Mom reveals how students buried neighbor’s car in wheelie bins in bizarre parking prank
- Photos show the blue Ford Focus Zetec barely visible buried under rubbish bins
- Police were on the scene in West Yorkshire and the wheelie bins were moved
A mom has revealed she woke up to find a neighbor’s car buried under a mountain of garbage cans in a freak incident she says was a student prank.
Photos show the blue Ford Focus Zetec, barely visibly buried under at least 10 general waste and recycling bins, like a life-size version of the block game Jenga.
Jaymie Jones awoke to the spectacle outside her home in Headingley, West Yorkshire, on Feb. 7, leaving her head scratched as to who was responsible.
She initially thought there were garbage collectors and left the garbage cans scattered outside – but upon closer inspection, the 27-year-old saw six garbage cans sitting on the roof of the car with at least four around them.
The stay-at-home mom thinks it is the mischievous work of students who decorated the car as a joke at night and says the police have now arrived and the ‘barrier’ has been moved.
Photos show the blue Ford Focus Zetec, barely visible buried under at least 10 general purpose rubbish and recycling bins
Jaymie Jones awoke on February 7 to the sight outside her home in Headingley, West Yorkshire
The stunned mother-of-one shared snaps of the strange scene on Facebook with the caption, “If anyone knows the owner of a blue Ford Focus Zetec in Hyde Park, you might want to call and wake him up.”
The post generated more than 600 likes, shares and comments with commenters joking that the car owner had redoed the ‘garbage can’.
Jaymie said, “There were garbage cans all around the car and on top of it. There were about five or six on top.
‘I thought ‘the garbage collectors had been and just left them there’. Usually they leave them all on the side of the road so they don’t block access.
“I thought it was kind of weird and when I looked around I saw the blue behind the bins, and I thought ‘oh that’s a car’.
“He stood in the middle of the road and blocked it. It wasn’t that big of a deal, but it was kind of bizarre to be honest.’
Jaymie said the scene was a surprise and not something she expected to see.
“Probably it’s a student’s car or his friends playing a prank,” she continued.
The stunned mother of one shared snaps of the strange scene on Facebook with the caption: ‘If anyone knows the owner of a blue Ford Focus Zetec in Hyde Park, please call and wake him up’
Online, people flooded the comments on Jaymie’s post with puns about the joke
‘It’s a predominantly student area, so it’s not uncommon for them to play pranks on each other.
‘It’s gone. I think someone contacted the police because they came looking for the owner and eventually it was moved.”
Online, people flooded the comments on Jaymie’s post with puns about the joke.
One commenter wrote, “Someone clicked here.”
Another wrote: “Jenga: Headingley Edition.”
Another said, “Someone is messing around, what a bullshit joke.”
“That’s childish wheelie,” one commenter wrote.
A spokesman for West Yorkshire Police said: ‘PCSOs were present because the vehicle was supposed to cause an obstruction, but it was (the) owner of (the) vehicle who moved it.’
