What drives people to smear their feces on the walls of public bathrooms?

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Same with leaving poop remains on the toilet seat, i see it all the the time at school bathrooms and i just don’t understand how that’s scientifically possible

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  2. Amplidyne Avatar

    Because they’re dirty, inconsiderate shitbags.
    No need for it.

  3. imgonnagetyoub4ck Avatar

    Mental illness or drugs

  4. Bipolar-cunt Avatar

    Excuse me! I am an artist and this world is my canvas

  5. RbeatlejuiceEsq Avatar

    i do it to feed flies and for art

  6. Majestic_Bet6187 Avatar

    How do I make a link to what I did? it didn’t involve feces, but it did urine. Check my comments

  7. GreezyShitHole Avatar

    It’s not always intentional. I have, on several occasions, shit all over the wall of a restaurant bathroom after falling off the toilet mid blast.

    It’s usually a combination of having diarrhea and lots of gas. There is no way to clean it up so I just clean myself as much as possible and just leave the bathroom for the employees.

    Edit: I share my story and people down vote me, this isn’t meant to be bathroom humor or something I’m just saying if this has happened to me it’s likely has happened to others too.

  8. Night_Widow Avatar

    A passion for the arts

  9. actualhumannotspider Avatar

    Aa far as the toilet seat, a lot of people find public toilet seats gross, so they squat instead of sitting down. As a result, it’s easier to miss.

    “Explosive” diarrhea can also splash quite a lot.

  10. Test-Equal Avatar

    I want to know this too—it was a daily occurrence at Hobby Lobby—but damn every day. Some is oldness but some are mental illness —weird stuff

  11. EffectiveAd3788 Avatar

    Don’t knock little Johnny he has talent

  12. CandyMandy15 Avatar
  13. TsunamaRama Avatar

    People are monsters. Disrespectful and disgusting

  14. ayweller Avatar

    Mental illness

  15. UndahwearBruh Avatar

    It’s art, you just don’t understand

  16. Mindfully-Numb Avatar

    I guess if there’s no toilet paper, the walls are the next best thing to wipe your hands on?

  17. SouthMeaning2661 Avatar

    i used to work as a school teacher and at a boys and girls club in the states, we would have trainings all the time about how kids act and what their actions mean. maybe unrelated but i learned once that if a kid plays with their feces its normally because of sexual abuse in their family. no lie. to me at first this made no sense but then when i found out which kids were doing it, ill never look at it the same.

    That being said, if youre talking about adults then thats a whole ‘nother topic — 🤮

  18. Jedimasteryony Avatar

    Sick and twisted sense of humor. I worked in a convenience store that had a school bus garage nearby, so many of the drivers stopped in multiple times a day. Every day around the same time, someone was smearing feces on the seat, side of the toilet, wall, paper dispenser, sink, floor, and ceiling. We eventually watched the tapes (for outside the restrooms) to see who was going in and doing this disgusting act. It was one of the school bus drivers. The manager of the garage was told to notify all of the drivers that they would no longer be allowed in our store unless the culprit apologized and accepted a permanent ban from the store. The very next day he was in the store apologizing, though very half-assed, because all of the other drivers were furious. He accused us of not having a sense of humor, then we never saw or smelled him again.

  19. AnonMuskkk Avatar

    Art is objective.

  20. AbraxasKadabra Avatar

    I read this as faces and for a second wondered how I’d never witnessed such a thing.

  21. ThrowRAboredinAZ77 Avatar

    That’s very common in those hole in the ground bathrooms at lakes and rivers. I’ve always been so baffled (and disgusted) by it. It’s also one of the reasons I like peeing outside.

  22. Greedy_Temperature33 Avatar

    Misguided attempt at humour?

  23. Eis_ber Avatar

    Some people suffer from mental health issues or dementia. Some people are shitheads who don’t see the cleaner/ janitor as a human being.

  24. wortmother Avatar

    Meth, could be mental health but mostly meth

  25. tanknav Avatar

    WTF? Where do you live, seeing that?

  26. Previous_Kale_4508 Avatar

    It can be a form of protest too. See the H-Block dirty protests back in 1978 to 1981 Maze prison in Ireland. Various inmates wanted to be recognised as “political” prisoners but the UK government classified them as “common criminals”. They all ended up on hunger strike as I recall.

  27. Hungry-Ad9840 Avatar

    I see boogers even more often. There is a roll of toilet paper right there. It has to be a mental illness or some sort of vendetta.

  28. SpectralEdge Avatar

    I’ve always wondered. I have a nephew who did this in school. He never could explain why that seemed the most logical action for him. He just said he was upset.

  29. Medical_Tutor_7749 Avatar

    Crazy people are obsessed with poop for some reason

  30. Glittering_Ad4153 Avatar

    I’ve read a few times that it’s tied to SA as a child. I don’t study this tho. Only read it 10+ times. Maybe full of it?

  31. bluecheese2040 Avatar

    Domination. Marking your territory. Establishing your position in the hierarchy….I assume. 😆 🤣

  32. josiahpapaya Avatar

    Poop remains in the toilet is different. Thats people either being lazy, or taking sick satisfaction.

    Cave paintings done in poop is mental illness full stop

  33. BillWeld Avatar

    Demons maybe.

