I think there's a dead body in my neighbour's bin (semi light hearted!)

[OriginallyfromLA]

Just that. We each live in one half of what used to be a large house. So we're close neighbours but there aren't any other ones for a few hundred yards. There's no street access to our bins (locked gate) and to reach them you have to walk past his entire house which has big windows and is very open. As in, you can see what he's watching on his tv and eating for supper. I have dogs too who would go mad if they even suspected a stranger around. The long and the short of this is - no one can get to our bins without arousing suspicion.

We help each other out by taking turns to take the bins out to the street and tonight I took the recycling ones out. Ours was crammed full but normal weight. His was EXTREMELY heavy to pull. Honestly, like there was a body or two in there. It was an effort to get it out to the street.

It's recycling! There should only be light stuff in there! Paper, cardboard and the like. I had a quick look and rummage around the top bit, but then I got scared I might touch something 😂 so I scurried back inside.

The neighbour is weird. Seems perfectly nice, but he's a complete loner - no friends and no girlfriend/wife and no children. He's mentioned a sister in passing but that's it. He doesn't socialise in the village, really keeps himself to himself. He has one cat which he obviously dotes on. Oh and he works entirely from home. He's just.....strange.

How am I going to know if there's a body in there?? There's only me and dd 11 in the house! I'm way too scared to go back out - BUT what is in there???? Something very heavy, I know that much.

Come on, its light now. Go have a rummage. We need an answer.

Apparently the best bin to put a body in is the dog poo bin because it’s the only lorry that on arrival at the landfill a hole is dug and the contents dropped in and covered without raking it around.. might take you a while a piece at the time...

But on that basis is this actually a double bluff, you’ve said you have dogs....

You say you can see him eating his supper?

Have you noticed an increase in his meat intake?

Waste not, want not and all that.

And less to go in the bin when picked over.

"The neighbour is weird. Seems perfectly nice, but he's a complete loner - no friends and no girlfriend/wife and no children. He's mentioned a sister in passing but that's it. He doesn't socialise in the village, really keeps himself to himself. He has one cat which he obviously dotes on. Oh and he works entirely from home. He's just.....strange. "

That's not weird in the slightest. Looking in people's bins is weird!

Of course he’s a genius because your fingerprints are now all over the —body filled— bin.

My mother's recycling bin is exceptionally heavy this weeks as she's thrown out a load of books.

She isn't capable of hefting a dead body up into the bin and I don't think anyone is missing so I'm fairly sure she's not lying.

i put tons and tons of old newspapers in the recycling the other week and the bin weighed a ton because the papers were solid rather than light kind of taken apart iyswim. Might be that?