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Oak Park Police Department
Police say this man is a person of interest in the feces attack.
A woman riding the Chicago Transit Authority's Blue Line in Oak Park told police she was last week attacked by another passenger wielding a sock filled with human feces.
"He had a sock full of his poop on me," the 21-year-old college student told the Pioneer Press. "It was everywhere; on my face, my hair, my clothes."
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The victim, requesting anonymity, said she screamed and tried to follow her attacker, but he escaped up the Austin Boulevard exit and ran northbound on Austin.
The college student, who came to Oak Park six weeks ago to live with a family and provide in-home child care, said she was riding an east-bound train from Oak Park to Chicago when she was attacked.
"The guy got on with me at [the] Oak Park [station]," she said. "I wasn’t really paying attention. ... "Next stop [at Austin], he throws something in my face."
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Oak Park Police Commander Ladon Reynolds said officers responded by searching for the man in and around a gas station at Harrison Street, but did not find him. Reynolds said police retrieved a photo of a "person of interest" matching the description the woman and other witnesses gave. That man was videotaped on the Austin platform.
"We have photos of the offender and we’re seeking to identify him," Reynolds said of images obtained from the CTA. "We’ve reached out to other [police] agencies and have issued a bulletin."
CTA spokesman Catherine Hosinski said the transit agency has “several high-definition video cameras” at each station.
The woman, who said she has a copy of a photo of her assailant taken by a CTA security camera, described her assailant as a black man no older than mid-20s, average build, with facial hair above the mouth and on the chin. She said he wore a hooded sweatshirt and ball cap that partly obscured his face.
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She expressed utter disgust and outrage.
“It was like the biggest degradation I’ve ever [experienced]. I wish he had just hit me,” she said, because she thinks that would have been less traumatic.
"The worst part is nobody had anything to wipe my face with," she said. She managed to find some newspapers before paramedics arrived. The paramedics gave her towels and water.
"They really aren’t prepared for a situation like that,” she said.
The woman said she and her assailant never exchanged a word, and she can’t understand his reason for the assault.
"I don’t know why he did it," she said, adding, "I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t have done that to a guy."
She said she still rides the CTA, but is more attentive now.
"I just want people to pay attention on the train," she said. "I try to check the people around me."
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LOL.
You find that funny? What if it happened to your mother, wife, daughter? Would it be funny then?
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From the description in the article, I'm imagining that the sock's payload was not of the solid variety. I don't know how this woman will ever feel clean again. ...Just reading this article makes me want to go and take a shower.
you find that funny. really.
so, for an abused turkey, you think the guy was a low life scumbag.
but for this....you think it's funny. what a piece of garbage.
Never trust a guy in a hoodie...
Isn't that the same guy who pushed the man from the subway platform in New York a few weeks ago, and also the same guy who sucker punched the woman on the street in London? Nope, just all part of the same demographic and all looking for easy, unprepared prey to make themselves feel more like men.
Careful that's how you end up killing a innocent kid and going to prison. (or soon to be going)
ANOTHER dilemma for Mayor Emanuel"son"ski.
Time to activate the "Sock Poop Response Team" headed by the FBI.
This is so hilarious but I feel really bad for the girl. Hope she can feel clean one day and that they catch the guy who did this. His punishment could be cleaning out porter potties from down in the hole after a wing eating festival once it's over. But really...WTF lol!?
im sorry, but that was hilarious. I would hate to have it done to me or my friends... but I can honestly say we'd all laugh and make jokes about it later...
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I'm just curious....how did he get it in the sock? Did he hold the sock under his butt or did he use a spoon? Or maybe a spork?
Cracking jokes later is not necessarily the same thing as something being funny. This is one of the most disgusting things I have ever heard. I would be so angry and humiliated had something like this happened to me.
Bella, maybe you and your friends should get together and give it a try and let us know how funny it is.....
My friends and I can get together later, lilmorts...
When are u available for us to throw sh!t at? =)
Nope Bella..... I don't find it funny, but since you do, I'll be happy to sling crap all over you and your friends..... I'm a giver, what can I say. Just think of the nice memories you gals can make..... After all, it is the season for memories......
I would put my money on this guy being homeless or an ex felon. Where I work we have had persistent problems with poop - and guys (sorry, but that's the gender witnesses described) who like to deliberately drop it where it doesn't belong - trash bins, on the carpet, deliberately on the toilet floor, and the most imaginative one ever.......duct taped to our front door! In our situation, the "perp" was homeless and "off" mentally. I feel so sorry for this girl. It seems we are forced more and more to deal with crazies in public spaces.
sh.t happens.
f.cking genius....
That stinks
Hate to be the bearer of bad tidings to you and your left-leaning contingent of haters, Devil's Son, but Zimmerman will not be going to prison for capping that hoodie-wearing thug. Irrespective of your philosophical opposition to anything and everything a white person does in your demented PC world, Zimmerman has the law on his side and because of that he'll walk.
And I would just like to state for the record that I am truly shocked, flabbergasted even, that this fine, upstanding-looking citizen would have the audacity to scatter his dung around that train. Surely his parents have raised him better than that, right? Right?
Reminds me of a book I read once called, "Brown Spots on the Wall" by Who Flung Poo. An Asian author I believe...
Bella, you should take a dump in that red sox hat...
