In the war against Occupy Wall Street, the NYPD is bringing out the big guns: Videos of excrement. A press release featuring the cheeky subject line "It Happens" was distributed by the NYPD press office tonight, announcing that a Philadelphia man has been arrested and charged with "Unlawful Possession of Noxious Matter (human urine and feces)." As you can see in this video, two individuals are seen dragging a big bucket of something black and nasty-looking into the open-air plaza at the corner of Nassau and Cedar Streets in Lower Manhattan, then pouring the waste down the stairs there. The prank is then repeated in the vestibule of a Chase bank on Water Street. more ›

The recent trend of discussing the proliferation of dog crap in Harlem has uncovered the work of one woman, Millie Gonzalez, who has spent the last six months patrolling the neighborhood with her beagle and picking up animal waste that other residents refuse to retrieve. It remains unclear whether it's the new gentrifiers or old people who can't bend over to grab the stuff. more ›

Fox 5 is making a big stink about a nasty situation in the Herald Square subway station, where it appears that someone did a #2 and didn't flush... because there was no toilet available where the bowel movement occured. Apparently, it's been two weeks since the human waste first debuted on the landing of a stairwell, and although the MTA put up a yellow caution sign, it seems that no one bothered to clean up fecal remnants. Baby steps? Area man Paul Arking is sick of walking through the stench gauntlet during his daily commute, and this video shows he's not the only one. more ›

There are criminals, and then there are people who spit feces at other people—Gary Bogle resides in both categories. The 44-year-old man was sentenced to 21 years in jail on a mere gun charge, in part because of his ludicrous past behavior, which included prior shootings and one dramatic fecal-spitting incident. more ›

All it took to get the media into scaremongering overdrive about "vodka eyeballing" was one young British woman who hurt her eye pouring booze into it for kicks, plus some European YouTube videos. So now that a New Jersey high school student drank soda with a classmate's feces mixed in, we can't wait to learn more about this scary new trend! (We're sure there are YouTube videos, but we're scared to look.) We hear the teens call it "Dr. Pooper," but it's also known as "Dew the Poo." Do YOU know how many cans of human feces YOUR CHILD will pound this weekend? more ›

Consumer Reports Magazine ran tests on "pre­washed" and "triple-washed" salad greens sold in plastic clamshells or bags and found bacteria "that are common indicators of poor sanitation and fecal contamination—in some cases, at rather high levels." Out of 208 containers representing 16 brands purchased at stores in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York, 39 percent had "an unacceptable level" of total coliforms and 23 percent were heavy with enterococcus, as determined by "industry experts." Those two things sound like something you don't want to eat, and Google confirms that indeed they are! more ›

Only in New Jersey, folks: According to the Gloucester County Times, "A Westville man who reportedly couldn’t pay his bar tab wound up being charged with using his own feces to draw on the walls and set fire to a bathroom in the police station." For real. Jason Detora, 24, told police that his girlfriend would arrive with the money. But when Nicole Leadbetter, 22, finally got to Skeeters Pub, the cops charged her with DWI and outstanding warrants. So she was taken to the police station, as was Detora so he could wait for a ride. That's where things got...messy: "Detora allegedly used a rest room, but when he came out, a patrolman noticed an odor coming from the men's room. Police found toilet paper and paper towels had been piled up and set on fire in the bathroom. Detora allegedly had defecated on the floor and used his own feces to draw on the walls." He was charged with arson and criminal mischief and is being held on $35,000 bail, Leadbetter was released after posting bail, and the bathroom was cleaned. more ›

If swine flu has taught us anything, it's confirmed our longstanding rejection of pigs as disgusting, immoral creatures who should be kept in their enclosed pens at all costs. But adorable, style-influencing raccoons who live peacefully among us, snacking on our garbage and mysteriously leaving footprints on our cars overnight should be nothing to worry about, right? Not so says the Daily News! The paper reports on Raccoon Ringworm, the latest "rare, deadly disease" spreading itself through the area. Thus far an infant has suffered brain damage (in October), a Brooklyn teen been blinded (in January) annnnnd...well, that's it. The disease is contracted by consumption of infected raccoon feces. One mother tells the News, "When they're slightly out of sight, they're going to pick up something in the course of their normal behavior and put their filthy hands in their mouths." A reader tipped us off that it's actually worm, which the CDC suggests can be avoided by not adopting raccoons. more ›

The remaining 71 cats were removed from a Chester, NJ home yesterday, where the NJSPCA originally found living in squalid conditions—rooms filled with garbage and feces. The Star-Ledger reports that Morris County Emergency Management Coordinator Rick Loock praised the homeowner, Wanda Oughton, for being helpful, "These are healthy cats, you could even say fat cats. They did not seem to be suffering from any abuse. The lady (Oughton) seemed to be feeding them well. And I want to emphasize that she was unbelievably cooperative today, helping us catch the cats and put them in travel carriers."The cats are being housed in a temporary shelter and will soon be examined; it's hoped they can be adopted out to new homes (the NJSPCA website will have photos of adoptable cats). Oughton faces 186 counts of animal cruelty in both criminal and civil summonses. more ›

November marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Tawana Brawley affair--an incident that inflamed racial relations in New York and across the country after a teenage girl alleged that she had been sexually assaulted and abused by police. The ensuing media circus thrust Rev. Al Sharpton into the limelight and established his bona fides as a community spokesman. It also tarnished the reputations of the people she accused of raping her and, later... more ›