This neighborly sign caught TheBoken’s eye on Garden Street. A neighbor purportedly frustrated with someone’s dog pooping on their tree outside their home and not cleaning up afterwards put up this sign to get some sort of acknowledgement. The sign reads ““This Is Not Your Dog’s Personal Poop Box–Please Ack Up”. What does ack mean? According to an internet slang site Ack is “Disgust, frustration” or “Acknowledgement”. It is truly a sign of the times to see internet terminology hit the streets and the everyday lexicon.
The dog poop ordinance is rarely enforced in Hoboken with several years having no citations or only one actually issued. It appears one way to curb master from not cleaning up after Fido is to put reminders up that “hey, you live in community you know”? As Sir Mix-a-lot would say “Baby got ack”. So to the neighbor who is reneging on their dog owning obligations: How about you ack up and be a super duper pooper scooper and do your part to keep Hoboken clean and sanitary dog gone it? You wouldn’t want to be on “Shame on you” with Arnold Diaz now would you? It is amazing in this town that the people concerned with quality of life are so concerned with people peeing in the Streets on St. Patty’s Day and yet some still let their dogs defecate in out streets and in front of our homes. Nick knack patty whack give this town a bone, this old sign has hit it home.
Update: Or as one reader suggested… it could just say please pick up. I am not faulting the sign writer one iota. I have terrible penmanship so no judgments here but the P and the I close together does look like an A from a certain angle. Apparently I have bad eye sight as well. Time for glasses. Thus, upon further examination the last part most likely is pick up and not ack up. Oh well. Senior moments are so much fun.
