Remember those spiked baseball bats that mysteriously started appearing all over the city last November? Of course you do. How could you not? Like something out of Mad Max or a bad zombie movie, the weapons showed up in the middle of the night and were left chained to poles and bike racks. Well, thanks to Hoodline, we finally know what the hell was going on with those things: It was an art project.

The site, possibly via Instagram, discovered the 44 bats were the work of artist Matthew Bajda. "I was getting fed up with all of this fear in the media," Bajda, who reportedly works with the RVCA Gallery, told Hoodline. "There's a lot of common-sense stuff getting twisted, and it's getting harder for people to sift through what's real and what's contrived.

"People shouldn't be so afraid of the world around them," he said of his motivation in placing scary things in the world around people.

San Francisco police did not see the artistic merit in the weapons, and KRON 4 reported at the time that the bomb squad was called on a metal bat that was mistaken for a pipe bomb.

Of what message he hopes people will take away from his project, Bajda explained he wants people to question the media. "Don't think news is instantly credible because it comes from a popular source," he told Hoodline. "Go out into the world around you and find out where people are really coming from, then decide if your fears are truly warranted."

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Previously: More Bizarre Weaponized Baseball Bats Pop Up In SF, This Time Outside Zeitgeist, At Fishermen's Wharf