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Mystery of the Urine-filled Pop Cans

By David Lohr

York, Nebraska, in case you have not heard of it, is a town of approximately 8,000 people located near the intersection of Highway 81, a north-south freeway that runs from South America to Canada, and Interstate 80, an east-west freeway that crosses the nation.  The town boasts a high quality of life and low cost of living, and relatively easy access to just about anywhere.  Crime has not been a significant problem, either.  However, for at least the past two months, local business owners have been finding urine-filled pop cans lying around in parking lots at their places of business, with used catheters sticking out of the cans' openings.  Since about April 2009, these bizarre discoveries have been made not only in business parking lots but in municipal parking lots and alleys behind stores as well, and no one, yet, has a clue to the identity of the culprit(s) of what the locals are calling "catheter crimes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on June 26, 2009 (boomark / email).