Someone just dropped a suspicious package on my front sidewalk, what should I do?

[NightWatcher]

It's in a clear plastic bag and looks like it might be 9 inches wide by 12 inches long and 3 inches deep. It has a picture of an ambulance- chasing lawyer on it and half of it appears to be off white while the other half is pale yellow.

[Kleveland]

1. Sounds like the Yellow Pages.... n/t

[NightWatcher]

2. The wha?

What's it used for?

[Lochloosa]

4. And you call yourself a detective.

[NightWatcher]

5. I never claimed to be a good one.

[lunasun]

3. Recycle but most areas require you to break them up . Tear in 6 pieces of equal size or break the

Binder

[DBoon]

6. find out who owns the dog and ask them not to leave bagged poop on your sidewalk again

really every responsible dog owner knows to bag and trash canine waste

ON EDIT:

After reading more carefully, it looks like an object of great historic importance and not doggie doo. Find a museum of ancient technology and donate the package. It will go on display next to the rotary dial phones and BW TV sets

[brush]

7. I get them every year too.

The big one and the smaller community one.

I just put them in the pantry until I throw them out when the next year's books come.

Sad.

It's easier to just go online to find what you're looking for.

The people advertising in those probably should find better places for their ad dollars.

[csziggy]

8. Last year I threatened to turn that company in for littering

Their delivery people left their packages at every rural mailbox for miles along the roads in this area. I called in since it was raining torrents and the package they left for me was soaked inside as well as out so the plastic were useless. I was told by the company - no longer R H Donnelly which had provided excellent service for decades - that their contracted delivery people were supposed to bring the packages to the door and not leave them on the street, at the mailbox or any other alternative.

So many people did not pick up the water soaked packages, they were visible on the sides of the roads for months afterwards.

If they show up along the roads this year I WILL report them for littering.

On my call above I did request to be put on their "Do not deliver" list. Since they've downsized the books, they are unreadable anyway. Usually I use the internet - though when the power was out after the hurricane last fall, I did have to hunt up an old phone book to use as reference.

So why is your phone still big? Does R H Donnelly still make yours?

[Cirque du So-What]

9. Someone once dropped off an Igloo cooler on the sidewalk in front of my house

I opened it and found a human big toe in a ziploc baggy atop crushed ice. Figuring it had fallen off an ambulance, but not knowing which hospital was its destination, I did what seemed logical at the moment...
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I called a toe truck.

[PoliticAverse]

10. You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me, there are ways... n/t

[Kaleva]

11. Listen to Cheech and Chongs Dog Shit routine

Feel the suspicious package
Smell the suspicious package
Taste the suspicious package
But don't step on it.