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A large pile of chips was found on top of a red car at the bottom of Sun Street outside The Merchant's House Bed and Breakfast in Frome.

The nearest chip shop to Sun Street is King Fisher on Badcox, and this serves Fish and Chips.

Anna Griffiths-Car passed the vehicle with the chips on it late on Sunday morning (August 14) and was taken aback by the "nastiness of the act".

Since Somerset Live first reported on this story the news has reached the nation with #Frome now trending on Twitter and many expressing their thoughts and sympathies with those affected.

And now #Chipgate, as it has been dubbed on Twitter, has got out of hand, one resident has expressed fears over an "epidemic" of food attacks in Frome, revealing chips were shoved up his exhaust and macaroni cheese put on his car windscreen.

She said: "It just seemed a bit senseless and stupid. I'm very short so if it were my car it'd be really hard to clean off. Perhaps they'll wait for seagulls.

"I think you see daft things like that everywhere from time to time, particularly on Sunday morning.

"We've all done stupid things after a few drinks. I guess it's actually pretty harmless in the scheme of things."