Get a ticket how? Because you let your dog crap openly on the street while a cop was watching? What kind of disincentive is that?

I live in the police state of New York City, and yet on my block alone I regularly have to dodge between 4-5 piles of crap every time I walk down it. Not even by the curb, right in the middle of the sidewalk.

In fact, I was kind of surprised Zed got so worked up about SF fecal matter. Although it seems like there's slightly more human excrement around in SF, the shit-factor in his previous home is pretty competitive with SF.

Or maybe Zed wanted to assert passive aggressive dominance against SF by 'talking shit' about it (yow!)....

I know, but in Berlin it seems to be such a deeply ingrained tradition to let dogs shit everywhere that I don't see a chance for that law to pass.

Actually it might even exist, but nobody cares and nobody enforces it.