Colorado Springs police seek defecating jogger

Her children were the first to catch the runner mid-poop, with her pants around her ankles, Cathy Budde said.

Immediately, they ran to get their mother.

“They are like, ‘There’s a lady taking a poop!’ So I come outside, and I’m like … ‘are you serious?’ ” Budde told KKTV.

She confronted the woman, asking, “Are you really taking a poop right here in front of my kids?”

“Yeah, sorry,’ ” the woman replied.

Budde assumed the woman would be “mortified,” clean up the poop and not run in the Colorado Springs neighborhood again. But that would’ve been too easy. The family kept finding the runner’s poop, Budde said, and the dirty napkins she leaves behind. The runner has pooped on the sidewalk in front of the family’s home at least once a week for the past seven weeks, according to Budde. Once, Budde was able to take a picture, which showed a brunette woman running in a gray tank top and shorts.

Budde has caught the woman mid-act three times.

The runner, who brings napkins to clean herself up, has not changed her ways.

Fed up, Budde contacted the Colorado Springs Police Department, which said the woman could face charges of indecent exposure and public defecation if she is caught.

Lt. Howard Black said that in his 35 years with the Colorado Springs Police Department, he has never seen anything quite like it.

“This has been comical, but I also don’t want to be flip about it,” Black told The Washington Post. “If it’s a mental health issue, she’ll still be held accountable, but we would want to get her help.”