This is why teenagers are stealing zipper pulls from Nike backpacks: ‘Messed up’ By . Brooke Kato. Published Sep. 25, 2024. Updated Sep. 25, 2024, 10:27 a.m. ET. Stealing from strangers?

Teenagers are unlooping the zipper pulls on peers’ Nike Elite backpacks, which retail for $87, stealing them for their own collections or reselling them back to theft victims at lofty prices.

Nike Elite zipper trend origins. Again, unless someone confesses, it’s difficult to know when the first kid snatched a zipper puller from a Target back-to-school display.

One New York City teen gloated about his growing collection already totaling over a dozen zipper ties, which are specific to the model of Nike rucksack, ...

The Nike Zipper Pull Challenge Can Have Consequences. As Managing Attorney at Rosenblum Law, Jobin Joseph, tells Parents, “It’s illegal to take something that doesn’t belong to you, even if ...