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– Low key investigation with amicable resolution if admitted.
– A fried egg was left at the scene. "As a result, students at Five Islands school will presumably have sat down for a very sincere assembly Friday where a policeman came in and held up a cold floppy egg accusingly at them and they will have had to not laugh. "I will be attending school tomorrow to ask at assembly if anyone knows anything about this," Colin added. "We are just looking for the person responsible to own up and this can all be dealt with quite amicably which is the request of the shed owners."Thing is: I'm trying to think about a situation in which you might be holding a fried egg—no bread was found at the scene, so it definitely wasn't the component of a sandwich, nor was there any bean juice or black pudding laying around, so it wasn't part of a fry up, either—and then you might put the fried egg on the ground and just leave it there.But no such situation exists. Like, you've gone to the trouble to fry an egg. You've somehow cooled it to a temperature where you might take it outside with you as a handheld protein-rich snack. And then you leave it by a shed for the police to find. What kind of deranged maniac are the Isles of Scilly police dealing with, here? Do they know what they're getting into? Do they have enough riot gear? And is the egg in question currently sitting in a Ziploc bag in a police-owned mini fridge? So many questions, doomed to go unanswered.Unless... Unless the chat at the school was able to shed some light on this unsettling mystery. We'll keep you posted.Follow Joel Golby on Twitter.
