Ever since his newspaper debut in 1978 , the lasagna - loving and lackadaisical risible strip catGarfieldhas been a ubiquitous presence in pop culture . Thousands of licensed products , a series of movies , and exalt shows made him far-famed . Garfield ’s Divine , Jim Davis , evenadmittedhe go down out to create a character that would be well-situated to market .
That ambitionbackfiredin a braggart way for the people living near the Iroise seashore in Brittany , France . For decade , credit card telephony mold like Garfield have wash ashore . Some arrive complete ; others are in fragment . In 2018 , more than 200 piece appeared on the beach .
The reason was a mystery — until the spring of 2019 . harmonize to the BBC , anti - litter activists from France ’s Ar Viltansou mathematical group mounted an awareness military campaign drawing aid to the waste on the beach , which sit at the Iroise Marine Nature Park .
The pressure take hold of the aid of a local farmer , René Morvan , who tell Ar Viltansou President of the United States Claire Simonin - Le Meur that a annoy storm in the 1980s led to a shipping container full of the earphone being freed from a shipment ship . The container settled into a sea cave , where it persist mostly hidden . Morvan and his brother cram out to enquire and disclose the stash .
Acting on the information , representatives from Ar Viltansou and theFranceinfomedia outlet set out to find the container during miserable lunar time period , which was buried and surrounded by a phone number of the phones . The freshness item were articulate to be in unbelievable status give the piddle and their age , with the paint mostly intact . Inside the phones , activist discovered starfish thread between cables and crab louse making their homes .
While the smoking gun was found , it did not do much to conclude the waste issue . The container is mostly untouchable and it ’s unknown how many more Garfield phones still linger . regretful , no one is quite sure if there ’s not another container somewhere out there , prepared to bank a seemingly inexhaustible supply of Garfield phone in sempiternity .
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