
On Monday night, Sydney businesswoman and founder of Sweaty Betty PR Roxy Jacenko shared three clips of CCTV footage to her Instagram account.
Within 18 minutes, the post had received over 6,000 comments.
In the videos, which have since been deleted, a young blonde woman can be seen running down a Paddington street, before squatting between two parked cars and defecating on the road. The unknown woman appeared to be carrying toilet paper, and cleaned herself before continuing to run.
“What an absolute disgrace you are,” Jacenko wrote alongside the footage. “Doing this in our residential street where we have a primary school and multiple residences.
“What has the world come to.”
In the days since, the story of the ‘poo jogger’ or ‘Paddington Pooper’ has gone international. It’s been covered locally by News Corp, New Idea, the Huffington Post, The Project, A Current Affair and 2GB – just to name a few – and more broadly, by Daily Mail UK, The Sun, The New Zealand Herald and LADbible.
Appearing on The Project, Sweaty Betty employee Mason Brown asked: “In what world would anyone – anyone in their right mind anyway – feel it necessary to take a sh*t on the street of a morning?”