Spookier than a crop circle
First we had crop circles littering the countryside as careless aliens parked their spaceships in the most improbable places.
Then we had Andy Goldsworthy sprinkling giant snowballs across the streets of London in the middle of summer.
Now a new and greater mystery has arrived, a phenomenon that is undeniable, inexplicable, and several other big words as well.
Bringing together creative art, the paranormal and the French countryside we are pleased to be the first to announce the discovery of CAR IN FIELD. I first saw one of these last week on my travels, then another, and when I described it to Mrs B she said there was another in a field close to where we live. Three in a week can not be coincidence.
This extraordinary spectacle has struck various fields in south-west France. Suddenly, as if from nowhere, a car appears in a newly ploughed field. No car tracks lead to the car, and there is no sign of how the cars got there.
We see cars that have driven off the edge of the road often enough, but these usually just end up in a ditch, looking crumpled. We very occasionally see cars that have been burned out, car burning being one of the most popular Friday night entertainments in France. But we have never before seen ‘car in field’. How do they get there? No idea. Pranksters would surely leave footprints and car tracks on the surrounding soil. There only seem to be three possibilities:
(1) French farmers have been reading up on installation art and are creating an enormous work of art in the hope of becoming rich and famous
(2) a car company is doing it for the enormous publicity that will surely follow, or because they are disposing of the cars they can’t sell by putting them in fields.
(3) sometimes on French television there are adverts for a strong glue that show cars being lifted in the air by a helicopter, being held only by the glue. Perhaps the glue can only hold for a few minutes before the car falls off and lands in a field?
Another possibility is that the aliens are back, and bored with creating crop circles they are playing some kind of amusing joke with cars. That seems less likely, but can’t yet be ruled out.
Anyone else seen a car in a field? Please let us know where and when. The truth is out there and the public have a right to know!
That was great, I suddenly started to count how many cars off the road I have seen over here in Center East France (once a UPS van, too), but they usually have tracks and/or a broken fence, but we’ll keep our eyes open, since our farmers are busy plowing here…
Of course, it’s also possible they are emerging from under the ground, like the alien craft in War of the Worlds, ready to make a scary noise and blast us all with lasers. So yes I would certainly keep my eyes open..
I saw a car in a ploughed field in Haute-Garonne last year, but it was crumpled so I assumed it had got there because of a crash. However, like yours there were no apparent footprints or skidmarks so it was somewhat similar. Also it disappeared very quickly and none of my friends remembered seeing it. How long do your cars stay in the fields?
This is easily explained. It’s a Ford. As such it belongs on a scrapheap or in a field. The cars inherently knows this and acts accordingly by sneaking into a field and hoping nobody will notice.
You could be on to something Steve. French people tend to think the same thing about all cars that aren’t French, of course, so perhaps the fields will all be be crowded with Hondas, BMWs and Audis in a few months.
I saw another vehicle in the middle of a field in Haute Garonne on 15th April – this time a blue van. Being a woman I don’t know if it was a Ford, just know the colour and that it was a small van. This is becoming really spooky.
They are placed by optimistic farmers wishing to scare birds. I know this because I asked one who reckons it is a great success. I notice that some have started draping the compulsory yellow gillet over an adjacent post to enhance the effect.
Jon, the worrying thing is I have not the slightest idea if you are being serious.
Look – I’ve got my serious face on. Ah, you can’t.
I am, however, being quite serious. Rooks particularly are highly suspicious of cars (I am told) and their presence can reduce the amount of seed maize that is lost to the birds just after planting quite dramatically.
One our neighbours has been using his daughter-in-law’s Renault Clio for this all week, moving it every couple of days. I saw him last night at our school beano and he is having to give it back after the weekend as she is coming back from her mother’s. He’s planning to use his wife’s next week.
I’ll be in the papers tomorrow, so it must be true, LOL.