To ask for help identifying this tiny man

[UnexpectedTinyMan]

So the story is, a family member ordered a completely boring order of towels and a bath mat from Wilkos.

This came today, and inside the package (wrapped up separately) was a pair of orthopaedic Sedagyl slippers (the kind an old woman might wear - not sold by Wilkos, that I can see) and THIS tiny man - pic attached.

My husband broke his head off, apparently to check if there were drugs inside, and there were thin wires inside going through the whole clay of the body . It was made of a kind of soft clay that breaks easily, and the paint rubs off easily. He is holding some sort of wine jug. We can’t find anything even close on the Wilkos website.

Any one who can 1. Identify this tiny man and 2. Explain why he was in a Wilkos parcel with a pair of slippers, I’ll be really impressed!

At least, it was. Deleted, I’m afraid.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3989252-Rottweiler-walking-around-park

Posted too soon. 'Wait Until Dark '.
Blind heroine unwittingly takes possession of a doll stuffed with drugs. Then evil baddie comes calling to retrieve the dolly.....

Just a thought.

Two days ago he checked his work trousers pockets and the little man has gone

Well now I feel bad.

Please OP fish him out of the bin quick sticks!

LTB

@mamapearl

What sort of hat is that? It looks like a white traffic cone!!!

Travel outside of the UK and you might found out what sort of hat that is.

and for those of us too poor/chavvy/hidebound/committed/ecological to travel to far-flung places, perhaps one of you globe-trotters could give us the benefit of your super knowledge?

Awh no I was just about to ask for a link to the Rottweiler thread.

Maybe it's like the Sherlock Holmes story where the Black Pearl of the Borgias was hidden in a bust of Napoleon (Or a USB in a bust of Thatcher in the new version).

Rottweiler in a nut(case) shell.

Rotty Witt owner walking through park, not on lead. Walking slowly, looking round. OP thought it was staring at children in a cold, calculating way (she used 'calculating'). Was scared of Rotties and poodles because she'd been attacked by a Doberman as a child.

It all got sillier and sillier till it went poof. I think it was the dog from The Omen and Damien pulled the thread pretending to be MNHQ..

*Rotty. Not sure who Rotty Witt is.

Actually I can quite understand the checking for drugs. A few years ago a parcel was mis delivered to our house ( eg. Delivered to 10 South Street instead of Southern street) It just felt like a bag of drugs and I was too scared to deliver it as the drug dealer would then know I knew!!!! DH managed to ease one out of the corner of bag, they were just packing pellets.

You have to contact Wilko to explain you’ve got someone else’s slippers and a priceless antique figurine that you would like to return to the owner. Once you mention value, and that you’re selling this feel good story to the papers, I’m sure they will do all they can to solve the mystery.

It just felt like a bag of drugs 🙄

Please go rescue the tiny man from the bin OP

Did your husband consider that instead of looking inside the man for drugs, that instead what you think is “clay” is actually compacted heroin, which just needs grinding into powder with a pestle and mortar. I think that would be a smarter solution that ripping its head off. Try it!

You must go get him out of the bin OP, maybe the gods of lost tiny men will look favourably upon you.

Too late for DH, he's f*ed.

@Thisismytimetoshine All we could feel were small tablets and thought it was unlikely to be a Kilo of an Nurofen!

You dont have a parcel problem, you have a Dh problem.

This thread has made actual tears roll down my face... the poor baby I’m trying to feed is vibrating as I’m still laughing at @Jux phantom slipper packer
I’m so invested in this tiny man now

Ooh! I have a box full of about 30 of those little clay figures from Lucknow. An entire military brass band, a bit like the yellow ones in the picture, but their uniform is duck egg blue. My DDad brought them back from a business trip to India for me when I was in primary school. So not antique but definitely vintage! They are indeed very "powdery". They are tiny though, about 6cm tall, so no good to use as drug mules.

I'm curious about the hat too @merryhouse Don't feel bad, I've just asked on Whatsapp and 3 anthropologists, a diplomat and a whole bunch of foreign correspondents had no idea either! Sufis wear elongated double height fezzes but it doesn't look like that.

LTB. He has an aggression problem and possibly a drugs problem too. Do you want to live the rest of your life like this? Living in fear of the next time a Wilko's parcel arrives and your DH rips someone's head off?

@orangenasturtium
Little Man could indeed hail from India...I have had Indian 'statues' {Ganesh} that are made of almost a soft earthenware, but not , with wire armature inside... They also made those little smoking policemen and Sailors that ''puff a tiny cigarette'' that we used to get in Christmas stockings.. {still got my policeman, but lost the Sailor... reddish material under the paint.}

No idea but I love him!

OP... are you in fact in the opening scene of a horror film?

Both packages split in the post, PO thinking they were all from the same package put the items together and resealed.
That seems the most likely thing to me.

@Ohtherewearethen

Why on earth was your husband's first thought to snap its head off, before even contacting Wilko's to find out what could have happened?

Just lol’d at this post