It's a bird! It's a plane! It's ... an Oregon mystery

Ryan Singel Jun 18, 2025

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h1>It's a bird! It's a plane! It's ... an Oregon mystery</h1>
                <h2><p>Our neighbors in Portland love to wear their weirdness on their sleeves, but this time they may have truly outdone themselves. As The Oregonian reports (and one puckish Portlander tweeted), someone has been chucking sex toys into power lines, hanging them up there the way less-weird people would do with</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/ryan/">Ryan Singel</a></p> 
              <p><time datetime="2025-02-04T05:00:00-08:00">Jan 12, 2018</time></p>
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            <p>Our neighbors in Portland love to wear their weirdness on their sleeves, but this time they may have truly outdone themselves. As <em>The Oregonian</em> <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/07/sex_toys_hanging_from_portland_1.html?ref=cascadepbs.org">reports</a> (and one puckish Portlander <a href="https://twitter.com/JustOGG/status/620781391236587520?ref=cascadepbs.org">tweeted</a>), someone has been chucking sex toys into power lines, hanging them up there the way less-weird people would do with shoes. A local boutique has been suspected of some as being the culprit, but as it turns out they don’t even sell dildos. The mystery deepens…</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.cascadepbs.org/content/images/sites/default/files/images/article/gallery/oregonian-dildo.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="The" loading="lazy" width="500" height="328"></figure>
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Our neighbors in Portland love to wear their weirdness on their sleeves, but this time they may have truly outdone themselves. As The Oregonian reports (and one puckish Portlander tweeted), someone has been chucking sex toys into power lines, hanging them up there the way less-weird people would do with shoes. A local boutique has been suspected of some as being the culprit, but as it turns out they don’t even sell dildos. The mystery deepens…