Important scientific research: The dogshit dilemma
 

How far away from dog shit would a £1 coin (or equivalent US currency) need to be for you to pick it up?

I'd say... 4-5 inches minimum. Two feet if I'm walking past a traffic jam. Four feet if I'm walking past a bus.

These really are the questions that can keep a man up at night.

How fresh is the dogshit in question?

Extremely, and it smells particularly foul.

Is the money dirty in any way?

You won't know until you pick it up. Hence the dilemma.

Well nowadays I'd walk right past it, but back before I was making any money I'd have been on it pretty damn fast, dogshit or no dogshit. It wasn't easy being a struggling young dancer in NYC.

No, I was asking if it looked dirty.

All money looks dirty. It's been fondled by children, coal miners and other filthy people.

It's the dog shit you should be worrying about.

Hmm. I'm not really sure. I don't think I'd know until I saw a series of pictures with the money at varying distances. Its more like a visceral instinct than a reasoned response, really.

I stick money in my mouth.

I'm sure I've got all the best kinds of hepatitis.

Americans would not pick up a $1 coin because very few of them actually know what they look like.

:posh

Canadians on the other hand would be all over that shit. We love picking up money. :(

There's actually a new line of dollar coins, each with a different president's face on them.
http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/....cfm?flash=yes

I've got a few. One of the few perks of being a cashier is finding unusual coins. I found a 19th century buffalo nickel and a mercury dime once, not to mention foreign coinage.

:numismatist

oh my god those have to be the worst portraits ever. look at andrew jackson for chrissake

i would say as long as it's not on top of the shit, then i'm grabbing it :(

I would probably be more suspicious as to what the money is doing near the shit in the first place. Was somebody walking thier dog and felt guilty about not cleaning it up so they put money on it?

Honestly, money in general has more germs on it than any other item, so I'd pick it up even if it was partially in the poo. Of course, I'd wipe it off before I put it in my pocket (the coin, not the poo).

This is simple. In the event of a one dollar coin, I'd pick it up and stick it in the poo where just enough of it is showing to show that it's money. If it is a bill, I would also pick it up; then I'd place it over the poo so that it covers the feces entirely and sticks to it.

As long as the feces and currency weren't actually touching, it's considered fair game IMO.

How bout this one. Would you be willing to stick your entire arm 3 feet deep into extra foul smelling and fresh dogshit for $500 (or whatever that works out to in Europe money?

Well for that kind of cash, sure. Provided I could wash throughly afterwards.

What's a little dogshit here and there when 500$ is involved?

I posed for nude photos in '79 for 500$ because I really needed the cash. I wish I hadn't now that the pictures have come out all over the place. I guess I'll just tell the media that I'm not ashamed. :\

I wouldn't pick it up.

Though in US currency £1 in coins would pile up higher than the shit.

Ok, how bout $20?

20 Doesn't buy much anymore, so no.

No less than 50$. >:

I think twenty centimeters would be the closest that I would pick up $AUD2.55. Actually, I would probably kick it away to a safer distance and pick it up from there, lest anyone think that I was inspecting the dog nest.

Dog nest? Dog's don't live in it!

Since 1£ is almost 1,30 € I would pick it up regardless from the distance, as long as it wouldn't touch the turd.