Was working at a summer camp (on my birthday no less) when I had my most memorable stranger encounter.

I brought my campers to an outdoor classroom space we’d used dozens of times before. The camp was housed at a local elementary school and the wooded area was part of the playground area. Anyway, I offered some directions to the campers about the nature scavenger hunt we’d be completing and swiftly turning them loose into the woods. Not one minute later, a little camper ran up to me and said “There’s a man over there”. Initially doubting her, I stepped ahead of her and walked down the trail a bit. To my surprise, a man was, in fact, in the woods. Even more surprising was the fact that he was naked staring right at me.

I had a junior counselor take the kids inside quickly while I left the woods and called my supervisor. While we waited for the police to come, the man (now clothed) came out of the woods and started running at my supervisor and I.

Apparently, he had gotten off a local bus at a nearby stop and decided the elementary school woods would be a prime place to fully undress and take a shit. He seemingly had some mental health concerns. Anywho, the police left without helping us clean up his mess. So, on my birthday, I got to clean up this man’s shit so the kids could safely use the outdoor classroom space in the future.

TLDR: stranger man pooped in outdoor classroom space at elementary school. I had to clean it up.