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The Clark County Sheriff's Office in south west Washington are searching
for a man who has allegedly been throwing apples onto the roofs of
unsuspecting residents and leaving some very odd notes in his wake.
In a Facebook post,
they said that law enforcement agencies across the Columbia River in
the Portland, Oregon, area have received periodic reports over the last
two years of so-called "apple-ing," in which the fruits are maliciously
tossed onto people's homes.
The "bad apple culprit," as deputies have dubbed him, struck again this
week.
A homeowner in Hazel Dell, northwest of Vancouver, came home to find
their roof blanketed with several apples.
On the door, the man had left a note.
"To The Good Citizens of Callisto,
I crossed the Rubicon River.
Today I did five houses. My backpack had fifteen apples in it, three
apples per house. I pull up on my bike, take my backpack off, get the
apples out, put the backpack back on, walk up a little closer and throw
them high in the air over the house. The second and third apples are
still in the air when the first one hits. Within seconds I am mounted up
and gone.
Roofs are not created equally so the sound effects vary. It can be
nothing, to a muted thump, to louder thumps to almost a crashing sound.
"I can remember one house. The owner must have had mason jars stacked up
under the eaves; the apples came down on them like bowling bowls. I've
broken a few windows but that happens rarely. If there are overhanging
tree limbs or wires, I try to avoid hazards like that.
"Apple-ing" five houses takes about seven minutes. For a while I was
doing eleven houses, that was down in the Richmond neighborhood. As it
turns out eleven is too many as one night a police car showed up. The
way he came was the way I went as he didn't see me and I was surprised
to see I was being followed by a Portland Fire SUV with four bicycles
attached to the back. Now I heard that Portland Police were stepping up
bicycle patrols in the wake of nuisance crimes.
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"I took a right and a left, another right and a left and dropped down to
Ladd's Addition. So I started out at the Baghdad Theater and ended up in
those nice gardens by the roundabout and there I lay down. I felt good
being guarded by flowers.
It should be noted that the City of Portland might be the best place on
earth for a hooligan riding a bicycle with a backpack filled with
apples. There are bicyclists everywhere, even in the early morning
hours. The neighborhoods are like corn fields, easy to get lost in."
The bandit's most recent escapade left investigators with some solid
leads,
namely a pair of images captured by the homeowner's surveillance camera. Anyone who recognizes the culprit, or has information as to his whereabouts, is asked to contact police.
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