Woman Arrested After Repeatedly Defecating in Store Parking Lot - Claims Discrimination Against People Afflicted With Irritable Bowel Syndrome - 24 Jan 2020

"I'm an American with a disability," claims woman arrested for repeated defecation, Gandrea Rocer. 

A Boson, Massachusetts woman accused of defecating in the parking lot of a local Boson store for months was arrested Wednesday after she was caught in the act, reports say.

Gandrea Rocer, 51, was charged with eight counts of wanton destruction property after a Boson police officer said he saw her defecating outside the Boson Outdoor Store around 7 a.m., WYCN reported.

Police were first alerted to the serial pooper in December when Enry Hanner, the store’s owner, reported human feces there on eight separate occasions since October.

Police began investigating, initially believing it might be an animal, but then found “toilet paper and other wipes," Natick Police Department spokeswoman Lt. Clara Rosso told The Boson Daily News.

A DNA analysis performed by the Massachusetts State Police forensic laboratory did not return matches to any DNA on file.   

An officer was patrolling the parking lot Wednesday when he spotted Grocer waiting for the lot to clear of other cars and people, opening the driver’s side door of her Lincoln MKX and defecating out the door, WYCN reported.

Grocer was pulled over after driving off and told police that she was on her way to a home up the street where she worked as a nanny, but stopped because she has irritable bowel syndrome, according to the arrest report.

Her employer told police, however, that Grocer had access to their restroom and certainly could have come to the home directly rather than waiting around a parking lot. This, coupled with the length of time that passed with Grocer in the lot, led to her arrest.

“I’m so happy they arrested her,” Kanner told Metrowest. “I have no idea who she is. This has been ongoing. She has defecated quite often over here. There’s nothing more disgusting coming into your parking lot in the morning and seeing a pile of human excrement.”

 What is the woman's motive?  Is it a puerile sense of humor? The persistence in the activity is too serious for that to be it. A fixation that’s the fate of all Raisin Bran–medicated middle-age women? It can’t be excluded, I suppose, but it seems oversimple. An expression of latent coprophilia? Writing therapy for a case of coprophobia? Residual trauma from childhood encopresis? One would need more data to make an assessment.

Rocer was released without bail and is due back in court on March 2.  The judge did note that the defendant used brought toilet paper with her and had a twelve pack of Charmin toilet paper in the back seat of her car.  "I poop a lot," she told the judge.  The toilet paper was confiscated as evidence.