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A night near the Hollywood Walk of Fame would change a woman’s life, as she was getting into her car and a homeless man sprinted across Hollywood Boulevard toward her.
Heidi Van Tassel was parked in Hollywood after having a pleasant evening out with friends at an authentic Thai restaurant. Suddenly a man randomly pulled her out of the car, dragged her out to the middle of the street, and dumped a bucket of feces on her head, Van Tassel said and public records confirm.
“It was diarrhea. Hot liquid. I was soaked, and it was coming off my eyelashes and into my eyes,” Van Tassel said. “Paramedics who came to treat me said there was so much of it on me, that it looked like the man was saving it up for a month.”
Van Tassel was rushed to Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital after the grotesque attack, where she was tested for infectious diseases caused by contact with feces. She’ll need to be retested every three months.
“It was all inside my car because it was so much. He just kept pouring it and splattering it all over me,” she said.
She said the Los Angeles Police Department told her they’d investigate the crime, but her phone calls to the department went unanswered.
Van Tassel said the police also promised to have their victims’ advocate reach out to her to offer services. She said she never got a call.
“It’s so traumatic. The PTSD that I’m dealing with is beyond anything that I’ve ever felt,” Van Tassel said. “There needs to be some kind of help for the victims of these crimes.”
The man who attacked her, identified in court records as Jere Blessings, was charged with battery and taken to jail. Blessings was described as a transient with “schizophrenia and psychotic disorders,” records show.
“He doesn’t need jail time. He needs mental health care,” Van Tassel said. “I have empathy for him. Because he needs help.”
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Jere Blessings got help, but only for two months. He was sent by a judge to a residential facility for people with mental health issues, and released in August.
Security footage from businesses nearby captured the attack, and bodycam captured the aftermath as officers responded, but the LAPD and businesses would not release the footage, even when Van Tassel asked to see it.
“It was awful,” Van Tassel said through tears. “And it changed my life.”
The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office said Blessings is now back in the community, which worries Van Tassel.
“I will never, ever, forget his face,” Van Tassel said. “What’s the next thing he’s going to do somebody? If he would’ve had a knife, for sure he would’ve stabbed me.”
Sounds like a shitty situation
Was that Mr J Epstein??
That’s repulsive. Sick people need an attitude adjustment.
Wtf r u kidding me
Stop it
This poor woman has to be tested now every 3 months for diseases. Unbelievable.
Thought this was legal in CA.
Jim Neubig
Nicole McGuire Neubig let me guess, he was off his meds
that is foul
That’s disgusting
She’s probably gonna get e coli and the diff…that’s disgusting Toni Marie
That’s disgusting!
Jackie Callahan I cant with this nonsense like wtf ?♀️??♀️?
Miranda Ramos Mimir Mira mija, I cant either lmfaooooo how do these people even get on this planet! Lmfaooooooo
Jackie Callahan ???? yo I can’t I swear to spill diarrhea on somebody randomly ???
Miranda lmfaoooo it’s horrifying!
Jackie Callahan girl take me to ICU ASAP ??
Miranda Ramos Mimir fuck that set me on fire with jet fuel!!!!! Right on the damn spot! ????
Wtf
? holy …..
Crappy situation. Eecckkk
Abigail Siegel ?
Steve Veldkamp I don’t even want to know this
Whats happening to this country!
I think they decriminalized that along with pissing in the street. Fk Cali
Only in Cali ??
Propaganda. Intended to seperate the people
In reality, she was going to get diarrhea anyway after eating Thai food!
Isn’t this a normal occurrence in that shithole state?
Christine Moe Liz Garitta Shannon Hulse and this is why I used to have a phobia with homeless people
How freaking disgusting
Warren
Michael Anthony Nickolas Engroff
this is hilarious. she deserved it!
Catt Mollins video or it didn’t happen.
That’s so Nasty if it’s True..
That’s gross !!!
Jack Narciso Carl Hollingshead
Theresa Morillo Arly E Polo hay foo ?
Keep voting liberal blue and this is only going to get worse…
Roger Kroeger
Holy crap
Oh fck all that. They can keep that god forsaken shithole (pun intended)
Makes for a shitty day
Great news………sick people.
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Daisy Horstman Haffner didn’t you just visit here??? Omg!!!????
Jill Christine omg!!!!
What the hell-that’s beyond disgusting and horrible
Daisy Horstman Haffner right? I’d be traumatized for LIFE!!!!!!! I’m scarred from reading this!!!
This is Happened in California from June 18th? You’re just reporting this now ????
Randomly? ?? who’s the idiot again
That’s disgusting and unhealthy
That would be the day the homeless guy died, right after I puked on him.
