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What a great local tradition
(startrek.website)
That's a nice lake too.
Small town in Minnesota did this with an old rusted up truck. It was attached to a giant cable and they winched it out of the lake after it fell through.
I've got friends in the north near Kirkland Lake, Ontario and they do a similar annual fundraiser with a Volkswagon Beetle - they've been doing it for years with the same car. I think it's for fundraising for their local fire department.
Kenogami & District Volunteer Fire Brigade - Herbie Car Fundraiser
The car is cleaned up and cleared for environmental pollutants and then fished out every spring and repeated again the next winter. I always thought it was funny seeing that old yellow car on the ice.
That's amazing! Herbie looks to be in decent shape for what he's been through.
It rusts less when it's under water
It was always a sight to see this time of year ... there's only one highway in this part of the province - Highway 11 - when you are driving north past Kenogami Lake (which is near Kirkland Lake) and you go over the bridge there, you can see this little yellow car on the ice.
It's more or less a tradition for northerners now ... we expect to see Herbie on the ice when we are driving by in the late winter / early spring.
Hes well away from all the salt on the roads, and gets an annual car wash + soak. Can't hurt.
Plot device in a Neil Gamen book IIRC Edit: the book was American Gods and it's Gaiman. Interesting read...
It's a relief that this thought occurred to someone else as well.
Same here. The bodies in the trunk, and the person who was responsible really stuck with me.
Shame he did all that stuff that came out about him.
Loved the book as well as the show.
I try to separate the art from the artist. It reminds me a lot of the controversy surrounding Ryan Adams. What a brilliant songwriter.
I absolutely loved this book.
The show was not for me
It captures that late 90s Americana vibe so well!! Probably my favorite book period
Same. Couldn't get past the first episode
Glad to know it's not just me. I love his books, but I've bounced off of the show twice now
I did love Stardust. Book and movie were both great.
I just read that a couple months ago and immediately thought of it too. And yes, like everyone else is saying, the show sucks.
Reminds me of this fun local tradition in Nederland, CO:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_Dead_Guy_Days
https://frozendeadguydays.com/
They’ve now (since 2023) moved it to Estes Park. Lame. Not sure how you can move a location-based tradition and act like it’s the same. It’s like when they change an actor in a series and expect everyone to pretend it’s the same character who now looks totally different.
Yeah, that was sad :(
I wasn’t expecting the twist at the end :(
I love little local things like this. Punxsatawney's Groundhog Day celebration is probably the most well-known, but anything where local people were just like "heh, that'd be fun, let's try it" is so cool to me.
Haha, what a dummy!
That's neat! We just have a sign on the river, and people guess when the ice will start moving. More precisely, when the sign will pass under the bridge. A dummy would definitely be more fun, but some teenagers would probably steal or break it... or someone would mistake it for someone drowning in the spring as it travels towards the sea. Maybe it's better to just stick to the sign.
If I knew about a sign in the river as a teenager, I wouldn’t destroy it, but moving it upriver so it took longer to go under the bridge might have been fun.
Wait... If they give half the proceeds to the historical society, then the people who won are only getting their original money back. There are no winnings.
I'm so sorry for you. ☹️ Your math teachers tried, I'm sure...
10 people buy tickets for $1 each. The total is $10. Winner gets $5, and the historical society gets $5.
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