Dog poo vigilante who picked up 50 bags a day BANNED from removing waste from streets by council
Steven Heard, 48, slams decision to prevent him from carrying on his one-man war on fouling in Minehead area
A DOG poo vigilante who picks up FIFTY bags a day has been BANNED from removing waste from the streets by the local council.
Dedicated Steven Heard, 48, started his one-man war against fouling after the muck kept getting stuck in the wheels of his mobility scooter.
But after a three-year campaign of keeping the streets in Minhehead in Somerset free of poo he has been slapped with a acceptable behaviour contract by the local authority forbidding him from picking up any more poo.
Steven said: "It makes no sense - I do all their dirty work for free and go to meetings, but they made me sign up to this ABC.
"They say they don't have the funding to clear it all up and then they do this. I don't do it because I enjoy it, I do it for the people of Minehead."
The agreement states he is ''not to interfere in any way with the council's operations to target dog fouling in the Minehead area. This includes picking up dog mess, leaving dog mess anywhere and leaving signs on council land”.
Steven, who needs a mobility scooter to get around, suffers from diabetes and deafness.
He regularly picks up fifty bags a day but he says he regularly suffers abuse from locals
One disturbing hate letter said: "If you can't walk Steven Heard then how the f*** can you pick up your f***ing dog poo?''.
Internet trolls have bombarded him with threats and insults, with one reading: "You're just getting in people's way and an interfering piece of f***ing s***".
Abusive notes have been sent through his front door, with one calling him a "Fat A*s Layabout F*****g Dog S*** Complainer".
A cruel vandal tampered with a sign on the back of his mobility scooter - changing the message from 'I am deaf' to 'I am dead'.
Mr Heard said: "Nobody took any notice until I started doing this - now they do."
Avon and Somerset Police said last year that it was investigating the "malicious communications".
The council has been approached for a comment.
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