Nike customers have been left enraged after their zippers on their backpacks are being stolen.
A trend spreading on social media shows thieves taking the zips off Nike Elite backpacks.
Tiktok users are even posting videos proudly displaying zips they have snatched off other people’s bags.
Another video shows someone walking through a shop with the zippers taken off unsold bags.
One video, captioned ‘day four of snatching people’s Nike elite zippers’, shows abackpack with at least 15 zippers all different colours key chained on.
One Reddit user who claim they are the victim of the trend wrote: ‘What the hell is with this trend of people taking the zippers of Nike Elite backpacks off?
‘In the last week I have had people including me have almost all of zippers removed from out backpacks when we’re walking.’
Others replied saying they also had their zips taken off, with another user saying: ‘My son’s were stolen yesterday.
‘I am so frustrated. Buy your own stuff losers.’
Another added: ‘One of the lamest trends I’ve seen. Stealing from people isn’t cool.
‘Not to mention the whole concept looks trash and they are literally just standard zip pulls with a plastic coating.’
One Tiktok user commented that schools are even sending out notices to parents and students warning them against the trend.
It is unclear what has prompted the trend online, but a Reddit user said their dad was also victim to it 30 years ago.
They wrote: ‘It’s not a new trend, I told my dad about this trend and he said they’ve been doing that forever, since he was in high-school over 30 years ago.
‘He said some stores even started selling the zippers too.’
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