As previously reported by LSM, posters have appeared at various public transport stops warning the public of an invasion of poisonous spiders. The posters are completely bogus and unsanctioned.
Footage shows a gentleman of hippie-ish appearance arriving at a stop on the inevitable retro bicycle, posting his misleading bill and disappearing across the Stone Bridge in the direction of the hip and happening Āgenskalns district.
Police have asked for help identifying him. It is surely only a matter of time before he is caught in their web.
By Tuesday evening a self-styled artist going by the unutterably pretentious pseudonym "SOME1" had claimed responsibility for the action, saying it was part of a four-year-long project. The LETA news agency suggested the culprit's real name might be the less cryptic Toms Jansons.
An artist by the moniker of SOME1 also caused a stir in 2015 when he erected a cross in the former KGB headquarters in Rīga with a doll representing Russian President Vladimir Putin nailed to it in the position usually occupied by Jesus Christ, as reported by LSM at the time.
