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Phil Perry

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In 1914, a lad chained his bike to a tree to go and fight in the war. He never returned. . .How sad is that. . .

 

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I thought, ahhhh. . . what a load of bollix. . .There's NO way that bike was manufactured in, or around 1914. . . . A short search of the interwebbythigummy revealed a slightly different story.

 

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The bike is in Vashon County, Washington State and is a local legend. Someone wrote a kid's book about a boy going of to war and fiction became fact.

 

The chap who put the bike there is still alive--he did so in 1954 (not 1914) when he was 9. He had been given the bike (a small kid's bike) as a donation when the family home burned down. When the family were back on their feet he dumped the unwanted (and embarassing for a nine year old) bike in the woods.. . . . .Since the twitter notoriety the bike looks like this

 

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'Plugged In'. . .?. . .Dunno whtt would be a good caption for this one. . . .I sincerely hope that the one she's sitting on was missing it's cast iron spikey thingummy though. . . .

I've seen girls with holes in their jeans... never knew they had them in that particular location though!

 

 

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