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Michael Di Iorio

Rascals Are Planting Baked Beans In Letterboxes This Syd Woman Reckons It Means Something BAD

For years we have heard the legendary tale of baked beans: they’re good for your heart and the more you eat, the more you… well, you know the rest. What we weren’t privy to, however, were the thief-friendly properties they possess. One Sydney woman reckons she’s caught onto a “sinister” plot after baked beans were poured into her letterbox, as if that in and of itself weren’t outrageous enough. Sydney woman Margaret Khursigara, 52, spoke to Seven News about her close encounter of the bean kind, suggesting she may have been the victim of a planned robbery. Khursigara informed the news network that one of her neighbours told her that beans are an age-old tactic used by thieves. Apparently, if one puts beans in a letterbox during a long weekend when most people go on little holidays, it can be used to check who is still in their home. Most folks would clean the stinky pile of beans ASAP, unless they’re on vacation of course, and it goes without saying that an empty house is easier to rob than a full one. This is coming from someone who was literally
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