Strange bottles full of orange liquid

[tarafitness]

Sue, you're in for a treat love, they're back!!

I had this picture emailed to me by my boyfriend earlier...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EmM0JyUH2gY/TyZ-iIaxarI/AAAAAAAACtg/W1pW74sFifI/s320/More_Bottles%2521.JPG

with the message:

I don't believe this...

I opened one and had a sniff. Are you ashamed?! It smelt rank - put it

this way, it's not orange squash. It was a bit like a stinky dog

smell. God I want to know what this is!!

So after a week's hiatus they're back with a vengeance... do you think it likely to be related to fact that we've had a caravan parked on our road for the past month or so??

Surely it's too dark to be pee?? If it is then it must be coming from some malfunctioning kidneys!

[Sue]

tarafitness Wrote:

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> Sue, you're in for a treat love, they're back!!

>

> I had this picture emailed to me by my boyfriend

> earlier...

>

> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EmM0JyUH2gY/TyZ-iIaxarI/

> AAAAAAAACtg/W1pW74sFifI/s320/More_Bottles%2521.JPG

>

>

> with the message:

>

> I don't believe this...

>

> I opened one and had a sniff. Are you ashamed?! It

> smelt rank - put it

> this way, it's not orange squash. It was a bit

> like a stinky dog

> smell. God I want to know what this is!!

>

> So after a week's hiatus they're back with a

> vengeance... do you think it likely to be related

> to fact that we've had a caravan parked on our

> road for the past month or so??

>

> Surely it's too dark to be pee?? If it is then it

> must be coming from some malfunctioning kidneys!

xxxxxxxxx

Yes, if that's piss then somebody is either extremely dehydrated (though surely they wouldn't be pissing that much in that case) or extremely ill, I should say. Not that I have any medical knowledge at all :))

I'm in hiding today following a heavy weekend - hopefully they will still be there tomorrow!

[benmorg]

tarafitness Wrote:

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> Surely it's too dark to be pee??

It looks dark because it's in a large container. If you poured out a thin trickle it would be very much paler.

[Penguin68]

And I think urine does colour with age. It's actually used (was used) for fixing dyes - maybe we have a local craft dyer operating in ED?

[DulwichFox]

Urine is Photochromatic and turns dark when exposed to Light (also air)

It has been used by POW's with Home-made Pinhole Cameras to take Secret Photographs.

It is a natural 'crude' photographic Developer

Photo Fox.

[tarafitness]

I cannot believe how educational this thread has become! :-)

[Only me!]

Looking at the photos of the bottles all lined up on the green box, the variation in colour is quite pronounced.

Do you think this could be a way of measuring Climate Change?

Hot days = dark liquid?

Cool days = lighter?

Bit like Dendrochronology (tree rings) we could use them to plot the temperature fluctuations in Worlingham Road.

3 x dark bottles could mean the hottest weekend in January since records began. (3 weeks ago???)

[tarafitness]

Fabulous! a wee thermometer?! Whatever next ;-)

wasn't urine also used in the past to set colours in fabrics?

plus I'm sure I saw a film where a guy peed on a cotton sheet which apparently made it stronger so he could twist it round the bars of a jail cell to bend them and free himself... or did I just see that in a weird dream?!

oh and it's also apparently good for jellyfish stings, but it has to be 'donated' by someone else... so I'm told!

[computedshorty]

Ode of a plastic bottle.

Plastic bottles seen on a Worlingham Road wall,

placed there now, they totter a bit and tend to fall.

To see or not to see? That is the open question,

their fluid contents is now open to a suggestion.

The contents colour and shade varies quite a lot,

could it be the sun shining on them in this spot.

Now some have been rested on these boxes,

I don't think they belong to those local foxes.

Could it contain a new fuel that I can put my car,

if I chance it, and it?s no good, I wont get too far.

The weather is changing now getting very cold,

the bottles contents do not freeze, or so I am told.

I thought I might save some money with this liquid,

so this is the use I put to strange colour orange fluid.

I put it in my cars radiator to act as an anti freeze,

might be good idea of mine, might be wizard wheeze.

The car seems to be O.K. It still goes good like hell,

only thing now, inside there is such a dreadful smell.

I cant complain it has saved me just a bit of money,

soon got used to the smell, but others think its funny.

If you need anti freeze then take what your car needs,

I don't guarantee the fluid, will work at high speeds.

Remember to replace back your empties to be refilled,

think of others who can use it, who like you are chilled.

[Twirly]

re. the colour - don't forget that when you look at what you've done in the loo, it's diluted by the water in the pan.

[tarafitness]

Good point! *shudder*

ComputedShorty, I LOVE your poem! How imaginative, really made me giggle :-)

[Lynne]

Mystery partly solved!!!!. My neighbour actually saw someone leaving the latest collection at the top of Worlingham Rd. She said it was a mini-cab but unfortunately didn't get the nunber.

Is there nothing that can be done about it?

Lynne

[herrd]

Why on earth would a cabbie dump wee bottles in the same place? Unless it's some kind of urine-based vendetta? Somebody has to knock on the door of the house and raise the matter. Any volunteers? One for Councillor Wotsisname?

[Lu]

Some of those bottles have a very small opening. The mind boggles at how the cab driver does this - do they use a funnel?

Actually, I don't want to know!

[herrd]

Or worse, a catheter? :'(

[computedshorty]

Teddy the Taxi driver is known to be a bit small,

he was seen putting those bottles on the wall.

He said he got held up in the Blackwell Tunnel,

lucky man keeps in the car, his Antifreeze funnel.

It does make one wonder what happens in the future,

why he does not think to use and empty a catheter.

Think of the sights that we might have to endure,

will there be a sighting of a home made Manure?

So he certainly takes chances, and has the bottle,

slows right down then foot off of the throttle.

Nips to the wall to place his fresh product there,

then back into the car and drive off like a Hare.

[benmorg]

herrd Wrote:

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> Why on earth would a cabbie dump wee bottles in

> the same place?

Because it's a quiet spot on a route he does every day, maybe on the way home or back to the minicab firm. He doesn't want to take the indoors so leaves them on the street.

[Saila]

if you think about it - it's practically impossible to park near public toilets these days

always way too central with red routes etc

another reason to have only female taxi drivers in my view :)

this would never happen under female rule

[Penguin68]

this would never happen under female rule

But it could

http://www.shewee.com/products/Shewee-Extreme.html

[herrd]

benmorg Wrote:

> Because it's a quiet spot on a route he does every

> day, maybe on the way home or back to the minicab

> firm. He doesn't want to take the indoors so

> leaves them on the street.

I just don't buy that as a theory. You've been watching too much Piss Marple...

[benmorg]

herrd Wrote:

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> benmorg Wrote:

>

> > Because it's a quiet spot on a route he does

> every

> > day, maybe on the way home or back to the

> minicab

> > firm. He doesn't want to take the indoors so

> > leaves them on the street.

>

> I just don't buy that as a theory. You've been

> watching too much Piss Marple...

I don't think the vendetta theory is right as he leaves them in other places too. Also, the regularity suggests a routine, e.g. he's on his way home and just wants an easy spot to dump them.

[computedshorty]

Looking at the way they are displayed we could be looking for a Piss Artist.

[Sue]

computedshorty Wrote:

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> Looking at the way they are displayed we could be

> looking for a Piss Artist.

:)-D

[DulwichFox]

Would not mind betting that if people stopped talking about it here...

There would be no more bottles....

Fox

[herrd]

Foxy, the bottles were there long before this thread made it to EDF...