Another day, another public pooper story in the headlines.

I suppose my fascination with these stories is a bit odd, but it appears I’m not alone because plenty of you read the Canadian restaurant pooper and American school pooper stories.

Congrats, you have stooped to my level.

That bloke up top with his pants around his knees is 64-year-old Andrew Douglas Macintosh, and as you may have guessed he has now quit his job.

Or, as I like to call it – and I’m very proud of this pun – backlash and sack.

Before you show sympathy, you should know that he’s a serial offender. Over to the Guardian:

He came to the attention of police after a sting operation by a local resident, who set out to catch a jogger suspected of relieving himself on the footpath outside an apartment block more than 30 times.

Macintosh was photographed on 11 May outside the Logan Road block in the southside suburb of Greenslopes. He has been charged with one count of public nuisance.

His former employer, the retirement village operator Aveo, confirmed in a statement that Macintosh had resigned. “Until yesterday, Aveo Group was not aware of the charges laid against Mr Macintosh,” a company spokesman said.

“Aveo Group is distressed and disappointed at the alleged incidents concerning Mr Macintosh. He has tendered his resignation to the company today and is no longer an employee of Aveo Group.

“Aveo will continue to extend its support to Mr Macintosh for help that he may require.”

Dunno, maybe the first bit of help would be to point him in the direction of the bogs?

Before you think we’re playing in the gutter here, get this for a headline:

For more on the sting operation that took him down, here’s NewsAU:

Residents of an apartment block in the southeastern Brisbane suburb of Greenslopes had complained that someone had been defecating on their path by night for the last year.

A previously unidentified man had been running past the block three times a week and allegedly ducking up a privately-owned path “like clockwork” in the early morning and pausing to poo on it.

The residents orchestrated a plan to capture the man in the act, and in May they hit pay dirt.

As long as they didn’t stand in it. Moving along…

“One of the neighbours set up a night camera and got a few images and so we had a time he was doing it, so then I decided to go and wait with a camera in the and I was there a few mornings and then last Friday I got him,” neighbour Steve, who took the photo, told news.com.au last month.

“There’s a red light which goes on before the camera’s flash goes off and he saw that and looked at me as the photograph was taken.

“Then he just said, ‘Hello’. At that point I decided to just walk away.”

Looked right at the camera and then strolled away? The bloody cheek.

I don’t know what job awaits Andrew from here on out, but maybe he can write a few church signs?

[sources:guardian&newsau]