A Glasgow homeless charity has been left 'disgusted' after one in all their volunteers' vehicles was smeared with canine poo in an unprovoked assault.
The vile act happened on the night of Friday, September 23 when the crew from Homeless Mission Scotland have been working their soup kitchen close to Central Station on Argyle Avenue.
Round 170 of town's most weak folks have been queuing to obtain a sizzling dinner from the kind-hearted crew when a person picked up a lump of animal faeces from the pavement and unfold it by hand throughout one of many group's automobile.
He then fled the scene. Heartbreakingly, the automobile belonged to a 72-year-old lady who has been volunteering on the venture for six months.
Abdomen-churning photographs taken underneath the Highlandman's Umbrella, which have been shared on social media, present the entrance and rear of the white automobile lined within the mess, whereas the aged lady seems to be on in horror.
One other picture reveals piles of canine filth dumped on the road beside some empty packing containers. Colin McInnes, chairman and co founder, informed the File: "It is stunning. Folks surrender their time to come back and assist others and this occurs.
"We have had folks leaping on our van roofs earlier than, however nothing as excessive as this. It is horrible that our volunteers are made to face on one in all Scotland's most harmful streets, apparently, and be put in danger on this means.
"It is left the volunteers very upset and causes a ripple all through the crew. Folks will not need to come again now and others might be too frightened to drive their automobile in."
It's believed there was no motive for the vandalism, and it was carried out fully at random, however the venture are at the moment reviewing CCTV footage in a determined bid to establish the wrongdoer.
Within the meantime, representatives say volunteers and repair customers alike have been fast to band collectively and condemn the disgraceful assault, which everybody hopes will stay an remoted incident.
Colin, 30, continued: "Folks have actually rallied spherical us. The homeless folks have been very apologetic, saying this should not have occurred to her, she was solely right here to assist me. After all it isn't their fault in any respect.
"For that lady to face there three days per week serving meals to probably the most weak, then have to scrub canine poo off her automobile, it is so distressing.
"I believe it is going to occur once more however all we will do is proceed to try to work with police to forestall it from doing so."
Police Scotland weren't known as to the incident.
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