A whole bunch of sharp nails had been discovered mysteriously embedded point-up in a Cape Cod city’s roadways — and police don’t know who’s behind the damaging stunt.
At the very least 478 nails had been recovered unfold throughout 4 Falmouth roads early Friday morning, in response to the Falmouth Police Division.
Photographs shared by the division confirmed dozens of nails with their heads pressed intentionally into tar patches throughout the roads and factors poised skyward — able to impale the tires of automobiles passing by.
The spikes had been discovered round 2 a.m. by an officer on patrol, who discovered much more littered throughout close by sidewalks and unfold up driveways — and even propped beneath the tires of parked automobiles.
“I’ve heard of mailboxes getting smashed, but never nails being left on the road,” neighbor Kathy Hartford informed NBC 10 Boston.
Hartford was woken at 2:30 a.m. to a knock on the door by police, who mentioned her driveway had been discovered peppered with nails.
“They told me they saw nails in my driveway and up the street, and surrounding my car,” she added.
Police rushed to work eradicating the nails and sweeping them up, whereas neighbor Rick Murphy pitched in with a big magnet to scour the grass close to the roadway for any that had been missed.
“I dragged it back and forth on a road down there,” Murphy mentioned. “It could have created an awful accident.”
“You know, a blowout, car goes off the road, hits a tree or a pole.”
Cops are nonetheless working to search out out the offender behind the incident, however locals had been fast to supply concepts.
“My first suspect would be the local tire salesman,” one man wrote on the Falmouth Police Division’s Fb web page.
“Kids with nothing better to do,” one other theorized.
Police are asking the general public for any info or residence safety footage that may make them a offender.
