Nike Elite zipper thefts are a trend popular with teens in which kids steal detachable accessories from backpacks in stores. Generation Alpha began to show off their collections on TikTok in September ...

Stealing from strangers? TikTokkers say, just do it. Teens on a stealing spree are nabbing the zippers off of Nike Elite backpacks, accumulating dozens and reselling them for a pretty penny to victims ...

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Back-to-school Gen Alpha is already having to watch its back from hallway menaces—literally. Teenagers are unlooping the zippers on peers’ Nike Elite backpacks, which retail for $87, stealing them for ...

Teenagers have found a new way to amuse themselves: Stealing people’s backpack zippers. Not just any zippers, specifically Nike Elite backpack zippers. Why? You’ll have to ask a teenage boy that one.