'What a great story to tell for years to come': A shopping trip sparks police investigation
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Sometimes, the smallest actions can spark the most unexpected reactions, leaving us questioning how things spiralled out of control.
What seemed like a harmless trip to the shops quickly turned into an unlikely situation that no one saw coming.
The consequences were far from what anyone could have imagined, and it all started with a simple moment of confusion.
A woman called the police, believing she had spotted a 'suspicious-looking' item in the boot of a woman's car.
The car's owner had been waiting for takeaway food in the Sydney Neutral Bay Woolworths car park last week, alongside her father.
While they waited, they searched the boot for a misplaced food item, which was filled with plastic, before leaving.
Later that day, the police arrived at their doorstep.
An anonymous bystander had called Crime Stoppers, claiming to have seen a plastic tarp in the boot and suspecting it was a 'body bag'.
'To the lady at the Neutral Bay Woolworths car park who saw my dad and me looking in the boot this afternoon while we were waiting for our takeaway and called Crime Stoppers about a suspicious-looking tarp,' the car owner wrote on social media.
'The police have visited us for a welfare check—no dead bodies in the boot! Just plastic that my dad uses for work.'
'We were searching for a few cans of Pringles that have vanished. Still can’t find them.'
The woman who reported the incident quickly became the target of online mockery.
'Should've gone to Specsavers,' one person joked.
'Did the police take a missing Pringles report?' another asked.
'If they are sour cream and onion flavour, you should definitely call crime stoppers yourself, until they are found!' a third person quipped.
Others suggested she had been watching too much true crime.
'What a great story to tell for years to come,' one mocked.
Some were shocked that the police were called in the first place.
'What? Called the police! C'mon people.,' a person wrote.
Have you ever witnessed something that made you question what was really going on? Let us know your stories in the comments.
What seemed like a harmless trip to the shops quickly turned into an unlikely situation that no one saw coming.
The consequences were far from what anyone could have imagined, and it all started with a simple moment of confusion.
A woman called the police, believing she had spotted a 'suspicious-looking' item in the boot of a woman's car.
The car's owner had been waiting for takeaway food in the Sydney Neutral Bay Woolworths car park last week, alongside her father.
While they waited, they searched the boot for a misplaced food item, which was filled with plastic, before leaving.
Later that day, the police arrived at their doorstep.
An anonymous bystander had called Crime Stoppers, claiming to have seen a plastic tarp in the boot and suspecting it was a 'body bag'.
'To the lady at the Neutral Bay Woolworths car park who saw my dad and me looking in the boot this afternoon while we were waiting for our takeaway and called Crime Stoppers about a suspicious-looking tarp,' the car owner wrote on social media.
'The police have visited us for a welfare check—no dead bodies in the boot! Just plastic that my dad uses for work.'
'We were searching for a few cans of Pringles that have vanished. Still can’t find them.'
The woman who reported the incident quickly became the target of online mockery.
'Should've gone to Specsavers,' one person joked.
'Did the police take a missing Pringles report?' another asked.
'If they are sour cream and onion flavour, you should definitely call crime stoppers yourself, until they are found!' a third person quipped.
Others suggested she had been watching too much true crime.
'What a great story to tell for years to come,' one mocked.
Some were shocked that the police were called in the first place.
'What? Called the police! C'mon people.,' a person wrote.
Have you ever witnessed something that made you question what was really going on? Let us know your stories in the comments.
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it's very very disrespectful 
% agree 
. Good on ya Cobb, we know where your Heart is.
