Boerum Hill's Mad Crapper Caught in the Act
The residents of Boerum Hill have been contending with an unpleasant quality of life problem recently—someone’s been crapping on the sidewalks and in people’s front yards with increasing regularity. Last Tuesday, The Daily News devoted an entire article to the issue, with Sue Wolfe, president of the Boerum Hill Association, confirming, “It’s a big problem…
The residents of Boerum Hill have been contending with an unpleasant quality of life problem recently—someone’s been crapping on the sidewalks and in people’s front yards with increasing regularity. Last Tuesday, The Daily News devoted an entire article to the issue, with Sue Wolfe, president of the Boerum Hill Association, confirming, “It’s a big problem – it’s gotten worse over the years and much worse recently.” Certain clues, most notably the location of the evidence and the presence of tissue paper, had convinced residents that the perpetrator had two legs instead of four but no one had caught the person in the act. Until yesterday. Here it is from the horse’s mouth:
For the second time in two weeks I got pooped on. This time I saw her. I live on Dean Street between Hoyt and Bond. At 6 a.m. this morning my wife heard…well peeing…she woke me up and I went to the door. We live in the garden apartment so I looked up…and saw butt – thus I yelled…”HEY MOVE YOUR ASS!!!!” This was the first time in my life that I literally meant it.
After the pooping I threw on some clothes and set out to find the poopertrator. I did not find her. But my wife did hear the woman outside while I scrambled for my clothes, she did not run, just kept talking to herself. It turns out that the infamous stoop pooper is a clearly rather mentally ill black woman with very short dreds.
It actually sounds a lot like the woman who we found giving herself a makeshift bath in the doorway of our ground floor during our renovations a couple of years ago. Does this description match with any other sightings?
Boerum Hill’s on the Trail of a Nincom-Poop [NY Daily News]
In the ’70s there was a passionate movement to protect the civil rights of mentally ill people and with the advent of effective psychoactive drugs, institutionalization was viewed as a kind of imprisonment. Community care and the use of medication was the preferred public policy and the massive NYS mental hospital system was downsized. The move toward community care for massive numbers of the mentally ill without the necessary community facilities, follow up, etc. has left people like this lady roaming around in this state. This was one of the worst public policy failures and a great contributor to homelessness that we have ever seen. That being said, I like the term “poopetrator”.
Poop Chute,
If you go to the Clinton/Washington Ave side today (Clinton side), you’ll notice excrement in the amount of horseshit with discarded shorts.
Excrement seems to be par for the course every 3 mos at that station.
If you want to help her you have to call Adult Protective Services, dial 311.
To holy sh**:
obviously, it’s terribly sad that homeless and mentally ill people exist, both in brooklyn and in the world. no one has implied otherwise.
but get off your high horse — if someone is dropping a deuce outside apartment, it’s perfectly natural to get upset. why must it be heartless and cruel to say so?
in terms of helping her… unfortunately, no one can compel her to give up her freedom if she doesn’t give consent or get caught committing a crime. but she clearly needs medicine and/or inpatient care at a mental hospital. so making others aware in this manner might be the first step to help her.
I saw a woman outside my clinton hill brownstonelooking all around in a shifty manner while standing behind a parked car. I thought she might be thinking of trying to break in and was keeping an eye on her because of that, and because some neighbors kids were playing on the sidewalk across the street and she looked suspicious. It was broad daylight in the morning. She looked normal enough, white shirt dark shorts, black woman, don’t know if she had dreads like the lady described in the post, but this particular woman didn’t give the impression of being homeless.
Next thing I know she starts to drop trou to do her business on the sidewalk by the wheel of the car. I yell out “yo, yo, yo!” and she quickly pulls her pants back up, not sure where I’m calling from, and yells “F*ck” and “G*dd*mmit” a few times and loudly remonstrates “I gotta f***** go m*****f*****, sh**” and continues to yell and then mumble embarassed obscenties as she walked downed the residential block. Lovely. Could’ve gone to a local store a couple of blocks away…
I believe I’d rather find poop than the used condom which cropped up in our garden-level entrance alcove.
I lived on 5th Ave and Bergen St. until recently. I have seen this woman in action before. She is known in the neighborhood as “most fashionable” due to her raiding the Park Slope area clothing drops during the night.I caught her doing her business one morning between parked cars on Bergen St. as I was headed to the subway. I thought I had seen everything. Only in New York.
I have spotted human excrement twice in Brooklyn. Once on the steps of Clinton-Washington Station (C train, near Washington) and once in the scaffolding covered sidewalk in front of the Boerum Heights condo units.
I’m with Sterling Silver. It’s not like this poor woman is seeking out only really nice renovated bstones on which to poop. Callous m*f*ckers you are, calling her a ‘poor slob’….that is shameful.
Clearly there are homeless people in Brooklyn. That is the problem, not people pooping on your stoops.