While Buckley’s CCTV system captured the curb-side crapper on camera,
IoT story of the week? Was it an IP cam? Was it reporting the crappulent data to the cloud?
Curious minds want to know...
An after midnight muckspreader who has been terrorising a Dublin* neighbourhood has been caught in the act by the very shopkeeper whose forecourt he’d been befouling. Alan Buckley, proprietor of Clever Buys in Finglas, plonked a toilet and a pallet of loo roll on the forecourt of his shop after a number of visits from the …
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Eating meat or processed sugars has little to do with how foul shit smells, as anyone who has ever smelled pig shit would know. There's a golf course I play occasionally that borders an organic farm that raises pigs. When the wind is just right, the smell from the pigs wafts over to the course and it is pretty terrible even though the pigs are at least a quarter mile away at the nearest point! Those in the know check the forecast and avoid that course when the wind is from the east!
I suspect the smell difference in horse poop may have more to do with the difference in the horse's stomach and digestive process compared to a human's than their diet. But hey, I've never compared the smell of a human on a vegan and normal diet, so possibly there's something to that.
I just know there's a lot of variation in the smell of my own shit that can't be accounted for by diet. Usually it isn't too bad (though I'm probably used to it) but occasionally it smells like I ate something half rotted that died again and rotted the rest of the way in my digestive system. Even if I haven't had any meat or cheese in the past few days. No idea what triggers that occasional very foul smell, maybe I'm just sick in some way but don't know it, I'm just glad for bathroom fans on such occasions!
I just know there's a lot of variation in the smell of my own shit that can't be accounted for by diet. Usually it isn't too bad (though I'm probably used to it) but occasionally it smells like I ate something half rotted that died again and rotted the rest of the way in my digestive system. Even if I haven't had any meat or cheese in the past few days. No idea what triggers that occasional very foul smell, maybe I'm just sick in some way but don't know it, I'm just glad for bathroom fans on such occasions!
Don't you think that might just fall into the category of "over - sharing"?
"Those in the know check the forecast and avoid that course when the wind is from the east!"
Sounds like the town of Midwest in central Wyoming. It's in the middle of an oilfield and stinks of rotten eggs. Interstate 25, which follows the alignment of most of the older highways it replaces makes an exception at Midwest and is routed 7 miles west of this stinkhole through some of the ugliest scenery in the state. This is not far enough because when the wind is from the east, well, you know...
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@Symon
The shop keeper said: "who left dung deposits so foul that, as Buckley put it, “You’d swear a horse did it.”
I read foul to mean light a match get rid of that smell, my eyes are watering, my automatic gag reflex is in overdrive and my windpipe is involuntarily slamming shut
The barman says, "why the long face?"
The horse neighs, "I've just been caught crapping three times outside a shop!"
The barman says, "what did the shopkeeper say?"
The horse replies, "shoe!"
Hmm. Not even a smile from any of you...
I think I need to work on this a bit more.
Sadly, some do "make fun" and worse of the person who has a funny walk. Never an "okay" situation.
That depends on whether or not it's funny.
There's a TV programme over here called The Last Leg. Two of the three presenters have artificial legs. Many of their guests are in some way disabled - particularly during the Paralympics. And they take the piss *mercilessly* out of everyone - able-bodied or disabled. It's an equal-opportunities piss-take.
I thoroughly recommend it...
Vic.
I have been subjected to flaming on another site due to perceived "social justice warrioring", but I don't think I've ever deserved it as much as this.
You know, even mental health professionals joke about their charges. He hasn't been named, vigilantes aren't after him with toilet brushes and stuff for getting clean round the bend, when faced with the weird shit that some people get up to and if you aren't personally involved, laugh that you may not weep may be the best option.
"Yeah, very amusing, but the guy obviously has mental health issues. I assume you wouldn't poke fun at someone with a broken leg for walking funny? I guess it just shows how poorly understood mental health is that you consider this an amusing story."
Not necessarily, it could have any cause ranging from sexual to revenge, a bet perhaps? Mental health is not the one I would plonk for first.
I reserve the right to laugh at anything that I deem a fitting subject. I do not need the likes of you to arbitrarily tell me what topic I am allowed to laugh at and what not.
Well, now that the Phantom Shitter of Old Dublin Town has been caught, we can go back to the Kinahan - Hutch feud and the funeral of the Queen of the Travellers.
I assume you wouldn't poke fun at someone with a broken leg for walking funny?
I think you assume wrongly...I know that if I had a broken leg and was walking funny I'd be taking the piss out of myself. Have you never watched 'The last leg' on Channel 4?
One of the loveliest things that came out of all the paralympic coverage is that it made it very clear that 'disabled people' on the whole aren't. They are actually just people with a disability - which means they are people just the same as everyone else, with a personality, emotions and a sense of humour (or no sense of humour, of course). They don't need protection from well-meaning people - 'Does he take sugar?' my arse - try asking!
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I'm not a Trumpian "political correctness is ruining our country" kind of guy, but things are going too far if you can't criticize someone for shitting in the street because they might have mental issues!
When you get down to it, pretty much everyone who commits mass murder obviously has mental issues. I guess we should only say nice things about them, too?
Oh, the guy crapping on the shop and causing a potentially biohazardous, nevermind disgusting, issue is the victim?
Some people have various disabilities, both mental and physical. And it's not an excuse, that doesn't make them victims. A lot more than half of humanity fits into some category of impediment or another. It's part of us, and we take responsibility for who we are and our shortcomings.
Someone that "doesn't have anything against the shop" and yet shits on it three times? That's not a mental problem. That's being full of shit (QED).
"Just a small portion of the Reg’s prodigious journalistic muscle has been devoted to this story ..."
Just out of idle curiosity, does the muscle mentioned fall into this category?
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"Keep your data close and your cloud options open." Hmm.
Error: dump device full.
The night has a thousand irate shopkeepers.
You might have mentioned (if you didn't - I forget) that Dublin is the crapital of Ireland.
And one of its literary classics almost is "The Turd Policeman". So they probably have had that one.
Mystery stomach-upset man rumbled.
"Now might I do it, splat"
These are my pat answers.
Ré IBS, have you investigated Autoimmune dietary advice ?
I have an AIC induced IBS issue; the quacks have been denying various foods are an issue for nearly 10 years; however stumbling across a book on the subject last month, I tried leaving out a few of the suspect foods and my condition has improved dramatically.
I think the "Cave Man" diet suggestions are a bit OTT, and perhaps some of the foods make a subtle difference, but I found dramatic changes from avoiding yeast (really difficult to avoid), tomatoes (really easy to avoid), and wheat (difficult to avoid).
MY stomach issues are nearly 90% gone for 90% of the time, and I no longer feel 20 years older than my real age, in fact I feel 20 years YOUNGER than my real age.
To other readers, sorry for the off topic.
For this case, 1 will not do.
Poems they must Number 2
1)
There was an old man from Dublin
Who took a shit by the dustbin
When caught in the frame
His bowls he did blame
A punishment fit? Rub his nose in
And what will they say of him when he is laid to rest? An epootaph.
2)
Here lies the Phantom Pooper
Of old Dublin town
Who's shitty midnight antics
Made shopkeepers frown
But now those days are over
As his time has come to pass
And now we need not worry
About his Phantom arse
The_poIT. Will write for upvotes :)