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 of the new online trend.

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 their own collections or reselling them back to theft victims at lofty prices.

Not to mention the whole concept looks trash and they are literally just standard zip pulls with a plastic coating.’ One Tiktok user commented that schools are even sending o