Pee Mystery

To quote from a news report out of Oregon:

A man living in a Portland, Oregon neighborhood is wondering who is putting gallons of urine in his recycling bin and why.

Alex Van Duyn said the problem started in September when he noticed his recycling bin had not been collected.

“So I went to open the blue bin. And lo and behold, there was a nice deposit of gallon-size bottles of urine, to put it plainly. And there were six of them,” he said.

The recycling hauler refused to take the bin’s contents because urine is a biohazard. If it had been placed in the garbage bin, it would have been collected.

But the mystery man didn’t stop and kept dropping bottles of urine in the bin. Eventually, Van Duyn stopped putting his bins out on the curb altogether, hoping the man would quit.

And he did – but he moved on to using the neighbor’s garbage bins instead.

“I don’t know why he’s hitting the same location so many times. That doesn’t make sense to me, and why he is doing it,” Van Duyn said.

Van Duyn has captured surveillance video of the man showing up to his house, getting out of his car, and placing the bottles of urine in the recycling bin. Unfortunately, the videos are grainy and too hard to tell who he is.

Van Duyn has shared his ordeal on the NextDoor app, where neighbors have flooded the post with theories as to the reason behind it all.

But even with multiple theories, Van Duyn still doesn’t know why.

He has filed a police report and is trying to get the man’s license plate.