PHANTOM OF THE VEG AISLE STRIKES AGAIN!
Neighbours bamboozled after cabbages, broccoli and cheese hurled into gardens
NEIGHBOURS fear they are being terrorised by a phantom food thrower after cabbages, broccoli, and even feta cheese were hurled into gardens.
Clare Middle was stunned to discover a cabbage had been thrown into her backyard on March 10. She initially thought it could have been children messing about.
But about a month later she discovered another cabbage, along with a wheel of cheese, had been thrown over the fence of her Hartshill home.
The 32-year-old mum, right, then spoke to her Northcote Avenue neighbours and found she wasn’t the only one being met with cabbage chaos in her back garden every month.
Clare now worries that a child could get injured or a dog could snaffle up something toxic if the vegetable thrower returns.
She said: “Around a month ago we heard a thud and went outside and found cabbages had been thrown into the backyard we thought it must just be kids or someone in the park.
“But on April 10 we heard a thump at the door and someone had thrown cabbages, a broccoli, and a round wheel of what looked like feta cheese. “I was scared we were being targeted but I knocked on the neighbours’ doors and they’d had it thrown over their gardens too. I put it up on Facebook and people had acquired all sorts of fruit and veg.
“It’s been around the 10th so we’ve wondered if someone is getting a food parcel and gets rid of what they don’t want. The cheese stinks as well – if they’d have come over I’d have offered to just eat it.”
Clare says neighbours have found the incident ‘weird’ having been left with no explanation as to why they’re being targeted by the vegetable thrower. She added: “I’ve got two children and it is a bit weird so we’re now putting up security cameras.
“I have cats and next door have dogs and it could make them sick. It’s a vegetable menace and next door have already faced a vet bill.
“It’s like we’re being targeted by the phantom of the vegetable aisle. My children like to play outside and it’s worrying someone might target you.” Clare says she originally decided against contacting police officers worrying they might ‘laugh at her’. However she says neighbours believe the vegetables have been reported to the authorities.
The Sentinel has approached Staffordshire Police for comment.