r/ithaca • u/BuffaloPotholeBandit • Jul 07 '25

Goodbye Ithaca, thanks for your holes

I filled 8 sidewalk holes and one pothole while I was here this weekend. I trained some successors and they may continue after I am gone.

I hid some colorful cement trinkets I made in the blocks around the holes for you to find. Please only take one per hunter.

I’ve updated the Google map with locations at BuffaloPotholeBandit.com. This project is donation based, if you want to throw me a fiver links are on the site. .

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u/Riptide360 Jul 07 '25

Ithaca’s pothole hero!!!

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u/CanadianCitizen1969 Jul 07 '25

The hero Ithaca needed

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u/IthaCorn Jul 07 '25

Wasn't the hero we asked for, but its the hero we got

u/West_Bookkeeper9431 Jul 07 '25

Awesome. Any hints on locations?

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 07 '25

Map at BuffaloPotholeBandit.com

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u/West_Bookkeeper9431 Jul 07 '25

Thank you!

u/TuckHolladay Jul 07 '25

I gotta go find the homer one

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 07 '25

That one was a gaper. Took over three bags of cement

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u/zhenya00 Jul 07 '25

I thought I saw that one today when I didn't need to dodge it. Good choice!

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 07 '25

DRIVE ON HIS FACE

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u/IntelligentMarket252 Jul 13 '25

I live right around the corner from Homer!! I had not noticed it, but I saw it on Reddit, and then my family had just noticed it, we just walked down to see it! I can’t thank you enough, I avoid that pothole like a second nature!! I am immediately going on your site to donate! You are a wonderful human being thank you thank you!!

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 13 '25

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u/henrydavidtharobot Jul 07 '25

Aurora x Columbia

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u/IntelligentMarket252 Jul 13 '25

👍👍..I’m on the other end Columbia! Thank you for your unique efforts!!

u/mhaithaca Ellis Jul 07 '25

Amazing! Thank you! May I use a couple of these photos for a quick 14850.com article about your efforts here?

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 07 '25

Yes you can screenshot whatever you need

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u/g2ichris East Ithaca Jul 07 '25

Go out and find them Mike!

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u/nevillem Jul 08 '25

That's Mark

u/CPNZ Jul 07 '25

Come back - we have 1,000 more potholes to be filled still!

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 07 '25

I had a few on my list I was dying to fill but I didn’t have time, will try to support the successors in filling some. There was even one hole shaped like a heart

u/IthaCorn Jul 07 '25

This post is so holesome

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 07 '25

Love u

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u/Pitbull_Big_Mama Jul 08 '25

Hole-y crap, you read my mind

u/Routine_Biscotti_852 Jul 07 '25

Thank you for bringing unexpected humor and joy to Ithaca!

u/jules823 Jul 07 '25

Thank you so much for sprinkling some of this magic on our town

u/Puzzled_Committee735 Jul 07 '25

Can I pet that daaaaawwwwwwwgggg

u/armahillo Northeast Jul 07 '25

This is amazing

u/eschambach Jul 07 '25

So rad.

u/Choice-Shine3450 Jul 07 '25

Awesome. Thanks

u/aesythe Jul 07 '25

omg! Were you the artist who recently filled potholes in Burlington, VT?

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 07 '25

Yep I bought a used car there and filled 11

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u/aesythe Jul 07 '25

They make me smile every time I see them! Thank you for that!

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 07 '25

Did you know I got to meet Bruce Ploff, the 1980s pothole bandit? ???? I’m

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u/aesythe Jul 08 '25

I'm unfamiliar but will make a point of checking out his work!

u/greatgrandpatoro Jul 07 '25

Love it when you fill our holes

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 07 '25

And lort I love to fill em

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u/BoxcarMarty Jul 08 '25

Come back for some moose soup later

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Aug 04 '25

Comin in October bb

u/froyolobro Downtown Jul 07 '25

Saw one of these this morning (corner of Seneca/aurora, by the parking garage entrance) and it made me so happy! Thanks for this, it’s awesome!!!

u/OrganizationOver2978 Jul 07 '25

Thank you for adding fun to our community! Go Bills!

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 07 '25

GO BILLS!!!

u/xxxxftm Jul 07 '25

Dude thank you so much...will one of your successors will become the Ithaca Pothole Bandit?? Because we desperately need it here 😂

u/leonmo Jul 07 '25

Thank you for your service!

u/Sea_Potato_2621 Jul 07 '25

Thank you

u/fardnshid03 Jul 07 '25

Thanks man that’s 8 down and an unholy amount more to go.

u/voluminous_lexicon Jul 08 '25

visit again, pothole artist angel! let us know if we can help you out with anything

u/mathau6 Jul 07 '25

Ahhhh i loooooovvveeeee

u/Hopefully_Learning9 Jul 07 '25

THANK YOU!!

u/ThatGirlChelsea25 Jul 07 '25

ICON

u/Beginning_Pen5758 Jul 07 '25

❤️ thank you!

