Vasaline Bandits..

When I was little burglars disguised their finger prints by smearing them with Vasaline. . .

Maybe they moved on to covering themselves further :


http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10182722


The tale of the tail end may have reached an end.

At least that's what folks in Valentine, Neb., hope after someone slathered his bare backside — and front side — with Vaseline, then left prints on windows of businesses, schools and churches.

Rewards offered through Crime Stoppers failed to halt the pants-dropping perpetrator's spree, which began in May.

The local Midland News newspaper called the vandal or vandals "lewd, lubricated, lurching lunatics." A radio station dubbed them "the buttcheek bandits."

"It's just a weird deal, but it's weird enough to cause a little bit of concern," Valentine Police Chief Ben McBride. "Who in their right mind would do something like that?"

McBride has fielded about 20 reports. The last official one came in mid-October, although a Valentine businessman said he saw a print Thursday morning on the door of a dental clinic.

"If I hadn't heard about this previously, I wouldn't have had a clue what it was," said Duane Gudgel of the Plains Trading Company bookstore and gift shop.

Norman Nollett, co-owner of Nollett Electric, noticed greasy prints on the plate glass windows of his business in September. He didn't think much of it until he heard a radio report about the spree.

"I don't know what kind of people it takes to do that," Nollett said. "Someone with a weird sense of humor, I guess."