“Evidence suggests that multiple runners defecated at the school concession stand where the track bathrooms are located,”
I don't get it - this drama is because they used a bathroom they weren't supposed to?
no. i think they were protesting the bathroom being locked.
The bathrooms at the concession stand at the high school track where I run from time to time are always locked. That strikes me as standard practice. I've never defecated outside of the bathroom as a consequence. For that matter, since I move my bowels before I go out for a run, I don't recall ever having felt the need to defecate while training.
What sort of effing Third World barbarians are we talking about here, hmm?
I don't really see the problem. Keep the bathrooms open 24/7 and people will poop in the right place.
It's probably a little tricker than you'd guess. I worked as a custodian in multiple schools. Everyone working custodial is tired. You get near no days off. You get hurt. You never really recover. You'd don't want your energy wasted over nonsense. Every day it will be. At one school I was told about "the reason we lock the bathrooms here after school is a girl was messing around climbing over stalls, broke her leg and sued the school". Basically an unlocked , unsupervised room, especially after hours has things going wrong in it way more than you'd like. Some kid writes on the walls with literal crap and you don't find it for 4 hours, and it takes 20 min longer to clean a room you have 6 minutes to clean etc etc. One thing I learned fast is lock all unsupervised rooms immediately after school is out. Because we will barely get things finished even if everything goes right. But some kid after hours fills a urinal with sand or flushes two sweatshirts down the toilet etc etc. It is very impractical to leave rooms unlocked where kids or public will be without supervision. this is largely not due to your basic runner. it is due to many nitwits who go to the school. One of our local colleges has had decent luck with a few portapotties at the track. the youth baseball team that meets at one elementary school I worked at had to rent a portapotty. which was locked when they weren't there. Because they in no way supervised the bathroom if it was left open. supervised means monitor constantly if in use. The Ymca day care had access to the bathroom. because they bring the kids there at set times and monitor use. If a monitor is not directly there then vandalism and nonsense happens a lot. from a custodial perspective it simply isn't worth it to leave the room open unattended. It's bad enough dealing with the teams a school has. For example when the whole wrestling team decides it's hilarious to crap in the same toilet without flushing. Or the track team leaves uneaten lunches in their lockers and mice climb in and out of the lockers eating . In a lot of ways it's easier to just get a wheel and mark off your course somewhere other than a track. One of our local tracks was basically ruined by soccer practices. It was a very functional track for years but honestly it is not ideal working around the schedules of a high school or jr high. Just travel with a measuring wheel .
Why has one if the groups not put a Porta John in? This seems like a pretty simple problem to fix.
What do I know
Its disgusting what people do to/in Porta Johns.
you mean go to the bathroom? First, you complain that runners are pooping outside a locked bathroom. Then, you complain about what, hypothetically, runners might do to the bathroom if it was unlocked
Why has one if the groups not put a Porta John in? This seems like a pretty simple problem to fix.
What do I know
Its disgusting what people do to/in Porta Johns.
There was a lady who used the port-a-potty here at the rodeo. She happened to lose her wedding ring inside. Her husband dutifully put on a glove and spent like 30 minutes sloshing around in an attempt to find it, and he did.
Two more letsrun examples which appear from time to time in these forums, to add to the opening paragraph of the article:
- One of the funnier things I've read here was the Quaker Steak and Lube story
- The photo memorializing the runner with a grimace on his face, and the hershey squirts all around his legs
Sometimes I wonder about you. Neither are even remotely funny if you are older than 12.
Sometimes I wonder about you.
I only said I found the first one funny. Not disagreeing it is for 12 year olds. Maybe it was just the moment.
I found the second one unfortunate and tragic, not because it happened, because, well, it happens, but moreso because it was captured on photo and widely circulated.
But seems like the letsrun forum has a no shortage of crappy memes.
