It’s not a spell cast by Jim Davis.
A coastal town in France has long had a strange tide. The beaches of Brittany have been getting littered with fragments of novelty Garfield telephones for the past 35 years.
Since the 80’s pieces of these phones have washed ashore, despoiling the otherwise beautiful beach. Environmentalists and even beachgoers hate it. 200 shards of the phone were found in the last year alone. While pristine examples of the phone are sought after by collectors, the locals consider what washes up to be trash. So much so, that the Ar Vilantsou anti-litter group uses it as a symbol of beach pollution.
The group’s campaign using the phones has, however, led to a breakthrough. A farmer, René Morvan, contacted the group with the fact that he knew exactly where the phones were coming from.
Morvan was about 19-20 in the early 80’s, and at the time, a huge storm hit the area. Afterwards, he and his brothers went exploring the local sea cave, which were usually only traversable during low tide. In one of the caves, they found a shipping container filled with the phones.
Despite not setting foot in the cave in over 30 years, Morvan was able to find the container, leading a group of Ar Vilantsou members to it. The group found the container, as well as fragments of the phones strewn about the cave. And thus ends the mystery of Garfield’s three-decade assault on a French beach.
The mystery is solved. We found our treasure.
Ar Vilantsou member Dominique
Source: Gizmodo
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