Hunting For Hipsters

The hipsters descended upon Austin, TX during SXSW, but now that the annual tech/film/music fest is over, the skinny jean-wearing set of self-obsessed self-loathers is left to find their way back home.

Anticipating the reverse migration, New York's  Jeff Greenspan and Hunter Fine are doing something about the infestation. They're setting hipster traps, and trying to control the Jersey Shore population.

Cardboard bear traps have been set up in hipster-dense areas, each baited with the quintessential hipster staples: Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, American Spirit cigarettes and neon faux Ray-Ban sunglasses.

Meanwhile, Greenspan and Fine have armed the tunnels and bridges connecting Manhattan to the rest of the world with bear traps designed to catch a whole different species: Jersey Shore type swine. Those traps are armed with spray tanner, hair gel, Drakkar Noir, a fake gold necklace, a LIRR schedules and PATH tickets.

New York Metro writer Nate Jones suggests other cliché traps to control the population density in other overpopulated areas:

Park Slope: One bushel of kale, one organic fair-trade childrens jumper.
Upper East Side: One pearl necklace, one gin & tonic, one pamphlet of yacht leasing information.
Fort Greene: One issue of the New Yorker's "20 Under 40" list, one unclaimed "Bored to Death" spec script.
Upper West Side: Two discount opera tickets, one copy of The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life.
Soho and Nolita: One pair of white trousers (unisex), one pair of enormous sunglasses (unisex), one striped sailor shirt (unisex)