Nice job, baby! I have to start paying attention to the news again, what a great piece!!

An amazing story! Thank you for bringing it to our attention Daphne! The behaviour of the co-workers is interesting. Would you go to his defence!? I bloody well wouldn't! I'd be too embarrassed. I'd stop in the truck! I'd drive away!!

Hamster, that never occurred to me. I wouldn't have stuck up for him, no. I would have given him a few bags and said, "get to it". I'd be too worried about losing my job.

It was submitted with a less interesting title. The one Dave used is much better. Actually, I'm surprised Dave let the last paragraph rant ride. The idiotic nature of the crime overtook me and I went all Dennis Miller on the subject; I wasn't sure if it was appropriate. But damn.

For anyone reading this, the video link is a must. There is a sanitation worker in it with a Lil' John hairdo in the background at one point who looks none-too-happy to be on tv. One of the most bizarre news clips around. This news reporter, Kuenzie, seems like a pretty cool guy.

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Daph -- does the reporter seem cool enough that you should contact him? If nothing else, perhaps just to ask him what it's like to report on poop on a website other than this.

Dude, I almost did. While writing this monstrosity up, I thought "would he be interviewed, the interviewer?" Well, heck. I got nothing going on later. Fishtanks and clean, litter boxes sifted.

Sure.

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Good report, Daphne. Excellent story.

Great work Daphne.

No doubt, the person who commited this act, will be fired, and possibly receive worse punishment.

Turd terrorism never pays.
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"Two percent of the population think; three percent of the population think they think, and 95 percent of the population would rather die than think."

I don't think it was turd terrorism as much as turd idiocy. Before Daphne mentioned it herself, I was wondering the same thing. Why didn't this moron use the stupid garbage truck? Or at least shit in a bag and pitch it in the truck?

It seems that garbage men are either really nice or really shitty. (No pun intended.) When I lived in the Portland area, we used to talk to the garbage man and he had a little mutilated Mickey Mouse head stuck to the garbage trucks antenna.

Where my sister lives (until they were recently fired after three million complaints), the garbage men were bitter, nasty, and stupid. They used to throw cans at people's windows and doors if they were displeased and swerve at people walking along the road while shouting racist slurs. Especially if the walker was a white woman.

I guess someone finally caught the assholes. When I was out a few weeks ago, there was a completely different crew on duty and they were extremely polite.

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Beware the shitticane. Election, 2008.

If I saw someone shitting in my yard I'd have called the police and had them arrested for indecent exposure and public defecation. Either that or I'd have let my dog out after them, she's very protective of her toilet area. Actually, I could probably get away with both.

Am I the only one who feels for the poor garbageman? After all, where does a garbageman take a dump when he's on the road? County parks and construction sites? Heck, I bet even the construction workers don't want the trash haulers befouling their port-a-potties.

Of course, If it were me, I would have walked into Starbuck's in my wreaking, trash smeared overalls and asked the Senior Barista for a Double Latte and the key to the crapper. Or maybe made a beeline for the nearest hoidy-toidy organic grocery store to unburdening myself.

On the other hand, there's a certain finesse to crapping on a person's lawn, getting into a shouting match with the homeowner and his relatives and then having your friends and co-workers physically intimidate them. I don't (seriously) advocate turd terrorism, but this should be done just for the sheer audacity of it.

Besides, what's anybody going to do? Fire him? He hauls trash for a living. Just about anything else would be a step up.
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Yo quiero Taco Bell.

Yes, you might be the only person who feels bad for someone who would shit on someone else's home property and then refuse to remove it.

Call me crazy, but I would expect my employees to not shit on our customer's lawns. If they did, I would expect them to clean it up, and then I'd take a month's fee off that person's bill as an apology for good business.

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I understand and sympathize with the garbage man's need to go...I don't understand why he didn't drop it in a McDonald's bathroom like any other self-respecting person having a major poomergency.

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Man who stand on toilet seat is high on pot.

