Curious sight on Coldhams Lane this morning, as I was going to work.

An upturned blue recycling box sitting on the pavement was quite suddenly caught by a freak gust of wind and propelled out into the road. The wind kept pushing it, at approximately a normal pedestrian's walking pace, until it reached the other side of the road, whereupon it managed to mount the kerb (I assume due to a dropped section, but I wasn't watching that carefully) and then stopped.

It managed to do this just when there was a neat gap in the traffic in both directions. The effect was eerily reminiscent of a small blue plastic Dalek, trundling forward under mechanical propulsion but with conscious direction. Other recycling boxes very near it were unaffected, reinforcing the impression that it was just that one box that happened to decide it wanted to get to the other side.

(At least, I assume the motive force was a freak gust of wind. I suppose it's just possible that the box was on a fine string or had a motorised unit under it, but either of those would seem like a lot of effort for a prankster to go to just to momentarily confuse a few passing motorists.)