{"id":824,"date":"2025-01-07T13:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T14:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/?p=824"},"modified":"2025-03-11T23:10:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T23:10:48","slug":"plate-of-peeled-bananas-appears-on-same-street-every-month-and-no-one-knows-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/plate-of-peeled-bananas-appears-on-same-street-every-month-and-no-one-knows-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Plate of peeled bananas appears on same street every month \u2013 and no one knows why"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Locals are baffled (Picture: SWNS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An ordinary street in Nottinghamshire is at the centre of a fruit-based mystery \u2013 which some are begging to come to an end.<\/p>\n

Residents of Abbey Road and Wensor Avenue in Beston have been puzzled for more than a year as a plate of peeled bananas has been left at the junction of their streets.<\/p>\n

The plate of peeled fruit is left in the exact same spot on the second of every month \u2013 and confused locals are no closer to figuring out who is behind the strange phenomena, and why.<\/p>\n

The fruit shows up early in the morning on the second day of the month, meaning nobody has managed to catch the joker in the act.<\/p>\n

But now residents are begging for the prank to end \u2013 as the fruit is rotting and making a mess.<\/p>\n

A printed note was left next to the road signs close to where the bananas are left each month, reading: \u2018Please, respectfully, no more bananas!<\/p>\n

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The plates are abandoned along with the fruit (Picture: SWNS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe uncollected plates and rotting bananas leave such a mess! Wishing a Happy New Year to you all!\u2019<\/p>\n

Locals have described the phenomena as \u2018annoying\u2019 and it\u2019s thought at least one person has reported it to the police.<\/p>\n

One resident, who didn\u2019t want to be named, said: \u2018I\u2019ve heard it\u2019s some kind of cleansing ritual but to be honest it\u2019s just weird and it\u2019s freaking people out. I know at least one person who has informed the police about it.\u2019<\/p>\n

Another, Clare Short, said: \u2018I\u2019ve asked around in the local community but no one really knows and no one can tell me anything.<\/p>\n

\u2018The bananas appear early in the morning on the second of the month, I see them on my way to work. I\u2019d love to know the answers to this.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019ve come to take the signs down because I don\u2019t really want to make it like a feud, I don\u2019t want it to become a big thing.<\/p>\n

\u2018I think it\u2019s a special thing for someone and I wish them well. But if they could come back and clean up the mess a few days later that would be lovely.<\/p>\n

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\u2018I\u2019m going to keep an eye on it and keep cleaning up the mess.\u2019<\/p>\n

Josh Trentham, 26, added: \u2018I live nearby and they\u2019re very regularly here. They are very annoying, I have no idea why they\u2019re here.\u2019<\/p>\n

Jill Dowling, who lives nearby, added: \u2018It\u2019s so strange and disgusting, someone puts it there, and I don\u2019t like it.\u2019<\/p>\n

Janet Hutchinson, 81, said: \u2018The bananas are clearly just bought, and the wildlife doesn\u2019t touch them. They go mouldy \u2013 it\u2019s gross.\u2019<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Janet\u2019s neighbour Adam Castle, 34, said: \u2018I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a cultural thing but it\u2019s strange. I\u2019ve never heard or seen it anywhere else I\u2019ve lived.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Locals are baffled (Picture: SWNS) An ordinary street in Nottinghamshire is at the centre of a fruit-based mystery \u2013 which some are begging to come to an end. Residents of Abbey Road and Wensor Avenue in Beston have been puzzled for more than a year as a plate of peeled bananas has been left at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}