Recently, there was a shocking event!
It turns out that a scavenging officer from Spain suddenly received a 570 (approximately 3600 yuan) ticket at home.
Watching the ticket, she was shocked.
She was fined for not picking up her dog poop from the roadside, but curiously the ticket targeted her dog poop six months ago, 643 kilometres away.
Then the question came: "How did these people know that her dog had pulled it?"
It all started last August.
The woman lived in Patner, Valencia, Spain, and her family had a bullfight.
In the summer, the woman's family took a dog to the beach town of Benalmadena, 650 km away, on vacation.
This is the world-renowned docks and harbours, the berths of thousands of cruise ships, and the bright and bright coast, which has become a sacred place on the seas in the hearts of countless Europeans.
In order to keep the tourist areas clean and healthy, a number of fines have also been imposed, including for those who do not take responsibility and do not collect shit for dogs.
During the holiday, the Spanish woman did not pick up the poop on the sidewalk for any reason.
When she got back on vacation, she would have left it behind.
It turns out that just six months later, she suddenly received a ticket and that it clearly stated the exact location and date of the discovery of the shit.
At first, she was frustrated and considered that the authorities were mistaken. How can this beach town authority, located 650 km away, be so sure that it was her dog?
In order to identify the real owner of the shit, advanced DNA technology was used locally to target the dog, and the “crime” she did not shovel was already discovered.
Since 2014, the Spanish authorities have cooperated with a Spanish company, ANN Canino, which specializes in collecting and maintaining databases of dog DNA from all over Spain.
The main objective of their collection of dog DNA was to use DNA technology to prevent the abandonment and abuse of pets, but the same technology could be used to track down and fine the owners of dogs who leave dogs to defecate on the side of the road.
The CEO of ANN Canino, Enrique Perigüell, told the Spanish News Agency: “The combination of canine DNA collection and the necessary microchip registration allows the State to better control the management of dogs, regardless of the town, province or autonomous region from which they come.”
In September last year, the town where the fined scavenging officer lived also implemented a canine DNA management system, and in order to prevent the loss of her dog, she took her dog to register and collect DNA.
As a result, when the coastal town authorities matched the piece of shit collected by the roadside with the DNA on the database, her name was immediately revealed.
It's true that Skynet is back and forth, and six months ago, dogs did shit more than 600 kilometres away.
For Spaniards, it is very common to step on shit in the streets, and this is one of the first complaints the Government receives each year.
The Spanish Government has also exhausted its brain in order to deal with the problem of civilization in the market, where officials walk and do not pick up shit.
The previous punishment had not worked much, as the police could only impose a fine on the dog owner if they caught the bag on the spot.
Starting in 2016, a number of local governments in Spain began to wage war on shit, using DNA technology to track down dog owners who did not do shit.
Once their dog's DNA matches the shit collected on the street, the dog's owner will be fined 300 euros and they will have to bear 50 euros for DNA testing.
There are also companies on the market that specialize in tracking this service for dog DNA, such as a company called Poprints, which provides solutions for the contamination of pet manure in over 6,000 communities in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Moreover, the revenue from this new industry is very good, and the company earns up to $7 million (approximately RMB 4.45 million) per year from this service.
Although this treatment sounds like a little chicken-killing with a cow knife, it does have some deterrent effect on other dog owners.
In fact, apart from Spain, the uncivilization of non-scathing shit is a problem for all countries.
In Tel Aviv, Israel ' s second largest city, for example, citizens are very fond of dogs, with 1 in 11 families having dogs, and up to half a ton of shit every month being released into the streets of the city.
Since July last year, the city has decided to follow the example of Spain in testing DNA matching schemes so that every citizen who does not shit will be traced.
In the United Kingdom, there was also a proposal by government parliamentarians last year to do so. Congressman John Ley-Morgan called for the establishment of a national database of dog shit DNA to punish those who did not pick up shit.
Indeed, as early as 2016, Barking and Dagenham, a self-governing municipality in London had piloted the scheme on a small scale.
As a result, there was really half the shit missing on the street, and while local authorities had praised the success of the project, they had also found that most of the people willing to sign the plan were responsible dog owners who, if they did not do so, would be willing to pick up dog shit.
Thus, a spokesperson for the local dog club said: “There is little benefit in introducing DNA testing of dog dung in very limited circumstances, and we do not see this as an effective solution to prevent waste from causing pollution throughout the country”.
DNA technology to track shit. It sounds magical.
But the local governments that did so were helpless.
It might not have happened if everyone had been able to pick up their dog poop.