Plot device in a Neil Gamen book IIRC Edit: the book was American Gods and it’s Gaiman. Interesting read…
Reminds me of this fun local tradition in Nederland, CO:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_Dead_Guy_Days
https://frozendeadguydays.com/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.
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.
Well, compared to being cut in half with a laser, driving up a skyscraper, fuelled with Irish Coffee, stuffed full of bananas and Mayan treasure…
