Littering ... and creating a nuisance
Police in the village of Caerelon, near Newport, Wales, are looking for a man they think is behind a series of "bizarre littering sprees."
The man, last seen dropping shredded paper earlier this month, is described as a white guy in his mid to late 30s. He is said to shred "many, many pieces of paper" and then walk around town leaving it in multiple locations. He's done this at least ten times in the last two years.
It's not doing any real damage, according to Pc. Akbar Ali, the neighborhood officer for the village, "but it does cause a lot of grief for people and it has to be cleaned up."
Via the BBC Online
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10 comments:
Maybe he feels there should be more confetti in everyday life. Or perhaps he's making a statement against bureaucracy.
I think that, whatever it is, the shredded papers need to be reassembled for clues.
I like your idea of a statement against the bureaucracy of the village; maybe it's all the paperwork he's had to complete in his attempts to get a zoning variance for his potting shed. Maybe he's committed a series of other crimes, written out his confession, shredded them, and left them in public places. Or he's a writer who is perhaps tired of rejection letters and shreds his manuscripts and leaves them all over town. Or every time he gets dumped (by the same person? A different person every time?), he shreds all the poetry he's written and leaves it where the object of his affection is likely to find it?
It could be really creepy. Or not.
I'm sorry. I'll stop doing it.
well, that's not -that- bizarre. I mean, odd behavior, yes, but I expected more out of a "bizarre littering spree" story. like, instead of paper he's littering with, I don't know, lace hankies. or sushi. or giant spiders. that'd be a lot of giant spiders actually, and it'd be hard to get them to stay put, unless they were -dead- giant spiders, in which case it'd be just disgusting. i'll be quiet now.
At least paper will biodegrade, unlike the cigarette filters surrounding the medical center!!
(I'm so glad you smoke unfiltered, so I don't have to hassle you)
ha! At last we find out what happens with some people's NaNoWriMo manuscripts.
But I agree with you, belle, that shredded paper hardly qualifies as "bizarre" litter. Though I've never been to Wales. That's kind of why I'm liking my criminal confession or stalker/poet theory. I mean, the main thing I shred is junk mail/credit card solicitations. And old journals. And, yeah, some bad poetry. But I've been saving it for papier-mache projects.
I would never litter, as Julie attests.
It's gotta be a desperate cry for help.
mebbe it's from the Torchwood shredder...
ouch, I am reeling from the jokes. Man goes around randomly shredding paper....sounds like an arts council grant is in there somewhere - I mean he is anquished, eccentric and has odd habits with paper - doesn't this almost ensure he is going to be a historic English writer?
Sounds like an intressting hobby to me. Wonder if he has a site map full of push pins.
Yeah, I'm guessing that the previous evidence was tossed; maybe it would help to get the dates of the previous littering sprees and compare them to arts council grant deadlines and/or award decision dates.
What is Pc Ali Akbar doing over there to investigate, anyway? We've come up with a whole bunch of excellent leads, I think. I like the idea of the perp having a map with pins; I hope law enforcement has at least made that much effort in this.
Because obviously this is not just litter.
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