It’s downright shitty when people poop their own pants. It’s even worse when people poop in someone else’s.
Yale University students have been facing incidents of a culprit soiling laundry in dryers with feces.
The infamously dubbed “poopetrator” first surfaced when dump-filled dryers greeted Saybrook College residents in the late evening of Sept. 7, according to Yale Daily News.
“I simultaneously wanted to throw up, cry and punch someone,” Lucy Fleming, one of the first victims, told the Daily News.
The fecal felon allegedly struck again when soiled garments were found hanging on a clothesline in the early morning of Oct. 4. The clothesline was outside Berkeley College, another Yale residence.
The Daily News reported that Yale students received emails around 3:35 a.m. from an anonymous sender named “Copro Philiac” saying “Last time, I promise. :).”
The email also contained three photographs of the clothesline.
A follow-up email was sent at 10:32 a.m. with a photograph of the clothesline still up, captioned “It’s still a good morning!”
However, the Daily News tweeted on Oct. 7 that a Saybrook master’s aide confirmed the clothesline incident involved chocolate and not feces.
The Huffington Post reported that the email address used by the brown bandit was everybody.poops@yale.panlist.edu.
Yale’s security unit declined to comment, saying the matter is currently a police investigation.
Household bleach brand Clorox also decided to join in the fray on Twitter.
@YaleRumpus United we stand against the #Poopertrator. Time for #Poopgate13 justice pic.twitter.com/EgElIHaN3m
— Clorox (@Clorox) October 4, 2013
Other schools also seem to be facing shenanigans involving poop, too.
Users on Reddit have started threads related to the Yale poopetrator, and talk about their crappy times at school. User HymenAnnihilator wrote about their school’s problem.
“Once or twice a week you could damn sure bet on walking in on a healthy warm slam right in the damn middle of shower area,” the user wrote. “No clue how that asshole(s?….) pulled it off as that place was always occupied.”
Another user, Skabomb, also discussed their dirty days at school.
“I discovered it in the bathroom outside the student newsroom, and showed my Editor in Chief. Someone had pooped then smeared it all over the bathroom,” they wrote.
David Sterritt, Carleton University’s director of housing, said he has never heard of any incidents of anyone stealing or tampering with students’ laundry.
“Our laundry rooms are locked, and are only accessible by people who live in that particular building. Secondly, there are CCTV cameras mounted in the laundry rooms,” he said. “So if we have any kind of incidents involving the theft of someone’s belongings or the soiling of someone’s belongings intentionally, we’d be able to check the video surveillance.”
The poopetrator has made both national and international headlines, and is yet to be apprehended.
