Garfield phone mystery solved
A French coastal community has finally cracked the mystery behind the Garfield telephones that have washed up on their beaches for decades. Since the 1980s, the Iroise coast in Brittany has received a supply of bright orange landline novelty phones shaped like the famous cartoon cat. Anti-litter campaigners have been collecting fragments of the feline for years as they clean the beaches. But now, the source of the problem has been found — a lost shipping container. Campaigners from an anti-litter group suspected that was the cause but had never been able to find the container. Media attention however drew the eye of a local farmer who remembered the first Garfield phone appearing after a storm in the early 1980s. The container was in a secluded sea cave accessible only at low tide. (Via BBC)
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