In the past 3 weeks, there have been 2 instances of public bodily elimination near the library.
1) I didn't have to witness this one, thankfully, but our circ clerk did. Apparently a junkie chick pulled down her pants and pooped in the flower bed right in front of the library's picture window. Now, the sheer-ish blinds were closed, true, but they don't cover the whole window and our employee still got a (thankfully not literal) eyeful. A passerby actually chased the woman down, bawled her out, and called the police. So that's something.
2) The other day I was getting off the train and out of the corner of my eye I glimpsed a woman squatting down and thought, "Nice plumber's crack, get some pants that fit." But no, it turned out that she'd actually pulled her pants all the way down, squatted - during rush hour - in the middle of the platform, and peed! Then she pulled them up and went on her way. She didn't appear to be a junkie or mentally ill, though she was clearly mentally defective in some way.
I just don't get it, the world gets more disgusting by the day.