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[beige_alert]

I'm sure that when some of you see the photos below,which I took behind my apartment building, you won't understand what happened, but you'll assume that you just don't understand the unique culture and conditions in southeastern Wisconsin. You live down south, or out west, or in Europe somewhere, and assume that while you don't understand, surely in the Milwaukee area this sort of thing is perfectly natural given the local traditions and culture, the standard procedures, the local conditions. I'd like to assure you that this is not the case. I have no idea how this happened or what the people involved were thinking:

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[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

The first picture almost makes it look like some mediocre artist's attempt at a sad hound dog!

My suspicion is that it has a lot more to do with over-tired snow plow drivers moving snow in the dark than local tradition and culture.

Now, if you took a sharpie (or spray-paint can) to it to add eyes and a nose, and then gave it a Packer's Blanket, I bet you could get it on TV as a support of team spirit!

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

The question is, where was it that enabled it to get plowed up there in the first place? I'm fairly sure the plow didn't drive through someone's living room, at least not in my building.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Somebody threw it away. Left it on the curb to be picked up. Of course, either their timing was very poor, or it's been outside a while.

[jaelle-n-gilla.livejournal.com]

This looks like it has skids (?). Quite clearly some Milwaukee fun kid took it outside sledging and that's how it ended up in the snow. Isn't this what sledges for lazy US Americans look like all the time? ;-)

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Yes, someone was out recliner sledding, fell asleep halfway down the hill, and found himself colliding with the trees. He was tossed clear of the accident, and either walked away unharmed, or is lying dead at the bottom of a snowbank to be discovered in the spring by the local stray dogs, who will develop a taste for human flesh, and go on a rampage eating your neighbors one by one, until we start wondering why we haven't heard from beige_alert for a while.

Or someone put out a rocking recliner for pickup the day before the big blizzard. But that seems ridiculously unlikely.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Peter is right. The rocking recliner theory is just too boring.

Beige--you'd better watch out. This might be one of those critters the Stray Dog Man was singing about. If so, when it wakes up, you're in trouble. Keep a ticking clock inside a mitten handy to distract it, just in case.