I work at a public library. Someone comes into the library and takes his own feces and throws and smears it all over the bathroom walls. We call him the "Mad Crapper." A couple of suspects as to who it is, but we haven't caught the person yet.
What makes a person do something like this? Is it a specific disorder? Is the person likely to be dangerous?
2007-10-02 19:45:20 · 4 answers · asked by Steve-O 5 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Dude, you're not alone. I work in a public Library as well, and I've DEALT with that. At one library I worked at, someone smeared crap on the CEILING of the men's bathroom about 50 minutes BEFORE we were set to start an event with 250 kids. The city said it would take 3 hours to send a Janitor out to clean the mess. Therefore, being the only male in the Library, I was asked if I wanted "battle pay" to clean up before the event.
I threw up 3 times, but the bathroom was cleaned and the event went on as planned.
A second, even odder event years later... we had paper towel disappearing from the women's bathroom every Monday between 11am and 1pm. We called this person the Paper Towel Shopper. I would track this person on video camera, but they were usually pretty smart about not being caught red handed. Until one day...I got fed up and marked the paper towel with Red marker. We stopped her at the entrance and asked her to open the bag. The woman exclaimed she had a massive lemonade spill in her car to clean up. This statement AFTER we watched her on video for over an hour.
There's nuts out there. Lots of em. And sometimes, they end up at the Library. Are they dangerous? Probably, but you encounter the same nuts everywhere you go. They look just like us, unfortunately. Sometimes, the one's who LOOK nuts are pretty much the sane ones.
Except Paper Towel Shopper... she was klepto.
2007-10-05 19:14:20 · answer #1 · answered by mightyspoo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it's some kind of disorder and the person might be dangerous. Normal people don't do that type of thing.
2007-10-02 19:54:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i used to work at a bookstore and we had the same problem! maybe books attract certain um, personality types? i would say a person like that is NOT mentally well. why would any sane person do such a thing?
2007-10-03 02:24:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Steve, refer to My answer at Your other entry.
2007-10-02 20:25:22 · answer #4 · answered by Ashleigh 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