After having a small get-together at my house, my friends left around midnight, only to find their cars covered in pickles and pickle juice. The temperature was sub ten degrees and the pickles and juice froze to the cars. 

Caleb Stives thought the only thing on his windshield was ice, but when he turned his car on, he caught a big whiff of pickle. Stives says he thought to himself “Oh my God why does it smell like pickles?”. “The windshield had like a greenish tint,” says Stives. He doesn’t find it funny that they poured the juice on his car and thinks that the pickler may have gone too far.

Maddie Berry was also a victim of the pickling. At first, Berry wasn’t sure what was on her car, “but then as I look around back again I see like five frozen pickles and pickle juice all over my car”, says Berry. She says she has no clue who did it. Berry says, “All I know is I’m not the only one who got pickled that night, so I guess there’s a random pickler on the loose”. 

We found this prank ridiculously hilarious, so my friends and I decided to get in on the action ourselves and at around 12:30 in the morning we pickled Maddie Berry ourselves. I wish I could’ve been the one to come up with the idea. It is just so clever.

Thinking this was an isolated incident we had a good laugh and moved on. However, when I returned to school the next day, I overheard other people talking about being pickled, on the exact same night. These people live nowhere near me nor do we have the same friends who would target us both. 

So who is the elusive pickler? We might never know, but they did give us a good laugh and sparked a lot of talk about what makes a good prank. Safe to say pickling was pretty ingenious. 

The pickler is among us, possibly even reading this, stay safe out there Westlake.