Who’s the mysterious German sandwich thrower? What’s the point of Matt Hancock? It’s the age of the inexplicable

‘What? And why? We’ll wear ourselves out trying to understand’ … Photograph: franckreporter/Getty Images

So what’s your theory about the Magdeburg sandwich thrower? Just in case you haven’t yet encountered this mystery for the ages, a phantom chucker of tinfoil-wrapped sausage, cheese and salami frühstücksbrötchen (breakfast rolls, a German thing presumably, and I can’t say I hate it) has been, well … not terrorising, but perhaps intriguing or mildly irritating residents along the B184 in the Saxony-Anhalt region of Germany.

A picture in the newspaper of local football club manager Holger Becker down on one knee, holding out some crumpled foil in which a worthy-looking brown crust is visible, as if proposing to the viewer with it, is a sublime addition to the canon of angry people in local news pointing at stuff.