Police are on the hunt for a middle-aged woman who was caught on CCTV daubing a thick patch of rich, hangover-black crap onto a local politician’s office door.
Leung Kam-wai, a councillor for the Kwai Tsing District Council, told HK01 that when he arrived at his office at 9am yesterday morning, he found that not only had someone smeared poop around the door’s handle, they also managed to shove some of it into the keyhole. They left some buns and baked goods — also covered in poop — at the foot of the door.
CCTV footage published on HK01 shows the No. 1 suspect — or rather, No. 2 suspect — to be a middle-aged woman with short hair, a blue shirt, and, crucially, gloves, who was caught on camera appearing to wipe something onto Leung’s door at about 3am Wednesday morning. She exits the frame but quickly returns with a steamed bun in her hand and sticks it onto the door, apparently using the feces as a sort of spackle.
Apple Daily reports that police are treating the incident as a case of criminal damage, and that no on has been arrested yet.
Leung told HK01 yesterday morning that this is the fourth time in a month someone has targeted his office — which is located in a housing estate in Kwai Chung, in the New Territories — and at least the second time vandals employed this specific form of dirty protest.
According to on.cc, the last incident took place on Aug. 8, and involved someone shoving feces into his mailbox and leaving old newspapers and dead flowers outside his office.
Leung is formally an independent, though he did have a prominent poster with the words “Oppose Sending to China” — a reference to the widely despised extradition bill that sparked Hong Kong’s ongoing protest movement — posted on the window of his office.
Leung said that the incident was likely related to the ongoing pro-democracy protests, but said he wasn’t sure if all the incidents were carried out by the same person.
