Charlie
Brown had his kite-eating tree, but Helen Puz had an even more evil nemesis: A
tree that swallowed her bike.
Even
worse: She didn't realize what happened for more than 50 years.
Puz,
now 99, received the bike in 1954 as a gift from a member of her community in
Vashon Island, Wash., in part, because she had been recently widowed.
“People
were very sympathetic and generous,” Puz said, according to ABC News. “We were given a girl’s bike and my 8-year-old son
Don seemed the natural one to ride it.”
But
little Don felt riding a girl's bike cramped his style so he, in the way little
boys do, conveniently "lost" the bike.
Or
so the Puz family thought, until recently when Helen Puz read in the local
newspaper about a bike that had been "swallowed up" in a tree and was
now stuck in the trunk five feet off the ground, according
to Discover Washington State.
Don
and Helen Puz visited the tree -- located 50 feet off of the Vashon Highway --
and confirmed the bike was indeed the one that Don lost many
years ago, Geobeats reported.
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