# The Valentine Butt-Printing Bandit Strikes Again

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 12, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-valentine-butt-printing-bandit-strikes-again/463264 "2008-09-12T13:38:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-valentine-butt-printing-bandit-strikes-again/463264/1 "2008-09-12T13:38:16Z")

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A man has been going around the town of Valentine, Nebraska, leaving imprints of his Vaseline-smeared butt on the glass shop windows.  
The town of Valentine is apparently covered in heart-shaped memorabilia, and it cancels lots of Valentine mail every year. Personally, I think the guy just snapped and started making his own Valentine-shaped impressions all over town.  
[http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080912/D934R7S01.html](http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080912/D934R7S01.html)

[http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080911/ap\_on\_fe\_st/odd\_crude\_dude](http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080911/ap_on_fe_st/odd_crude_dude)

> **['Butt bandit' grosses out US town](https://www.odt.co.nz/news/world/butt-bandit-grosses-out-us-town)**
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> People in the Nebraska town of Valentine wish their busiest vandal would find another way to make his mark.

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> The police chief is far from amused.
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> “It’s not funny,” McBride said. “We’re worried about the next step.”

Oh, yes, it is definitely funny.  
What can “the next step” be? The mind boggles.

> **[Valentine, Nebraska](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine,_Nebraska)**
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> Valentine is a city in and the county seat of Cherry County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 2,633 at the 2020 census. It is the hometown of former vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz.
> Valentine was founded in 1882. The Valentine post office was established on December 4, 1882. The Sioux City and Pacific Railroad was extended to that point and train service began on April 1, 1883. It was named for Edward K. Valentine, a Nebraska representative.
> As late as 1967, Valentine was spl...

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-valentine-butt-printing-bandit-strikes-again/463264/2 "2008-09-12T13:49:13Z")

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Here’s a report that’s not just a copy of the previous ones:

[http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u\_page=2798&u\_sid=10182722](http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10182722)  
Evidently they’re worried about “copycat crimes”. Maybe that’s the dreaded “next step.”

Is there any way we can encourage female copycats?