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to think you can't just crap in the street!!

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RescueCack · 18/04/2013 07:25

DH has just come back from a run and sheepishly told me that he took a dump in a bush. Again. This is not the first time. It doesn't happen regularly, but it has happened. How can he think this is ok??

He says he has no choice. I asked him, if he was surrounded by people watching him he would have held it, and he said 'yes, but I would have had to end my run'. So finishing a run is more important than not crapping in public???

He asked me to post because he thinks he will be validated. I know he wont. There is no way this is normal or ok. Judge him hard.

OP posts:
Skybore · 18/04/2013 18:36

Idocrazythings Thu 18-Apr-13 17:20:18
"Would you expect them to carry it home even if they are say 7miles from home?"

Why on earth would he have to carry it home? Put it in the first bin he comes to surely? And as he has form with this, suggest he plans his route accordingly. As I said in my last post, suspect he gets a kick out of doing this.

NC78 · 18/04/2013 18:39

Yuk!

redandblacks · 18/04/2013 18:58

I feel a new smartphone app coming on

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RescueCack · 18/04/2013 19:40

OK, now he's home from work I have interrogated him further.

The bush was a long way from the path, which wasn't a street (my hysteria may have got the better of me here...) and he thinks only animals would be in the area. I know where he means and it isn't a shortcut to anything, it's by a stream, so probably no foot traffic. He would no way be able to find it to clean it up now - it's too big a 'wild' space. Also, you couldn't pick it up .

Thankfully it has rained torrentially this afternoon, so it's probably gone.

Still minging.

I don't feel like he's sorry enough.

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kotinka · 18/04/2013 19:48

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TheSeventhHorcrux · 18/04/2013 20:16

Being 'a runner' doesn't make him above consideration for others, imo

This is the point exactly! I don't care where it is, it's filthy and making comparisons to animals is ridiculous. Animals eat other animals shit - does that make it ok for us to?!

And saying "when you have to go, you have to go" - see all of the posts on here from IBS sufferers, if we can hold it!!!

Floggingmolly · 18/04/2013 20:21

He thinks only animals would be in the area Hmm. He could be right...
Face it op, you married a guttersnipe.

Lazyjaney · 18/04/2013 20:58

So, if a joggers shits in the bushes and no one from MumNet hears about it.....

Fakebook · 18/04/2013 21:14

The shit is near a stream? And it rained torrentially? Well done, he's just probably poisoned a whole stream full of animals.

YoureAllABunchOfBastards · 18/04/2013 21:15

DS did this once. We were in the middle of nowhere, he was five, he couldn't wait. I had no bags, nothing. I shoved him in a bush, gave him a leaf to wipe with and put leaves over the poo. Grim.

EleanorFarjeon · 18/04/2013 21:31

I have been a runner for years. Not once has it made me need to shit.

I once saw an old woman do this in a park in Nice.

I must've done this Shock for an hour afterwards.

Very, very bad to not clear it up. OMG imagine standing in that.

Maybe the OP's dh has a weak anus?

pigsDOfly · 18/04/2013 21:46

Well OP, if you DH knows it's a hazard that runners are likely to face why was he not prepared.

For some time I've seen poo in the street and thought it might be human, now I'm beginning to think it probably is.

Make him take a poo bag or several with him in future when he runs (in both senses) so that at least he can clean up after himself. Yuk.

LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance · 18/04/2013 21:48

Filthy pig needs to take a dog poo bag out with him every time and crap in that if he needs too.

mateinthree · 18/04/2013 21:52

Lots of dog owners and 100% of cat owners seem to think it's acceptable for turds to be made and left by their animals wherever and whenever the turd creator needs one. Why should humans be different?

pigsDOfly · 18/04/2013 22:01

Just because some dog owners are inconsiderate and disgusting doesn't make it ok for humans to shit all over the place and add to it mateinthree.

I wouldn't dream of leaving my dog's poo on the street, in the park or in the woods. I would like to think that human poo is just as unacceptable to most right thinking people as dog poo.

mateinthree · 18/04/2013 22:04

I'm just playing devil's advocate Wink Human poo, dog poo, cat poo, all pretty disgusting, but why such an extreme reaction to the human variant?

ZZZenagain · 18/04/2013 22:08

if he needed to go, he needed to. He went off the path and did it in a bush. I don't think it is the end of the world. It is the dog poo littered all over the place which disgusts me tbh.

Jengnr · 18/04/2013 22:08

Seriously, this 'if you're a runner you'll understand' bollocks is just that. If running makes you need to have a dump wherever you happen to be and leave it for everyone else then fucking WALK.

It's grim.

foreverondiet · 18/04/2013 22:24

I have been caught out, so now use a glycerine suppository before I leave the house. Generally when I have been caught out and have to go into Starbucks or a pub or petrol station - but live in fear of out running and no toilets.... generally i run in the gym for that reason (easy to stop treadmill do poo and back to treadmill).

I have some sympathy, running makes you need to go and if there are toilets its that or crap yourself. But if you poo into a nappy sack and put it in bin don't see why its so vile?

JamieandtheMagicTorch · 18/04/2013 22:28

Friend of mine used to find human poo down her street most weekends. Some street drug or other makes you crap almost immediately, apparently. Forget which. Heroine?

JamieandtheMagicTorch · 18/04/2013 22:28

Or even heroin

TheSeventhHorcrux · 18/04/2013 22:35

Human poo, dog poo, cat poo, all pretty disgusting, but why such an extreme reaction to the human variant?

Because its nice to think that humans are more sophisticated than animals and can, for the most part, control their bowel movements.

If everyone deficated wherever the wanted - bushes or no bushes - then we'd live in a filthy society. Runners don't get an exception pass from this. It's like saying its ok for cyclists to litter or for newly weds to shag in public... fails to come up with decent example in bed

LadyBeagleEyes · 18/04/2013 22:40

Heroin constipates you Jamie.
So not that.
My view of runners has totally changed after this thread.
Now if I see one I'll look with different eyes.
And watch where I put my feet.

Nicknamefail · 18/04/2013 22:44

I'm with the runners, running makes you poo. Urgently. Sorry. Although he should always carry an emergency bag (even if only 3 times in 15 years). Leaving it is unacceptable.

Floggingmolly · 18/04/2013 22:53

But if you know this in advance, Nickname, it can hardly take you by surprise? Confused. Run in the direction of a toilet, ffs.

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