Strange bottles full of orange liquid

[Mousey McP]

Apparently the cabbie is an old Indian looking guy

[buckleypink]

Rumour has it is a black guy with mental health issues who lives along that road. I think someone with relevant resources should set up a hidden camera and nail the culprit once and for all! It is annoying.

[Sue]

buckleypink Wrote:

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> Rumour has it is a black guy with mental health

> issues who lives along that road. I think someone

> with relevant resources should set up a hidden

> camera and nail the culprit once and for all! It

> is annoying.

xxxxxxx

What's the rumour based on?

Because if it's based on nothing apart from the fact that somebody in the road apparently has mental health issues, I don't think it should be being bandied about on here. It's disrespectful to the person concerned.

If it's based on facts, then let's hear what they are.

ETA: And the same goes for the post about the "Indian looking" cabbie.

[Mousey McP]

Sue Wrote:

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> buckleypink Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Rumour has it is a black guy with mental health

> > issues who lives along that road. I think

> someone

> > with relevant resources should set up a hidden

> > camera and nail the culprit once and for all!

> It

> > is annoying.

>

> xxxxxxx

>

> What's the rumour based on?

>

> Because if it's based on nothing apart from the

> fact that somebody in the road apparently has

> mental health issues, I don't think it should be

> being bandied about on here. It's disrespectful to

> the person concerned.

>

> If it's based on facts, then let's hear what they

> are.

>

> ETA: And the same goes for the post about the

> "Indian looking" cabbie.

I was told by the Postie on the Walk. He saw the guy put the bottle on the wall, confronted him saying that it is disgusting what you are doing and the guy didnt even bat an eyelid towards him. But as you say its hearsay.

[buckleypink]

I won't bother elaborating what the rumour is based on because as you said it's "disrespectful" dispite the fact in my post I haven't publically named the person who is doing it (a black guy with mental health issues could be anybody) which would be disrespectful.

I hope whoever is doing it gets the help they need.

Thank you.

[HannahMackinnon]

I saw that a few weeks ago it was really weird... im pretty sure its not pee but I don't know...

[MarkE]

Just in case anyone is plotting these on a map, detective stylee...

There was one, less than 1/4 filled, on the corner of Melbourne Grove and Ashbourne Grove yesterday morning, placed neatly on top of one of the green telecoms cabinets. The bottle used to contain a fruity Volvic offering.

[Sue]

buckleypink Wrote:

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> I won't bother elaborating what the rumour is

> based on because as you said it's "disrespectful"

> dispite the fact in my post I haven't publically

> named the person who is doing it (a black guy with

> mental health issues could be anybody)

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Eh? "Could be anybody"? How many "black guys with mental health issues" live in this road?!?!?

So we have two potential culprits, this person and the "Indian looking" cabbie spotted by a postie. Perhaps they are working together to confuse us?

[Nicholas Spears]

How much respect should we give to someone who leaves bottles of mystery orange liquid on the street?

[Tom Micklewright]

Has anyone plotted this (taking the reference from the 9 pages of posts!) on a map?

Would make a good detective game - ED style.

Perhaps the person who can reveal the identity of the mystery bottler should be given the honour of deciding whether we turn Iceland into an M&S?

Tom

[Sue]

Nicholas Spears Wrote:

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> How much respect should we give to someone who

> leaves bottles of mystery orange liquid on the

> street?

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None at all if we know who it is - but, we don't, although two separate posters have publicly pointed the finger at two completely different people :)

[Jonathanallport]

Has this happened again yet do'es anyone know??

[Salsaboy]

Bound to re-appear now the thread has a new posting.

[DulwichFox]

Dirty Cooking Oil from local Restaurant...or even from Domestic source.

Fox.

[healey]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Dirty Cooking Oil from local Restaurant...or even

> from Domestic source.

>

> Fox.

Why do you insist on it being cooking oil? It looks nothing like cooking oil to me.

Plus the idea of someone going to the trouble of cooling, filtering and bottling used oil into drinks bottles so that they could then place it on the street is a bit of a stretch.

Cabbies and truckers leaving urine in drink bottles is a known practice, on the other hand.

[herrd]

Healey: as it's about the umpteenth time Fox has posted on the topic (though he/she claims we shouldn't be giving them any attention) it seems he/she has been giving it an awful lot of microanalysis. Those long winter evenings must fly by chez Fox...

[DulwichFox]

Just look at the first picture in the first post and tell me the middle bottle is urine.

The person would have to be Very ill to produce pee that colour.

I bottle my used oil and take it to Southwark Depot now in Devon Street.

Others here may not do this and just pour it down the sink.

So the bottles on the street are not mine.

But I truely care about my enviroment. I know from many people here that that sort of level of concern

labels me as some sort of crank. As is my level of concern for other matters here.

Well in that case i'm a crank.

We need more cranks in E.D. It would be a much nicer place.

So the bottles on the street are not mine.

I have included a picture for all to compare.

Fox.

[herrd]

Is it too early to lunge for the gin bottle?

[DulwichFox]

herrd Wrote:

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> Healey: as it's about the umpteenth time Fox has

> posted on the topic (though he/she claims we

> shouldn't be giving them any attention) it seems

> he/she has been giving it an awful lot of

> microanalysis. Those long winter evenings must fly

> by chez Fox...

Well the amount of attention no longer seems to be related to people reporting on the subject.

I walk in the area daily and pass the said sighting place most evenings.

I have only seen these bottles one one occasion, so people here (it would seem) must go looking for them.

They must be very patient. Perhaps they should be out with their Cameras looking for Rare Buterflies or Moths.

As for my Gender. I thought that would be obvious to all the little detectives out there.

Herrd:-

As for the Gin. Well if you feel the need. ???

Fox.

[healey]

"The person would have to be Very ill to produce pee that colour."

Urine changes to a dark colour in sunlight.

[DulwichFox]

healey Wrote:

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> "The person would have to be Very ill to produce

> pee that colour."

>

> Urine changes to a dark colour in sunlight.

I know, I a Photographer. Urine was used in POW Camps to make 'Crude Secret ' photo prints using vinegar to 'Fix' them.

It would seem in the first picture only one bottle is dark.

Fox.

[herrd]

Maybe a POW photo lab is in a basement somewhere on Melbourne Grove? It's as credible a theory as any offered thus far...

[treehugger]

About 30 bottles on the corner of Worlingham rd this morning.

[computedshorty]

I understand that urine is a cure for chilblains.

Will anybody be testing it by taking a bowl and a stool to sit on, it might take a while to relieve your pain, but what a relief if it works, think of the money you could make taking it home selling it.

But be as elusive as the person who put the bottles there, or if seen someone might say, " You are taking the Pi** "

[Miss P]

Saw a mum with her child have to step into the road to avoid the bottles this morning as they are now arranged to cover the full width of the pavement - this is obviously a hazard on a part of the road that is a bit of a blind corner anyway. Joking apart, can anything be done to stop this littering?