# Why is there a Refrigerator on my front steps? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 28, 2006, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-a-refrigerator-on-my-front-steps/354571 "2006-04-28T09:47:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cherry2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cherry2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cherry2000)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-a-refrigerator-on-my-front-steps/354571/41 "2006-04-28T21:26:32Z")
If you press your ear against the refrigerator, do you hear suspicious sounds, possibly emanating from a time portal into the netherworld? All I can think of is Zool… ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-a-refrigerator-on-my-front-steps/354571/42 "2006-04-28T22:16:54Z")
Well, the mystery may never be solved. When I got up today I had to go down and check on the fridge, no where to be scene. Perhaps since I didn’t feed it it decided to move on to another home. Or maybe it’s illicit activities were complete and it’s disappeared into the seedy underworld again. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-a-refrigerator-on-my-front-steps/354571/43 "2006-04-28T23:21:50Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Well, the mystery may never be solved. When I got up today I had to go down and check on the fridge, no where to be scene. Perhaps since I didn’t feed it it decided to move on to another home. > > Or maybe it’s illicit activities were complete and it’s disappeared into the seedy underworld again. **Omniscient** , you let it _escape?!?_ :eek: Now it will return to the Mothership, & tell the Alien Refridgerator Overlords that Earth is ripe for conquest! All is lost! ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-a-refrigerator-on-my-front-steps/354571/44 "2006-04-28T23:38:42Z")
Weeeeirdness. A couple weeks ago, the old man downstairs was raging drunk, and I kept hearing CRASH! BANG! SMASH! all day long. Finally, his apartment gave birth to a hideous hide-a-bed sofa. He parked it by the Dumpsters, loudly announcing to anyone nearby that he was getting rid of his roommate for complaining too much about all the smoke. Funny looking rommate, I thought, considering the guy doesn’t actually live with anybody. The next day, I woke up to the sounds of the garbage truck crashing and smashing early in the morning, and peering out the front window, noticed that the sofa was gone. That’ll teach you to complain about smoke, Mr. Sofa. However, later that evening, my husband and I decided to go for a drive along Shilshole, which is just a kilometre or two from here. As we approached the hill by Golden Gardens (a beach/picnic area), there is an overpass for the train tracks, and on the opposite side is a stretch beside the road that is mostly dirt - people must park or turn around there or something. Lo and behold, there was the old man’s smoke-hating roommate - the sofa. I think it hitch-hiked. :eek: Soooo… I think the fridge was just hitch-hiking. Maybe it belonged to the old man downstairs and had complained about the smoke, too? If the sofa shows up on your doorstep, just tell him which direction the fridge went. ---
**Author:** ![Kiminy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Kiminy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiminy)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-a-refrigerator-on-my-front-steps/354571/45 "2006-04-29T00:33:18Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Your fridge can CALL HOME??? > > I am seriously impressed. 😃 [Anything](http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/43870/Preview_Samsung_RH2777AT_HomePAD_Internet_Refrigerator.html) connected to the Internet can call anywhere they want to these days… ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-a-refrigerator-on-my-front-steps/354571/46 "2006-04-29T01:07:35Z")
Spay and neuter your appliances, indeed. Does it run? I mean, does it have little running shoes on the bottom of it. what? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-a-refrigerator-on-my-front-steps/354571/47 "2006-04-29T01:12:20Z")
Get a friend or three, a dolley and about 2am, move the frig to some unsuspecting person’s step a couple blocks over. Put a note on it saying, " Tag your it!" Run away. Drink some beers. You could start a new game. Refrigerator Tag And watch the Fridge’s progress through the neighbor. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-a-refrigerator-on-my-front-steps/354571/48 "2006-04-29T01:18:08Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Put a note on it saying, " Tag your it!" Ow! I don’t _want_ to tag my it! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-a-refrigerator-on-my-front-steps/354571/49 "2006-04-29T01:48:08Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > I came in here _specifically_ to make that joke! _throws things at you_ \ 😃 > [@Kythereia](#): > > **Omniscient** , any news yet? Has it been… opened? Have there been any odd celestial or meteorological phenomena, such as the stars turning red or the winds howling with the souls of the damned? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-a-refrigerator-on-my-front-steps/354571/50 "2006-04-29T01:50:49Z")
