The Daily Populous Monday March 31st, 2025 morning edition
Authored by kwtx.com and submitted by JuztSomeDude79

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) – 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.

“I’ve actually started putting my bins back out again the night before and putting them in a different position just to see if I could get a better video of him,” Van Duyn said.

Van Duyn doesn’t plan to move or take extreme measures. He loves the neighborhood, which he has lived in since 2006.

But he does have a message for the mystery man.

“Maybe he’s watching, I don’t know. Please stop. Please, just don’t do it anymore,” he said.

As frustrated as he is, Van Duyn was at least able to make a joke of the situation.

“It’s a lot of pee,” he said. “I mean, this guy’s really pissing me off.”

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ohaiguys on March 31st, 2025 at 01:05 UTC »

We doing piss stories this week?

moodeng2u on March 31st, 2025 at 00:14 UTC »

I will guess it's from somebody living in a car nearby.

Cowboywizzard on March 30th, 2025 at 23:06 UTC »

Way of the road, bub