This is a jail thug as the poop slinging is common in the county jails. Start there is a data based search.
Poo throwing is common behavior for lower primates. Gee, I wonder if this will be prosecuted as a hate crime?
I was thinking the same thing. America's mentally ill typically end up in jail at some point and do nasty things like this. Check the parolee list, and this thug may be identified.
I pray that this woman doesn't end up with PTSD over this. Rotted feces can carry disease...SMH...
Excuse me Sonya, the mentally ill usually end up in jail? Do you have statistics on that? The mentally ill are your co-workers and neighbors, you just never know it because the majority of them take their medication and don't act "crazy" like flinging feces. This man may be mentally ill in some way, but he is most certainly NOT representative of the majority of the mentally ill people in this country. Google NAMI sometime.
They should have saved some of it for DNA analysis. He's probably already in the system.
He's a thug and Adam Lanza is troubled. Really? You people are a bunch of lunatics!
Shut up Lee the Troll..................
Yes ECF2222, the number of mentally ill in prison/jail is on the rise.
Sorry to say the system is not designed to provide them help unless they commit a crime.
Sock + S**t =
World's Smelliest Object?
Darwin would say that monkeys throw poop too.
that doesnt look like a pooh filled sock it looks like a black dude with a hoodie on.
Sorry, but I would hunt that bastard down.
He does deserve to have what little brains he has splattered all over a train platform. I'm sure his mother is a junkie hooker, too, and his father gave her HIV from his boyfriend.
Disgusting worthless punk thug. No place in civilized society.
He's not. He's in chicago.
@peanutgallerythreater
boy you sure hit the nail on the head with that one.
I know right where it happened. I used to live around there. It used to be a nice place. Sure glad I got out of there a long time ago. What kind of idiot walks around with a sock full of Shi!.
I suppose the PP on his coat stands for Poo-poo. Or else a particularly unhygienic street gang.
I'm glad I wasn't the only person thinking that lol I feel awful for even thinking of that!
I am horrified for this woman and I don't even want to imagine how she felt because I'm sure I'd vomit immediately. :/
You can get pretty sick from this form of attack - I hope they catch this nut case and and throw the book at him. I'm sure once he's put in general population, he'll experience far worse things once his crime is known.
Maybe he is a new superhero.....Poo Poo Man. For all we know the women he attacked might've been about to commit a crime and he jumped in and saved the day by slinging some sh*t at her to stop her in her tracks. I might be a "glass half full" kinda guy.....but if you ask me, he's a hero.
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Get this a-hole back behind bars so Bubba can sling his poop..........
If this nut thinks it's funny, he deserves to be in jail.
Nothing coming out of shi-town is surprising anymore...
They need to outlaw socks.
This was only a single-shot sock. It's the assault-socks that have to go...as soon as we can define what they are.
The national sock association will never let the sock control lobby get away with that.
LMFAO....
NBC News: "This just in.. Congress has just passed an Anti-Sock Act that bans socks on city transportation..."
Regulars socks are ok as this is a given right. Socks filled with assault Poo must be banned.
LOL!!! What a stinky situation!!! Wonder how she knew for a fact it was his feces as opposed to a dog or other animal or even another human being. Personally I wouldn't put up with poop like that! LOL!!! (sorry)
Maybe they could have scraped some of the poop from her face for a DNA profile. What about fibres from the sock? Wouldn't there be some threads stuck in all that poop? How did the poop get out of the sock? Did it have a hole in it or did it just "extrude" out between the fibres of the sock?
OMG ... How awful. Hahahahahahahahahahaha
Homie don't play that!!
eeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuwwwwwwwwwww!!
Its Chicago, baby; @!$%# happens...
The human race has worked very hard indeed - I'm finally surprised.
And this qualifies as this year's I-Know-It's-Wrong-to-Laugh-But...
I don't think anything says "I hate you" like a sock full of $hit to the face.
A pool-ball is great if you want to take someone out. A bar of soap works wonders for bringing the pain. But a turd in a sock.... that's almost genius.
Oh man you made me have to pee... im laughing so hard! LMFAO
Christ ! I've been shltfaced !
Chicago Billy Club.
another senseless crime commited by a black "person"...but when caught al and jesse will be there to defend him...
What a tired line....
its "committed"...
*sigh* another senseless typo committed by an ignorant person.... but when caught, the keyboard will be there to take the blame... =)
Bella, You are on the wrong thread, We do not have grammer police here.
OK, that is thoroughly disgusting! However, with that being said, I haven't stopped laughing my ass off reading these comments - thanks for the chuckle!
Is this what R Kelly has been reduced to? Doodie bombs?
I have a great sense of humor, but for the life of me can't find s single thing funny about any of this!!!!! After all, it's not as if they nabbed the lowlife azzhole and gave him a "TASTE" of his own medicine! :(
Hint: the part that it is poop and not a pad lock is the funny part.
Somewhere Mrs. Doubtfire is saying "It was a run-by Pooping. I'll get them, sir. Don't worry." As a human being I know this is disgusting and not funny but I cannot stop laughing. So sorry to the woman who was attacked.
Suddenly the Blue Line becomes the Brown Line.
As horrible and disgusting as this is some of the comments here have given me a very much needed laugh. But I am truly sorry for this lady and I hope they catch this creep. Lord, apes throw poo. Are we de-evolving?