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Title:AUSTRIANS SUGGESTED DOING THIS IN 2005
Name:Arik Silverman
City: MilwaukeeState: WI USA
From a note on a July, 2005 story on US National Public Radio:

In Vienna, Austria, where the general public appears to be lackadaisical in picking up their dog`s poop, the leader of a political party has proposed a new law of sorts that would require law enforcement officers to take DNA samples of dog poop to track the offending dog owners.