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Let this be a lesson as to where to lock your bike:

On Vashon Island (near Seattle), a tree has an unusual passenger. As the story goes, a boy went to war in 1914 and left his bike chained to a tree. The tree ate the bike and it remains to this day.

Cool, eh?

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Permalink Reply by Jack on April 7, 2010 at 11:54am
That is awesome! beats the random bikes laying outside of apartment buildings here in Chicago.
Permalink Reply by Tank-Ridin' Ryan on April 7, 2010 at 12:34pm
He forgot to lock his wheels!
Permalink Reply by Chucko on April 7, 2010 at 1:23pm
I don't know, that looks pretty secure to me. No one's going to go through the trouble of stealing it.
Permalink Reply by pjc jr on April 7, 2010 at 1:26pm
Well if you do succeed in freeing this ride, you would likely be able to build a shelter for the bike out of the lumber. Don't be a tree mugger!
Permalink Reply by BalloonBiker on April 7, 2010 at 3:55pm
I've been meaning to give this tree a visit. I've a cousin who lives on Vashon Island.
Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on April 7, 2010 at 4:45pm
If you google around you'll see that someone has removed the handlebars and front wheel since this picture was taken, supposedly saving them until someone approaches him for film rights.

Chucko said:
I don't know, that looks pretty secure to me. No one's going to go through the trouble of stealing it.
Permalink Reply by heather s on April 7, 2010 at 5:01pm
A film about a bike that gets eaten by a tree? Groan.

H3N3 said:
If you google around you'll see that someone has removed the handlebars and front wheel since this picture was taken, supposedly saving them until someone approaches him for film rights.
Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on April 7, 2010 at 5:43pm
LOL Heather!

Somebody named "Berkely Breathed" apparently wrote a book about it . . . I very likely have some of my facts jumbled . . .
Permalink Reply by Bryan Bowden on April 7, 2010 at 11:20pm
This tree is awesome. I want one of my own.

Also, Berkeley Breathed is the awesome cartoonist of Bloom County and Outland. I feel old saying that I was an avid reader of his comic strips back in the day, but I was. Check him out http://www.berkeleybreathed.com/

H3N3 said:
LOL Heather!

Somebody named "Berkely Breathed" apparently wrote a book about it . . . I very likely have some of my facts jumbled . . .

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