Plea or poop? Road rage defecator takes rehab over trial

MEDIA, Pa. (CN) — A Delaware County, Pennsylvania, woman — known regionally as the “Delco Pooper” after she was captured on video angrily defecating on a car — avoided trial Tuesday, instead entering into a rehabilitative program for her fecal faults.

Christina Solometo, a 44-year-old Ridley Park resident, became involved in a road rage incident on April 30 after a driver in front of her didn’t turn left when the traffic arrow turned green, according to Solometo’s affidavit.

According to the affidavit, Solometo honked her horn at the driver, who then mocked her. Struggling with stomach issues, Solometo drove around the second car to turn left when the driver began following her. Solometo exited her vehicle to confront the driver, who insulted her again. At that moment, duty called.

“I wanted to punch her in the face, but I pooped on her car instead and went home,” Solometo said, according to the affidavit.

“It was a clean poop,” police said Solometo later explained. “I didn’t even have to wipe.”

Greg Ferrari, 17, who was driving by the road rage incident, recorded a video of the stool saga on his cell phone. That video quickly went viral on social media, resulting in national coverage from TMZ, the New York Post and People Magazine.

Upon her May 2 arrest, the since-relieved Solometo appeared the part as she laughed in front of news cameras and smiled in her mug shot.

Prospect Park police charged Solometo with indecent exposure, harassment, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, open lewdness and depositing waste on a highway.

But on Tuesday, Solometo chose neither to be blocked up nor locked up — instead of bringing her case to trial, the “Delco Pooper” entered into a statewide rehabilitation program for first-time offenders.

By entering into Pennsylvania’s Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition Program, Solometo must complete 24 months of probation, anger management classes and community service. Additionally, Solometo cannot post about her case on social media.

If Solometo meets those conditions, her charges will be dismissed and her case could be expunged.

While Delaware County — also known as “Delco” — has entered the national spotlight recently following the success of HBO miniseries “Mare of Easttown” and “Task,” the county has long been recognized in the Philadelphia area for its bizarre, and oftentimes crude, incidents.

Between 1924 and 1944, University of Pennsylvania physics professor Dicran Hadjy Kabakjian operated a “mom-and-pop” radium processing lab out of his basement in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, hiring his entire family into the business and selling radium implants to local hospitals for cancer treatments.

Kabakjian died in 1945 of emphysema; two decades later, researchers found that his skeleton registered the highest levels of radiation ever recorded in a human body, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Following Dicran Kabakjian’s death, his family sold the home without informing the buyers of its radioactive history. It wasn’t until 1964 that officials conducted an initial cleanup; by 1986, the home became the first and only residential Superfund site.

While radiation might explain some of the oddities of Delaware County, Kabakjian’s story is not the only one to make headlines.

In January 1996, multimillionaire John Eleuthere du Pont — a member of the aristocratic du Pont family — shot and killed Olympic champion wrestler Dave Schultz, who was living and working on du Pont’s Newtown Square estate. To date, du Pont is the only member of the Forbes 400 richest Americans to be convicted of murder.

In 2011, Upper Darby pizzeria owner Nikolas Galiatsatos attempted to sabotage a competing restaurant by dumping a bag of live mice in its bathroom ceiling. Unfortunately for him, two police officers were eating lunch at the restaurant, found the bag and caught Galiatsatos shortly afterward as he attempted to drop a second bag of mice in a second pizzeria. In 2012, Woody Allen wrote a short story based on the incident for the New Yorker; and in 2016, Delco native Tina Fey referenced it on “Saturday Night Live.”

And just months after the Delco Pooper made headlines, an unknown man on TikTok known only by his self-titled moniker “Delco Pisser” began terrorizing Delaware County by urinating on its high schools and filming it. The videos have since been removed from the TikTok account, following efforts by a vigilante account, the “Delco Detective,” to uncover the culprit.

Delco, never change — just maybe change your pants.

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