Whilst spotting the odd pair of underwear along a roadside is not that unusual, how about 3000 pairs? :

There’s a pretty big panty mystery playing out in central Ohio. Three thousand pairs big.

According to reports, women’s panties ranging from lacy to cartoon print where found strewn along a road side and hanging from trees in the Fairfeld County town of Lancaster this past Wednesday.  And they’ve got the authorities on the case. Fairfield County Deputy Gary Hummel, who’s been sorting through the evidence said some of the panties were still folded the way they’d come in packaging, while others appeared to have been worn. Like seriously worn, if you catch the drift.

A panty thief getting rid of their collection maybe?