Mystery Takeaway Box in my garden

[fido]

Someone or something has left a half-full takeaway box on the lawn of my back garden. I didn't examine it's contents closely but it looks like spicy bean sprouts. I can't figure how it arrived there but there are only 2 obvious possibilities:-

a) A person, or persons threw it over the fence. I don't know why my neighbours X would do such a thing but it only landed a few metres from their fence. My other neighbours Y are a Japanese family who like playing golf and don't seem the sort of people to eat greasy takeaways.

b) An animal. Is is possible for a large bird to move a box weighing 300g or so? We do have a problem with naughty foxes in the locale as i'm near a copse, but the box was left closed and therefore its contents were not tasted by Mr Fox.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Have you ruled out a hedgehog with a trebuchet?

[DrTre]

fido said:

b) An animal. Is is possible for a large bird to move a box weighing 300g or so?

Doubt it, someone like Lisa Riley wouldn't have left half of it untouched, so we're no nearer answering the mystery.

[Steamer]

Inflight meal flushed down the thunder-box I reckon.

[Justayellowbadge]

Well, this thread will certainly be an eye opener to those who think the lounge is nothing but a cesspit of pointless dross.

[zac510]

Is there any kind of branding on the box?

[Piersman2]

Justayellowbadge said:

Well, this thread will certainly be an eye opener to those who think the lounge is nothing but a cesspit of pointless dross.

[Grey Ghost]

Justayellowbadge said:

Well, this thread will certainly be an eye opener to those who think the lounge is nothing but a cesspit of pointless dross.

9 minutes only do you have spyware to tell you of all spurious threads across all of PH

[Cock Womble 7]

zac510 said:

Is there any kind of branding on the box?

You think it might be from a cattle ranch?

[Piersman2]

fido said:

Someone or something has left a half-full takeaway box on the lawn of my back garden. I didn't examine it's contents closely but it looks like spicy bean sprouts. I can't figure how it arrived there but there are only 2 obvious possibilities:-

a) A person, or persons threw it over the fence. I don't know why my neighbours X would do such a thing but it only landed a few metres from their fence. My other neighbours Y are a Japanese family who like playing golf and don't seem the sort of people to eat greasy takeaways.

b) An animal. Is is possible for a large bird to move a box weighing 300g or so? We do have a problem with naughty foxes in the locale as i'm near a copse, but the box was left closed and therefore its contents were not tasted by Mr Fox.

Let's examine the evidence.

You have a box of what looks like spicey bean sprouts in the middle of your garden. Bean sprouts being a favoured ingredient in chinese/oriental take away meals.

You have a japanese family living next door. You say they play golf as though this makes them somehow exempt from being able to throw rubbish over into your garden

I think, if you allow that you golfing observation is largely not relevant, that the eveidence above is conclusive.

Throw the box back over into the japanese family's garden.

[Piersman2]

Grey Ghost said:

Justayellowbadge said:

Well, this thread will certainly be an eye opener to those who think the lounge is nothing but a cesspit of pointless dross.

9 minutes only do you have spyware to tell you of all spurious threads across all of PH

To be fair, it seems difficult to avoid them recently.

[AdeTuono]

fido said:

Is is possible for a large bird to move a box weighing 300g or so?

African swallow?

[Reload]

Piersman2 said:

You have a japanese family living next door. You say they play golf as though this makes them somehow exempt from being able to throw rubbish over into your garden

I reckon they've chipped it over

[Piersman2]

Reload said:

Piersman2 said:

You have a japanese family living next door. You say they play golf as though this makes them somehow exempt from being able to throw rubbish over into your garden

I reckon they've chipped it over

At least it was bean sprouts and not a sandwedge.

[Fer]

Reload said:

Piersman2 said:

You have a japanese family living next door. You say they play golf as though this makes them somehow exempt from being able to throw rubbish over into your garden

I reckon they've chipped it over

Maybe it just sprouted there...

[Neil H]

You appear to be, possibly deliberately, missing a rather obvious point, in that it's possible that it was thrown there by someone other than your neighbours.

[SpeedEight]

Piersman2 said:

fido said:

Someone or something has left a half-full takeaway box on the lawn of my back garden. I didn't examine it's contents closely but it looks like spicy bean sprouts. I can't figure how it arrived there but there are only 2 obvious possibilities:-

a) A person, or persons threw it over the fence. I don't know why my neighbours X would do such a thing but it only landed a few metres from their fence. My other neighbours Y are a Japanese family who like playing golf and don't seem the sort of people to eat greasy takeaways.

b) An animal. Is is possible for a large bird to move a box weighing 300g or so? We do have a problem with naughty foxes in the locale as i'm near a copse, but the box was left closed and therefore its contents were not tasted by Mr Fox.

Let's examine the evidence.

You have a box of what looks like spicey bean sprouts in the middle of your garden. Bean sprouts being a favoured ingredient in chinese/oriental take away meals.

You have a japanese family living next door. You say they play golf as though this makes them somehow exempt from being able to throw rubbish over into your garden

I think, if you allow that you golfing observation is largely not relevant, that the eveidence above is conclusive.

Throw the box back over into the japanese family's garden.

Lol!

[Piersman2]

Neil H said:

You appear to be, possibly deliberately, missing a rather obvious point, in that it's possible that it was thrown there by someone other than your neighbours.

No, no, it was the Japs.

Don't let them get away with it.

Throw it back over straight away.

[fido]

zac510 said:

Is there any kind of branding on the box?

Nope. It was one of those unbranded transparent microwaveable containers as used by takeaways.

Neil H said:

You appear to be, possibly deliberately, missing a rather obvious point, in that it's possible that it was thrown there by someone other than your neighbours.

But who else could toss something into my rear lawn? The house adjacent to the end of the garden is about 80ft away and blocked off my trees and shrubs. Guess i will have to let this incident pass as i don't have enough evidence to point fingers at anyone (or thing).

I don't think i can accuse the Japanese family, in the same way if neighbour Y was an Indian family and the offending item was a Lamb Dhansak takeway. Though i would agree that if it was a jar of pickled vegetables and my neighbours were Polish then there would be stronger grounds for retaliation.

Edited by fido on Friday 2nd July 14:06

[Piersman2]

fido said:

zac510 said:

Is there any kind of branding on the box?

Nope. It was one of those unbranded transparent microwaveable containers as used by takeaways.

Neil H said:

You appear to be, possibly deliberately, missing a rather obvious point, in that it's possible that it was thrown there by someone other than your neighbours.

But who else could toss something into my rear lawn? The house adjacent to the end of the garden is about 80ft away and blocked off my trees and shrubs. Guess i will have to let this incident pass as i don't have enough evidence to point fingers at anyone (or thing).

FFS, as per my post above, how much more evidence do you need?

Throw the box against the back of their house, leaving a bean sprout render, to show them that you're not to be messed with in future.

Come on man, sprout some balls!