Update 4:16 p.m.

An Oregon City man who retaliated against drivers he deemed discourteous by intentionally tossing roofing nails from his car onto busy streets dozens of times was sentenced Tuesday to 30 days in jail.

Bret Michael Wilson, 57, pleaded guilty last month to criminal mischief and four counts of disorderly conduct in connection with the bizarre crime spree that spanned two years, court records show.

Clackamas County Circuit Judge Susie Norby also ordered Wilson, who police dubbed “The Nighttime Nailer,” to pay more than $2,000 in restitution and undergo a mental-health evaluation, records show.

“He was a menace to Oregon City for years,” prosecutor Bryan Brock told The Oregonian/OregonLive. “Police lived in constant annoyance.”

Bret Michael Wilson. (Clackamas County Sheriff's Office)

As did motorists. According to Brock, police documented dozens of cases in which cars were damaged by nails in the road.

Oregon City authorities finally arrested Wilson in October after officers who were on the hunt for The Nighttime Nailer saw him chuck fistfuls of nails from his car as he drove along South Center Street before dawn.

After he was nabbed, the suspect copped to scattering the metal spikes numerous times before.

“By Mr. Wilson’s recollection, he has thrown nails over 50 times onto our busy streets over the last couple of years,” police said in a news release at the time.

Wilson’s early morning ritual — always done before sunrise so as to avoid detection — was in response to drivers he felt were rude or had slighted him, Brock said.

“It was his form of anger management. It made him feel better,” Brock said. “It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but that’s what he said.”

The man also told police he would buy $40 buckets of nails at a Home Depot outside of Oregon City to cover his tracks, according to the prosecutor. Often, Wilson would go through three buckets of nails in a few months.

“He called it ‘Random acts of kindness,’” said Brock.

-- Shane Dixon Kavanaugh; 503-294-7632

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