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!

Calculating Rottweilers and Tiny Drug Mule Men

tis a good afternoon on MN today :)

Is your husband a rottweiler?
A sniffer dog?
Tearing apart small statues and slippers looking for drugs?

Just need to backtrack a bit again

Why did he put the perfectly good , new slippers in the bin ?
Would they not have fitted either of you ?

Putting the wee broken man in the bin - yes
New slippers - no

Birdie Friend's long lost uncle?

I need some new slippers, and you've put some new ones in the bin!

Maybe this was an eBay order and was wrapped in Wilko packaging.

Wire was used in the manufacture of the clay statue to help keep the structure erect. Maybe purchased from the same seller. May be not even eBay but a person trying to deliver to friends or relatives and got the address wrong. We received woolly jumpers for years from someone who clearly had the wrong address. One day it suddenly stopped when we got a new postman who said he thought he knew where the items should have been going to!

@iklboo

Break it open to check for drugs? Has been watching a lot of The Wire and Border Patrol?

Just when I had forgotten about Birdy Friend.

Make sure you mark where you leave it, when you wake up it might have moved!

@OldLace

Calculating Rottweilers and Tiny Drug Mule Men

tis a good afternoon on MN today :)

The Calculating Rottweilers are clearly using the Tiny men to spy on parents and find out when they take their delicious children to the park.

Prove me wrong.

@Needcoffeecoffeecoffee

Is your husband a rottweiler? A sniffer dog? Tearing apart small statues and slippers looking for drugs?

Is his name Bruce?

This threads getting better and better 😂

Why did he put perfectly good items in the bin? That's even weirder than finding a wee man.

My guess would be that the towels were sent to an older lady who returned them. When she was wrapping up the towels, she accidentally included the other items. Maybe the slippers were also meant to be returned to another shop but they got wrapped in the towels by mistake and the little man fell off a cabinet into the towels while she was wrestling with it all.

This is what I reckon happened too. It's the most plausible explanation.

I think the man is sweet. He's got a great smile. Someone out there is missing their tiny man .

Maybe he’s a shoe horn. A slipper horn in fact.

Given there's a photo of the tiny man intact; did he take a photo of it, send it to you and then get an uncontrollable urge to snap his head off?!

Does he think you have an elaborate drug habit?

I'd have to retrieve and fix him.

[quote Staffy1]@all TeddyIsaHe, can you link to the Rottweilers thread, haven't seen that and can't find it. Is it about GP receptionists?[/quote]
Sadly it got deleted for being a troll

Which, incidentally, tiny man is just lacking the sticky uppy hair but could be otherwise

I've just zoomed in on the man and I completely retract my previous statement. He hasn't got a great smile at all. In fact he looks scary. And the red stuff around his mouth and the end of the jug looks like blood! I'm gonna have nightmares now!!

@LittleHootie

Has your husband been watching a lot of Border Force?

Actually howling laughing at this

Here is an enhanced pic of Little Man...
The fluorescent paint looks added later?.
Is that a Hash water pipe he is holding?

He looks circa 1900.. Egyptian or Indian looking?

Actually he looks like a Bristol Uni Student in Fresher's week, with a traffic cone on his head and a Hi Viz jacket as he does the right thing, and cycles his 'fixie'bike everywhere.

What a frightening wee man

Not weird at all, whenever I get something unexpected I immediately break it to see if there anything inside

Hilarious 😂

I genuinely thought this was going to be a thread about identifying a small actor or similar!
How wrong can you be?
I'm sat here sniggering away to myself.