Why were Garfield phones washing up on a French beach? The mystery has been solved after more than 30 years
1 / 2The group had long suspected a lost shipping container was to blame for the plastic pieces of the novelty landline phones, that have plagued the northern Finistere beachesThe group had long suspected a lost shipping container was to blame for the plastic pieces of the novelty landline phones, that have plagued the northern Finistere beaches Plouarzel - For more than 30 years bright orange"Garfield" phones have been washing up on the French coast to the bemusement of local beach...
"Our association has existed for 18 years and in that time we have found pieces of Garfield telephones almost each time we clean," said Claire Simonin, the head of local beach cleaning group Ar Viltansou in Brittany. "He told us where it was... it was very, very dangerous," Simonin told AFP after an expedition to track it down.
"Under the boulders in front of the entrance, we found 23 complete handsets with electronics and wires. They were everywhere," she added."We have no idea what happened at the time: we do not know where it came from, what boat," said Fabien Boileau, director of the Iroise Marine Nature Park in Finistere.
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