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New York state officials seize Instagram-famous squirrel named Peanut from owner (www.nbcnews.com)
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World’s fattest cat Crumbs dies weighing 38 pounds weeks after his stint at fat camp (www.independent.co.uk)
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Smuggler packs 200 pounds of meth into PC cases, gets busted — Australian Border Force foil drug smuggling plot (www.tomshardware.com)
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Relief mixed with sadness as New Zealand bids farewell to ‘hated’ giant hand sculpture (www.theguardian.com)
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100 kg wild boar causes chaos in train station, bites man’s arm in toilet (koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)
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These hornets break down alcohol so fast that they can’t get drunk (arstechnica.com)
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Vatican announces anime girl mascot (boingboing.net)
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The Church will be truly unstoppable now

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Lost Mayan city found in Mexico jungle by accident (www.bbc.com)
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Timothée Chalamet crashes look-alike event in New York City (www.bbc.com)
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Woman left disappointed after ‘Northern Lights-style aurora’ turns out to be local tomato factory (www.independent.co.uk)
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Fraudsters steal 22 tonnes of high-value cheddar (www.bbc.com)
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Zamboni driver arrested for impaired driving in low-speed crash in western Quebec (globalnews.ca)
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Woman reaching for phone gets stuck upside down in boulders (www.bbc.com)
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Fond farewells on a timer: New Zealand airport limits drop-off hugs to 3 minutes (www.straitstimes.com)
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Funeral home in Poland apologises after body falls from hearse into traffic (www.theguardian.com)
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Greek man convicted of causing disturbance by entering neighbours’ properties to smell their shoes (apnews.com)
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Hackers took over robovacs to chase pets and yell slurs (www.theverge.com)
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Woman pleads guilty to trying to smuggle 29 turtles across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak (apnews.com)
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Eighteen treated for severe nausea in Stuttgart after opera of live sex and piercing (www.theguardian.com)
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Breakdancers warned of cone-shaped lump from 'extensive headspinning' (www.bbc.com)
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Social media sleuths try to solve Pasadena’s urine bottle mystery (ktla.com)
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Social media sleuths try to solve Pasadena’s urine bottle mystery

by: Marc Sternfield

Two local filmmakers are trying to solve a mystery that has confounded and disgusted residents of Pasadena for more than two years: Who is placing containers full of urine atop a utility box, and why?

As the Los Angeles Times reports, the so-called “Piss Bandit” has been fixated on a specific Pasadena Water & Power electrical box on Colorado Boulevard – leaving behind bottles and even large jugs of urine.

Some are even labeled as such.

In a series of True Crime-style videos posted to TikTok, Derek Milton and Grant Yansura have made it their mission to document and potentially expose the culprit.

One video, which includes night vision hidden camera footage, has amassed over six million views, and subsequent videos have reached millions more. Pasadena Piss Bandit Bottles of urine are seen atop a utility box in Pasadena, California, in 2024. (TikTok @_derekmilton)

A city spokesperson told the L.A. Times that police in Pasadena are also interested since the bottles have irked residents and drawn complaints.

Recently, the city tried to stop the “Piss Artist” -as Milton calls him- by installing a triangular metal cap atop the electrical box so it was no longer flat.

It didn’t work.

The person destroyed the cap, leaving shards of metal on the ground – along with a fresh delivery of urine-filled bottles.

Milton and Yansura believe the “bandit” is a single man. As to his motive, no one is quite sure.

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Beer can artwork accidentally thrown in bin by staff member at Dutch museum (www.theguardian.com)
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Man, 81, sentenced to 6 months in prison for trying to create giant hybrid species of wild sheep (screenshot-media.com)
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Grand prize winner removed 20 Burmese pythons from the wild in Florida challenge (apnews.com)
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Tourist pleads guilty after throwing chicken named Betty White into an alligator pond (www.independent.co.uk)
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