California ❤️
My jaw is on the floor. Fucking ew.
Hayley Columbo I literally said out loud “NOT UH!!!!” Hahahaha
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA
Chris Thomas ?
Rebecca Thomas ?
What a sick SOB
What has this got to do with ocean county ?
Gene Peterson because NJ has nothin better to do especially Ocean County and they want click and likes soo sadd
Danny Perotti I bet their ad revenue isn’t sad ?♀️ do people still not understand how the media works? Sad indeed.
But yet you two are here commenting… Thanks for the revenue 🙂
Ocean County Scanner News in all fairness, this blue-collar-raised piney understood very little about PPC advertising and its many relatives prior to her marketing class at OCC. I should chill on the sarcasm when sharing the knowledge lol. *Shout-out to Professor J. Evans for being a great instructor*
Wait… so he pulled her out of her car, dragged her into the middle of the street, then dumped diarrhea on her head…buuuut it’s all inside of her car??? ?
Karen Kennedy I read that twice still ?
Karen maybe she got up and tried to run away from him and back to her car.
Well he certainly was no Blessings to her.
Tricia Jones ?
Dawn Anderson what the
Wait. If she was dragged into the middle of the street how did it get in her car? If true, it’s disgusting but sad. If not it’s a sick account of Hollywood.
Tyler Belostock
Paige Spiecker oh my fuck
Alex Davila I think I would have died ???
Michael Boom
Christine
Rich Borkowski how’d he heat it ?
Isn’t that good luck? ?
Jay Emm
Yuck! Ugh!!!!
Holy poop ?
Nancy’s California
And nothing will happen to the Homeless person, I just heard that San Fran’s new DA will not prosecute public urination or other crimes, Her life has now changed, she will have to be tested for every disease under the sun from now into the future, Hep, a,b,c, Aids. etc. gross.
Well aint that some shit
Kathii Maria Schattner Shannon Kennedy Brandon May
Kayla Skerstad sick asf
My worst fear. ??♂️
Drew Tyler
He shit on her lmao..
Id have to hurt him bad. Like ….. ??????
Rudy Rosa Alec Ryan Annalicia Savvides
Katie Martini ??????? WTFFFF
Katie Martini get it while it’s still hot
Looks like 6 weeks more of winter
No no no no no no no no no no
Wtf
Johnny Salerno ??
Wow
I saw that on another news channel! To bad they keep getting away with stuff even if they are unstable..guess I should do something and claim that I am unstable also!
This is what California people voted for. Who’s surprised
Ashley Nicole
Ashlee LaCicero Stanulis
Carly Cero wtf lol
Ashlee LaCicero Stanulis I would have strangled him ?
There is no end to ways mankind can get low
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Christie Sistad how did is stay hot. Did they have it on a warmer? Or immediately shat and poured
Dana Descafano they said there was so much he must’ve been saving it
Christie Sistad then it was on a warmer
Must’ve been
Jay Johnson
Some nasty people in this world…..damn
Talk about one shitty day gross
Disgusting pig
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Someone had a shitty day
Kari O’neill best comment award
Noelle Smith thank you
Jen Viquez
Ewwwww!!!!
Gerry DiChiara
I saw this… hot diarhea
Jersey Sure News Network
Las Vegas is the same way
Lynda Deegan Baker now that’s my kind of friday night
Juliana Baker wtf? Jamie Lund this is some shit
Pretty shitty situation
Like…who? And WHY? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!?!?
Brennan Sherman
California got what it elected.
That’s California for ya. We will soon see this in NJ as well
Wtf
Must have been fresh
Ahhhh….sanctuary state
That would have been a dead hobo.
Liberals say he has a right to be homeless, mentally ill and cruelly living in the street to use it as his personal toilet. Liberals say he has a right to an advocate at the taxpayers expense. Liberals are a disease.
Kelly McDermitt Zuzic
Kelly McDermitt Zuzic
Ew!
Lauri Okane. Sounds like the bums up in JC lol
Steve Triolo sick bastard. Yes it does !
Ewwww
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Well hot damn! Ain’t that some shit!
Jarod Gile
Beth Love Blewett yo that’s fucked I’ll man
How is this ocean county news?
Gross
The HORRORRRRRRRR
Jessica Bond
Jen Decker Katy Decker Danielle Zorner Jayme Bertoldi Candelario
Jessica Bond wtf.
Lol wtf
Nicole and I were dying in the car!!
Jen Decker
Vicki McCabe
What’s crazy is that California is absolutely going to shit and one could argue back and forth on exactly who’s fault it is but one thing is for sure and it’s that Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself.
She said he doesn’t need jail. He needs mental health care. I think he needs to be away from the public period.
Mike Pedulla
she was shit faced