Maybe you’ve seen the pictures; they show up now and again
on facebook or in emails. It’s a photo of a bicycle embedded in a tree. The
attached story claims the owner left his bike chained to a tree on Vashon Island (near
Seattle) when he went to war in 1914. The boy never returned and the tree
eventually “swallowed” his bike. The bicycle and the tree are fact; the story
is fiction. The US didn’t enter WWI until 1917. If the “boy” was old enough to
enlist, he was certainly too old to ride this small GIRL'S bike. The cycle itself
looks far too new to have been in a tree for a century. Sure enough, the real owner
of the bike has come forward. In 1954 Don Puz had been playing with friends in
the woods near his home and conveniently forgot to bring his embarrassing bicycle home.
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