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Georgia Police Hunt Mystery Man Who Broke Into Backyard, Fell for a Rubber Duck, Stole $1,200 in Towels

Home security cameras caught an unidentified intruder using a family's pool and hot tub for hours overnight — and spending more than 10 minutes 'intensely interacting' with a rubber duck before biking off with their towels.

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SEP 10, 2026 · 2 MIN READ
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Georgia Police Hunt Mystery Man Who Broke Into Backyard, Fell for a Rubber Duck, Stole $1,200 in Towels
A Savannah-Chatham area police patrol car (file photo). Photo: Michael Rivera / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA).

Police in Chatham County, Georgia, are asking the public for help identifying a man caught on home security video breaking into a backyard pool area, using the hot tub for hours overnight — and spending more than 10 minutes fixated on a rubber duck he found floating in it.

The footage, released by the Chatham County Police Department, shows the man trespassing on a private property on Whitefield Avenue between roughly 2:15 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. on September 1, according to WTOC. He used the homeowners' pool and hot tub before what police described as an extended, apparently affectionate encounter with a rubber duck — video appears to show him kissing it.

Before leaving the property on a bicycle, the man made off with pool and beach towels police valued at around $1,200, according to WRDW.

"HE TRESPASSED ONTO THEIR PROPERTY, USED THEIR HOT TUB, BECAME OBSESSED WITH THEIR RUBBER DUCK, THEN STOLE THEIR POOL TOWELS."

— Chatham County Police Department, in a statement releasing the surveillance footage

The department acknowledged the incident isn't exactly a major case, noting in its own statement that "it's obviously not the biggest crime we've dealt with this month, but it has a lot of ick-factor," per WSAV. Investigators have not identified a suspect and are relying on the public to help track him down.

Chatham County Police cover Savannah and its surrounding communities as a separate agency from the Savannah Police Department, following a 2017 split of the two departments' operations.

What's next: Chatham County Police are continuing to seek tips on the man's identity; no arrest had been made as of Thursday.

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