Man caught on camera in bizarre cucumber incident in DC house

Catherine Baker's new life in Washington, DC Truxton Circle Neighborhood has taken a strange turn, and it was all caught on camera. Just two months after moving into her new home, Baker found herself at the center of a bizarre and shocking viral video. The footage, which she posted to Reddit this week, has left viewers stunned and confused.

The strange incident

It all starts off innocently enough. The video shows a man in a blue shirt slipping through a hole in the fence behind Baker's house. The gap was created after a car crashed into it the week before. The man, with a cigarette in his mouth and a lunchbox in his hand, calmly approaches Baker's silver Nissan, which is parked in the driveway.

But then things take a bizarre turn.

The man takes out what looks like a cucumber from his lunchbox. He then approaches the car and attaches the cucumber to the grille of the vehicle in a way that leaves viewers scratching their heads. But the next part is even more shocking: The man pulls down his pants, spits into his hand and performs an unspeakable act with the cucumber.

Yes, you read that right.

A break for traffic

The surreal scene doesn't end there, however. In the video, a car drives past in the alley, and the man pauses for a moment, as if waiting for his “audience” to pass. As soon as the coast is clear, he casually returns to his activities, lights a cigarette, and continues his bizarre behavior.

When he is finished, the man casually takes the cucumber, puts it back in his lunchbox, and leaves the building through the same gap in the fence.

The shocking discovery

Baker says she noticed something strange when she came home later that day and found traces of the cucumber on her car. Intrigued and confused, she decided to look at her security camera footage – and what she found was not what she expected.

“This wasn't exactly the fruit basket I was hoping for when I moved here,” Baker joked in her Reddit post.

A viral sensation

Unsurprisingly, the video quickly spread across the internet, sparking reactions ranging from shock to laughter. Many Reddit users were speechless, while others couldn't help but joke about the absurdity of the situation.

“Welcome to DC, where even the producers get involved in the strangest things,” wrote one commenter, perfectly summing up the mood of many viewers.

A wild welcome to Truxton Circle

Baker, who moved into her Truxton Circle home just two months ago, says it's been a tumultuous experience so far. Between the car crashing into her fence last week and this latest incident, it hasn't exactly been the calm, peaceful move-in she was hoping for.

Still, she's taking it all in her stride, even as the bizarre surveillance footage makes the rounds on the Internet. “It's been a wild ride, to say the least,” she said.

For now, Baker is focused on getting her fence repaired and hoping for some normality in her new home – but given the way things turned out, she's not holding out much hope.