Crabs in garden...WTF?!

Idol

So yesterday morning when leaving the house I heard a noise behind me and looking around to see a crab on the ground in my garden, still loving, quite large. Thought it might have just been a seagull that dropped it but got home to discover three more crabs in my garden.
Anyway, this morning on opening my curtains there must have been around 5 crabs in my garden, so I went to put on some clothes and go out to take pics but when I returned they were gone, bar a few crab claws.
Am I going crazy or is there a rational explanation????

https://imgur.com/a/ocA6Ib9?

GreeBo

Anyone else have to check that they weren't in The Ladies Lounge forum?

Day Lewin

That's really weird.

Maybe a local cat was raiding a local fishmonger? And dropped the loot in your garden?

Chicken George

Idol wrote: »

Am I going crazy or is there a rational explanation???

Maybe they used the sidewalk to get there.

donvito99

Chicken George wrote: »

Maybe they used the sidewalk to get there.

Outstanding

GreeBo

OP they are slowly surrounding you...its the classic pincer movement.

The Enbalmer

I live not far from Dublin 15 and I found a prawn in my garden..a big one,perfectly fresh and I've shrimply no idea how he got there.

The Enbalmer

Given the size and species of the crabs I reckon somebody was storing bait in a bucket and it got knocked over allowing some of the crabs to escape

Sonny noggs

Still loving? You into crab porn, OP?

Nijmegen

Just close the curtains any time you're watching those trawler shows on Discovery.

theunforgiven

That's a common shore (green crab). They are a great bait for sea angling when they are peeling (shedding their shell). Someone perhaps had some crabs waiting for them to peel and this fella did a runner . . .??

They can breath inside and outside of sea water but I would imagine it must have escaped from somewhere close by. I had some escape from my bucket in the shed one time and found them in a dark, cool corner of the shed behind some boxes, covered in dust but perfectly alive after a few days.

Perhaps a bird dropped it but would have had to carry it a long way from the sea . . .(I am pretty sure that a bird would have just eaten it when it found it though)

Unusual for sure!

ERLUAD

Same happened to me a few years back in D12. Presumed a bird dropped it

TheValeyard

Seagull dropped it.


Edit: seen there were a few,

Seagulls had breakfast.

wyndham

Seafood come down with the rain. It's a well known phenomenon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaWFZJjtcQ4

TheValeyard

Can I ask which part of Dublin15?

Pat Dunne

TheValeyard wrote: »

Can I ask which part of Dublin15?

Seafield's.

Uncharted

Obviously guerrilla marketing by that new burger joint opening near you OP ....

Pat Dunne

Uncharted wrote: »

Obviously guerrilla marketing by that new burger joint opening near you OP ....

You mean D15 is getting its own "Crabbypatties"?

Uncharted

Pat Dunne wrote: »

You mean D15 is getting its own "Crabbypatties"?

:pac: got it in one.

Suckit

The Enbalmer wrote: »

Given the size and species of the crabs I reckon somebody was storing bait in a bucket and it got knocked over allowing some of the crabs to escape

theunforgiven wrote: »

Someone perhaps had some crabs waiting for them to peel and this fella did a runner . . .??
Unusual for sure!

Kids living near you? Did any of them go crab fishing in the past day?

Our neighbours went crab fishing with their kids about two years ago, and over the next week+ we found dead crabs in our back garden. It turned out that the kids brought the crabs back, and when they woke up the next day they crabs were gone. They didn't think much more of it.

We found them and thought it was weird, told a few people, and a couple of days later met our neighbour and told them and asked them if they saw any. They told us what happened.
Still no idea how they got past the 5 foot high wall though.

View Profile

Isn't there some large fish distribution centre or market in Blanch?
Heard before that any fish caught in Howth for example are brought straight to Blanchardstown before being sent off to the various shops and restaurants.

Tar.Aldarion

Friend saw a lobster walk past her on a footpath a while back. was just like WTF.

Idol

Living in Clonsilla area of Dublin 15.
Crabs are quite big and meaty looking, not like any I've ever seen at the beach.

Seanie_H

This, I think, is the best thread that has ever been in Dublin 15

Idol

Mystery resolved....my neighbor upstairs had a box of crabs on their balcony and they managed to escape. Highlight of the week - getting crabs!!

LaLa2004

I presume it was dropped by a seagull.

Uncharted

LaLa2004 wrote: »

I presume it was dropped by a seagull.

Unlikely,seagulls don't use biros.

They have no thumbs,ya see.

TheValeyard

Idol wrote: »

Mystery resolved....my neighbor upstairs had a box of crabs on their balcony and they managed to escape. Highlight of the week - getting crabs!!

Brilliant