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Thursday, April 09, 2026
Vandal damages Purple Line construction site in downtown Bethesda
Montgomery County police were called to the Purple Line construction site at Wisconsin Avenue and Elm Street Monday morning, April 6, 2026, after workers discovered a vandal had carried out an attack at the site. Police say the suspect poured a container of oil into a shaft at the site, causing unspecified damage. Detectives believe the incident took place sometime between 12:00 PM on Sunday, and 4:00 AM on Monday. They have not released a description of the suspect.

My hero! I'd cop to it but I didn't do it. Wonder what kind of "oil" was used for the major site damage...
ReplyDeleteMidnight motor oil change and disposal?
ReplyDeleteThis is kind of like having those lack of enforcement policies blow up in their face.
ReplyDeleteClogging the PL, crime pipeline, that is.
ReplyDeleteThe purple line with be the demise of bethesda.
ReplyDeleteMore like the straw that broke the camel's back.
DeleteMerely a test run which I applaud. Any fly in the ointment (oil meant) to take time out of their day to call police is a moral victory for the perp. But the real question is what would it take to do real damage at this point other than mere annoyances?
ReplyDeleteSo you applaud vandalism? Such a nice person you must be.
ReplyDeleteYessir, getting even, if only in one's mind is the only thing left in this county besides frontier justice and vigilantism! And I am a nice person, just serious about my opinions.
Delete12:53, as long as we're being bombarded by poor decisions by incompetent to malfeasant local politicians we need to resort to desperate measures. We cannot even finally honestly elect at the federal level without constant sniping and undermining, what's left for us but more intense response?
Delete12:53. If our lib politicians keeps rallying around these insane '20 percent' issues and foisting them upon us,maybe it is time we copied some pages from their 'outrage playbook.'
DeleteFor all the above haters know or don't, this could be a crime (prank) committed by those bad boys of B-town; BCC, WJ, Whitman, or GP. Such delinquents.
ReplyDeleteDid the vandals climb the chain link(ed) fence easily in order to gain entry into the Elmer Gantry?
ReplyDeleteHow do know it was Vandals, it could have been the Visigoths or the Mongrels.
ReplyDeleteYou forgot the Ostrogoths and the Huns.
DeleteAttila was legit and wouldn't resort to such trivial antics.
DeleteI see they have installed additional fences to keep you civil disobediencers at bay.
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