IS HORSE SHIT LITTER OR NOT?

I live about 100 yards from the main Police Headquarters building in Liverpool. Amongst other things, they co-ordinate their mounted patrols, i.e. coppers on horseback, from there.

Now, let me make it clear - I'm absolutely in favour of more police, and in particular more highly visible police, on the streets of our towns and cities. I'm a law-abiding kind of fella, not a criminal scumbag, so if I'm ever going to have dealings with the boys in blue, it's more than likely that it'll be because I need their help, not because I've done something wrong.

Back to the coppers on horseback.

The mounted patrols tend to follow the same route as they leave the HQ, and this route sees them walk along the street I live on. On a quiet night, even if I have all of the windows of my second-floor apartment closed, I can actually hear them clip-clopping past on their way into the city centre. So far, so peachy.

Sometimes, even if I haven't heard them, it's clear that they have been past. And the reason I know they've been past is the half ton of stinking horse shit that's been deposited down the middle of the road.

Now, I ask you - if I had a a dog, and let it do a massive shit in the street in full view of two coppers, and then carried on my merry way without clearing it up, would I be nicked? You can bet your bloody poop-a-scoop I would! If I dropped an empty crisp packet, could I be done for littering? Oh yes.

Come on officers.... clean up your horse shit eh