Of course, you're right, Daphne, an apology and a month's free service would seem to be in order. This would be the rational and pragmatic thing to do. There is, however, very little that is rational about an impending crap. This website would seem to be a testament to that fact.

This seems like a one-time incident. It doesn't seem as if this poor guy makes a habit of this. On the other hand, I'm betting he's not the first such garbageman (or house painter or mailman or meter reader or policeman or dog walker or landscaper...) to find that they their choices seem to be limited to shitting in their overalls or shitting in semi-seclusion in the backyard of what seems like a currently unoccupied home.

I can only say that, if I had to make the same choice for myself, I would probably choose the backyard. And if I didn't think anybody would notice, I'd probably leave the offending turd. And if the homeowner and his BiL came out and started yelling at me, I would probably be more interested in making my apologies and then getting the hell out of Dodge than picking up a bio-degradable turd. And if it was my co-worker that was being ganged up on by two hysterical yuppies, I would get down off the truck and offer my moral support (to my co-worker, that is). And if I were the boss and I had that same howling mad homeowner calling about a bowel movement, I would make the yup call at least a half-dozen times just so that I could hear him explain how my employee, who hauls away his shit twice a week and most holidays as well, left an errant turd on his lawn.

(BTW, my property backs up to a county park and, for god only knows what reason, the local futbolistas and their drunken spectators have decided that they like using the woods behind my house instead of walking down the hill to the county provided port-a-potties. When that happens, I call the cops and let them deal with the problem. So far, this strategy has only met with limited success.)
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Yo quiero Taco Bell.

Deja Poo, I can see your point. Maybe I should have considered there is a difference between feeling bad for him initially and expecting him to have some sort of human decency in how he addressed his situation. And there, I agree with you. I truly do. Everyone in this world has had to go number one or two and has bee, "out of doors you know" at least once in their life.

Last year I had to pee on the way to Tacoma, and Mr. daphne didn't take me seriously. We had 2 kids in the car besides the Things. It became very clear to me that I very well might pee myself in front of someone else's kids. My bladder was so full that it was cramping and spasming. We finally got to a mini mart/restaurant, and I managed to get into a stall and go before I lost it. I peed for 45 solid seconds.

(Of course, as poopreporter, I had to time it.)

This garbageman most certainly felt the same panic. And for that, yeah, I feel bad. It's such a scary thing to think others might see you lose your dignity.

However, that's where my compassion ends, even though I'm a bunnyhugger. I don't kill ants, so how could I not feel compassion for this guy.... Here's why: this dude's final actions show a complete lack of accountability and respect for other people. He was able to let someone else clean up his own fecal waste because he didn't want to deal with it, because he literally dished it out and couldn't take it. And for him to do this, I have no respect. I lived in army housing where a great deal of soldiers seem to have adopted the mantra, the lifestyle of leaving their shit for other people. I would see garbage left out by the curb that shouldn't have been there when families moved, they'd leave family pets abandoned even. More than once Housing found cats near death in abandoned apartments, left without food or water. I'd see soldiers walking their dogs, watch the dog poop, and then I'd get to watch the soldier walk away. Once I lost it and followed a soldier to his house with his dog's crap in a baggie and dumped it on his lawn.

And these soldiers, in turn, taught their punk ass kids to be just as rude, just as defiant. I got to see them drop pop cans when they were 75 feet from their apartments, flick chewed gum on the sidewalk, toss candy bar wrappers on the sidewalk instead of handing them to me if I was outside. Yes, I offered. Yes I am that fucking cool.

The concept of leaving someone else take care of your mess is part of what's wrong with our society. It can be human poop, it can be not paying child support because you don't think you should have to. I just don't get it, either way. Sure, it would have been hard to clean up his shit in front of an angry homeowner, but he shit on his yard! Did this garbage man think he was above being yelled at, did he not understand someone's reaction might be "spicy"? Maybe he thought he was being 'disrespected in front of his co-workers and needed to keep face, which might be a man thing, but so is taking care of your business. I have no clue but that's fine. I think it was a punk thing to do. It represented punk behavior at its lowest form. Actually, if we get anthropological about the incident, it's downright territorial-invasive. Dogs pee on other dog's marking spots, feral male cats spray on your car tires if you have cats, monkeys throw poop if they feel threatened. This man disrespected another man in the most simple, symbolic way possible known to humans by leaving his shit on his yard. I just can't feel bad for him because he ended up being unable to humble himself to do the right thing.

