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

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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.

Is t it against the law?

We have a huge problem in the rural lanes near where I live with lorry drivers leaving bottles of piss and bags of poo everywhere - we are near the channel tunnel and ferries, the motorway verges are littered with it, sometimes it is lobbed out of moving vehicles! I pity the poor beggars who have to go round clearing it all up.

It is absolutley disgusting, as are you runners who do not bag and bin it. Illness and dire emergency is one thing, accepting that this may happen and not going prepared is just irresponsible. Vile.

Just say someone took their poo in a little baggy, what do they do then with it? Carry it home like a drink bottle, put it in their iPod holder or pocket? Most dog owners seem to tie it to their dog lead. And they are generally walking. It's not like there's a huge amount of bins around here? I truly think on the rare occasion someone has do a nature poo, that they are discrete and bury/cover it. If not then they deserve the flaming that is happening here.

Can just see the next AIBU- I just saw a runner carrying a bag of poo, swinging it like a medal. AIBU to think its a bit minging?

Hmm, well, perhaps those who are so afflicted should do a little bit more research. If you google "runners trots" and "how to avoid" it seems to indicate that there are steps you can take. Dr Google appears to give a fair bit of advice on the subject.

It's fucking revolting.

And at it somehow being not quite so bad because badgers and rabbits (rabbits ffs!) don't use loos.

I live semi-rurally. Lots of wildlife. Not once on a walk have I had bother with badger, fox, or rabbit crap.

Dog shit, yes, because some dog owners have the same opinion it seems as some posters here - that because wild animals and livestock defecate in the countryside that it's OK to leave their dogs' shit all over the place. It isn't.

He should have gone back and clearerd it up, the filthy fucker.

.. here's me thinking we had bears on the loose. I never knew that about runners either and will always look at the school running team of parents in a different light now - incontinence pads?

I couldn't do it - perhaps there is a correlation between those who poo on the roads and those who poo at work ( which I have never done either). If it ever happened to me it would only happen once as I would never run out in public again

If he knows he has done it once, twice, now three times before, if he goes out running from now on without wipes and a bag, I would now be pretty put off him if I were you.i

Brings this to mind - Gary Lineker shitting himself on the pitch

Just say someone took their poo in a little baggy, what do they do then with it? Carry it home like a drink bottle, put it in their iPod holder or pocket?

Ermm yes! Why not? If it is not so disgusting that they can leave on the ground surely it isnt so disgusting that they can carry it home with them?

I am gobsmacked that anyone can honestly say its ok! I live in a rural area popular with runners, I previously thought that we had a dog shit problem, now I am not so sure.

Now understand why newlyweds on honeymoon typically write about a jog BEFORE breakfast

But bogey talking about genuine people not the piss takers, that genuinely try to do the right thing and are truly stuck and can and will hide/bury it. Would you expect them to carry it home even if they are say 7miles from home?

Take a trowel and bury it.

Or, if taking a trowel is unrealistic, crap in a bag

Or, accept the message that running is frankly, unnatural.

Perhpas he was trying to curl out a huge Mars Bar - but in the end he only did a marathon !!!

Bu hey, shit happens....

I am also surprised from a physiological POV that this is the body's response to running. I would have thought that all available resources would be diverted waway from the digestive system to the leg muscles, so peristalsis would stop.

Can I ask? When your dog shits and you bag it, can you put it in an ordinary bin or is that wrong?

There aren't any dog poo bins here (urban area) and people generally clean up.

I used to go running with DH. He never mentioned this phenomenon probably because it would have put me off even more. I'm going to question him on his habits later.

A quick google shows it's illegal to defecate or urinate in public (what a surprise!), there was a taxi driver fined £750 in Bristol earlier this year after being caught on camera doing it. It's part of the local government act.

Could be a kind of kundalini activation!!

This poo thread is hilarious! I'm now looking at the runners i know in a different (very suspicious) light...

I've sometimes worried about this happening to me - I don't run, but one of my jobs is leaflet distribution, which can involve being a long way from a loo. I have occasionally had to wee behind a bush, but TBH I just think there should be more public loos. What is really horrible is when you want the loo, you spot a block of them, go haring up to the door and it's locked and bolted...

It is true, there should be more public loos. It is a massive issue for elderly people, too. Can really out limitations on their lives.

Put, not out