Ok this is a weird one. I just found this strange substance under my front passenger side seat. I'm assuming it has nothing to do with the seat and couldn't have possibly come from the seat but I'm having a really hard time making sense of it so thought I'd run it by the internet experts out there.
Yesterday I noticed a red/pinkish substance under the passenger side seat along the side by the center console. My first thought was "how the hell did candy get down there? son of a..." and then my brain calmed down and I realized there was virtually no possibility it was candy. My son almost always sits in the 3rd row rear-facing seats and I don't ever allow food in the car, other than the 3rd row. I keep my car very neat. Almost nothing in it at all other than some stuff in the center floor bin area. The entire rest of the cabin is almost always completely empty. Nothing at all in it.
Investigating further, it was clear that this substance was not food, but rather a sticky soft/malleable plastic. It was "crumbled" but could easily be squished together into shapes and has no odor at all.
Here is more info about it as I'm thinking through it:
Lastly, want to be clear I am not saying this came from the seat. I'm VERY confused and want to rule it out if possible. In looking under the seat I can find no evidence at all that anything of that color came from anywhere under the seat. I really doubt it came from the seat but I also have no other legitimate explanation for what this is or how it got there.
Here are the pics. The first is the "legend" to show where the camera was placed for each of the 4 pics. There is a blue X reference in all of the pics pointing to the same spot on the same piece of metal as a reference point.
Legend
#1 Pic from the front
#2 Another pic from the front
#3 Pic from the back seat between the console and side of front passenger seat
#4 Pic from the back seat under the front passenger side seat
EDIT: I'll add that in pic #1 and #2 there are reflections of the substance that look a little confusing in the metal bracket. If you look at pic #3 you can see it without the reflections.
Yesterday I noticed a red/pinkish substance under the passenger side seat along the side by the center console. My first thought was "how the hell did candy get down there? son of a..." and then my brain calmed down and I realized there was virtually no possibility it was candy. My son almost always sits in the 3rd row rear-facing seats and I don't ever allow food in the car, other than the 3rd row. I keep my car very neat. Almost nothing in it at all other than some stuff in the center floor bin area. The entire rest of the cabin is almost always completely empty. Nothing at all in it.
Investigating further, it was clear that this substance was not food, but rather a sticky soft/malleable plastic. It was "crumbled" but could easily be squished together into shapes and has no odor at all.
Here is more info about it as I'm thinking through it:
- Is it something that fell down and got shredded by the track somehow? Nope, its on top of the track and the track is nearly completely free of this substance.
- Could it have been something that just fell down there already like that? Unlikely. If you look at the pics below, you will see it is way under the edge of the seat and on the other side of a bolt. Very little was on the carpet that would be a direct drop down the side of the seat. It would be really difficult for it to just fall there.
- Could it have been deliberately placed there by someone? This is the only other possibility I can make any sense of, though it still would be nearly impossible. The car stays in a closed garage at home and is locked any time I walk away from it in a parking lot. I did have it at an event over the weekend and two people did sit in the car, but I was standing right next to them watching them the entire time.
Lastly, want to be clear I am not saying this came from the seat. I'm VERY confused and want to rule it out if possible. In looking under the seat I can find no evidence at all that anything of that color came from anywhere under the seat. I really doubt it came from the seat but I also have no other legitimate explanation for what this is or how it got there.
Here are the pics. The first is the "legend" to show where the camera was placed for each of the 4 pics. There is a blue X reference in all of the pics pointing to the same spot on the same piece of metal as a reference point.
Legend
#1 Pic from the front
#2 Another pic from the front
#3 Pic from the back seat between the console and side of front passenger seat
#4 Pic from the back seat under the front passenger side seat
EDIT: I'll add that in pic #1 and #2 there are reflections of the substance that look a little confusing in the metal bracket. If you look at pic #3 you can see it without the reflections.