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 07 '25

Yes! It’s part of the Great American Dawg Drop- I’m making and dropping 1000. What # is written on the bottom?

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 07 '25

There are trinkets near all the holes so if you go stalk them you’ll probably find something! There are cats, dawgs, skulls, mouths, and a rabbit with one ear. If you’re dying for a Dawg tho come to the next dawg drop in Buffalo- the 8th one will be later this month. I drop 100 all at once and people go hunt, while I hide in the trees and silently taunt them

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u/Pitbull_Big_Mama Jul 08 '25

*Fun, sick bastard.

u/Salt-Fee-9543 Jul 07 '25

Very cool. I’m just wondering what the legality of doing this is? Do you need to get permission from the city/town or county first?

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 07 '25

Ask for forgiveness not permission or else I’d never get anything done

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u/Salt-Fee-9543 Jul 07 '25

😝 I was just curious, keep up the good work!

u/AwayAbroad Jul 07 '25

I saw the one on Columbia, so fun!! Thank you for your work!

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 07 '25

Hope I saved a suspension or two

u/Juglone1 Jul 07 '25

Pittsburgh needs you.

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 07 '25

It’s on the list - need a place to stay

u/BarbaraGhanoush Jul 07 '25

Three cheers for my new hero!! HIP HIP…

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u/cdinbflo Jul 08 '25

hooray

u/Isodora Jul 07 '25

You’re amazing! Thank you!

u/Lucidity74 Jul 07 '25

Thank you!

u/guac-o Jul 07 '25

Loved these. Extraordinary artistic gesture. With some punchy praxis. Ithaca does have it…

u/California14850 Jul 07 '25

Amazing. Thank you! I hope this continues.

u/DuntadaMan Jul 07 '25

I thought this was the island Ithaca and was really confused why you did everything in English.

I'm not a smart man.

u/Lextalkaboutsex_ Jul 08 '25

Holey cow.

u/WanderingGoose1022 Jul 13 '25

Yess!!! Thank you thank you!! Cannot wait to see them ◡̈

u/SoggyParsley6788 Jul 07 '25

Come to Corning ny next!!

u/supergirlsudz Jul 07 '25

When two subs I follow collide!

u/Puzzled-Atmosphere-1 Jul 07 '25

That’s so awesome!! Hopefully the force is strong with your successors! But the Geocaching would be fun for kids and parents to do together! Nice idea!

u/TuckHolladay Jul 08 '25

I don’t see never ranch on the map

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 08 '25

It’s at the “ice cream holes” with you matter

u/realdruck Jul 08 '25

Haven’t seen any irl yet but I’ll be looking. Thank you so much

u/Economy-Flamingo-660 Jul 08 '25

So cool!!!!!!!!!!!

u/Earliza Jul 08 '25

thank you! on columbia

u/Pandasonic9 Jul 08 '25

Is this a recent thing?

I was there 4 years and have never seen such a thing

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 08 '25

I just did them all this weekend

u/THRSALWYSNXTYR Jul 08 '25

Ithaca's holes are gorges!

u/ErstwhileAdranos Jul 08 '25

Are you the fellow who did Burlington, VT a while back?

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 08 '25

I quite am

u/AlternativeAdagio517 Jul 08 '25

I just left from a seven day stop there. The roads aren’t that bad. I’ve been all over the east coast though.

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 08 '25

It differs road to road. Some where good and some were awful

u/bwel16 Jul 08 '25

Thank you for filling our holes, please don’t be a stranger our holes need attention.

u/Rockajilly Jul 09 '25

These are really great, thank you.

u/CheetoMussolini Jul 10 '25

You should move here. You'll me a local hero!

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 10 '25

I like buffalo

u/2ndhalfzen Jul 11 '25

How do you do this without getting caught? Would love to do this in a congested area.

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 11 '25

The power of the orange safety vest and traffic cones

u/LaLunaFate Jul 11 '25

I love this so much, thank you!

u/djkimcheelove Jul 15 '25

but what about utica??

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 15 '25

Trying to find people to help

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u/djkimcheelove Jul 15 '25

lol it was a simpsons joke...sorry!

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 15 '25

Really Utica? Oh shit I didn’t know, googling

u/djkimcheelove Jul 15 '25

it was about upstate new york--albany, utica...steamed hams lol

u/sorraxx Jul 25 '25

Not all heros wear capes 🫡

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 07 '25

What’s that

u/jhpopovsky Jul 07 '25

Come to Columbus Ohio, we have tons of potholes for the taking

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u/BuffaloPotholeBandit Jul 07 '25

A bit far for me to drive maybe next year

Goodbye Ithaca, thanks for your holes

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