Bit Odd

NiallB

passatrider wrote: »

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A young guy knocked the door and asked if he I had some spare tin foil for his chicken as he'd run out.

Rather odd though..

For his Cold Turkey more like :-)

peachyprice

First thing that sprung to my mind was drugs, if he was crouched down in his footwell he could have been making use of it and then been in no state to return the roll.

Second was 'did he make a helmet'

londonsurrey

Dillence wrote: »

No nothing, nothing was worth taking anyway! Also my friend works for the police and there is not a lot of crime in our area.

He just looked like a bloke in a old car on his way home from work!

Criminals work too. We just don't like the nature of their work.

Notsosharp

Maybe he thought the aliens were coming for him and he needed a whole roll to make himself a helmet to escape from them?

Everyone knows wearing a tinfoil hat (especially with antennae) keep the aliens away!:o

busiscoming2

The first thing I thought of was that he wanted it for drug use. It seems bizarre to call at a random house and ask for foil!

jason1231972

Tin foil = the best friend of heroin smokers. These types of people don't usually own cars, though (assuming you actually saw him in a car)!

Not sure about the criminal angle. It's possible, but why request a random and highly specific item like tinfoil? It'd make more sense to borrow something more common/less suspicious (though it'd still be rather odd), or just ask for 'directions'.

Bambam

Maybe he was doing a drug run and forgot to take some foil for his 'client' to sample his wares so when he realised he stopped his car and knocked at your door . When he got back to the car he was just double checking that his stash was still there in the foot well before driving off with your roll of foil :rotfl:

OR

He just forgot which house he'd borrowed the roll of foil from when he went to return it at a later date

Haha!

gibson123

jason1231972 wrote: »

Tin foil = the best friend of heroin smokers. These types of people don't usually own cars, though (assuming you actually saw him in a car)!

Not sure about the criminal angle. It's possible, but why request a random and highly specific item like tinfoil? It'd make more sense to borrow something more common/less suspicious (though it'd still be rather odd), or just ask for 'directions'.

You'd be surprised, the car was probably uninsured, no road tax and filled with syphoned off petrol. I know a guy who clears up Council houses where addicts have been evicted and he says he is yet to come across an addicts house without a flat screen telly, x-box and PS3, there are a lot of functioning addicts out there, it's only when they get to the desperate side of their addiction that you see them on the streets.

Sambucus_Nigra

Mending a fuse?

Dillence

passatrider wrote: »

You know what I had the same thing happen to me a few weeks back. This time though it was a neighbour.
A young guy knocked the door and asked if he I had some spare tin foil for his chicken as he'd run out. Now, this did seem a bit odd but obliged anyhow. I've since found out that he and his girlfriend are druggies so that kind of explained it for me!

Rather odd though..

Drugs was my husbands first thought as well - he didn't look particularly like one but you never know!