Police Say a Rival Team's Parent Walked Past Several Bathrooms to Relieve Himself in a Michigan School Hallway

GROSSE POINTE FARMS, Mich., Nov. 11, 2026 — Bedford High School lost Friday's playoff game at Grosse Pointe South 42-0. According to police, one Bedford parent then left something behind.

Grosse Pointe Public Schools said its security cameras show the parent of a Bedford student entering Grosse Pointe South without permission after the Nov. 6 game and defecating in a hallway, ClickOnDetroit reported. The district called the behavior "wholly unacceptable" and filed a police report.

"This is definitely a first," Grosse Pointe Farms Detective Anto Trupiano told WXYZ.

The route is what has detectives scratching their heads. Trupiano said the man came in through a door that had been left open for a band concert, walked around the building, passed several bathrooms, turned a corner, stepped into a doorway and went in the middle of the school. The footage shows him taking off his sweatshirt before he ran for the exit, WXYZ reported.

Police tracked him down from the video. He told them it was a medical emergency. "We kind of don't understand why he decided to walk through a bunch of different hallways to find a bathroom he walked past anyways," Trupiano said.

The district, for its part, took the high road and turned it into a lesson. "While interscholastic athletics provide students with valuable lessons in teamwork, sportsmanship, perseverance, and respect, those lessons must also be modeled by the adults who attend such athletic events," it said in a statement, according to MLive.

Bedford Public Schools said it is cooperating but declined to say more, citing privacy and the open police inquiry. The man has not been publicly named. Trupiano said police will seek charges, most likely "a disorderly conduct type of scenario," though that is still to be determined.