> [@Kiminy](#): > > [Anything](http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/43870/Preview_Samsung_RH2777AT_HomePAD_Internet_Refrigerator.html) connected to the Internet can call anywhere they want to these days… Yeah, but is it wireless? That might explain why it’s getting harder and harder to make a cellphone call around here. All the bandwidth is being pre-empted by appliances making data calls. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-a-refrigerator-on-my-front-steps/354571/51 "2006-04-29T17:13:38Z")
> [@Wile E](#): > > [Refrigerator] > _rings doorbell_ > [/Refrigerator] > > [Omni] > Who’s there? > [/Omni] > > [Refrigerator] > Candygram! > [/Refrigerator] No, no, no . . . it’s supposed to be . . . “Land Shark!” Tripler “Land shark? What’s that??” ::cue Jaws music:: ---
**Author:** ![beebee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47774/32.png) [@beebee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beebee)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-a-refrigerator-on-my-front-steps/354571/52 "2006-04-30T08:54:26Z")
a friend will help you move. a real friend will help you move a refrigarator with a body in it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-a-refrigerator-on-my-front-steps/354571/53 "2006-05-01T01:54:36Z")
A refrigerator? > [@](#): > > They made rapid progress up the road for a mile, Toe Rag urging the horses on frantically with a long and cruel whip. After a few minutes, however, the horses began to slow down and to look about them uneasily. Toe Rag lashed them all the harder, but they became more anxious still then suddenly lost all control and reared in terror, turning over the cart and tipping its occupants out on the ground, from which they instantly sprang up in a rage. > > Toe Rag screamed at the terrified horses and then, out of the corner of his eye, caught sight of what had so disturbed them. It wasn’t so terrifying. It was just a large, white, metal box, upturned on a pile of rubbish by the roadside and rattling itself. The horses were rearing and trying to bolt away from the big white rattling thing but they were impossibly entangled in their traces. They were only working themselves up into a thrashing lather of panic. Toe Rag quickly realized that there would be no calming them until the box was dealt with. > > “Whatever it is,” he screeched at the green-eyed creature, “kill it!” Green-eye unhooked his scythe from his belt once more and clambered up the pile of rubbish to where the box was rattling. He kicked it and it only rattled the more. He got his foot behind it and with a heavy thrust shoved it away down the heap. The big white box slithered a foot or so then turned over and toppled to the ground. It rested there for a moment and then a door, finally freed, flew open. The horses screamed in fear. > > Toe Rag and his green-eyed thug approached the thing with worried curiosity, then staggered back in horror as a great and powerful new god erupted from its innards. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-a-refrigerator-on-my-front-steps/354571/54 "2006-05-01T01:58:02Z")
You know, I once shot a refrigerator in my pajamas… ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-a-refrigerator-on-my-front-steps/354571/55 "2006-05-01T02:09:53Z")
> [@astro](#): > > A refrigerator? Yes! The God of Guilt, from Douglas Adams’ The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-a-refrigerator-on-my-front-steps/354571/56 "2006-05-01T03:25:48Z")
Is there a light bulb on the top of the box, does it make a weird grinding noise, maybe The Doctor’s working on a way to fix the broken shapechanging circuit on his T.A.R.D.I.S.? did you notice any strange Brits hanging around it, an older, balding man, and an attractive young blonde? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-a-refrigerator-on-my-front-steps/354571/57 "2006-05-01T03:59:34Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > did you notice any strange Brits hanging around it, an older, balding man, and an attractive young blonde? If you mean David Tennant, you take that back right now! If you mean Christopher Eccleston… I just can’t get past the _ears_. ---
**Author:** ![beebee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47774/32.png) [@beebee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beebee)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-a-refrigerator-on-my-front-steps/354571/58 "2006-05-01T05:54:55Z")
i understand that refrigerator liberation front raided a lab near there yasterday. “go, little fridge, be free!!” ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-a-refrigerator-on-my-front-steps/354571/59 "2006-05-01T07:45:53Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Your fridge can CALL HOME??? > > I am seriously impressed. 😃 Naw, it’s those nice kids that call whenever they see one trying to escape. They also chide abusive store owners who kept Prince Albert in a can. ---
**Author:** ![Otanx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Otanx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otanx)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-a-refrigerator-on-my-front-steps/354571/60 "2006-05-01T09:03:01Z")
**Least Original User Name Ever** get your own orange juice! I ain’t going to get it for you. Oh, and while you are up, can you get me a glass also? -Otanx [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-a-refrigerator-on-my-front-steps/354571.md?page=2)