TikTokers Investigate Why Someone Is Dropping Piss Bottles In This California Town

“Do it for a while,” as they say. But what if “the trick” was filling bottles with urine and surreptitiously placing them in an affluent California town, under the cover of night?

The Californian city of Pasadena was mystified by this: a utility box regularly filled with bottles of piss. The bottles seem to appear in the middle of the night, a few times a week, with urine filling everything from soda bottles to milk cartons and even gallon jugs.

The city of Pasadena attempted to thwart these strange whims by affixing a metal barrier around the top of the utility box, thereby blocking the placement of said piss-filled bottles. But the Piss Bandits, as they are called, don’t give up easily: they tore down the barrier and continued delivering bottles filled to the brim with piss. This has apparently been going on for six years and no one knows why.

The New York Post reports that the neighbors don’t find it very funny. “I found it disgusting,” one said. “I never considered it an art form in any form.” Another neighbor threatened the Piss Bandit. “If I catch you leaving your piss here, I’ll make you drink every last drop!”

The story of the Piss Bandit went viral more recently after a TikTok duo, Grant Yansura and Derek Milton, launched an investigation using game cameras and fake construction workers to try to catch the bandit and uncover his motivations: was it art, a fetish? , or something else? Maybe the Piss Bandit isn’t bad at all, but he’s just delivering the goods to others who practice the art of Shivambu.

To find out what’s going on, Yansura and Milton began their investigation by surreptitiously installing a trail camera in a bush next to the box, so they could observe the bandit when they arrived. What happened next shocked them: after viewing the footage, they discovered that the Piss Bandit had placed the bottles on the utility box not from the curb but from the sidewalk. over the wall behind. All they saw was the bandit’s arm sticking out of the wall, setting down bottles as if they were confidently setting down chess pieces.

Alas, the Piss Bandit would not be caught so easily. Yansura and Milton needed more cameras, placed inside the tree on the other side of the wall.

After installing the new cameras, they quickly found their man: a man in his thirties or forties wearing latex gloves and carrying a flashlight. “It seemed clearly premeditated and very intentional,” Yansura says in one of the videos. “I thought getting a glimpse of the culprit would give me closure, but in reality it only doubled my curiosity.”

Eventually, after testing some of the urine and discovering that it was genuine, clean piss, and after making some assumptions about his clothes, they decided that the culprit must be an artist of some sort. And any self-proclaimed artist will surely want to be interviewed, so they placed a large handwritten pad with questions and a pen on the site, hoping that he would write answers explaining why he does all this.

This decision backfired, as it alarmed the Piss Bandit, who discovered the camera and stole it, leaving the question pad intact. Even more alarming, the camera, which is connected to the Internet and sends images back remotely, sent a photo of Sunset Cliffs in San Diego a few days later. The Piss Bandit was intelligent and calculated.

Eventually, the Piss Bandit returned to the site and retaliated further by dropping larger bottles of piss and scribbling a demonic smiley face on one of them.

The duo installed a new, more sophisticated security camera with live video that they could talk through, and captured the Piss Bandit…with a mask, as he lowered the camera. And that’s where the story ended. The duo didn’t feel comfortable trying to physically approach the Piss Bandit at night for fear of getting shot or stabbed, so that was it. They would never know the Piss Bandit’s true motivations.

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