Mystery solved. Garfield phones appearing on beach for 30 years

[Demovictory9]

Spare parts of plastic 'Garfield' phones are displayed on the beach on March 28, 2019 in Plouarzel, western France, after being collected from a sea cave by environmental activists.

Orange, plastic and hungry for lasagna, his self-satisfied face was stuck in a permanent grin. Sometimes he came intact. Other times, he was in pieces or badly coated in grime.



"It never stops," one local said.

For 30 years, Garfield the cat novelty phones kept washing up on the beaches of France. A 15-mile stretch of beach near Brest saw nearly 200 phones and phone pieces wash in 2018 alone. Why, locals wondered, did Phone Garfield live in seemingly endless numbers off the coast of Brittany?

French environmentalists sought an answer, hoping to finally stop the relentless, if whimsical, pollution. An anti-littering group called Ar Vilantsou started a media blitz about the phones, which caught the attention of a local farmer. That man remembered a stormy day in the 1980s; from that day on, phones appeared on the beaches with some regularity.


The farmer contacted Ar Vilantsou and told about the incident. He also recalled, tucked away in some sea caves, a container that blew off the ship that day.

https://m.sfgate.com/weird/article/garfield-phones-france-beach-mystery-13724176.php

[PupCamo]

1. this is a beautiful line

For now, all locals can do is continue to police the beaches for those errant telephonic cats, forever seeking a Pooky to keep them company.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

2. Oceanographers love this stuff. They'll track down the source (a sunken cargo ship, maybe) and trace

the ocean currents from there to the eventual landfall. It's a lot easier than applying for a grant to accomplish the same thing. "Grant Application To Study Long-Term Ocean Currents. Primary investigator: Garfield the Cat."

[Demovictory9]

4. Lol. Yup

[Docreed2003]

3. That's hilarious and incredibly interesting!!