Middle class mom hires bodyguard for court appearance after she was filmed committing obscene road rage act
A Pennsylvania mom who allegedly defecated on a vehicle in a bizarre case of road rage has hired a bodyguard to accompany her to court.
Christina Solometo, 44, appeared at Prospect Park District Court on Monday for a preliminary hearing into the wild offense that was caught on camera last month.
The clip shows a woman, dubbed the 'Delco Popper', dropping her pants, squatting over the hood of a car in Prospect Park, Delaware County, before delectating on it.
Her attorney David Klayman advised Fox News that Solomento had hired a guard due to receiving threats, after the clip was circulated on social media.
Solometo was charged with indecent exposure, disorderly conduct, criminal mischief, harassment and depositing waste after she was arrested on May 2.
In court on Monday, officials added another count of open lewdness as witness Greg Ferrari, 17, was called.
Ferrari had captured the moment that she allegedly defecated on the vehicle, he told the court he was heading to his friends house at the time of the incident.
According to the teenager he had to stop as he saw two women in a heated confrontation, and decided to record it.
According to Fox, he told the court: 'One of the people ended up going to the bathroom on the other's car.'
Ferrari identified the woman that he captured on video as being Solometo, saying that the other driver had been shouting insults at Solometo.
Outside of court, Ferrari admitted to awaiting reporters that since the clip went viral he has become somewhat of a celebrity due to the attention it has received.
He said: 'It's pretty crazy. I mean it's something you'd never expect. I just got done [at] school. I got called out of school for this.'
Klayman argued in court that the charges against Solometo do not accurately portray what happened that day and that the other driver is also to blame.
Speaking of the threats, he told Fox: 'It's traumatic because it's all over the media. There are people making t-shirts, hats. Making threatening comments.
'When we are talking about a person. Just because it's not your best day doesn't mean you should be harassed continuously.'
Solometo is expected back in court to be formally arraigned on July 9.
According to court documents she allegedly told police, 'It was a clean poop. I didn't even have to wipe.'
Solometo allegedly claimed she had acted out of restraint rather than rage.
'The other driver called me a bad name,' she said. 'So I dropped a deuce instead of turning violent.'
Prospect Park Police Chief Dave Madonna told NBC after the clip surfaced that: 'This can't happen in this community.
'No town wants this to happen in their town. The recognition a town gets over this kind of thing - it's really unwelcome. We don't want this.'
'I know it's being joked on a lot. There's all kinds of puns and innuendos online. But bottom line, we are treating it seriously.'
It has also since emerged that Solometo is an adult content creator with an OnlyFans page.
Her page promises subscribers an intimate 'toe-tally' experience, including decorated toenails, toe jewelry, and personalized fetish content.
When a reporter for Philadelphia Magazine messaged Solometo to ask if her public defecation had any connection to fetish content she offers, her response was vulgar.
'You want me to f***ing s*** on you? I want 5k and I'm bringing a bodyguard!'
Her reply was sent via a Facebook account Solometo operates under the alias 'Christina M. Shythead.'
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