nations crime prevention percentage by a hell of a lot.

D

Anonymous Coward

Fun time in Croydon 

Pirate

"Right then, I'm off to buy a shedload of 'barking dog' doorbells."

Why bother? Let's just ask a friendly botmaster to hit the site. Tomorrow's newspapers will be full of headlines like "Millions of stray dogs found in Croydon, citizens flee in panic".