Apparently, some genius thought it'd be a grand idea to dump around 500 pounds of cooked noodles near a stream in Old Bridge, New Jersey.
Cue the outrage from the town's politically active resident, Nina Jochnowitz, who got wind of the whole mess thanks to a concerned citizen.
I mean, who in their right mind wastes that much pasta? It's a carb lover's worst nightmare!
NewJersey.com reported that Jochnowitz said she was taken to the area to see it for herself and decided to snap some photos and post them on her social media account on April 26. The town was previously alerted and did not respond to the pasta dump, she said.
She said she immediately reached out to the town administrator and the department of public works about what she had seen.
Her post, which included eight photos of the mounds of cooked spaghetti, elbows and ziti dumped along a 25-foot-wide area, garnered a lot of attention on Facebook and two days later, Jochnowitz posted again saying that it had all been hauled away from the site.
Jochnowitz said she was disappointed that it took her posting on social media to get the town to take action, but that she was glad the DPW cleaned up the mess, which is located on property owned by Old Bridge.
She said it was unclear how long the pasta had been sitting there before she was alerted to its presence.
While it may not be directly related, she added that Old Bridge is the only town in Middlesex County that does not have bulk garbage pickup.
Well, we hope whoever is responsible gets a good serving of justice...and by "justice," we mean ban that person from ever buying pasta EVER.
