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

33 replies

KellySeveride · 23/07/2026 20:46

Probably not BU to be fair.

During an outpatients visit today to a large city hospital I went to use the facilities only to be greeted by a large steaming pile of shit on the floor next to the toilet.

Obviously backed out disgusted and reported it to the nearest staff member. Have spent most of the day trying to bleach my brain (unsuccessfully) but every so often the rational side of me has tried to come up with a reasonable argument for why someone might do this. This has also been unsuccessful.

Even if there does turn out to be a good reason, why wouldn’t you report it? The staff member was horrified and scuttled off so I think I was the first to raise it.

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hugasaurus · 23/07/2026 21:12

I’ve told this story on here before but years ago at somewhere I worked the women’s toilet had a phantom shit smearer. It turned out to be this woman in middle management, she left the company abruptly. It was bizarre. I didn’t really know her as I was just entry level in one of my first jobs and in a different department, but from what I’d seen of her she seemed pretty normal.

People do weird stuff with poo.

XenoBitch · 23/07/2026 21:11

I used to clean the offices of a branch of Hargreaves Lansdown, and we had a floor shitter there too.

BillieWiper · 23/07/2026 21:01

MH crisis, fetishism, extremely bad bowel issues, dirty protest?

KellySeveride · 23/07/2026 20:59

Secretseverywhere · 23/07/2026 20:51

I think a really small proportion of people are just disgusting. It’s called a dirty protest and some people also smear on walls, door and toilet seat.

Just seems so alien to me that they’d get as far as the toilet and then well…not use it.

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Secretseverywhere · 23/07/2026 20:59

I’d say it’s not just drugs I knew someone who worked in Tesco (cleaning) and the male staff loo was frequently smeared in poo. He quit partially as disgusting but also the knowledge that this was one of his colleagues possibly someone who chatted to him at break and was really nice to his face knowing he was literally cleaning up their shit.

Secretseverywhere · 23/07/2026 20:51

I think a really small proportion of people are just disgusting. It’s called a dirty protest and some people also smear on walls, door and toilet seat.

CaptainMyCaptain · 23/07/2026 20:50

StrawberryLipstickStateOfMind1 · 23/07/2026 20:49

I'd assume they're on drugs.
My nearest hospital has those blue lights in the loos ti stop people injecting.

They don"t actually work because users mark their veins with biro before going in.

StrawberryLipstickStateOfMind1 · 23/07/2026 20:49

I'd assume they're on drugs.
My nearest hospital has those blue lights in the loos ti stop people injecting.