Pasadena’s Pee Bandit saga has finally come to an end… or so say the guys who believe they’ve pinpointed the criminal responsible for leaving bottles of urine on the streets for years.
Pasadena residents have noticed over the past 6 years that someone consistently leaves several bottles full of pee on top of a utility box on the side of a road… alerting a local resident Derek Milton and your friend Grant Yansura to try to figure out the who, what – and most importantly – the why of it all.
Yansurá tells ABC7 … “Stacks of them, you know, nine, 10, 11 bottles… All different colors and shades – from an amber hue to a healthier, golden, lighter yellow. But some are really dark and worrying.”
Understandably curious about the whole display, Milton and Yansura decided to turn to TikTok to solve the local mystery… although they’re not sure they love being known as the “pee guys” on social media.
Together, they set up hidden cameras… which they say captured images of the suspected Pee Bandit. Specifically, the footage shows a man accessing the box from Highway 134, on the other side of a wall in the street.
Milton and Yansura’s theory is that the man considers himself “an artist”… mainly because the situation is so abstract that they don’t understand it.
The city has tried to deter the little looter in the past… last month, a steel pyramid was installed on top of the utility box. However, the pyramid was uprooted within days… and many believed that the urine outlaw was responsible for the damage.
The city tried to thwart the Pee Bandit again by erecting a second pyramid on top of the box… but it was left so that crushed bottles could still rest on it.
It’s been a while since the Pasadena Pee Bandit attacked the area, according to neighbors… so maybe the suspect has suspended his flow after all this time.