Several residents of San Diego are pretty ticked off at a man they say has been pouring salsa on their cars over the past several weeks. They’ve started calling him the “Salsa Vandal.”
In the interest of full disclosure, it’s not just salsa: It’s BBQ sauce, milk, and other condiments, too.
HLN affiliate KSWB set up cameras to catch the alleged condiment-tosser in the act, and -- sure enough -- they say they captured footage of him on several occasions dumping liquids onto cars parked along the street in Pacific Beach.
They even confronted him about it right after he reportedly dumped some milk onto a windshield, asking him the question we all want to know an answer to: WHY?! Why are you doing this?!
His answer -- with milk jug in hand -- is that it wasn’t him.
“If he’s trying to keep people from parking there, it’s working, because people are avoiding that area,” one neighbor says.
There have been no reports to police, but even if a neighbor wanted to complain, police say they can’t do anything about it anyway.
“With vandalism, there has to be permanent damage done,” San Diego Police Lt. Andra Brown tells KSWB. “If it’s something that can be easily picked up, cleaned up, thrown away, washed off, it doesn’t create permanent damage and it’s not considered a crime, and the police department doesn’t investigate weirdness or pranks. We investigate crimes.”
Guess these neighbors will just have to bring a bag of chips with them on their way to work and try to make the best out of a rather sticky situation.
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