Be sure your sins will catch up with you...
A mate of mine is an Environmental Protection Officer, which means he deals with chemical spills, hazardous waste and so on. He was having a problem with a prolific fly-tipper, who they just couldn't seem to catch. Then one day, while examining the latest pile of rubbish which had been dumped in a country lane, he noticed something odd.

It was a broken mug. Not too surprising, but this one seemed rather familiar: it was an old Charles and Diana Royal Wedding one, which had been broken so that the couple were split apart. He remembered that a week or so before, at a friends house in a completely different town, there had been a mug which had broken in exactly the same way, with the inevitable humorous comments about how appropriate it was to break Diana away from Charles.

Sure enough, when he called that friend, they confirmed that they'd paid a Man With A Van to take away some rubbish the day before. They could even supply the phone number of the offending scrote.

Serendipity Doo-Dah!
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 13:06, 4 replies)

No no no no no
You've supplied an entertaining story that fits the brief for the qotw - next time, just post "Honda Accord, supermodels LOL" and /talk will love you for it
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 14:12, closed)

Well thanks a lot, I've just had to think about /talk loving me
...and now I feel dirty.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 14:22, closed)

Maybe you could have a quick edit
and add a line about how your mate used his Honda Accord to hunt down the White Van Man then kicked his teeth in while supermodels looked on?
(richardm, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 14:48, closed)

My brother used to have to root through fly-tipped rubbish on his work's grounds for clues about where it came from.
He'd often find old gas bills or addressed envelopes so it wasn't hard for the railway police to track down the tippers.

However, he let one offender off when he found that the silly bastard'd accidentally chucked away a whole set of new spanners. Good quality. Bet he scratched his head over that.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 15:29, closed)