Authorities Arrest ‘Butt Bandit’ Suspect After 2 Yrs. Of Leaving A Bad Impression
Posted November 24, 2008 12:00 pm.
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He’s accused of being the bearer of behinds, the rear echelon of rogues and the bastion of bad buns.
Police in Nebraska think they’ve finally caught the guy who’s been leaving an unpleasant imprint behind in the aptly named city of Valentine. We first told you about this bizarre nighttime intruder in September.
For reasons authorities still don’t know, someone was going around with a bare bottom in the middle of the night, deliberately leaving cheek marks on stores, churches, schools and windows all over town.
The culprit would use lotion or petroleum jelly to make his mark, then presumably pull up his pants and disappear into the night, leaving police at a dead – er- end.
He’d struck repeatedly for two summers in a row, sealing his impression on window after window, leaving store owners and office workers to discover his efforts in the morning. In one notorious instance, he managed to desecrate almost every pane at a local hotel.
He generally stopped in the fall and the winter but cops in the town of less than 3,000 got lucky last Wednesday, when they spotted a suspicious looking guy hanging around a local school at 3:30am.
He looked a lot like security video they had of the so-called “butt bandit,” who never took anything but left something unwanted behind.
Cops allege they caught the man in the act and believe the 35-year-old they’ve taken into custody is the sole suspect in this rear echelon caper.
And what of his motives? Police still aren’t sure but suggest it was the act of a ‘lone deviant.’
Officials admit the attention the acts have brought the city have been an embarrassment and they hope to successfully prosecute the accused and put it all behind them.
Although that may not be the best choice of words.
