Why Were 500 Pounds Of Cooked Spaghetti Dumped Near A New Jersey Creek: OutKick i-Team Investigation

Mamma mia!

Folks in New Jersey are wondering what in the Italian Old World is going on along a creek bed where hundreds of pounds of cooked spaghetti has been dumped by someone who is clearly a maniac. The mystery noodles recently started showing up in the woods along the creek in Old Bridge Township, New Jersey.

But why?

We're talking huge piles of spaghetti and elbow noodles that just don't make sense.

What started out as one woman's mission to show neglect in her town has turned into a great mystery that has spread from her original Facebook post to Reddit where investigators say "We should send the perpetrators to the state penne tentiary," and now to Twitter where millions of people have now taken notice of the great spaghetti dumping saga.

Nina Jochnowitz, who spotted the mess and called out the township, got results this week. She reports there was a "rapid cleanup" of the spaghetti. "As my friend called it, 'Mission Impasteable,'" Nina quipped on Facebook.

That's a great job by Nina looking out for her community, but we're still left with the why to this story.

Why were 500 pounds of pasta dumped near a stream?

Let's stop and think about this mystery for a minute. This is just a thinking-out-loud exercise.

A huge pile of elbow noodles in what appears to be a red sauce that were illegally dumped. / via Facebook / Nina Jochnowitz for Old Bridge

The noodles could've done great harm!

Jochnowitz, who found the noodle dumpage, says this behavior could've been bad for Mother Nature.

“You might say, ‘Who cares about pasta?’ But pasta has a PH level that will impact the water stream,” Jochnowitz told the Philadelphia Inquirer. “That water stream is important to clean up because it feeds into the town’s water supply ... It was one of the fastest cleanups I’ve ever seen here”

The noodles might be gone, but the mystery remains.

Who and why need to be solved not so someone is fined or sent to the state prison on illegal dumping charges. We need to hear from whomever is responsible so they can answer the big one: Why?

Please step forward. I'll even allow you to have your say anonymously. Why'd you do it? I'm not the Fed.

Email: joekinsey@gmail.com