Curious photos from the US state of New Jersey are circulating: more than 200 kilos of noodles were found in a forest – how did they end up there?
Piles of spaghetti and other pasta were apparently dumped into a creek near Veterans Park in Old Bridge, New Jersey, according to photos released Wednesday by local resident Nina Jochnowitz. Jochnowitz estimates that about 200 kilograms of pasta ended up there.
Her post was quickly shared on Reddit and Twitter, where people all over the world poked fun at the noodle fiasco, explaining the origin story with nearly endless noodle possibilities and puns. “Sounds like the work of Rig-a-Tony!” commented one Reddit user. “The prime suspect is a guy named Al Dente,” wrote another user. “Don’t forget your partner Lin Guini,” added another user.
“It was so much that he was probably overworked”
Now there’s a new clue in the noodle mountain puzzle. A man is suspected – he was filmed carrying piles of pasta from his late mother’s house to his car before the piles of pasta were found. Nina Jochnowitz said a surveillance camera filmed the man putting the raw pasta in his car. The large amount and the fact that the noodles were not cooked would correspond to the mountains found.
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These weren’t baked either, but look baked in photos because they were soaked through in the rain, according to Old Bridge’s public works department, which has since cleaned up the mess.
The man, whose mother recently died, was likely overwhelmed by the large amount of pasta, says Nina Jochnowitz. “It was so much that he was probably overwhelmed.” The man is a military veteran and Jochnowitz is in touch with his family, she told the New York Post. She doesn’t want to reveal more though, because she doesn’t want the man to have to go through the trauma he experienced with his mother’s death again.
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