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^ I really like her....ALOT!!!

The guy did shit is his yard, there seems to be no question about that. The question is what happens afterwards. In the best of all worlds, nobody notices and the garbage man goes on his merry way. Or, as happened, the homeowner or the homeowner's brother notices and a big scene insues. Again, the pragmatic solution is to acknowledge your error, clean up the mess and move on. But this has all of the earmarks of a showdown: the yuppie klan meets trash haulers at the OK corral. Everybody's got their emotional stake in this thing and nobody wants to back down. So, how do you make this win-win? Yuppies call the mamager and get on TV; the trash haulers go about their business ignoring the repeated requests.

In the end, however, the trash company owner needs people to ride the trucks and pick up the cans, which are in short supply, so he has to back them up without it costing him too much money.

And the homeowner need somebody to pick up his garbage on Tuesday and Thursday with recycling on Friday, which is hard to do if you throw the contractors off of the property.

And the in-laws feel slighted by their interactions with the trash company. How much harder can they be on them without losing tgh Put a few bricks in the bottoms of the trash cans? Not sort the recycling?

From a business man's perspective, I would try to placate the owner. If the owner is inconsolable, the try to placate him and their garbage collection service. It's time to move on. And if he decides to leave the route, well then he's only 1 house out of 7 thousand.

In the end, the trash business is more about price than about service. If you like the price but the company screws up occassionally, well, you learn to live with the disappointment. If you can't get over the unintentional insult of a man so desperate to crap that he would use a semi-secluded spot in your backyard, then that seems like a problem with the customer. And while all customers are precious, most business can operate better without certain key precious "high-maintenance" customers. Sad, but true,
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Yo quiero Taco Bell.

1.) The owner was not initially inconsolable. He could have been consoled to have the human waste taken off his yard at the time he found the man shitting. He said that in the video. He was appalled because the guy was walking away. He was inconsolable because the garbage company left it there for four days.

2.) The insult was not unintentional. The insult was leaving it there and walking away from it, an intentional act. This is not a problem customer.

3.) Yuppie clan? High maintenance? Tell me you watched the video.

4.) I get kick out of bantering with you. You wily bastard.

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PS Dave. I wrote to Kuenzi with 5 questions. Let's hope he's cool.

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Being an extrashman myself I can relate to this guys problem although his choice of location was a little off. I can vouch that he should of just done it in the truck. I know of a few good locations on the garbage truck that are out of view and less likely to piss off the customers.

O.K. It was my lawn that the Garbage Man took a **** on. There is a mcd's, 3 gas stations, a holiday inn, and a waffle house 1.3 mile away from where I live. Coming from one direction he would have had to pass all of this. Friday is not our garbage nor recycling day. So they could not have been in a hurry. I live in this house with my husband and 3 kids. My kids play hide and seek behind this well visable to the street shed. My husband goes to put air in my tires and comes back to find the g-man squated in my back yard. ( and the truck parked right in front of my house) He doesn't even get up even as he sees my hubby approaching. He gets up when he's finished. My husband asks hm to clean it up he's say he can't. They argue, garbage men back him up, they leave. We call the office no one returns the call. If you saw behind the shed you wouldn't have touched the ****. 99 degrees, it stank. I was not going back there, sorry. I just wanted HIM to clean it up. They did come and clean it, the thing that pissed me off is that they made some poor lady clean it. Funny thing is that the man covered it up with toilet paper after he was done. My brother is a realestate agent who went on t.v. in between showing houses because I was to embarrassed to do it. That's why he was suited up. Need a house in SC let me know, he's great!!! Anyways that's the story.

This wouldn't be the first time someone involved with a story has written in. Neat!

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