They're back. 

Plastic bags filled with dog feces were again left hanging from a utility pole on Mathewson Road. The first incident of "poop on a pole" occurred in late April, while the recent sighting took place June 2.

In late April, a resident was riding his bike along Mathewson Road when he first noticed the poop bags on the pole. He pedaled home and wrote an email to the Barrington Times. 

"Not sure this is a story for you but it sure has me questioning the validity of 'Barrington, a classy town' and affirming the belief that some in this community have entitlement issues," he wrote.

Earlier this week, the bags returned. 

On June 2, the same resident again emailed the Times after spotting more feces-filled bags on the same utility pole. 

"… they are back and actually worse in terms of numbers as you can see in this photo," he wrote, referring to the featured photo.

"I have a theory that one person is collecting all the bags that dog walkers randomly leave on the side of the road and is then placing them on the pole. I can’t imagine that each bag was placed by a different individual."

The local man said he noticed two dog-walkers in the immediate area while he was taking the photograph, but neither individual seemed to acknowledge his presence.

The situation seems to have an element of mystery — it is not clear who is leaving the bags attached to the pole, or why. It's also not known who cleaned the poop bags off the pole earlier this spring.

"I have no problem cleaning this up myself (I often pickup litter in my immediate neighborhood) but the fact is I don’t live on Mathewson and although this is my community, as is all of Barrington, I’m dumbstruck that people who live within a few feet of this intersection have done nothing about it!" he wrote. 

"Can they be so oblivious to their surroundings?"

Town law states that dog owners must pick up after their dogs. Barrington town code 67-18 Canine Waste Removal includes three sections.

A: "It shall be the duty of each person who owns, possesses or controls a dog to remove and dispose of any feces left by the dog on any sidewalk, street, beach, park, cemetery or other public area. It shall further be the duty of each person who owns, possesses or controls a dog to remove and dispose of any feces left by the animal on any private property neither owned nor occupied by such person.

B. "No person who owns, possesses or controls a dog shall appear with such dog in any public area or private property neither owned nor occupied by such person without such means of removal of any feces left by such dog."

And C. "This section shall not apply to a licensed dog accompanying any handicapped person who, by reason of his handicap, is physically unable to comply with the requirements of this section."