Pasadena "Piss bandit" has been operating for 6 years. [View all]
Every few days, a mysterious figure in a mask and latex gloves carries bottles of urine to an affluent neighborhood, carefully arranges them on a utility box, and then vanishes into the night.
Known as the “Piss Bandit,” for the past six years he’s left his mark on Pasadena with soda bottles, juice cartons, and even gallon jugs full to the brim with yellow liquid.
Nobody knows his identity and he taunts the locals with notes and drawings scrawled on his bottles: “human urine,” crude smiley faces, or sometimes “HIV positive.”
https://nypost.com/2024/10/02/us-news/piss-bandit-who-taunts-locals-with-urine-bottles-is-californias-number-one-menace/
PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- Pasadena officials hope they've finally thwarted the so-called Pee Bandit, a man known in the city for his years-long campaign of leaving several bottles of urine on a local utility box.
People who live around the utility box near the intersection of Colorado Boulevard and San Rafael Avenue say someone has been consistently stacking bottles of urine there for the past six years.
The strange displays caught the eye of Derek Milton and his friend Grant Yansura. They have spent the last two years trying to figure out who the Pee Bandit is and why he places the urine bottles on the box - and there are quite a few of them.
"Stacks of them, you know, nine, 10, 11 bottles," Yansura said. "All different colors, shades - from like an amber hue to more of a healthy, golden, lighter yellow. But some are really dark and concerning."
https://abc7.com/post/pee-bandit-mystery-is-leaving-bottles-urine-pasadena-neighborhood/15386094/
Someone is leaving bottles of urine by a street in Pasadena. Two filmmakers are watching
On the south side of the 134 Freeway in Pasadena, amid the brush and the dirt and detritus, there is an empty tub of Dreyer’s vanilla ice cream and an empty drink cup from Subway.
They appear to be litter, perhaps cast out of fast-moving cars by careless freeway drivers.
In fact, they hide strategically placed security cameras aimed at capturing the man some in Pasadena have named the “Piss Bandit.”
The mystery man has a penchant for placing full bottles of human urine on a specific Pasadena Water & Power electrical box on Colorado Boulevard. For years, he has deposited full bottles of pee (unscientific but newspaper-safe term) atop a seemingly random electrical box.
That behavior is odd enough. But what about the two self-appointed documentarians who have devoted themselves to identifying the urine bottler and understanding his ways? The story is a confluence of classic California weirdness and the Hollywood show business hustlers always there to track it.
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Milton and Yansura say they believe it is one person, a man. The city of Pasadena also said it is investigating a man, whom officials did not identify.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-10-02/pasadena-urine-bottles-tiktok-filmmakers
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