Suspected police station poo burner nabbed

A man who just couldn't hold it Sunday morning – and then tried to destroy the evidence – decided to let it go next to the Seattle Police Department's East Precinct and was not very smooth about it.

Police officers were finishing paperwork about 11 a.m. when an officer walked in and reported a fire in the alley behind the Capitol Hill precinct, according to Seattle police reports.

Officers went to the alley, just west of 12th Avenue and Pine Street, to find a man standing next to a burning paper bag placed about three feet from several dumpsters containing flammable materials, reports say.

The 31-year-old man, after police put out the flames, confessed to starting the fire, saying he had just pooped and was trying to burn it off.

He claimed not to know there were laws that discouraged such actions, police reports indicate.

Police booked the man into King County Jail for investigation of reckless burning.

Firefighters arrived and hosed down the alley, police say.