Little bags of ash in the streets

[milk76]

Fair warning, this is a little strange.

A few weeks ago we found a plastic carrier bag filled with ash placed on the pavement outside our house. This was on a Tuesday evening, the bins are emptied on Tuesday mornings, so we wondered if it had perhaps fallen off the refuse lorry. So we disposed of it and thought little of it.

About a week later another one appeared tucked in under the front of our hedge. It seemed a mildly irritating bit of fly tipping, but hey ho, that's life, binned it.

The following Tuesday morning leaving the house I almost tripped over a metal bucket, full of ash, left on the pavement right outside the door. This was a bit much and I was quite irritated. Then as I walked up Abbotswood Road I saw a bag of ash outside another house and one more outside a house on Burrow Road.

Last night I walked home and counted one bag at the entrance of Burrow Road, Three on Abbotswood and a last one on Talbot in addition to a further one under our hedge.

This evening walking back from the station two more have popped up on St Francis Road.

We are at something of a loss to work out the motivation behind this or how to stop it. Has anybody else noticed more of these little packages being distributed? It does not feel like a criminal matter but we would like it to cease.

[Penguin68]

They must be full at the crem

[purplebreeze]

Penguin68 Wrote:

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> They must be full at the crem

Haha that's not funny x I would be a bit freaked x

[Salsaboy]

Voodoo.

[Domme_Jay]

That is well weird!

[Jeremy]

Cabbies and truck drivers emptying their ashtrays (ash is the new piss)

[Earl Aelfheah]

A bucket full of fag ash from a taxi? That's a lot of smoking. I thought cabbies weren't allowed to smoke in their vehicles anyway.

I wonder whether it's related to the bottles of orange liquid?

[Ladygooner]

I just saw two bags on my way to work - one at the top of Abbotswood Road and one at the top of Burrow road! Looked like the contents of a fire grate or maybe a bbq?

[vgrant]

Tab activity

[Salsaboy]

Saw a couple of bottles with ash in today in Brixton, near Brixton Water Lane.

[PSJ]

The new "orange liquid" perhaps?

[phobic3000]

Maybe it's art?

[Ladygooner]

They have now moved on to St Francis Road - 3 spotted on my walk to the bus stop today!

[civilservant]

barbecues?

[TheArtfulDogger]

This may explain it, read the synopsis and tell me if I am barking up the wrong tree

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060153/

[Speiro]

2 more on Abbotswood today- one in a clear plastic bag and one in an old hoover bag. One of the bags has a hole burnt through it so looks like the ash was put in hot. V strange..

[DulwichVillageLady]

There was a knapsack and attach? of ash on Lordship Lane this morning.

[pinecone]

voodoo

[Salsaboy]

The same voodoo I mentioned 3 days ago?

pinecone Wrote:

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> voodoo

[pinecone]

i expect so, yes