# Stuff left infront of my house
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-left-infront-of-my-house/379554
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 8, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-left-infront-of-my-house/379554 "2006-11-08T14:49:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-left-infront-of-my-house/379554/1 "2006-11-08T14:49:13Z")
Is someone messing with my mind?
A few weeks ago, I left for work in the morning and there was a boy’s bike in my front yard. No biggy, kids leave bikes laying all over. But it seemed odd to me because my house is about 3 feet from the sidewalk. There’s this steep little hill right next to my stairs, and the bike was leaning against the little hill. When I got home from work it was still there. So I call the police station and they told me to leave it overnight and if it was still there to call back. Well, it was still there, but instead of calling back, my daughter put it in the paper under lost and found. We still have it.
Monday, I leave for work in the morning and right infront of the telephone pole in front of my house is a blue duffel bag. Just sitting there right next to the curb. When I get home from work, it’s still there. So I go over to look at it and it’s open. It has some clothes and papers from a temp. agency in it. I felt the side pockets and there was something in there so I unzip it and there’s a heavy used pot pipe. So I call the police station and told them what I’d found. This time they came right over. So I show the cop the papers with the name on it and he says “Oh, we just had a warrant come in on him today!” So off he went with the bag.
This morning a back out of the driveway and there’s another boy’s bike. It’s leaning on the little hill just like the other one. It’s even facing the same way. I’m not going to call the cops, they’ll think I’m nuts!
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### Author:  [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-left-infront-of-my-house/379554/2 "2006-11-08T21:49:22Z")
That’s strange. I wonder what will turn up next?
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-left-infront-of-my-house/379554/3 "2006-11-08T21:51:16Z")
You’re going to get a drum circle of hippines in your driveway. Someone alert Eric Cartman. He’ll know what to do…
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-left-infront-of-my-house/379554/4 "2006-11-08T21:52:30Z")
Hippies.
I’m so scared, I can’t even type it properly.
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### Author:  [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-left-infront-of-my-house/379554/5 "2006-11-08T21:57:48Z")
A few weeks ago my husband called me. He was home from work and said a bunch of junk was left on our doorstep. It included: a trailer (the flat kind you attach to the back of a truck), a large toolbox (4 feet long, 4 feet deep), a gas grill, gas canister for said grill, a pair of shoes, a small exercise trampoline and assorted garden accessories.
We ended up giving it away, but it was weird. This stuff was left parked literally 4 feet from my front door.
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### Author:  [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-left-infront-of-my-house/379554/6 "2006-11-08T22:46:33Z")
I once found a vacuum cleaner on the porch when I lived with my parents. They didn’t order one or anything and we had no idea where it came from. I eventually ended up giving to a friend of mine who needed one.
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### Author:  [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-left-infront-of-my-house/379554/7 "2006-11-09T01:14:25Z")
I found a grocery bag full of soap, on my front porch. It also contained coupons for more soap. I think it may have been intended for my neighbors. But there was no way in hell, I was going over there and hand them a bag of soap, and say “here, I think this is for you.” They were funky AND scary. I got my husband to drop it off at a local shelter.
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### Author:  [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2006, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-left-infront-of-my-house/379554/8 "2006-11-09T10:52:13Z")
I just checked and the bike is still there, except it has moved about 2 feet south. If it manages to move about another 3 feet I can back over the evil thing with my car.
I’ll be keeping my eyes open for those hippies.
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-left-infront-of-my-house/379554/9 "2006-11-09T15:29:51Z")
[QUOTE=Batsinma Belfry]
I found a grocery bag full of soap, on my front porch. It also contained coupons for more soap. I think it may have been intended for my neighbors. But there was no way in hell, I was going over there and hand them a bag of soap, and say “here, I think this is for you.” They were **funky** AND scary. I got my husband to drop it off at a local shelter.
[/QUOTE]
Bolding mine.
Well, look at your location! Are you REALLY surprised?
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-left-infront-of-my-house/379554/10 "2006-11-09T15:31:35Z")
Additionally…won’t you take me there?
get it out of your head now…i DEFY you!
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-left-infront-of-my-house/379554/11 "2006-11-09T15:32:43Z")
[QUOTE=indecisive1]
I just checked and the bike is still there, except it has moved about 2 feet south. If it manages to move about another 3 feet I can back over the evil thing with my car.
I’ll be keeping my eyes open for those hippies.
[/QUOTE]
Don’t back hippies over. They’re hard to get out of metal.
Sightly corrosive, as well.
Instead, smite them with a wooden spoon. Non-reactive, and a satisfying “thwack!” when you get 'em across the forhead.
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-left-infront-of-my-house/379554/12 "2006-11-09T16:40:56Z")
You could always do weird things to the bikes, like tie a bunch of colorful ribbons to them. That’ll make those damn hippie kids think twice.
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### Author:  [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-left-infront-of-my-house/379554/13 "2006-11-09T17:02:30Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever]
Additionally…won’t you take me there?
get it out of your head now..i DEFY you!
[/QUOTE]
DAMN YOU! I even have the crazy disco beat accompaniment
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2006, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-left-infront-of-my-house/379554/14 "2006-11-09T17:12:50Z")
[QUOTE=ShelliBean]
A few weeks ago my husband called me. He was home from work and said a bunch of junk was left on our doorstep. It included: a trailer (the flat kind you attach to the back of a truck), a large toolbox (4 feet long, 4 feet deep), a gas grill, gas canister for said grill, a pair of shoes, a small exercise trampoline and assorted garden accessories.
We ended up giving it away, but it was weird. This stuff was left parked literally 4 feet from my front door.
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Why don’t these things ever happen to meee? /pitiful wailing
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2006, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-left-infront-of-my-house/379554/15 "2006-11-09T17:56:30Z")
[QUOTE=brewha]
DAMN YOU! I even have the crazy disco beat accompaniment
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Bwhahahahahahaha!
Have you got the nice violin in the background as well?
What about the robotic voice?
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-left-infront-of-my-house/379554/16 "2006-11-09T19:28:10Z")
And I see a haze of chartreuse (that’s the color I “see” that song in). :eek:
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2006, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-left-infront-of-my-house/379554/17 "2006-11-09T19:42:37Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever]
Don’t back hippies over. They’re hard to get out of metal.
Sightly corrosive, as well.
[/QUOTE]
It’s all the Acid…
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### Author:  [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-left-infront-of-my-house/379554/18 "2006-11-09T19:50:35Z")
Someone once put two large chocolate bars outside my apartment door, knocked on the door and ran away. Neither my roommate nor myself knew anybody in the building, and nobody we knew ever mentioned it. Been a quarter of a century, and I’m still wondering about it.
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-left-infront-of-my-house/379554/19 "2006-11-09T20:06:31Z")
[QUOTE=Astroboy14]
It’s all the Acid…
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That’s pretty far out, man…and if you hit them head on at over 35 miles per hour, they’ll be pretty far in as well.
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### Author:  [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-left-infront-of-my-house/379554/20 "2006-11-09T20:35:33Z")
[QUOTE=Rube E. Tewesday]
Someone once put two large chocolate bars outside my apartment door, knocked on the door and ran away. Neither my roommate nor myself knew anybody in the building, and nobody we knew ever mentioned it. Been a quarter of a century, and I’m still wondering about it.
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Had you known who did it, you could have [sued the bastards1](http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=473840&page=1)
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