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...While most of the reaction Cho gets is supportive, he encounters a few dog owners who consider his effort a public rebuke-and respond with some pretty loud barking of their own. "Some get so indignant I almost expect to hear an Association to Protect Dog Poop in Public has been founded," he muses. "Most argue since they pay city taxes to clean it up, their dogs have the right to plop it down. Non-dog owners, it seems, pay taxes for the right to walk in it." Though he has started selling packs of flags (five...
...such, but rather a form of civic protest using artistic expression," says Cho, 30, a professional graphic artist and painter. "It's not an obsession, less yet a life's work. It's just something I've decided to do for a while to humorously convey the disbelief a lot of people feel when they see some big pile of crap and think, 'How can anyone be so disgusting as to leave that for people to walk...
...Cho calculates he has decorated more than 600 samples of Paris' most pungent plague since launching his campaign last August, and adorns a further 15 to 20 every week. His earlier tolerance of the problem gave way to irritation last year, when, as a first-time father, Cho found himself slaloming his son's stroller between innumerable malodorous moguls studding the city's sidewalks. Cho eventually decided to take artistic action against doggy dreck when his son began walking-and seemed to happen upon the worst thing about man's best friend virtually everywhere...
...Cho's prolific acts of protest, however, remain an entirely symbolic stand against a rising tide of merde. A massive 16 tons of what sanitation officials call dejection canine is squeezed out on Paris' 2,400 km of sidewalks each day, around 12 tons of which is removed-either whisked away by broom-toting street sweepers, or sucked up by vacuum-equipped motorcycles driven by men no dog owner would dare look in the eye. The tab for cleaning up after dogs comes to $10 million annually, or $50 for each of Paris' 200,000 hounds. Ad campaigns urging owners...
...result is clear as sludge on Paris' notoriously befouled sidewalks, whose doo-slickened surfaces cause 650 hospitalizations a year and rank as Parisians' third-biggest gripe about their city. Tourists also marvel at the mess, a situation that in part shaped Cho's form of protest. "I wanted it to be an international message everyone would understand," says he. "I began using French flags to suggest we Parisians are so proud of our dog poop that we display it all over our sidewalks. I think visitors and residents alike get the irony of the message...