Very bizarre delivery through my mailbox

Katgrit

A few years ago a friend's husband once got back from a day at work, in his clapped out rusty work van and noticed the brand new shiny black merc parked on the road outside their house. He thought nothing of it till he opened the porch door and found an envelope containing the keys lying on the mat. The police wouldn't record it as abandoned and wouldn't give him the owners details. The garage tag attached to the keys was no help as they were adamant they'd delivered it to the correct address.. It was 2 days before the owner came to collect it, he'd been sitting in his house at 44 Street Name awaiting delivery of his lease car, while my friend lived at 44 Street Name West. The lease company claimed to have delivered it and he was none the wiser until he'd coincidentally spotted it outside on his way past!

IDProtected

buglawton wrote: »

Check for any pairs of trainers hanging between nearby telegraph poles.

What does that mean if there are? I have seen these before and always wondered what it was all about!

heartbreak_star

IDProtected wrote: »

What does that mean if there are? I have seen these before and always wondered what it was all about!

There can be two meanings - the nicer one is that there's been an, um, "romantic occurrence" nearby.

The not-so-nice one is gang or drug territory indication

HBS x

GBNI

heartbreak_star wrote: »

There can be two meanings - the nicer one is that there's been an, um, "romantic occurrence" nearby.

The not-so-nice one is gang or drug territory indication

HBS x

Really?! I didn't know that! I always assumed there had been drunken going-ons and someone had their shoes nicked and thrown up there!

Cuilean

IDProtected wrote: »

What does that mean if there are? I have seen these before and always wondered what it was all about!

Me too - had to Google it. I'm really not "down with the kids" anymore

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-449948/The-trainers-mark-drug-gangs-territory.html

Crumber

GBNI wrote: »

Really?! I didn't know that! I always assumed there had been drunken going-ons and someone had their shoes nicked and thrown up there!

Its an American symbol for drug dealing that has moved across the pond. I used to live in a block of flats with a lot of dealing going down. The shoe sign is not used much because the police know the meaning of it. Nowadays you will have spotters in an area with high level drug dealing and say heroin is the drug of choice the dealer will put out a call for some testers to say the gear is good to all the other heroin addicts and then the drugs are sent out by runners, whilst the spotters keep an eye out for the police. Runners do not deal near the dealers house but the spotters are covering every in and out near the dealers house. If you see the same people loitering in the same areas at similar times of day, you know you have a high level dealer near you.

adouglasmhor

It must have moved in the early 70s then, because that was the outcome if you got caught by a rival young team in Glasgow back then. It's even in a song.

Regshoe

Slinky wrote: »

I work from home and some of my customers pay cash to save on banking fees when they've been paid in cash. One just shoves it through the letterbox in an envelope with 'From Lesley' on the outside.

I get the same from a few clients - I wouldn't mind so much but I'm their accountant! Good job my lodger is honest...!

happyinflorida

luvpenguins wrote: »

Nicholas, I may do that, but I would need help, I've never placed a bet in my life!

Please do not bet with it as race horses and dogs suffer terribly in the UK and this is a big, cruel industry that should be banned.

The Green party have said they will look into banning it, as it is that bad.

JimmyTheWig

Sounds like a Random Act of Kindness to me.