The so-called "Ice Pick Bandit," the truck vandal who haunts off-ramps and truck parking spots up and down I-75 in south Georgia and northern Florida, has struck again, this time cutting the air lines clean off a tractor-trailer, as well as poking up the tires.
Overdrive has been chronicling attacks from the Ice Pick Bandit since last Fall, even obtaining images provided by police of a purported suspect. Some of his victims have described him in a new Ford Ranger. Some have all their tires poked. Others just a few. Sometimes the air lines and brakes get hit, other times not.
In most cases, it's nearly $10,000 in damages. In Florida and Georgia, no arrests have been made despite attacks ongoing for at least nine months.
In the most recent case, Ontario, Canada-based W.R. Barry & Sons trucking had a driver wake up on an onramp near the welcome center in Hamilton County, Florida, to discover their air lines cut and steer tires poked out. That's something of a scratch compared to some other IPB victims, but things then got worse.
"We saw a mechanic I'm pretty close with in that area," said Charles Barry, operations manager at the small fleet. After getting new steer tires and air lines on, including to the brakes, the driver continued to their destination farther south.
"We got reloaded in Central Florida and when we got back to Toronto, we found two other flat drive tires," he said.
That's the bandit's entire scheme, it seems.
