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May 29, 2009
Mysterious bread on windows
Woke up this morning to find slices of bread placed on 2 of my window sills. Considering it would have required either a ladder or some climbing ability to place them there I am a little freaked out by this. I have considered everything from black magic to squirrels trying to figure this one out. Anyone with any possible insight?
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birds?
Posted by: denton at May 29, 2009 6:54 AM
Seven Grain or Country White? It makes a difference!
Posted by: IMBY at May 29, 2009 7:53 AM
For your own safety, and the safety of ALL your friends and family, you better hope to God..... Lord, please don't let it be PUMPERNICKEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: IMBY at May 29, 2009 7:58 AM
WONDER BREAD? Who would eat that except for the birds?
Posted by: denton at May 29, 2009 8:02 AM
Wonder Bread is great for a peanut butter sandwich late at night. I had one last night. Sorry about the crusts.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at May 29, 2009 8:09 AM
It was whole wheat actually...
Posted by: boofer at May 29, 2009 9:44 AM
Did it come from the Park Slope Coop? Those people are nuts.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at May 29, 2009 9:47 AM
lol...Hey, I like PUMPERNICKEL bread!
Posted by: A CrownHeightsLady at May 29, 2009 9:54 AM
Oh, yeah, did you forget to work your hours in the Coop or something? This might be a warning, like orange pips...
Posted by: northsloperenter at May 29, 2009 9:55 AM
you've heard of the dead fish in your mailbox? Or, black roses delivered to your door, right?
this is a sign. back off of, uh, whatever.
Posted by: Fjorder at May 29, 2009 9:57 AM
Haha - thanks for this. IT really just made me laugh!
Posted by: dirty_hipster at May 29, 2009 10:00 AM
Yeah, Fjorder. I hope he doesn't own a race horse.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at May 29, 2009 10:01 AM
Could be squirrels. I've seen squirrels carry around large pieces of bread, even whole bagels.
Posted by: slopefarm at May 29, 2009 10:01 AM
LOL we had a bra in our flower pot on our window sill for months! someone must have thrown it out the window.
*rob*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at May 29, 2009 10:03 AM
New York City squirrels carrying around bagels. Hilarious.
Posted by: lechacal at May 29, 2009 10:07 AM
Oh, that's a La Cosa Nostra thing, you're f'ed.
Posted by: MoneyForNothing at May 29, 2009 10:09 AM
Rats usually stick with falafel.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at May 29, 2009 10:13 AM
Given that hilarity has ensued in response to your post, I am calmed a bit. But let me tell you, that would have freaked me the hell out! Especially because you said whole slices of bread, not simply crumbs or lumps of bread. Brrrrr. Weird.
Posted by: Nokilissa at May 29, 2009 10:19 AM
this is sorta funny
but perhaps if your windwowsill is at street level and you have garbage pails outside,it could have been a homeless person scavenging and had already picked up said bread from another locale and mistakenly left it on the sill as he picked through your pails.....
Posted by: gemini10 at May 29, 2009 10:24 AM
That's Brooklyn squirrels, jackal. Never seen a Manhattan squirrel do it. Heartier breed out here, just like the people.
Posted by: slopefarm at May 29, 2009 10:31 AM
Birds and rodents don't leave behind whole slices! That is freaky! Have you pissed off any crazy women? Hide your bunny rabbit :)
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at May 29, 2009 10:34 AM
I'm glad everyone's getting a laugh out of this but in all seriousness...it's really freaking weird. As I said before the windows are quite high...at least ten feet off the ground and there are staircases going down to the basement level below them. It would be a very difficult and deliberate effort to place these pieces of bread on each window in the same spot.
Posted by: boofer at May 29, 2009 10:34 AM
sorry boofer - it is quite weird (and funny)
is it possible they were dropped from above?
Posted by: dirty_hipster at May 29, 2009 10:38 AM
Manna from Heaven????
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at May 29, 2009 10:45 AM
This is the kind of crap that comes from the cornerbodega. He's still without a home and probably always will be so maybe he's living under your stoop.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at May 29, 2009 10:53 AM
Are there other slices of bread lying around? Maybe someone throw bread all over the place and 2 slices just happened to land on your windsill.
Also, if you are feeling uncomfortable, make sure the windows are secured (locked and/or braced with a solid piece of wood).
And if you are feeling paranoid, dust the windowsill with flour (once the rains stop and they dry) and you can see what kind of paw, claw, or finger prints you get.
Could be a freak accident, could be a prank, could be a bird stopped by to eat them and got chased off by something and left them behind.
Posted by: northsloperenter at May 29, 2009 10:58 AM
Boofer...seriously...it sounds like someone is playing a trick on you. Like I said before, rodents and birds don't leave behind whole slices of bread.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at May 29, 2009 10:59 AM
dave -- do not wish internet trolls on innocent civilians. You know how hard they can be to get rid of...
Posted by: northsloperenter at May 29, 2009 10:59 AM
Northsloperenter has a point. Maybe someone tossed out old bread to feed the birds and two just happened to land on your sill.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at May 29, 2009 11:00 AM
When life gives you bread.......make some toast!
Posted by: dirty_hipster at May 29, 2009 11:02 AM
I was starting to work out a post about an evil sect that used perverted versions of Christian symbols to mark their victims. However, since the OP is seriously freaked out, I'll refrain. I REALLY think the bread was left by squirrels.
