When Warwick PhD student Hugh Osborn discovered a packet of the nation’s favourite biscuits lying ~dead~ in the middle of the street, he knew something had to be done.
Hugh wanted to honour the loss of the precious snack, but he was late for a meeting, so he took a photo instead to express his outrage and uploaded it to Twitter.
Shortly afterwards, when returning to the ‘scene of the crumb’, he found that a mysterious shrine has been erected to commemorate the passing of the digestives.
Hugh told the Indy100:
“The biscuits appeared on our street in North Leamington on Tuesday night. I first saw them at around 10pm and felt the twinge of sympathy natural for such a terrible scene.”
Somebody dropped a pack of Digestives on our road. It's now amassed a shrine including daffodils, a candle & a note… pic.twitter.com/gEbaoP6O6H
— Hugh Osborn (@HughO2) April 14, 2016
Next came the official memorial photograph…
UPDATE: The daffodils are gone but tributes continue to be left for the fallen digestives
Ok, I may have made this. pic.twitter.com/9hVBc5ifct
— Hugh Osborn (@HughO2) April 14, 2016
Hours later and #LeamingtonDigestives was trending of Twitter…
By this morning the #LeamingtonDigestives shrine looked like this. I fear the worst now the rain has come though… pic.twitter.com/1IONiEuN2Y
— Hugh Osborn (@HughO2) April 15, 2016
Soon the horrid scene attracted bystanders who wanted to pay their respects.
@HughO2 @MarkMolloy99 hey guys we started it!! You finished it 🙂 pic.twitter.com/ZvOis2Wuyz
— Charlotte Rose (@Charl____) April 16, 2016
It didn’t take long for the biscuit murderer to reveal herself…
THESE WERE MY BISCUITS OMG ???? https://t.co/yS4M2na99H
— Rachel Wisniewski (@rachwisx) April 17, 2016
But, obviously, some people were a little confused by the funeral.
THIS SHRINE IS ON MY DOORSTEP ?? we discovered it the other day so so confused I AM DYING ? https://t.co/gAuVwyN5vC pic.twitter.com/83oBBcobAl
— Zoe Hyde (@ZoeeHyde) April 17, 2016
This article originally appeared on JOE.co.uk
