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.

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

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...

Anonymous said...

Midnight motor oil change and disposal?

Anonymous said...

This is kind of like having those lack of enforcement policies blow up in their face.

Anonymous said...

Clogging the PL, crime pipeline, that is.

Anonymous said...

The purple line with be the demise of bethesda.

Anonymous said...

Merely 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?

Anonymous said...

So you applaud vandalism? Such a nice person you must be.

Anonymous said...

More like the straw that broke the camel's back.

Anonymous said...

For 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.

Anonymous said...

Yessir, 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.

Anonymous said...

Did the vandals climb the chain link(ed) fence easily in order to gain entry into the Elmer Gantry?

Anonymous said...

12:53, 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?

Anonymous said...

How do know it was Vandals, it could have been the Visigoths or the Mongrels.

Anonymous said...

12:53. 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.'

Anonymous said...

You forgot the Ostrogoths and the Huns.

Anonymous said...

Attila was legit and wouldn't resort to such trivial antics.

Anonymous said...

I see they have installed additional fences to keep you civil disobediencers at bay.