There are currently hundreds of dildos all over Portland’s power lines. And no, despite the city’s reputation as a haven for eccentricity, they’re not normally there. We’ve seen this type of work before – normally it’s a method used by drug dealers to mark out their street territory and scare off rivals – but they tend to use sneakers rather than sex toys.

As of yet, nobody knows who is responsible for the plague of rogue dildos, but a spokeperson for public utility Portland General Electric assured Reuters that "he did not believe the rubber products posed a fire hazard".

The dildos appear to have been airborne for over two weeks, if the YouTube video titled "portland is dildos" is in any way connected to the sex toy plague. The seven second long video, uploaded on June 28 2015, is shot from the second storey of a building and zooms in on two cream dildos hanging from a power line. Watch below.

A fortnight or so later, there are many many more all over the city. Who is doing this? Dildos aren’t cheap by any means, making this expensive public art project slash drug dealer turf-claiming. While this Portland plague is certainly an entertaining use of rubber penises, it doesn’t really compare to the time a Russian press conference was interrupted by a "dildo helicopter" and promptly punched out of the sky by security.