The Mystery of the Appearing Garbage!
Posted: 15 Apr 2009, 22:27
I appear to have stumbled upon my very own FFO style mystery! Not so much a whodunnit, but whodumpedit.
Over the last year on and off, extra rubbish bags started appearing outside my house. Usually by the back door, which leads onto the street like my front door. It wasn't annoying or a problem, just more puzzling as to who would dump rubbish outside my house for collection when you could just as easily stick it outside your house.
The initial suspect was no.31, who was a male and who has a troubled girlfriend and I assumed it was something to do with them, given my back door, is right next to their front door. My house is an odd layout!
However, no.31's tenant, moved out about two months ago and no.31 is currently unoccupied. Today, sometime between 0740 and 1700, two new rubbish bags appeared outside my house.
My curiosity got the better of me this time and I was out on the pavement with Marigolds on going through the contents.
Firstly, the bags were quadruple knotted and double bagged - someone clearly didn't want them opening or being opened.
Contents: a brief overview
assorted male style clothing - in seemingly good order
set of ladies' lingerie
assorted crisp packets
Half pot of what looks like honey
x3 sachets of Pedigree dog food
till receipts for Waitrose, one totalling £190.00, from 5th April
Nicorette chewing gum packets
Old Lillets box
Used dispenser of Sanex
and... the piece de resistance: a medication packet with a dispensing label! The medication is either an anti-depressant or a pain killing type drug.
An odd set of clues! After a billion and one theories - I think it is number 81, who have a dog. However, they do not look like the sort to have £190.00 at any one time. The people who do look like that - are actually across the street but I have never seen them with a dog. However, she can often be heard to be bellowing up the street at her child how "Mummy's legs hurt", which would suggest prescription only pain killers.
I have my suspicions who it is, as the dog food sachets eliminate numbers 87. Number 83 we get on with. I did wonder if it was what I nickname "The Crack House" from over the road - but there's no dogs in there. Plus, the style of accommodation would not generally house people who spend £190.00 in Waitrose!
That would suggest a family to me, which puts back Mrs Legs Hurt into the frame, but eliminates number 81 as they don't have children.
I have some further names from a quick online search, and two names show up so far on the electoral roll, so it is off to the library tomorrow to see the printed version... suspect A would appear to live in a large house (4 beds probably) from the electoral roll, which fits Mrs Legs Hurt. Suspect B fits the dog profile but not anything else.
It's kept me amused most of the evening this little mystery! And I keep turning up more questions than answers - not least of all, why cross the road to dump it outside my house? And why intermittently?
Over the last year on and off, extra rubbish bags started appearing outside my house. Usually by the back door, which leads onto the street like my front door. It wasn't annoying or a problem, just more puzzling as to who would dump rubbish outside my house for collection when you could just as easily stick it outside your house.
The initial suspect was no.31, who was a male and who has a troubled girlfriend and I assumed it was something to do with them, given my back door, is right next to their front door. My house is an odd layout!
However, no.31's tenant, moved out about two months ago and no.31 is currently unoccupied. Today, sometime between 0740 and 1700, two new rubbish bags appeared outside my house.
My curiosity got the better of me this time and I was out on the pavement with Marigolds on going through the contents.
Firstly, the bags were quadruple knotted and double bagged - someone clearly didn't want them opening or being opened.
Contents: a brief overview
assorted male style clothing - in seemingly good order
set of ladies' lingerie
assorted crisp packets
Half pot of what looks like honey
x3 sachets of Pedigree dog food
till receipts for Waitrose, one totalling £190.00, from 5th April
Nicorette chewing gum packets
Old Lillets box
Used dispenser of Sanex
and... the piece de resistance: a medication packet with a dispensing label! The medication is either an anti-depressant or a pain killing type drug.
An odd set of clues! After a billion and one theories - I think it is number 81, who have a dog. However, they do not look like the sort to have £190.00 at any one time. The people who do look like that - are actually across the street but I have never seen them with a dog. However, she can often be heard to be bellowing up the street at her child how "Mummy's legs hurt", which would suggest prescription only pain killers.
I have my suspicions who it is, as the dog food sachets eliminate numbers 87. Number 83 we get on with. I did wonder if it was what I nickname "The Crack House" from over the road - but there's no dogs in there. Plus, the style of accommodation would not generally house people who spend £190.00 in Waitrose!
That would suggest a family to me, which puts back Mrs Legs Hurt into the frame, but eliminates number 81 as they don't have children.
I have some further names from a quick online search, and two names show up so far on the electoral roll, so it is off to the library tomorrow to see the printed version... suspect A would appear to live in a large house (4 beds probably) from the electoral roll, which fits Mrs Legs Hurt. Suspect B fits the dog profile but not anything else.
It's kept me amused most of the evening this little mystery! And I keep turning up more questions than answers - not least of all, why cross the road to dump it outside my house? And why intermittently?