Mike
For the last 30 years the shoreline of Brittany, a region in western France, has experienced a rather peculiar anomaly. Plastic novelty phones of the beloved comic character Garfield continually wash ashore. Yes, you read that right. That phone you had for like 6 months as a kid has been washing onto French beaches for THREE DECADES.
Considering just how long these phones have been showing up, the region has become somewhat infamous. Not only because of the mystery but also because of the environmentaramificationsns. So much so that the Garfield phone has become a symbol of marine pollution.
Fortunately, this mystery has finally been solved. A long-lost shipping container was found in a nearby rocky sea cave. Now that the problem has been identified, authorities are dealing with it, but not before Twitter had it’s fun.
Okay back to my French undersea Garfield cave w all my things byyyye pic.twitter.com/hBssr1Vfyr
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) March 29, 2019
So we beat on, Garfield phones against the current, borne back ceaselessly into some French beach.
— Sean Thomason (@TheThomason) March 29, 2019
I feel you garfield phones, I was also washed up after 30 years
— Steve vs. Ninjas (@stevevsninjas) March 29, 2019
https://twitter.com/ArcticCadere/status/1111668752431697921
Does anyone else feel like claiming a mysterious undersea shipping container spawns infinite Garfield telephones does not qualify as “solving the mystery”? https://t.co/dyroQ3MnKR
— Andrew Nadeau (@TheAndrewNadeau) March 29, 2019
h/t NewYorkTimes