The Gum Bandit
On a topic similar to The Crying Girl Grifter, I found out about a neighborhood Gum Bandit, who has been messing up bikes by leaving chewed gum in various places.
For about a year and a half, the good people of 308 Prairie Street have been plagued by a shadowy figure known only as The Gum Bandit. He started sticking his spearmint leavings to the insides of handbrakes and other innocuous places, but escalated his passive aggressive behavior to include smearing multiple pieces of gum across seats and in locks. When he rendered a bike unusable, we decided that shit had gotten real. We asked the hive mind for suggestions and thus embarked on our quest.
A site was created by some of the victims (two of the participants are from MetaFilter), and includes a lot of interesting stuff: backstory on the incidents, a calendar, and have been researching how to set up a motion sensing camera.
Though they’ve got a photo of the guy, they don’t have an explicit photo of him in the act of gumming a bike. With the help of a secondary stakeout position, the bikers are hoping to catch him the next time he strikes. The next few days should be pretty interesting…
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