Weird news is coming out New Jersey, where hundreds of pounds of pasta was found dumped in the woods.
Last week, approximately 500 pounds of pasta was discovered near a creek bed in the woods by Veterans Park in Old Bridge, New Jersey. The mounds featured macaroni, ziti, spaghetti, and other pasta dumped in a 25-foot-wide area in the middle of the woods.
Local resident Nina Jochnowitz shared eight photos of the macaroni mystery on an Old Bridge community page on Facebook last Friday. Jochnowitz, a former council candidate, wrote that members of public works “responded by doing a rapid cleanup of the river basin and pasta dump.”
Jochnowitz said the pasta was cooked, however a township spokesperson said it was uncooked but that recent rainy weather had softened the pasta.
“Once the report was generated, two public works employees arrived to clean the area,” township spokesman Himanshu Shah said. “They were able to load all of the pasta in under an hour and properly dispose of it. We would estimate several hundred pounds of uncooked pasta that was removed from the packaging and then dumped along the creek.”
A boiling-mad Jochnowitz told the Philadelphia Inquirer that the dumped pasta could have strained the environment.
“You might say, ‘Who cares about pasta?’ But pasta has a PH level that will impact the water stream,” Jochnowitz said. “That water stream is important to clean up because it feeds into the town’s water supply … It was one of the fastest cleanups I’ve ever seen here.”
Jochnowitz warned that the preposterous noodle dump could be linked to the town’s lack of bulk garbage pickup, which could cause more illegal dumping. She noted that more than 300 tires were pulled from a nearby estuary lake during a recent cleanup.
“When it rains here, it smells like sewage,” Jochnowitz said. “We got the county to take away about half. But a pile is still there that the township has done nothing to take away.”
The culprit of the pasta dump is not known, and there are no leads.
A spokesperson for the city of Old Bridge told the Philadelphia Inquirer that police are investigating the spaghetti incident.
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