Hotel Tango is correct: I blocked in at a station in y 737-400 where the ground ops had been outsourced from our mainline to a local "vendor". Our procedure was to shut down the #2 engine to expedite the baggage offload. That being done,a young ramper placed a plastic orange cone in front of the #1 engine which greedily ingested the orange cone. Orange confetti galore! The engine checked out after MX scoped it, but my concern was for the ramper. He could have just as easily been sucked into that engine.