I really hope this is the reference to “Red Ranger Came Calling” that it seems to be. Even 13 years later, it’s still my favorite Christmas book. Such amazing illustrations and humor!
What, like some kid went into the forest with his bike, leaned it up against a tree, and was snatched, raped, murdered, and buried somewhere, and no one came to search for him as his bike was slowly consumed by the tree over decades?
This is on Vashon Island, in Puget Sound, in Washington State.
There’s actually a whole story behind it, and a picture book.
The bike looks like this: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/wa/WAVASbike_pasquini.jpg now.
It’s actually a really neat sight. It’s about 6-7 feet above the ground inside the tree.
There’s a bike shop on the island, with a bike in the tree,
it’s kind of funny. :]
Trees don’t lift things off the ground as they grow, they just get fatter at the bottom, and new stuff grows on top. The bike was placed up in the branches a long time ago. The bike is still the same height off the ground. It is just in a much larger tree.
Yes they can lift things off the ground as they grow sometimes. Also I had a viney bush that wrapped itself around a 6 foot high wooden fence and lift it completely out of the ground. It stayed suspended nearly upright held together by the greenery.
Wow, I grew up within a mile of this tree. Vashon Island WA, in the woods out behind the high school. the guy who wrote the Opus comic wrote a book about this bike!
A family here attached their mailbox to a tree, and over time the metal mailbox was covered over by the tree wood, AND lifted up. By the time the tree was lost to road improvements the mailbox was about 20 foot off the ground.
I burried my old bike beneath the ground but now my new-grown bike is stuck in a ****ing tree FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
I know I left my bike chained here somewhere bout twenty years ago
Fascinating. Evidence perhaps that Nature will inevitably take over everything?
I really hope this is the reference to “Red Ranger Came Calling” that it seems to be. Even 13 years later, it’s still my favorite Christmas book. Such amazing illustrations and humor!
Actually, this bike is in my town, where the author of “Red Ranger Came Calling” used to live. The bike inspired the book.
Yes!!
It looks exactly like the photo in the back of the book!
Anyone else slightly creeped out by this?
What, like some kid went into the forest with his bike, leaned it up against a tree, and was snatched, raped, murdered, and buried somewhere, and no one came to search for him as his bike was slowly consumed by the tree over decades?
Creeped out like that?
Exactly..
“Jackass” meets quantum physics.
Billy learned the hard way not to make fun of the guy in the transporter room.
lmao @ bucky
*applause* yay! you brought the funny!
….How was this even probable!? It makes no sense at..wait..no..I’ve seen tree grow over fences… Nevermind!
When metaphysics meets motocross, strange things happen.
Wait… is that a red rider?
Isn’t there a Christmas story about a old, senile Santa Clause with one of these?
There is something about this picture that makes me feel happy. I really cannot explain why.
I KNOW, right? It’s unique and curious and fun(?). IDK.
This is on Vashon Island, in Puget Sound, in Washington State.
There’s actually a whole story behind it, and a picture book.
The bike looks like this: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/wa/WAVASbike_pasquini.jpg now.
It’s actually a really neat sight. It’s about 6-7 feet above the ground inside the tree.
There’s a bike shop on the island, with a bike in the tree,
it’s kind of funny. :]
Don’t we know what it looks like from the picture?
Apparently the tree has engulfed the bike even more since the WTF picture was taken.
Little Johnny propped his bicycle against a sapling and then bolted through the forest to catch the leprechaun. But he was never heard from again.
Can a rubber deck really last that long? If you put a nail into a tree it’ll be in the same hight 30 years later. Maybe that’s not true for bikes?
If it’s not fake, then it’s truly a wonderful sight!
Trees don’t lift things off the ground as they grow, they just get fatter at the bottom, and new stuff grows on top. The bike was placed up in the branches a long time ago. The bike is still the same height off the ground. It is just in a much larger tree.
Then how do you explain carvings getting 20-30 feet up on a tree without limbs?
Yes they can lift things off the ground as they grow sometimes. Also I had a viney bush that wrapped itself around a 6 foot high wooden fence and lift it completely out of the ground. It stayed suspended nearly upright held together by the greenery.
I FOUND OUT WHERE QUEENS BICYCLE THAT HE WANTED TO RIDE WENT!!!
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
‘Why are you late for school?’
“The tree ate my bike -__- “
First thought:
OM NOM NOM
tree steals bike
Somebody’s logged a lot of miles on that bike.
i can’t believe you just said that.
I didn’t. I said it two days ago (but I will admit, I was going out on a limb).
You be careful, one of these days people like Jerry will lock you in a trunk somewhere, too.
It would seem that the kite eating tree has changed it’s diet. Poor Charlie Brown
Now THAT’S what I call a bike lock!
I had an old tree that had a partial string of xmas lights and a looped piece of rope embedded in it from families long ago.
For the whole backstory about who put this bike in the tree, see the article in the Vashon Beachcomber
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/vashon/vib/lifestyle/80272877.html
Nature takes no prisoners lol.
XD “Try stealing me now, b*tches!”
the tree ate the kid, but the bike got stuck in its mouth, duh
idclip
More like BARK-ing my bike
That trees got a nice handlebar mustache going
Hah this must be shopped. Any computer scientist will tell you trees can’t have cycles
Wow, I grew up within a mile of this tree. Vashon Island WA, in the woods out behind the high school. the guy who wrote the Opus comic wrote a book about this bike!
God damn you Milkman Dan!
Predatree taking back nature
“Go ahead, turn me into a tree!”; little Billy shouted defiantly at his sister, Carrie.
See, I TOLD him that the sign a mile back said “Warning; carnivorous absorbtion trees. Keep on path.” Now see where he is!
In Russia, tree crashes you!
thats what you get when u try to teleport through a tree on your bike
You should have seen what the tree did to the kid that was riding this bike.
Nature fights back!!!
A family here attached their mailbox to a tree, and over time the metal mailbox was covered over by the tree wood, AND lifted up. By the time the tree was lost to road improvements the mailbox was about 20 foot off the ground.
*Superman’s first bike*
Martha Kent: “Yea, Clark had a little bit of a temper when he was just a boy.” *sigh*