A serial pooper has been running around threatening the residents of a wealthy California neighborhood. And apparently, this has been going on for quite some time.
The neighborhood’s residents say the situation has gotten worse and the woman is now threatening people. One resident, Wendy Kush, recently said she had a terrifying experience in which she was walking with her daughter and dogs when the woman allegedly threatened to murder her. Other locals reported similar events when Kush posted about her experience on the Nextdoor app.
Kush said the woman “started yelling she was gonna kill me, lunging at me,” adding, “I couldn’t get the lab to move because she was moving really slow. Luckily, I finally just started running and the dogs followed me, but it was really scary.”
The woman has been caught on camera openly squatting with her pants down at the intersection of Goshen and Barrington Avenues while horrified walkers pass by. One resident told Fox 11 News that the woman has been using the neighborhood as her personal bathroom for years, with one resident saying they see it “every morning.”
“I remember saying something to my neighbor who said, ‘Oh yeah, she does that every morning,’ which I thought was kind of insane,” Kush said.
Police and other officials say they can’t do anything about it
Locals say they have called the police and local elected officials, and they want mental health specialists to intervene and get the woman some help. At one point, some locals did attempt to help the woman, but she declined.
“They finally found her, and I thought something great would happen. She’d get some help. And they said she refused services, and they couldn’t do anything more about it,” Kush said.
The office of Councilmember Traci Park acknowledged in a statement the mental health issue on the streets and requested support from the County Mental Health Department. The Los Angeles Police Department has also been notified by the mayor’s office, which has also asked the County Emergency Centralized Response Center to send out a mental health outreach team.
“We desperately need the County Mental Health Department’s assistance in getting this patient off the streets and into the supervised care they need,” the New York Post reports Parks said.
One Brentwood resident, Shawn Shayan, doesn’t understand why the police or other agencies won’t intervene until the woman commits an “actual violent act.”
“So basically, if someone poops right here, it’s fine. But if I throw something out of my car, I get a ticket,” Shayan said.