Last night, I bought a perfectly ordinary sausage from the corner shopnothing remarkable about it, just fancied making myself a couple of sandwiches. At home, I sliced up a few pieces, ate them, and popped the rest in the fridge. Everything seemed perfectly normal.
It wasnt until this morning, when I decided to make breakfast and pulled out that same sausage, that things started to feel a bit odd. I grabbed a knife and began to cutonly something wasnt quite right. The blade suddenly refused to pass through, as if there was a stone or something frozen inside. I figured, maybe its still a bit too cold from the fridge. But when I tried to cut another slice, the knife jammed abruptly. Peering closer, I glimpsed something gleaming in the middle of the sausage.
At first, I assumed it must be a bit of metal or some stray bit of machine part. Curiosity got the better of me, and poking around, I managed to wiggle free a USB stick. Just an ordinary thumb drive, a few gigabytes in size. An odd wave of disgust rippled through meId already eaten part of that sausage! How could a USB key even end up inside a shop-bought sausage, and not one of the cheap ones?
Yet disgust soon surrendered to fascination. I booted up my computer and plugged in the mysterious stickthen just sat there, frozen, staring at what I saw. I detailed everything in my initial comment below, but honestly, just be a bit careful out there.
There was a single folder on the drive, cunningly titled OPEN ME. When I clicked into it, all I found was one lone photograph. The image showed some grinning man, laughing square at the camera. I was completely dumbfounded.
My mouse slipped from my hand while I gawked at the screen. Was this someones idea of a practical joke? Why on earth would anyone hide a USB stick inside a sausage? Was there some sort of message or just nonsense?
Now Im left wondering whether I ought to ring up the police and report itmaybe have them investigate, or just chuck the whole wretched thing in the bin and try to forget the whole unreal episode as nothing more than a bizarre dream.
