Mystery man has been leaving jugs of urine in Oregon neighborhood recycling bins for months: ‘It’s a lot of pee’

Urine for a real whodunit.

An Oregon neighborhood has been soaked with intrigue for months since a mysterious man started depositing jugs of pee in their recycling bins under the cover of darkness — and one resident hopes he can flush the suspect out.

“It is tragically gross,” said Alex Van Duyn, a northeast Portland resident who came home one day last September to find city services hadn’t emptied the full recycling bins he’d dragged out that morning.

And he never expected what he found when he flipped open the lid — or the stench that came with it.

“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 told KATU.

The jugs were filled to the brim with yellow urine. Dark, evidently poorly hydrated, stinky, white-foaming pee is considered a biohazard, so it can’t be processed by recyclers and can only be thrown out.

And like a morning trip to the bathroom, the pee kept coming.

The problem became so persistent that Van Duyn trained a security camera at his curb in hopes of shaking out the truth — and captured footage of a hooded man rolling up by night in what appeared to be a BMW, then slinking out to his trunk and emptying armloads of piss-filled jugs into the bins.

“It’s a lot of pee,” Van Duyn said, explaining that he and his wife — who have lived peacefully in the neighborhood since 2006 — were left “befuddled” by the strange happening.

Eventually, Van Duyn decided he’d had enough and stopped putting out his recycling — but the slippery suspect simply moved on to a neighbor’s recycling bin, and then on to another.

“It sort of started to unravel. 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.

He went first to the NextDoor app, where he shared his experience and asked for any advice or insight. People responded by calling the perp “disturbed” and positing outlandish conspiracies about kidnapping victims and worse.

While those posts haven’t turned up any leads, Van Duyn has decided to stop holding it in and filed a police report — arguing that because the pee was placed in the recycling instead of the trash, the behavior was criminal.

He’s also decided to take the matter into his own hands and started setting his bins out in a new location, hopeful that he can lure the suspect back and catch him with a new camera angle.

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

“I mean, this guy’s really pissing me off.”