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Subject: Re: Strange news from around the world Thu Feb 23, 2023 1:51 pm
Butterfield wrote:
Fangirl Three wrote:
That is interesting. And now the boy that we do see will be assumed by all to be the convicted one.
I admit my first thought was of him, and I'd guess so will most other people who remember the advert. I could still punch his face.
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Subject: Re: Strange news from around the world Thu Feb 23, 2023 2:48 pm
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Subject: Re: Strange news from around the world Sat Mar 18, 2023 3:36 pm
How did I miss this story from 4 years ago?! I wanted one of these phones for years - one of my Argos catalogue picks.
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Garfield phone mystery solved in Brittany - 35 years later
For 35 years, fragments of novelty Garfield telephones have washed up on the picturesque Iroise coast of Brittany almost every day.
Nobody has known why or where they come from; day after day, locals clearing up litter along the Atlantic beaches of the Finistère region, have stumbled across bright orange pieces of feline-shaped plastic.
Sometimes it was just the grinning face or the eyes – designed to open when anyone picked up the receiver. Other times, a headless orange fat torso complete with curly wire, dialpad and plug.
Now the mystery of les téléphones Garfield has been solved by volunteers from the environmental group Ar Viltansou.
As many suspected, the telephones come from a lost container reportedly swept off a cargo ship in 1983. After a local farmer remembered the first Garfield phone appearing after storm that year, he showed the group’s president, Claire Simonin-Le Meur, where they were appearing: a secluded coastal cave deep in the cliffs at Plouarzel accessible only at low tide, but which spat out the telephones at high tide.
“We found this incredible cave, that was 30 metres deep and right at the end the remains of the container,” Simonin-Le Meur, told Euronews. “At the cave opening there was a Garfield lodged in the roof, so we knew we weren’t mistaken and this was where they were.”
Fabien Boileau, the director of the Natural Sea Park of Iroise, also visited the cave, but said the mystery was only partly solved. “We have no idea what happened at the time, where it came from, what ship it was or if one or several containers fell in the sea,” Boileau said.
The lazy and lasagne-loving cartoon cat Garfield was created in 1978 by American Jim Davis for a comic-strip. It has since featured in films and TV series.
Unfortunately, the container remains partly buried and inaccessible so nobody knows how many telephones it still contains. However, it is unlikely the beach cleaners of Iroise have seen the last of Garfield.
Subject: Re: Strange news from around the world Wed Apr 19, 2023 2:24 pm
Okay, that's a lot to take in.
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Subject: Re: Strange news from around the world Wed Apr 19, 2023 5:37 pm
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Burglary suspect caught ‘pretending to be solar panel’ on Wandsworth roof
A suspected burglar was arrested after thermal cameras quickly saw through his bungling attempt to camouflage himself as a solar panel.
The hapless suspect was quickly caught by a National Police Air Service (NPAS) helicopter’s thermal imaging camera lying completely still on a solar panel atop of a row of shops in Upper Tooting Road, Wandsworth on April 14.
Subject: Re: Strange news from around the world Sun Jun 04, 2023 6:23 am
Imagine if it turned out it was the same wife, ex-wife, sons, dog and car, and they'd been just missing each other by seconds farce-style for 38 years.
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Subject: Re: Strange news from around the world Sun Jun 04, 2023 11:00 am
And that when one of the Jim twins finally met his other twin he realised after a few minutes he was talking to his reflection in the bathroom mirror.
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Subject: Re: Strange news from around the world Sun Jul 16, 2023 6:19 pm
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Subject: Re: Strange news from around the world Thu Jul 20, 2023 9:15 pm
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Man who stole 200,000 Cadbury Creme Eggs jailed for 18 months.
Joby Pool, 32, stole more than £31,000 worth of the chocolate eggs when he broke into an industrial unit in Telford on 11 February and made off with the haul in a stolen lorry cab.
Beale said Pool was stopped by police as he was travelling northbound on the M42 in a vehicle that had been stolen from the Yorkshire area in October. He walked towards police “with his hands up” near junction 11.