Man Mailed Dog Feces With His Parking Ticket Payment

[matcom]

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A 22-year-old man allegedly put dog waste in an envelope with his payment for overtime parking and placed it last week in a drop box for Austin police.

An Austin Police Department staff member noticed a foul smell when getting the man's envelope out of the box April 25 at the Law Enforcement Center, Police Chief Paul Philipp said.

Upon opening it in her office, the woman noticed a brown fluid on the envelope and her hands, the chief said.

Police interviewed the Austin man, who was cited April 18, and he allegedly admitted to putting fecal matter from a dog into the envelope. The man said he regretted doing it, but had been angry that he had to pay the ticket.

"It was just a stupid thing to do," Philipp said.

People have used pennies to pay for tickets, Philipp said, and he's sure some have spit in a payment envelope, but "this is a take-the-cake kind of a guy."

The staff member who opened the envelope became ill the following day and spent several days in a hospital, Philipp said, but officials don't know if her sickness was a result of her handling the envelope.

The matter has been forwarded to the Mower County attorney's office for a possible criminal charge.

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[Robb]

1. Go the hospital for handling poo?

As someone who handles a lot of poo (two huskies), that seems a bit much.

[Tyler Durden]

2. No shit!

[RebelOne]

3. When I lived in South Florida, I was always tempted

to do that when mailing my electric bills to Florida Power & Light because the bills were always so high.

[Lil Missy]

4. I once received a baggy of squished poop with a complaint letter.

And the letter started:

Dear (my name),

Drop Dead.

[Katina]

5. my mother's best friend put a bag of dog poo

into her neighbor's mailbox. Her neighbor would let the dog out everyday to run to my mom's friend's yard and poop. The dog owner would never clean it up no matter how much my mom's friend asked and complained. So she finally had enough, put the poop in a bag and dropped it into the neighbor's mailbox. Needless to say, the neighbor got furious, but my mom's friend said, next time, I won't put it in a bag first. The dog stopped pooping in her yard. :bounce: