The police of a town in New Jersey are trying to understand how hundreds of kilos of pasta were illegally dumped in a wooded corner of this suburb of New York. The mystery, including local newspapers and the New York Times account in recent days, dates back to last week, when a walker posted photos on Facebook of several piles of spaghetti, macaroni and pasta shells in a small forest by a stream in the town of Old Bridge, near the New York megalopolis.
someone very mysteriously dumped 3-400 pounds of pasta in the woods in old bridge, nj …… i need to know everything pic.twitter.com/z6D1e7u2JJ
— pasta girl (@worrystonee) May 2, 2023
The equivalent of “15 wheelbarrows” or “several hundred (kilos) of uncooked pasta taken out of their packaging and thrown at the edge of the stream”, confirmed this Friday to AFP by email an official of the municipality, Himanshu Shah. . Once the images circulating on social networks were authenticated, municipal employees and police were dispatched to the scene.
Picked up in less than an hour
A state bordering New York, on the other side of the Hudson River, New Jersey is renowned for being home to many communities of European origin, in particular Americans of Italian origin. Some 17% of its population claim Italian ancestry.
This pasta waste, which was beginning to “mold” in the undergrowth, was picked up in less than an hour, assured the municipality, which assured that the local police were investigating. Old Bridge, with a population of 65,000, speculates on a restaurant’s stock or a giant order that may not have been fulfilled.
2023-05-05 19:23:00
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