This is truly the saga of our time.

If there’s a complaint about Metro, chances are we’ve heard it. But we have to admit that The Examiner has uncovered a new one — pigeon turds which have coated a Metro bus garage in Virginia.

A Metro rider found human feces smeared across the pedestrian bridge inside the Franconia-Springfield station on Monday — but one of several reports of dookie inside Virginia transit stations — and reported it to the station manager, who said it wasn’t Metro’s problem because the poopy stairs are the property of Virginia Railway Express.

Does watching a woman in open-toed shoes step in dog excrement — okay, okay, a mixture of pudding, graham crackers and Cheerios that really looks like dog excrement — and then gagging make you want to buy a D.C. lottery ticket?

Props to Frozen Tropics for sharing this Google Street View image of a man who appears to be trying to take a dump on a busy sidewalk in the 500 block of H Street NE. “WOW” is right. There are several remarkable things about this image: 1) that it was captured by Google’s Street View team in such clarity; 2) that it’s the middle of the day, in absolutely plain view, and 3) that there…

Bloomingdale residents have long relied on Scott Roberts’s excellent neighborhood news and information email list (email scott (at) scott-roberts.net or apply to the Google Group to get it). Today’s email was no exception, even if it revealed an alarming trend. Behold these two separate, and hopefully unrelated postings: + See this note from a resident on the 1700 block of 2nd Street NW: “Someone keeps defecating directly in front of my garage. I believe…