Who’s in the mood for a poop story?This one involves a 56-year-old man named Gordon Flavia, a wrecked carport, a Port-O-Potty, and the potent smell of human feces.Longview Police Sgt. John Reeves tells Seattle Weekly that on Tuesday afternoon officers responded to a house on River Road in Longview and found a car backed up through the wall of a carport. The car was totaled, the carport was totaled, and the driver was nowhere to be found.Soon enough, however, police sniffed out their suspect.”He was in a Port-O-Potty maybe a block or two from the collision,” Reeves says. “He had splashed some of the, uh, fluid on himself.”The Daily News Online also quotes an officer saying that Reeves smeared shit on himself “because he thought the dogs were coming, and he was trying to throw off the scent.”Reeves couldn’t speak to that. There were no dogs involved with the search. He also didn’t know if the poop-smearing technique would have actually worked in throwing off dogs. But judging by this recent Mythbusters episode, the answer would appear to be “no.”Flavia was arrested for driving under the influence and hit-and-run.No word whether they hosed him off before the threw him in jail.Follow The Daily Weekly on Facebook and Twitter.
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