For many of us (especially those who have young children or animals) seeing your house or yard in various states of dishevelment isn’t all that unusual.

I don’t know how many times I’ve come home, seen something obviously awry, and wondered “how on Earth did that get there?”

Quite often, my kids have had something to do with it. When they’re innocent, it’s often the dog or cats who take the blame. My point is, it’s very rare that anything out of the ordinary gives me pause for thought or, worse, makes me feel alarmed in any way, shape, or form.

Yet after hearing the warning one woman from Manchester, UK, was given after finding food scraps in her front yard, I might be stopping to take a closer look at anomalies that present themselves on my property.

As per reports, the woman in question, Maria Celino-Straker, returned home one day to find someone had thrown a can of red beans just outside of her doorway.

Naturally, Maria presumed she had fallen victim to some neighborhood kids who had little better to do than play a prank. If not that, then perhaps a fox had dragged the beans from a bin and been scared away as they were crossing her yard.