Neighbors Solve Mysterious NJ Pasta Dump Case

[Wicked Blue]

By NBC New York Staff and Brian Thompson

There are now some answers regarding a fascinating macaroni mystery in a New Jersey town that has captivated the internet.

It all started when hundreds of pounds of pasta was found by a city council candidate along the banks of the Iresick Brook in a wooded part of Old Bridge. Keith Rost, who lives nearby, said there was likely about 200 pounds of alphabet noodles and spaghetti just left there, with no explanation given.

No meatballs and no sauce were included, just mounds and mounds of pasta.

And while the pasta appeared to be wet and limp in pictures, it wasn't like that when it was dumped there. The pasta was raw, but then the heavy rains over the weekend came, making the mounds look like they had been cooked before being dumped in the in Middlesex County town.

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According to the story, the pasta was dumped by a guy who was clearing out his late mother's house. The town public works department cleaned up the mess.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. he shouldnt have dumped the pasta

[ret5hd]

3. To us pastafarians...

that was kinda like if someone threw the Shroud of Turin into the wastewater plant!!! Or the Holy Grail into the city dump!!!

Sacrilege I tell ya! Sacrilege!

[Wicked Blue]

4. How should he be punished?

[ret5hd]

5. STONED!!! With edibles! Until he repents!

[TdeV]

6. He should have to eat some of that pasta!

[lastlib]

10. Run him through a colander!

AFTER he has had 40 lashes with His Noodly Appendage!

AND make him pick up the garbage.

[2naSalit]

2. It was...

A guy thing.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. What a waste of wallpaper paste

[Diamond_Dog]

8. Anyone else think it's weird

He took it out to the woods to dump it and couldn’t just throw it in the trash? So it’s okay to dump your old food in the woods now?

[TheBlackAdder]

9. Either he was limited on what could be thrown out each week, or wanted to feed the wildlife.

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I'm just thinking of my town, and we have a single trash bin that gets picked up weekly.

If the guy was clearing out his parent's home, he probably had a shitload of trash and stuff to dump. He might have curbed some of it, but I'm unclear if it's hundreds of pounds of dry or wet pasta. If dry, imagine a 100 12oz boxes of Ronzoni to discard. That would fill a couple of bins alone. He would then need to spend hundreds on a dumpster. Maybe he thought it was biodegradable and yeeted it out back.

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[SharonClark]

11. Third choice - he's a jerk and litterer.

There is no excuse for illegally dumping pasta or anything else in the woods.