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I've been seeing poop in a path which is connected to the gates of my house. This has happened 3 times now over 1 or 2 weeks. When I saw the poop first, I thought it must be a dog. But everytime it dries (every 3 or 4 days), a mysterious pile of new shit is dropped on the old shit. It's (very) black, very smelly and in the EXACT same spot!! Right on top of the dried shit!! I'm convinced it's a human being. I've decided I'm gonna hide in some bushes nearby and catch them doing the deed. But what do I do then? What if they don't care and continue doing it? How do I make them regret it without getting into trouble? It'd be nice if they couldn't tell it's me.

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[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (13 children)

What's the maximum amount of time you could tolerate hiding in the bushes with spiders & bugs, unsure when/if the serial shitter might ever return? Would you be willing to hunker down in the spider bug cold pokey bushes all night long & all the next day, and on day 3 at 4:42am you finally catch the shitter in the act? Will you have no tent? No sleeping bag? Snacks? Activities to pass time? Do you not have a job & duties to attend to, this wouldn't interrupt your week at all? Probably much easier to install a camouflaged motion-sensitive camera to capture the shitter. Then what you do? Turn the camera footage into the police.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're telling us more about yourself than you might intend.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh you really think so? Go ahead and describe everything about me & my life as best as you can, solely based on what I said up there.

[–] jim_v@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think the comment you are getting worked up over was intended for the OP, Karl.

[–] Karl@literature.cafe 1 points 2 days ago

And what did I tell that I didn't intend to?

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Okay then I wonder why it showed up in my inbox as a response to me?

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Tsk, you just told us SO much more. scribbles notes

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