Photo: Courtesy of Abby Hall
BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — Brighton resident Abby Hall calls it “The Breadening.” Every two weeks for the past three years, she has walked out of her home to find bread in a corner of her front yard.
“Every time, there’s just a pile of cubed white bread,” she explained.
“And I don’t mean like croutons,” she clarified. They are literally cubes of regular loaves of white bread.
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The last time the “Brighton Breader” struck was Tuesday.
“I’m a smoker, so I’m out here every hour. I’ll come out at 10 a.m. — no bread. I’ll come out at 11 — bread. So, whoever it is, is watching me.”
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Hall added that it’s not the easiest house to “bread.”
“We have a huge hedge. It’s like head height. You’d have to throw the bread over the hedge or go all the way around it and specifically bread our yard.”
Asked if she has any enemies with a penchant for baking, she said no.
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And Hall shared she is not interested in getting other people involved.
This is even in the face of rats feasting on the bread she misses when she cleans up the new deposits every few weeks.
“The bread is definitely not helping, that they have a specific source of food in my front yard. But, I mean, I don’t know if I’d call the cops over that.”
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Boston Police said that leaving unwanted bread like that could be a misdemeanor, depending on the damage it does.
“But I have thought about the camera. I might do it just to solve the mystery because I really don’t care. I just need to know.”
WBZ NewsRadio's Chaiel Schaffel (@CSchaffelWBZ) reports.
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