To think this is fucking dreadful

I can't see how it's physically possible to shit on a shelf. Must be deliberately placed surely?

We had someone in our department at work who would regularly shit on the floor in the female toilets. They were all educated, successful women. Why would someone do that? It was so odd.

And even if she is mentally ill or has a health condition or whatever, that’s not really a good reason to let her go around leaving turds on shop shelves. Regardless of the reason, it’s a behaviour that needs to be stopped.

Yes quite.

Do you really think, based on what you've read, that this is just some poor innocent old lady who got confused and had a crisis?

I'd bet my bottom dollar this is either targeted against the store or one of its staff, or it's part of a wider pattern of behaviour.

Banbury is pretty rough so doesn’t surprise me.

Right so basically because you think she looks ok we shouldn't find her for what is an actual crime?

Do you have a list of who is fair game for justice and who is not?

I suspect the police know more. I used to work in retail. It happened once. It was a very, very elderly lady who clearly didn’t mean it. We just cleaned it up and felt desperately sorry for her. Calling the police wasn’t even considered for a second.

"No empathy or consideration that this could have been someone with any number of cognitive issues and/or digestive disease."

Come off it,OP. If this was a man everyone would be saying "men are fucking disgusting" not excusing this deplorable behaviour on IBS or similar....

Where does that poster say that "everyone with a disability needs to be locked up at home"??

You lose the argument when you go completely OTT with hyperbole

If she is so ill she shits on a shelf in public then she definitely needs 24 hour care

lol. So true. People have been told off on here on numerous threads over the weekend for buying their kids some gifts for Easter. They should have just come on here and told everyone they had shit in the Easter egg aisle in Tesco instead and all would have been fine.

There are fucked up people around that get off on this stuff. Mumsnet has poo trolls, piss trolls, period trolls. People should wise up.

Absolutely. This was a deliberate act and leaving it for others to deal with is reprehensible.
The only possible excuse could be dementia.

Not seeing the problem

I’m sorry but surely if you get caught in a situation like that in a shop, you just do it in your pants and leave pronto!
You don’t leave it on a shelf for someone else to clean up.

Manky bitch.
Who knows, maybe she wanted the notoriety. Nothing would surprise me these days.
On Mumsnet, you could get absolutely slated for the smallest misdemeanour. But shit on a shop shelf and it’s all good!

What does someone who would do this look like? 🤔 My mum was a cleaner and over the year cleaned many places like solicitors offices, doctors surgeries with toilets only used by the doctors etc and the mess they left and stuff they did was awful. You wouldn’t expect those people in respected jobs to do it either but they did. There are some very weird and fucked up people out there.

I expect there is more to this, but if you really felt strongly about this not being in the news, why post it on mumsnet to give it more attention. I probably wouldn’t have been aware of this story, but now I am. Thanks to you and your bit of virtue signalling or whatever it was meant to be. 🙄

She could still have a shitting fetish. There will be a reason the police are looking for her.

Definitely more to the story here. This woman had trousers on, if it was a medical issue I pretty sure most people would rather shit in their knickers, with trousers as double protection, than drop them in a store.

Im suspecting mental health or substance abuse that led her to be unaware of where she actually was.

It may be that the police want to identify her, not to prosecute but as safe guarding, either way I don’t think what she had done needed to be put in the paper, it could have just been said they were looking for her.

the update on crime stoppers said as of yesterday they were no longer looking for her, so she’s been found.

Surely having your photo shared in relation to any crime is humiliating for the criminal and their family.

I bet if it was a 25 year old man you wouldn't be so sympathetic.

Do you honestly think the police would be looking for her if there wasn’t more to it? And showing her full picture is unusual. There is obviously a reason.They don’t look for. muggers etc.

And people are now googling the story so that’s even more people that will see it!

I've just googled it too. I cannot imagine the logistics of this. Surely it must have been some kind of dirty protest rather than an unavoidable accident.

There’s always more to stories than they publish. It seems unlikely the police would be looking for her if it was an incontinence thing

It was the Banbury, Oxfordshire store.

I'm off to Google this story.

This was one in Blackpool so I bet they see all sorts!