Who Is The 'Pee Bandit' Of Pasadena? Urine Caper Captivates Community

PASADENA, CA — For years, someone has been leaving full bottles of what appears to be urine on an electrical box in Pasadena. For months, a local filmmaker has been trying to figure out why.

“For the past two years an electrical box in my neighborhood had been overrun with bottles of piss,” Derek Milton explained in his first of six TikTok videos chronicling the saga.

“And not your normal run-of-the-mill truck driver bottle of piss but an assortment of different size bottles, different colors and sometimes complemented with a hand-drawn note.”

The electrical box in question is on Colorado Boulevard south of the 134 Freeway, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Since June, Milton and friends — including filmmaker Grant Yansura, according to the Times — have been investigating, purchasing various trail and security cameras and installing them while disguised as construction workers, with Milton's video series racking up millions of views.

The first camera captured only a phantom arm descending from above, over the wall with the freeway on the other side, but later endeavors caught the man on video, although one camera was stolen, with its GPS eventually revealing it had been brought to San Diego.

Attempts to interact with the man, dubbed by some as the “pee bandit,” were less fruitful. An interview pad and whiteboard with questions left at the drop zone were untouched, and when, in the most recent installment of the series, Milton spoke to the man through an overhead camera, the man appeared to reach into the trees to disable it.

Milton and Yansura also collected a sample from one of the bottles and, using tests they purchased online, determined the liquid inside was clean, healthy urine.

Milton is not the only person who has noticed the mystery bottles. Someone left an aggressive and threatening letter taped to the box where the bottles were placed. The city recently installed a triangular cap on the box to deter bottle placement, but it was quickly disassembled, allowing the bottles to return, Milton reported in a Sept. 15 update.

The city is investigating a man in connection with the case, according to the Times, which noted Pasadena had replaced the pyramid that was destroyed.

Milton and Yansura aren’t giving up either, the Times reported, adding they recently installed new cameras at the scene.