“Those albums passed several family members and everyone took photos that are valuable for them. I was the last one in line, so I was left in the gray container.” We ask him when this was. “Phoe, that must have been at the end of February, early March,” says Stegink.
Then suddenly all kinds of puzzle pieces seem to fall into place. Because Stephanie Bosch-Arends found the photo in her garden in March. When we hear from Jonnie Stegink where he comes from, there is suddenly a kind of Eureka moment.
Stegink and his family are originally from Overijssel, but he moved to Emmen a few years ago. Not far from Emmer-Compascuum, where the photo was found.
On the editors of RTV Drenthe, the scenario seems clear: the photo ended up via a garbage truck from Emmen in Emmer-Compascuum. Perhaps blown out of the garbage truck on a route of Jonnie Stegink’s house towards the house of finder Stephanie Bosch-Astens. Stephanie himself can confirm that the photo was in a place in the garden, near where containers are on the street. So as far as she is concerned, the theory is very likely.
A spokesperson for Area cleaning, the company that provides waste collection in Emmen and also Emmer-Compascuum, sees less salvation in this theory. “No, that seems very unlikely to me. Emmer-compascuum is really a completely different area, so a garbage truck that first does a round in Emmen does not go directly to Emmer-Compascuum.
The waste ends up in a well -sealed container, so there can’t just go out of ball. I can almost certainly exclude this, but it is an interesting story, “said the Area spokeswoman.
Despite that, we don’t let the garbage truck theory completely loose, but we will never know for sure how that photo ended up in the garden in Emmer-Compascuum. Anyway, the photo mystery has fueled a good portion of curiosity in a lot of people.
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