A Redwood City apartment complex stands to be the first in the Bay Area to track lazy dog owners who don't pick up after their pets using a DNA database. A database of dog turd samples, that is. Apparently fed up with all of the messes left for her to step in, apartment manager Mary Michaels plans to require residents to submit their pet's stool samples to create "poop-prints". Any fresh steamers left around the grounds will then be checked against the, uh... prints and the offending owner gets dinged a $60 fee to pay for the cost of the test.

PooPrints.com, the Tennessee-based company that provides fecal DNA testing services says that last year Consumer Reports put dog poop as number 6 on the list of America's Top Gripes. It was certainly on Whoopi Goldberg's shitlist, here we see the Sister Act star unloading on "people who don't pick up after their damn dogs."

For her part, Michaels told KTVU, "I can hardly wait to get this thing going," presumably while scratching at the door and holding a leash in her mouth.

[KTVU]