Someone has posted a tiny bag of white powder through our letterbox!

[UmmWTF]

Me and DH are freaking out a bit. At about 10pm we heard the letterbox go while we were watching TV but didn't immediately check it. We've just got up to head to bed and it's a tiny little ziplock bag (like 50p sized tiny) with white lumpy powder in it

We're going to have to call 111 in the morning arent we? Really freaked and going to struggle to sleep now!

What the actual fuck

What kind of neighbourhood do you live in? Naice or a little bit rough?

@wowfudge

My favourite post on this thread is the one advising the OP to wipe the bag clean of any fingerprints before handing it to the police.

This got me too 😂😂😂😂 hilarious!

I was awake in the night when I read that - shades of the Twilight Zone.

@UmmWTTF

Tel Non Emergency Tel No 101 to speak to the Police about this or
So someone from the Local Police station pick this bag of Drugs Up

Or
Use washing up plastic Gloves and put it in a paper/plastic bag to take over to the Police station

So they Can have someone from local Police station to find out whos hand prints belong to with the Local Drug Dealers in the Local Area !

As often Drug Dealing Culture is obviously can be part of funding Burglaries for their drug Addication etc.!

God almighty, I clearly live in a very different world to some posters.

'Have fun with it', 'It's only a bag of drugs' and accusations of pearl clutching if the OP not willing to get off her nut on a bag of white powder even though she has no idea what it is. Yep, different world.

Its just been collected! DH double checked the letterbox and there was another teeny bag of it inside

It will now be disposed of by the police.

I'm glad we could entertain you this cold lockdown weekend

But let it be known the police do indeed give a shit and will send a PCSO with an evidence bag if someone posts drugs through your door

thank you, OP (and her police) At least this little bit of filth is now out of circulation.

As some (but not enough) have said, anyone who buys illegal drugs supports cuckooing, knife crime, gang violence and county lines. And is therefore also filth. And yes I have seen the results. If only the drugs were more toxic.

@UmmWTF I bet that made them laugh a bit about the supplier getting the wrong house

@Frownette they seemed a little amused, his exact words were "how random"!

@UmmWTF

Just Tel Non emergency tel no 101
To get to speak to the Police, to ask them to have a Police officer to come and pick up Drugs Bag, to get fingerprints from this Bag.!

Obviously Do Not Touch Bag of Drugs with your Bare Hands Only
Use plastic washing up Gloves !

Or
Take this Drugs Bag to your Local Police station as soon as possible,
Obviously Only use washing up gloves to do this !

I think this is best ways to sort out this problem/issue of drugs bag !
As obviously drugs Culture is often connected to the Local/uk nationwide Drugs/Criminality Culture of Burglaries funding Drugs Addictions !

@Confusedandshaken

A friend of mine is doing an online cookery class for a few mates tomorrow. One of the harder to get ingredients is coconut milk powder. One person has bought a big bag of it online and her DH was dropping little bags of it at various homes on his way back from work last night. Are you SURE it's an illegal substance and not a misdelivered korma ingredient?

God I pray it's coconut powder after all this

Its just been collected

Didn't you ask what it was and explain that Mumsnet wants to know?

Well I can at least confirm from my own eyes that it wasn't powdered coconut milk or anything for a Scouting project

@HugeBowlofChips

Put it in a tupperware on the front step helpfully labelled DRUGS

Peak mumsnet. Brilliant.

The county lines point is a good one. Chances are mumsnetters children aren’t the ones being groomed to deliver drugs. Chances of it being posted by a kid on a bike who is locked into a world they can’t escape from are pretty high.

@UnityUnited

The county lines point is a good one. Chances are mumsnetters children aren’t the ones being groomed to deliver drugs. Chances of it being posted by a kid on a bike who is locked into a world they can’t escape from are pretty high.

Really? Really?! Couldn’t possibly be Mumsnet children? Wow. Just, Wow.

Absolutely JoeBlack Have you considered the demographic on mumsnet? Very middle-class. Not the usual type of children dealers target. Not vulnerable enough.

I remember when I worked at a job centre years ago, some teenage boys came in, one of them dropped a bag of cannabis on the floor, I discreetly walked behind them, kicked it under the desk and when they left I picked it up, handed it to my manager and he called the police, they collected it and that was it. Was probably 10 years ago and I still wish I'd have been able to see their faces when they realised they'd lost it.

If I had anything of that nature posted through my letter box I'd also call 101 and tell the police. Glad they've collected it and that's the end of it now, I don't think anyone would come knocking for their drugs.

The county lines point is a good one. Chances are mumsnetters children aren’t the ones being groomed to deliver drugs. Chances of it being posted by a kid on a bike who is locked into a world they can’t escape from are pretty high.

This is so completely untrue it's worrying that anyone would think this. In fact, 'middle -class' kids are ideal to recruit into county lines so please don't be so naive to think that they're not targetted, because they are.

It’s the hypocrisy around middle class drug taking that really pisses me off.
Lots of the households doing a few lines at the weekend will be fair trade buying, culturally engaged, educated people who decry uncontrolled capitalism and think of themselves as people who make conscious decisions for the planet and for the disadvantaged.
Then they fund and perpetuate a grotesque, criminal chain built on exploitation, intimidation and violence that snakes back through so many hands to the country of origin, causing damage everywhere it touches. From the people whose houses are burgled and trashed to fund the addiction of the socioeconomically less insulated; the poor women who die when the condoms they’ve swallowed burst; to the communities caught in the violence of towns run by rival drug cartels with insane mortality rates for their sons and daughters, where torture, rape and mutilation are routine instruments of control.
Just buy fucking Nescafé, drive a Hummer and keep pet Tigers or whatever. Oh but of course that is visible and visibly unacceptable, and so not you. You recycle and read the Guardian!

@UnityUnited

Absolutely JoeBlack Have you considered the demographic on mumsnet? Very middle-class. Not the usual type of children dealers target. Not vulnerable enough.

That's bullshit. Absolute bullshit. I work in a school full of very 'middle-class' children and what you are saying is just not true. So mumsnetters, please do not feel that your children couldn't possibly be targetted by county lines organisations, because they absolutely can and are being so.

@nothingcanhurtmewithmyeyesshut

Unless you've drastically upset someone and its Anthrax

MacDuff No. Broadly speaking the children they recruit have dysfunctional backgrounds, often the victims of abuse/neglect.

Middle class families can abuse/neglect children

@UmmWTF

Its just been collected! DH double checked the letterbox and there was another teeny bag of it inside

It will now be disposed of by the police.

I'm glad we could entertain you this cold lockdown weekend

But let it be known the police do indeed give a shit and will send a PCSO with an evidence bag if someone posts drugs through your door

You'd better put a note on your letterbox

"Please don't put any drugs/ recipe ingredients/diatomaceous earth through this letterbox. The police evidence room has barely got any space left for murder weapons.

Thank you."