  34. aurora_ethereallight Avatar

    I read faces and nearly heaved! 🤢🤭😂

  35. Exact-Truck-5248 Avatar

    I guess it’s a weapon that sociopaths have

  36. OsotoViking Avatar

    Is the toilet paper really thin? If they wiped their arse and the paper disintegrated, I could see someone wiping their shitty fingers on the wall as a kind of dirty protest.

  37. Sparky62075 Avatar

    Sometimes shitty people do shitty things.

  38. KittiesInThePark Avatar

    Pettiness. I know someone who was denied using the bathroom at a certain sandwich place until he shown a receipt. Thing is, the mgmt knew he just came in and picked up and sandwich and went outside to eat it in his car. He walked back in to use the restroom and she acted like she never seen him before and said ”not without a receipt” (the receipt was in the car) when she was the one who just gave him the sandwich.

    he explained that he knew she was being weird and made him go get his receipt just so he could take a shit. He may have shit on a piece of toilet paper he was holding in his hands and thrown it on the wall. If she doesn’t want ppl to act like an animal, don’t treat ppl like an animal.

    Idk, that’s what my friend told me.

  39. Away-Bit3952 Avatar

    An extreme desire to go directly to Hell !!!!!!!!!!

  40. Ebb____ Avatar

    Form of art i guess

  41. swedishworkout Avatar

    The Jan 6 crowd dit it because they lost an election. So this is one possible reason.

  42. PerformerOk450 Avatar

    Normally lack of toilet paper I assume

  43. banmalepodcasts Avatar

    have you never been stricken with inspiration

  44. dadjokes502 Avatar

    Some say it’s a sign of past trauma

  45. RunNo599 Avatar

    If you have to ask you’ll never know

  46. sincerevibesonly Avatar

    This is a canon event in the military 🤣

  47. figsslave Avatar

    Mental heath issues

  48. d2r_freak Avatar

    Mental illness is the clear answer

  49. hungryforfood45 Avatar

    Because their disgusting

  50. bloopie1192 Avatar

    I worked retail for a while and the women would always come to the store to explode and leave feces all over the inside of the stalls.

    Over a decade later and I still dk what their malfunction is.

  51. Tchukoop Avatar

    OP says they aren’t from the US. So where is OP from?

  52. ScrambledNoggin Avatar
  53. SpecialistEither3204 Avatar

    It wards off the bathroom demons.

  54. DrunkMonkBusiness Avatar

    ….because at the end of the day we are animals…..I don’t use public restrooms if I can help it

  55. Xikkiwikk Avatar

    Art if it is Walmart.

    One day I went to the bathroom in the back of Walmart. There was a smell but oh ho ho I was going to make a better smell. It was then when I looked inside the only available stall, that I saw it: a poop mural.

    Someone had fashioned a mural made of poop. They made a scene of Poop Mammoth with Poop People chasing the Poop Mammoth with Poop Spears. The scene was quite detailed and even included poop flora and poop fauna.

    The piece was even signed by the cave-poop-person. They signed it the way cave men signed their art: a hand then covered in poop so it leaves a perfect outline of a hand surrounded by poop.

  56. No_Angle875 Avatar

    Trauma or sexual abuse

  57. Otherwise_Routine810 Avatar

    A special connection to classical music.

  58. Milk_With_Knives3 Avatar
  59. Pl4ymaker__ Avatar

    Immaturity . ” this is not my br ima pee on the floor n shit everywhere just bc i can & its funny, i wont need to clean it up hahahahaha “

  60. Questionsey Avatar

    So many people have said the art thing that I’m kind of concerned a few of them might be the culprits

  61. AmishSloth84 Avatar

    Good question! I’ve worked at a gas station, and this question still bothers me.

  62. notwyntonmarsalis Avatar

    Well, I’m not going to smear it on the walls at home. I’m not an animal.

  63. gla205 Avatar

    Most people do not have respect for themselves. They will not respect anyone or anything.

  64. Just_Flower854 Avatar

    That puddin’ ain’t gonna mix itself

  65. reddituser7899 Avatar

    Kids don’t think and don’t care until one of their mates points it out and laughs

  66. mangotheduck Avatar

    Lack of toilet paper after wiping to clean their hands but they don’t want to accidentally wipe it on their clothes when they go to pull their pants up.

    Disregard for public service people who have to clean up the restrooms.

    Mental illness or drugs.

    Getting frustrated at the public service people for only stocking the crappiest toilet paper and not being able to actually get the toilet paper out of the dispenser because it keeps tearing into tiny pieces or because the people who installed the toilet paper dispensers put them so close to the toilet that they can barely shit without being uncomfortable or unable to reach inside to pull out the toilet paper to wipe their ass.

  67. soundsaboutright11 Avatar

    Usually childhood sexual abuse… Sadly this is a known thing.

  68. CreepyValuable Avatar

    The same thing that drives people to support Trump.

  69. Dry_Run9442 Avatar

    An ex girlfriend was working in a bar and she went the bathroom. She heard all this giggling coming from one of the stalls. When she went to investigate there was three adult drunk women writing on the wall in shit. She said it was the most fucked up thing she had ever seen. Why someone would do this is baffling, bt doing it as a group activity is completely batshit.