“Pasta dumped illegally in New York suburb: Police investigate mysterious case”

By Le Figaro with AFP

Posted on 05/05/2023 at 21:01

Police in a township in New Jersey are trying to figure out how hundreds of pounds of pasta food was illegally dumped in a wooded area of ​​this New York suburb. The mystery, including local newspapers and the New York Times account in recent days, dating back to last week, when a walker posted photos on Facebook of several piles of spaghettimacaroni and pasta shells in a small forest, at the edge of a river in the city of Old Bridge, near the megalopolis of New York.

The equivalent of “fifteen wheelbarrows» or «several hundred (kilos) of uncooked pasta taken out of their packaging and thrown to the edge of the stream“, confirmed to AFP Friday by email an official of the municipality, Himanshu Shah. Once the images circulating on social networks were authenticated, municipal employees and police were dispatched to the scene.

A state bordering New York, on the other side of the Hudson River, New Jersey is renowned for being home to many communities of European origin, in particular Americans of Italian origin. Some 17% of its population claim Italian ancestry. This waste pasta, which was starting to “mold” in the undergrowth, were picked up in less than an hour, assured the municipality which assured that the local police were investigating. Old Bridge, with a population of 65,000, speculates on a restaurant’s stock or a giant order that may not have been fulfilled.