Thank God he doesn't buy those 5lb. plastic barrels of pretzels

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A veteran Ohio criminal defense attorney has been suspended for pooping in a Pringles can that he then dumped outside a victim advocacy center — admitting he regularly pulled such stinky stunts to “blow off steam.”

Jack Blakeslee’s stomach-churning habit emerged as he was suspended from practicing law for a year, with six months stayed, in a 13-page state Supreme Court opinion shared by Court News Ohio.

The ruling revealed that the attorney — who has been practicing for nearly 50 years — was caught on surveillance footage while in the middle of a trial representing an accused child murderer facing the death penalty.

Before heading to a November 2021 hearing, Blakeslee “deposited his feces into an empty Pringles can” — then “drove approximately 20 minutes from his home … with the open can of feces,” the ruling said.

The Vietnam vet then drove to Haven of Hope, where a victim advocate representing the family of the slain child in his then-current case worked, the ruling said.

“Surveillance video showed him driving slowly past the parking lot” at least twice — before he “threw the Pringles can containing his feces into the lot,” the ruling stated.

The advocate in his case also saw him and later reported him to police. He pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct and littering, paying $248 in fines and court costs.

“During his disciplinary hearing, Blakeslee testified that he had engaged in similar misconduct on at least 10 other occasions that year,” the ruling stated.

He denied targeting the victim advocate, claiming that “he randomly chose the locations where he deposited the Pringles cans containing his feces.”

He tried to dismiss it as a “prank,” saying he “got a kick out of” imagining the “look of surprise” on people’s faces when they found one of his Pringles cans.

“It was kind of like a release” that helped him “blow off steam,” the ruling quoted him as saying.

Still, the court found clear evidence that Blakeslee deliberately chose the parking lot of the advocacy organization as his “drop zone.”

The court wrote in its opinion that Blakeslee intentionally targeted the victim advocates “to seek an even greater thrill by pulling his prank on someone he knew … just minutes before he would see one of them in court.”

The panel found his “conduct adversely reflects on his fitness to practice law.”

Blakeslee had failed to explain why he pooped in the cans, ruling out PTSD and only telling his hearing that “There has to be something going on that’s related to some of the things I went through in early life.”

He was obviously traumatized by Mr. Potato Head.