Help solve this mystery

They're project car cattle guards. I suspect the Wife. 

Only 5 racks? That's a relief, if it were 6 you'd be in big trouble, but 5 is nothing to worry about. There wasn't a bottle of windex nearby was there? 

Evenly spaced and all but one facing the same way.  If it wasn't your house I would suspect some curmudgeon didn't like people turning around in his driveway.

Hobo camp stove?

Someone cleaned their oven racks.

My guess is it is some guy got the bright idea of powder coating something, and ended up having to soak all the oven racks in solvent, or get a divorce.

This is bizarre. I want to know what you found on the cam footage!

Racks should be nearly invisible when backing car or truck out of garage...when tires run onto racks they will slide, causing loss of braking and loss of traction and you will slide into the street to the amusement of someone...

Someone using them as an alarm while casing the house? Car drives over them you'd hear the metal on concrete noise.

Racking my brain looking for an answer. 

Is is it a message or meant to serve a function? Cattle gate to keep you on your own property? Wife-unit hinting that a new overn would go great with the new racks? If you are in need of a new oven, i would find one where these fit so that you wont have to clean a rack for a loooonng time as you can just dispose of them till you run out.

On a more sinister note, they woulda been hella slippy if you walked on them in the dark on that steep driveway.

I cannot believe that this hasn't made you crazy enough to drop everything and view the camera footage.

jimbob_racing said:

I cannot believe that this hasn't made you crazy enough to drop everything and view the camera footage.

Seriously.  This episode of CSI: GRM is moving really slowly.  I probably wouldn't have even finished walking the dog.

Also it reminds me of this:

You notice that sometimes David just leaves us hanging?  We never found out what his neighbor was building a few months back. 

It is Florida, do you expect anything less? 

WonkoTheSane said:

It's migration season for oven racks.  Those are the young who couldn't keep up with the flock and needed a rest.

Are you suggesting that oven racks are migratory?

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

WonkoTheSane said:

It's migration season for oven racks.  Those are the young who couldn't keep up with the flock and needed a rest.

Are you suggesting that oven racks are migratory?

Depends, are those African or European oven racks?

Additional info that I now know:

nothing

Have you reviewed the tape?

And some more info that I know:

Are they stainless? Not sure. I did save them from going to the landfill, at least for now.

I don’t powder coat.

We don’t get many ducks here–mostly hawks, cardinals, wood peckers and these gray birds.

No appliance store nearby. We're in the middle of a residential neighborhood. 

Don’t know of any nearby vegans tying to send a message. (Although we tend to go with meatless options.)

My wife is just as baffled. They weren’t there when she went running that morning nor when she left for work.

We didn’t see anything in the camera footage, either. We have a few cameras watching the front yard. You can see them from the curb. 

You’d have to be exiting the driveway pretty quickly to slide into the street, I imagine. Plus, not a ton of traffic on our road. We also have good relations with the neighbors. (Hi to any reading this.)

Casing the house? I didn’t find anyone hiding in the bushes. Plus I’d think they’d notice the security cams. Or they could just watch the cars come and go.

Our oven is rather new. I just used it, in fact, to heat up my lunch.

This morning was trash day, but I didn’t see anyone throwing away an oven. And five racks? That’s more than one oven, right?

My best guess: Kids going to or from the school bus stop at the corner, but who carried five racks up the street? I’m not even sure where the nearest kid on the bus lives. 

So, still no new leads. 

I have no idea but I'm now seriously considering leaving some random items in a buddy's driveway just to mess with him.

I think the most likely cause is bored kids. You live what, a mile from a skatepark? We used to drag furniture from Panera to the skatepark just because we were bored and dragging stuff places it shouldn't be was a way to fill time (don't worry, one of my friends worked there so it was maybe probably definitely totally cool and all to take their furniture).

In reply to David S. Wallens :

So you've racked your brains trying to figure this out.

In reply to Tom Suddard :

I can see that, although our neighbors have way cooler cars. 

Bored kids come up with creative ideas. My dad conspired with his friends to switch around all of the cars in the neighborhood garages overnight. I guess they didn't lock them back in the thirties.

alfadriver said:

In reply to David S. Wallens :

So you've racked your brains trying to figure this out.

Now that's funny!

Well now you know that you have to rearrange your security cams......