Croydon unleashes cyberwar on barking dogs

The good burghers of Croydon will be able to sleep sounder in their beds in future, thanks to the local council's sensational online Report a Barking dog service: A screengrab of Croyon's "Report a barking dog" system Yes, that's right - you can either enter the location of the yelping mutt, or click on the map to select …

[Michael Sheils]

Works in Firefox

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

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

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.

[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

@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

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...

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

...

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

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....

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

"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".