'Are you looking for Garfield?' the man asked. Simonin-Le Meur said yes, she was — she always was. 'Come with me,' the man told her. 'I can show you.'
A plastic Garfield phone sits on the beach in Plouarzel, western France, after being collected by environmental activists, on Thursday. By Meagan Flynn Meagan Flynn Morning Mix reporter Email Bio Follow March 29 at 7:16 AM For more than 30 years, pieces of Garfield telephones kept washing ashore on the beaches of northwestern France, and no one quite knew why.
She had been searching for the origin of Garfield for years, she said, out of concern for the damage the plastic phones may be doing to the ocean — and this month, after a chance encounter on the beach, she was about to get some answers. “We were looking for it, but we had no precise idea of where it could be,” Simonin-Le Meur said. “We thought it was under the sea. We asked people who were divers to look for it. We get a lot of submarines in the area too — it’s a military area. But they said it was not possible the container could be there and nobody saw it.”
Wedged inside a cave, tucked into the seaside cliffs, there it was: a metal shipping container — and a cache of Garfield telephones, Morvan claimed he saw. Filming the discovery, a group of journalists and environmentalists, Simonin-Le Meur included, climbed up the rocky shore to the cave’s narrow opening, finding snippets of a bright orange phone cord along the way. Garfield was scattered all about, just like on the beach.
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