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Sealed food in bin!

Ok I'm going to sound like a right hobo now but basically...

Today, got my lunch, walked out of Morrions and went to put my receipt in the bin. I then saw the end of a chocolate bar, gold foil, sticking out and noticed it didn't look empty, so just out of curiousity I pinched it to check and it wasn't! I then pulled it out and it was fully sealed, galaxy hazelnut bar - one of the bigish ones. Had nothing on it, no bin juice or nasties, as it was sitting on top of the rubbish.
So I was asking everyone ''I'm not going to look like a hobo if I eat this am I?'' and I was basically getting abuse for not eating it!
So I had a few chunks, got home and as I thought it was quite a proud moment I told my parents... BAD MOVE. I've just got the biggest mouthful about it possibly being tampered with by terrorists...
I just assumed the guy threw it away because he was an idiot or didn't realise he bought the hazelnut bar... so an idiot.

Opinions anyone?

Reply 1

Thud

Yeah my mum used to tell me people would inject poisons into chocolate bars and leave them out for kids to eat :tongue:

Surely if it was tampered with like that they wouldn't put it in the bin, they'd just leave it on a bench or something?

Reply 2

letsdothetimewarpagain

Not something I would do personally, there are all sorts of things that happen so I wouldn't want to risk it however minute the risk. :p:

Reply 3

munn

bin raider

terrorists though
seriously
:\:/:\:/

Reply 4

Blundell

Yeah I think if you're going to tamper food then if you're not going to leave on a supermarket shelf you'd put it out in the open somewhere. If you were going to bin it because you had second thoughts.... you'd take it home surely..

Reply 5

Blundell

Haha, well I've been called Bindell already :/

Reply 6

InTomsWonderland

Ah didn't Scott Mills discuss this the other night on radio one? Anyway, at least you know you're not alone. Scott does it too.

Reply 7

Illyria

If it was tampered with by terrorists, I doubt they'd spike just one of them and leave it in a bin? More likely someone bought it and then remembered they were on a diet or something :s-smilie:

Reply 8

Citizen Zero

Due to my own paranoia, I wouldn't be able to bring myself to eat something out a bin even if it was sealed; however I have no objections to other people eating it if they so wished.

Reply 9

timetokill

Id be tempted, I do love the Galaxy chocolate, but I dont think I could have actually eaten it.

I too was scared by stories of people tampering with food as a kid. I was told a story about people injecting cartons of orange juice with poison. I didnt drink carton Juice for years after that.

Reply 10

she

You're parents were being dumb. There's a whole movement of people who actively search bins for perfectly good chucked away food because they are against waste.

Reply 11

somethingbeautiful

ROFL =D
It's wrong, but I may have been tempted too lol

Reply 12

Blundell

All these posts are hilarious! :biggrin:

I was very much on the brink of deciding not to eat it though...

Damn peer pressure! Forcing teens to eat out of bins!!

Reply 13

Psyk

Become a freegan. It just means you steal food from supermarket dumpsters that has been thrown out because it's past it's sell-by date, but it might still be within it's use by date. If it's fully sealed then it should be fine to eat.