A Glasgow homeless charity has been left 'disgusted' after one of their volunteers' cars was smeared with dog poo in an unprovoked attack.
The vile act took place on the evening of Friday, September 23 when the team from Homeless Project Scotland were operating their soup kitchen near Central Station on Argyle Street.
Around 170 of the city's most vulnerable people were queuing to receive a hot dinner from the kind-hearted crew when a man picked up a lump of animal faeces from the pavement and spread it by hand across one of the group's car.
He then fled the scene. Heartbreakingly, the vehicle belonged to a 72-year-old woman who has been volunteering at the project for six months.
Stomach-churning images taken under the Highlandman's Umbrella, which were shared on social media, show the front and rear of the white vehicle covered in the mess, while the elderly woman looks on in horror.
Another photo shows piles of dog dirt dumped on the street beside some empty boxes. Colin McInnes, chairman and co founder, told the Record: "It's shocking. People give up their time to come and help others and this happens.
"We've had people jumping on our van roofs before, but nothing as extreme as this. It's terrible that our volunteers are made to stand on one of Scotland's most dangerous streets, apparently, and be put at risk in this way.
"It's left the volunteers very upset and causes a ripple throughout the team. People won't want to come back now and others will be too frightened to drive their car in."
It is believed there was no motive for the vandalism, and it was carried out completely at random, but the project are currently reviewing CCTV footage in a desperate bid to identify the culprit.
In the meantime, representatives say volunteers and service users alike have been quick to band together and condemn the disgraceful attack, which everyone hopes will remain an isolated incident.
Colin, 30, continued: "People have really rallied round us. The homeless people were very apologetic, saying this shouldn't have happened to her, she was only here to help me. Of course it's not their fault at all.
"For that woman to stand there three days a week serving food to the most vulnerable, then have to wash dog poo off her car, it's so distressing.
"I think it will happen again but all we can do is continue to try and work with police to prevent it from doing so."
Police Scotland were not called to the incident.
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