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.
It was always a sight to see this time of year … there’s only one highway in this part of the province - Highway 11 - when you are driving north past Kenogami Lake (which is near Kirkland Lake) and you go over the bridge there, you can see this little yellow car on the ice.
It’s more or less a tradition for northerners now … we expect to see Herbie on the ice when we are driving by in the late winter / early spring.
Haha, what a dummy!
I love little local things like this. Punxsatawney’s Groundhog Day celebration is probably the most well-known, but anything where local people were just like “heh, that’d be fun, let’s try it” is so cool to me.
Plot device in a Neil Gamen book IIRC Edit: the book was American Gods and it’s Gaiman. Interesting read…
Glad to know it’s not just me. I love his books, but I’ve bounced off of the show twice now
Shame he did all that stuff that came out about him.
Loved the book as well as the show.
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.
