The ingredients for a extraordinary neighbour’s dispute (Picture: Shutterstock)

In a week where police resources in Manchester have been stretched to their limit, you can always rely on someone to waste their time.

Despite enduring their most trying week on record in the aftermath of Monday’s devastating terror attack, officers were called out to deal with a rather bizarre dispute between neighbours.

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But this was no ordinary neighbour’s dispute, this neighbour’s dispute involved a dead gold fish covered in cheese being posted through a letterbox.

Today we've dealt with a neighbour dispute where a dead goldfish covered in cheese has been posted through a letterbox I kid you not …… — GMP Middleton (@GMPMiddleton) May 25, 2017

The surreal scenario was shared by officers in Middleton, in Greater Manchester, after the call out yesterday.


GMP Middleton tweeted: ‘Today we’ve dealt with a neighbour dispute where a dead goldfish covered in cheese has been posted through a letterbox.



‘I kid you not.’

Twitter user @DN_HY jumped on the chance to use both fish and cheese puns at the same time.

@GMPMiddleton Have you established a motive? Or was it just for the halibut? I hope you gave them a right pollocking! — DH (@DN_HY) May 25, 2017

While Twitter user @alexsandr_1956 was more concerned about Manchester’s police officers using valuable resources over it.

@GMPMiddleton did you actually waste time on this? — alexsander.the.great (@alexsandr_1956) May 25, 2017

The police force was quick to deny significant time had been wasted.

@alexsandr_1956 I can assure you once officers found about this not a lot of time was spent on it. — GMP Middleton (@GMPMiddleton) May 25, 2017