[Blue_Nose]

Anyone hear the ordeal over the Highway 102 Tree Tire?

For anyone who doesn't know, this is the tree tire (or the tire tree, if that suits your fancy):



Which has been alongside the highway in Bedford for quite a few years.

It came down somehow the other day, much to the dismay of many, but there are rumours that it's back... I haven't been out there since all this happened, so I can't confirm anything. Some say it's the orginal tire, others say it isn't.

Explanations as to why it fell range from someone needing a spare, to that it's rare rubber (tire) tree and it sheds its "fruit" every few years.

Found a Chronicle Herald article here

[WDHIII]

So if a tire falls in the forest and theres no one around to hear....... does it make a sound?

[Blue_Nose]

Not sure if it makes a sound, but it at least makes the evening news!

[Wullu]

Hal-FM had a reported sighting of the new tire this morning. And it is a new tire, has a white wall.









I still want to know how in the hell it got there in the first place. Not the kind of place I want to climb to.!

[WDHIII]

Blue_Nose wrote:

Not sure if it makes a sound, but it at least makes the evening news!

Ya know being this far West I have to admit Id never HEARD of the tire tree...... closest thing we have to that is the "shoe wire"

Theres a middle school in the SW that has a tradition.... on the last day of school kids tie the laces of their gym shoes together and throw them over a power line running adjacent to the school ground. Last year Police made their presence known and the kids did what kids wont to do......

They found another power line......

[Wullu]

This is almost as big a story as when someone cut the head off the Miller Lake "dragon"!!!!!!!!!!

[Blue_Nose]

Wullu wrote:

This is almost as big a story as when someone cut the head off the Miller Lake "dragon"!!!!!!!!!!

I thought they brought that in every winter... I remember seeing one last summer, is that a new one?

[Wullu]

That is a replacement the Boy Scouts put out there about 10 or 12 years ago now. Yeah they bring it in every winter so no one will make off with it like they did the original.

[karl_galster]

Hey My wife and I saw that a couple weeks ago while we were driving home from Halifax !

LoL.

I'll have to show her this post.