I saw the photos first: tan, straggly piles along the banks of an otherwise fertile stream. My mind went to worms, and then gnats. I once wrote an article about fungus gnats, the larvae of which sometimes form circles to travel. Was I looking at something like that? A natural phenomenon that covered the stream in thousands of brown, straw-like creatures?
Nope. I was looking at pasta.
Residents of Old Bridge, New Jersey were presented with a mystery this week: Who dumped mounds of pasta in the forest, all along the stream?
The saga began earlier in the week when resident Nina Jochnowitz alerted town officials to the bountiful mess after receiving a complaint from a neighbor. Reportedly, it was loose spaghetti, alphabet noodles, and elbow macaroni.
“There was literally 25 feet of pasta that had been dumped,” she told The New York Times.
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Fucker should have donated it to a food bank, pisses me off.
Article says it was leftover pasta from covid stockpiling in their relative's house.
Love it when the state fails to even attempt to meet basic needs. If a state cannot facilitate such needs, what is the point of even having a state? Surely, in any sane world, a state would exist primarily to fulfill the needs of it's citizens?
The real story is about all the illegal dumping people do around there but the town voted down bulky garbage collection. I'm now "imagining a guy" who complains about how """dirty""" cities are but illegally dumps stuff he doesn't want to pay to throw out.
Maybe they dont want to repeat the mistakes of that libertarian town that got taken over by bears because a libertarian lady kept feeding them.
