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Surely many of us have stumbled on the Internet at least once on the Internet. a photograph of a children’s bike rooted in a mighty tree. This an unusual attraction is located on the island of Vashon in King County, US state of Washington. If you visit the local Cafe “Sound Food”, you only have to go through fifteen meters to the nearest grove to stumble upon a legendary bike, trapped in a tree.
According to a popular urban legend, two-wheeled transport the remedy belonged to a teenager who was poisoned in 1914 on World War I Before this, the young man chained his bike to the tree so that parents can pick it up later. Nonetheless, a young soldier was reported missing faster than his osst and mother found time to bring her son’s bike home. Then mourning offspring Americans decided to leave him “iron horse “in the grove, so that it serves as a whole reminder of the missing guy. The story is interesting and touching, but, unfortunately, not very true.
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For example, the first contradiction lies in the fact that the United States joined World War I in 1917, and not in 1914. The second mismatch, of course, concerns the bike itself. Take a look at it: the bike is clearly not teenage, but still children’s, intended for a child of ten years old, no more. Of course, no one would send such a fellow to fight. Moreover, a man who knows American bikes will immediately say to you that at the beginning of the twentieth century no one has done such models yet. They began to be released only in the fifties of the last century. So What is the real story of this mysterious case?
Found the owner of the legendary bike
Employees of the American publication “The Seattle Times” held recently own investigation and determined that the bike appeared here in the fifties and belonged to an eight-year-old the boy Don Paz. He is now seventy years old. Don Paz himself told reporters how his children’s bike to which he never had any love, found himself on a tree. This story is not so sentimental, but still curious.
Paz, who worked all his life as a sheriff, was born on the island of Vashon and lived here until 1992. In 1954, the boy’s father died in case of fire. Family neighbors and other residents of the island helped in every way the widow of the deceased and her children. Grooves brought food, clothes, underwear, school supplies, and toys. One such toys and turned out to be a red two-wheeled bicycle. Don right away disliked the gift because he revered the “iron horse” too childish and inappropriate for normal trips.
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Soon the family got a new house near the marshy terrain. Don often played there and once forgot somewhere that stupid bike. However, the boy was not particularly sad because of his loss, believing that fate itself was pleased to separate him from the unloved thing. Imagine the American’s surprise when he returned here in 1995 to visit my sister and discovered my child bike stuck in a tall tree! How exactly did this happen No one knows. Maybe the bike has grown into a young plant, and it lifted him subsequently upstairs. Or maybe someone just abandoned found two-wheeled transport on the branches – so he took root there, related to a tree.
One thing is for sure – today it has grown into a tree Bicycle is a real attraction on the island of Vashon. Visiting tourists are photographed against his background, and in some local shops you can even buy souvenirs in the form of “swallowed” bike tree. This “relic” is reliably protected and tried keep safe. If any bike falls off detail, it is carefully replaced with a new one.
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