Posted by: Bob Marvin at May 29, 2009 11:04 AM
I see the making of a Law & Order episode.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at May 29, 2009 11:05 AM
I'm going to put creepy clown figurines in all of your windows tonight while you sleep...
Posted by: boofer at May 29, 2009 11:12 AM
Seriously, we live behind a deli and have seen squirrels casually eating Braunsweiger up in the trees.
Boofer,
If you wake up tomorrow and you are NOT. I repeat NOT, bleeding from your anus we can finally write off that "Pumpernickel Curse" as a childish urban legend!
Posted by: IMBY at May 29, 2009 11:37 AM
Boofer, wasn't it you who wrote about Teen Challenge basketball court?
Could be kids from next door running drills in fine-motor, bread-handling layups. Maybe even the priest himself. Or, hasn’t there been news lately about a stealth campaign by modern-day Hansel and Gretelists? If you remove the bread, lock
your windows afterward.
Posted by: vinca at May 29, 2009 11:45 AM
Good thing this didn't happen a month and a half ago. That stuff isn't kosher le-pesach.
Posted by: Biff Champion at May 29, 2009 11:58 AM
Spiderman gets hungry sometimes....
Posted by: East New York at May 29, 2009 12:16 PM
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/MVsmallvillefan/super_squirrel.jpg
Posted by: lechacal at May 29, 2009 12:24 PM
Boofer, I apologize, when I'm drunk there's no telling what I'll get up to.
I do like what you've done with the place since the last time I looked in.
Posted by: TownhouseLady at May 29, 2009 12:40 PM
Is it possible they were dropped from the floor above? You never mentioned if someone lives above you?
Also- you never mentioned if you have others living with you? Is it possible someone in your household did this to freak you out or to feed the birds or something?
Posted by: panda10 at May 29, 2009 12:56 PM
It could be a bird. Last year, I found a brand new Ipod shuffle (still in the box!) on our 3rd floor windowsill. Checked with all neighbors around and nobody was missing one.
It was later followed by a broken flip-phone and a couple of days later a golfball.
Later talked to a neighbor and apparently a hawk had been living in the trees...
After the hawk left, no more free gifts :(
Posted by: bhabe at May 29, 2009 1:06 PM
if it's white bread it could be a bias crime.
Posted by: dirty_hipster at May 29, 2009 1:17 PM
So I need a pet hawk that I can train to recognize high-end electronics.
Posted by: lechacal at May 29, 2009 1:46 PM
bhabe's explaination is interesting, but multiple slices?
Posted by: serpentor at May 29, 2009 2:00 PM
bhabe's explanation is interesting, but multiple slices?
Posted by: serpentor at May 29, 2009 2:00 PM
It was one slice placed in the corner of each window..the same spot in each window. Yes, people live above me but it would probably be impossible to drop on my window sill the way they were placed. I threw the pieces of bread into the yard immediately after discovering them and they are still sitting there uneaten by birds or squirrels.
....I suppose we will never know the answer to the mysteries of the bread.
Posted by: boofer at May 29, 2009 2:34 PM
Once my husband found some slices of white bread in our front garden and thought it might be a racial thing. I thought that was probably a little too subtle for anyone who would actually do something like that. But the fact that it was whole wheat bread in your case is truly perplexing -- maybe a commentary on your perceived crunchiness? But wouldn't a sprinkling of granola make that point more effectively?
Posted by: supersleuth at May 29, 2009 2:48 PM
OK boofer, now that IS starting to sound weird.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at May 29, 2009 2:58 PM
LOL supersleuth...there is nothing crunchy about me, I assure you. :)
Posted by: boofer at May 29, 2009 3:11 PM
"I threw the pieces of bread into the yard immediately after discovering them and they are still sitting there uneaten by birds or squirrels."
Uh, I'm pretty sure the rats will eat them if you leave them there...
Posted by: northsloperenter at May 29, 2009 3:11 PM
Boofer, it could be a prelude to a marriage proposal from someone who wants you to know he'll go to a great deal of trouble to see that you're provided for.
Posted by: Gale Fartan at May 29, 2009 3:17 PM
Just thought everyone should know that if you Google, "Someone left sliced bread on my window sill last night" this Brownstoner forum thread comes up first.
Posted by: IMBY at May 29, 2009 4:04 PM
boofer,
pls. post update on monday.
good luck,
nsr
Posted by: northsloperenter at May 29, 2009 4:07 PM
Yes, please do give us an update, Boofer!
Posted by: president clinton at May 29, 2009 4:19 PM
Are you having Ambien episodes?
Posted by: Susan Elkins at May 29, 2009 7:47 PM
sleep walking?
Posted by: professor at May 30, 2009 8:59 AM
Hi, I do not live there (I am in New Mexico) but did come across this post because I have mysterious bread thing going on.
I moved into a small community recently.
On to the point, 2 times there has been bread left at my gate. The only times I have actually gotten the bread was when I have been away for the night, which has been 2 times. Not just white bread, but Pueblo Indian white bread. They are pretty large loves, baked in outdoor ovens. They have not been wrapped, but are left laying on the soil, in front of the gate.
I was hoping to shed some light on this, but the most information was from this post. I doubt it was a squirrel. I really did get a kick out of all your responces.
Posted by: kai at November 21, 2009 2:53 PM
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