City Council and a pile of what?

Most of the public who spoke at Cincinnati City Council today mourned the death of Kabaka Oba, but one chose an entirely different subject on which to address council.

A man wearing sun glasses -- who signed his name "Bishop Cool" on the speaker's card -- stepped to the podium to tell the mayor and nine council members that he was forced recently to move from Clifton because of the large amount of dog poop there.

He used his two minutes of speaking time to blast council for not doing more to punish pet owners for not cleaning up after the pets throughout the city, asking council to enforce the dog poop laws "with the same gumption as the (police) sweeps in Over-the-Rhine."

Cool then addressed his next comment directly to Council Member Cecil Thomas, who introduced an ordinance that later was adopted last month that changed the laws involving marijuana possession, causing in the possession of even a small amount to result in an arrest when previously it would result in a ticket.

"There is nothing that blows my high like stepping in dog poop," Cool told Thomas.