To think this is fucking dreadful

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Seen a story on various ‘news’ outlets today about a woman apparently being hunted for by police for defecating on a shelf in The Range and leaving. I’m not linking the article because I think it’s terrible but there is a clear photo of the woman in question.

Hundreds of horrible and jokey comments. No empathy or consideration that this could have been someone with any number of cognitive issues and/or digestive disease. Now their photo is plastered all over social media. How humiliating for them and the family. Is this what we have become as a society? Does this actually pass for news and would police resources not be better spent elsewhere? Honestly I find it cruel, grim and shocking.

Banbury is pretty rough so doesn’t surprise me.

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.

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.

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.

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

Excuse the pun, but are you shitting me? Of course she should be charged by the police or something as it is disgusting and dirty. It’s completely unacceptable on every single level.

It is gross! Who do you suppose had to clean it up?

Same in my old work place - a publishing house. Someone would also regularly break all the toilet seats in the Ladies - no idea why or even how.

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

Or, she could simply be a loathsome individual but until she is found, we won't know.

BTW I suffer from Crohn's Disease but I have never felt the need to do anything like this.

YABU to the point of being ridiculous.

There's being kind but there's also things that no one should have to tolerate and that includes shit on a shop shelf. Yuck.

I agree. I’m not excusing it and I feel for the staff who had to deal with it, it’s very obviously not ok.

My point was that unless there is something else going on (prolific shit smearer, concerns about safety - either of which I feel might have been mentioned in the article) it’s just not a very nice thing to have publicised in national press. And a ridiculous waste of police resources.

Apparently questioning the ethics of humiliating someone in this way makes me ridiculous and a virtue signaller. I’m not really bothered, it’s nicer being nice.

What of taking a dump on a shelf in the range?! 😂

I suspect the turd in question was in her handbag, ready for placement, as she went in, otherwise, the minute she started to drop her knickers, someone would have been raising the alarm, surely.

Yes that was my thought exactly. It must have been deliberately placed or she would have been rumbled immediately.

Like another poster said, Manky Bitch! Thats deliberate. They probably wouldn't give her a refund or something some time.

Plus, it's very often people that age who do those sorts of things. They've got a lot of spare time on their hands.

When I ran a public library (back in the 1980s) a man once peed in a corner behind the shelves. Another one passed out on a bench and would not move at closing time. We had to call the police to remove him. Its amazing what goes on in public buildings.

Well, with this sort of shenanigans, 'twill be more than time on their hands!

I' m probably similar age/generation to the woman in question @deserthighway and, as yet, have never felt an overwhelming urge to participate in inappropriate turd depositing.

If you're so uninhibited you'll take a shit on a shelf would you even have the capacity to feel humiliation?

I have digestive issues so can confirm that the Range usually has toilets. Even if it didn't, I'm not going to curl one out on a shelf.

To me, this sounds like a dirty protest, which I can completely understand.

Who cares what her issues are?? Are you seriously saying that she needs sympathy and understanding for doing something utterly disgusting. I hope it’s you who happens to put your hand there looking for something op, since you are so wonderful and caring. Disgusting woman, she deserves to be publicly shamed.🤢

Being nice ffs. That’s why these dirty filthy people get away with things like this. Because whatabouttery and be kind

I've got a lot of empathy for the poor staff that have to deal with this kind of behaviour. You can bet they don't get paid enough.

Years ago when I was a student i had a job working in the now defunct Victoria Wine off license. By far the biggest culprits of shoplifting were well dressed well spoken middle class women who just assumed nobody would suspect them.

Pop it on the shelf with the Rustler burgers, nobody will be able to tell the difference.

YABU on a number of levels.

I used to work at a law firm where an unknown fee earner would regularly do a dirty protest in the ladies. I wouldn’t assume it’s any kind of disability or deficiency - some people are just weird/gross/cunts.

Back in the early 00’s there was a footie match in Manchester between a local team and a Scottish team. One of the visiting fans curled one out on the platform at Piccadilly in front of me. The only notable thing about her was the vast quantity of alcohol she’d consumed. The police did the same, ie circulated her picture taking a shit, and I hope they caught the skank.

Disability or not, and I have a disabled son, shitting in public really needs not to happen under any circumstances. More power to anyone with the horrible job of trying to catch the culprits.

I need to know more about this @Clefable !!

How did they find out who it was? Did she admit it? Was she fired? Did she show any embarrassment??!