To not be able to come up with a good reason for why someone would shit on the floor of a public toilet.

Dirty protest refers to the protest by republican prisoners in NI when the British government revoked special status. It started with a blanket protest where they refused to wear prison issue clothes so we’re just wrapped in blankets and escalated to the dirty protest when they refused to leave their cells to shower or empty slop buckets as they were being assaulted by prison officers when they did. Prison wouldn’t empty the buckets and when the prisoners tried to put it out under the door or through your spy holes, it was swept back in so they ended up smearing it on the walls as they had nowhere else to put it.

The protests eventually escalated to the hunger strikes in 1981.

Cripes, there seems to be a lot of people who have had the displeasure to know of floor ploppers and wall smearers. There are some jaw-droppingly strange people about. I once had a short-term boyfriend who did care work for adults. He told me about one of the men in his care saying that “his poo is this big” and he demonstrated the size of it with his hands.

Some people are obsessed with poo. 😆

Very little difference in size between a 9 or 10 year olds poo and an adults.

I dont think i want to google what dirty protest is....

Why? do that to Protest at what??

protest at.... cleaners? Porcelain? The universe?

We had a floor shitter in the men’s toilets in my old workplace, who also stuck wet loo roll to the walls.

It was never proven who it was, but there was one quite obvious suspect.

But now, hearing about all these poopy posh old ladies, I wonder if we had it all wrong, and it was the glamorous Sales Director (also known to be a swinger) - while poor old Smelly Martin from Compliance went through life presumed guilty of shit-smearing.

Especially as this was at a hospital- severe bowel issues; acute mental illness; dementia; drug addiction. Not a pleasant siuation to have to deal with, I realize!

It is disgusting and it should not be tolerated.

Maybe, but it is seen outside of hospital environment too.
I used to clean offices, and a floor shitter, or even a poo smearer, was not uncommon at all. Or people who wet tissue and throw it at the walls and ceiling too.

There isn't a good reason. In a hotel in Manchester once, someone pooped in the lift. Left me flummoxed too.
My brother years ago worked at a station in Sussex, I think his eyes were opened how vile people were, especially in the women's loo. Used Tampax smeared on the walls, poop in places other than the toilet. People are just vile.

Common with dementia patients. No need to be shocked. They often are not aware of what they're doing when toileting.

you should watch "the turd burglar"

There was a phantom poo smearer at my ex's workplace. They did find out who it was and he seemed to be a completely normal chap. Must have harboured some kind of weird simmering resentment though.

Seriously ill and too embarrassed to report their accident? Dementia? MH problems? Those are the only good reasons (maybe). And obviously not all dementia/MH sufferers do this.

I was in a hospital recently and needed to use the loo, which was unisex. It absolutely stank. There was piss all over the seat and the floor and the toilet wasn't flushed. I'm not talking about a little bit of wee on the floor. it looked like most of it went on the floor and a bit in the toilet.

Some people are just disgusting. Yes, it's possible it was an elderly person with poor bladder control but there is no way they didn't notice what they did. They could have told someone. Even if they didn't notice, they still left the toilet unflushed so it would stink regardless.

I told one of the nurses who organised some poor cleaner to clean it up.

Did they stop her using the toilet thereafter or challenge her on it?

One of my DH's colleagues is a poo smearer, they are trying to work out who.

And the school i teach at, the children often throw toilet roll with poo on, at each other.

You would be amazed at the size of children's poo.

When I worked in a hotel my friend in housekeeping found a turd one Sunday morning in the small swing lid bin in one of the ladies cubicles. Still baffled to this day.

I dont think rational people are shitting on the floor? Presumably it's drugs or dementia or very mentally unwell

Years ago I temped in a very prestigious management consultancy firm. In one of the loos someone smeared, on a regular basis. It was incomprehensible to me then. And is even less comprehensible to me now.

I work in a large office and this happens regularly.

I’d assume a child did it and didn’t tell her parent.

I've seen it happen with vascular dementia in particular.

I would assume someone who mentally wasn't very well.

When I was younger I worked in a cafe in a shopping centre. We had our own toilets for customers but sometimes other shopping centre users would try to sneak in. There was a period where every single day someone was shitting on the floor or toilet seat or bin, basically anywhere but in the toilet itself. We had no idea who it was so the manager started staking out the toilets and going in after every single customer to check, it turned out to be this wee posh old lady who was going to Mark's and Spencers every day and then going to do a shit in some random location of our cafe toilets. It was so bizarre and random but when the manager spoke to her it was clear she wasnt mentall well (with her age I assume she must have had dementia or alzheimers but could be wrong).