# Elevator Crap (literally) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 30, 2002, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-crap-literally/134588 "2002-10-30T19:41:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-crap-literally/134588/61 "2002-11-01T15:04:11Z")
Well, seeing as we’re talking Morgan Hill here, I could understand if someone deposited a big steamer somewhere over at [Media Arts Group](http://www.mediaarts.com/), strictly as a critique of the works of Thomas Kinkade. Sorry they chose your elevator instead, **Deep Fried**. pugluvr, Morgan Hill denizen ---
**Author:** ![\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/7cd45c/32.png) [@\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Deep_F_ied)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-crap-literally/134588/62 "2002-11-01T18:16:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by samarm \* > \*\*Damn, **King Nifty** must work at the same place as **DeepFried**. I feel so foolish for believing the OP, now! \*\* Sorry **samarm** if you read our locations you will see that I live in a different state than **Queen Nifty**. Thanks for the sympathy puglvr and for what it is worth this dispicable act was done in a work place and not all of the workers that work there live in Morgan Hill. It seems most likely it was East Palo Alto resident if you ask me… ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-crap-literally/134588/63 "2002-11-01T19:45:16Z")
Ugh! That is soooooooooooooo GROSS!! I hope they catch the **turd terrorist!** ---
**Author:** ![DaToad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@DaToad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaToad)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-crap-literally/134588/64 "2002-11-01T19:45:39Z")
A few years ago I worked for a very large aerospace company when said company was going through major cut backs/lay-offs. On the night shift, we had a phantom shitter dropping his loads on the mens room floor. That was bad, but he then used his colon crayons to write messages to management on the walls. After a few weeks plant security finally caught the guy. Turned out to be one of the janitors, who was afraid he was going to be laid-off, just trying to create a little job security. Well, he didn’t get laid-off, he got fired. For a good chuckle read, The Toilet Papers, by Chris Miller, in The National Lampoon, Issue #18. ---
**Author:** ![King\_Nifty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f9ae1b/32.png) [@King\_Nifty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Nifty)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-crap-literally/134588/65 "2002-11-01T20:50:23Z")
Whatever. You can choose to believe this total nonsense, but I do not. This guy works in a clean lab, and some scientist took a dump in an elevator that only goes up one floor? Lies. And since no one called him on it, I did. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2002, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-crap-literally/134588/66 "2002-11-01T21:52:35Z")
Friend **Nifty** , [James Randi](http://www.randi.org) you ain’t. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2002, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-crap-literally/134588/67 "2002-11-02T00:11:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by King Nifty \* > \*\*Whatever. You can choose to believe this total nonsense, but I do not. This guy works in a clean lab, and some scientist took a dump in an elevator that only goes up one floor? Lies. > > And since no one called him on it, I did. \*\* Actually … 1. We have no idea it was a scientist. The OP has NO idea who it was. Pretty dumb to assume otherwise. 2. In the OP, there’s no mention about the elevator going up only one floor. > [@](#): > > The burn-in room is located up stairs in a seperate building than the one in which I do most of my testing. In order to transport units between buildings I must use a large cart. The elevator goes from one floor of one building to a higher floor of another building. There’s no mention it travels only this distance and nothing else. Also, the reason this was a real problem is that the elevator is apparently used to transport materials on carts; the OP, trying to transport a cartload of materials, had no other choice than to use the elevator. Now, before you call the OP a “liar,” perhaps you could come up with legitimate reasons to dispute his account. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2002, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-crap-literally/134588/68 "2002-11-02T03:06:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cjhoworth \* > \*\*I also worked in a department store where we had a problem with someone repeatedly using one of the women’s fitting rooms as a bathroom. I don’t know if they ever caught the person, but I would love to know how she(?) could be rude enough to do such a thing. > > CJ \*\* Could be someone who was mentally ill. What I don’t get is when people splatter their shit all over the stall and the walls and everything-like they decide to finger paint or something? What the HELL? I’d hate to see what their houses look like! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2002, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-crap-literally/134588/69 "2002-11-02T03:09:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LolaCocaCola \* > \*\ ***turd terrorist!** \*\* BAND NAME!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2002, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-crap-literally/134588/70 "2002-11-02T12:39:35Z")
Libraries are warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Being such, many of them can attract a variety of homeless/mentally ill persons who seem to have nowhere else to go. The library where I work in had a guy pass out in one of the chairs in the periodicals section. He’d been drinking generic mouthwash and he soiled the chair and himself. And someone once found a _big_ pile of crap in the reference section. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2002, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-crap-literally/134588/71 "2002-11-02T13:20:23Z")
Back when I was in college, I worked in the fitting room of a clothing store, men on side, women on the other. I was part time, and there was a very sweet woman who worked full time. I come in one day to relieve her, and she’s shaking and jittering like an addict going through withdrawal. Turned out she’d given a card to a man who wanted to try on a bathing suit. (You were allowed to take up to six items into the fitting room, and we would give you a card with a number on it that corresponds to the number of items you’re trying on.) The guy did not like the bathing suit, I guess, because he gave it back to her. Now, note that you are required to leave underwear on when trying on bathing suits. It was busy, so when she got a chance to hang it back up on the hangar, she discovered the guy had jacked off into the bathing suit. She shrieked like a banshee, management threw the suit out, and I think she spent about half an hour washing her hands. Of course, by that time, the guy was long gone. Sometimes I wonder who the hell raised these people? ---
**Author:** ![MC\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@MC\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MC_E)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2002, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-crap-literally/134588/72 "2002-11-02T13:31:56Z")
My sister used to work at the local mall on the cleaning crew. They had to cancel the early morning “Mall Walking” program because someone was pooping as they walked and just letting it drop to the floor. They figured it was a woman with a skirt or dress but never caught anyone. IIRC, it was happening several times a week when they finally put a stop to it. MC$E [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-crap-literally/134588.md?page=3)