'It was like finding a long lost friend': Lesbian reunited with bike she lost FOUR DECADES ago after - Polidicks

[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/24/article-2149596-134779CE000005DC-445_468x355.jpg[/img] [quote] A Massachusetts woman has been reunited with the bike she lost in 1970 after her own wife spotted it in a muddy river. The lesbian couple, from Wellfleet, was unsure if they should turn the rusty banana seat bike Lisa Brown lost when she fell off a rickety bridge as an 11-year-old into art, or leave it in the woods. Ms Brown was riding her brand new bike over the Herring River when she pitched over the side of the bridge into the muddy stream, according to Capecod.online. Reunited: Lisa Brown, 53, pictured, lost her bike off the side of a rickety bridge in 1970 but it has now been found 'I'm on the bike and I'm peddling along and bam, I go into the water,' she said. 'I floated to the surface but I must have kicked the bike way into the mud. So then I dove down trying to find the bike but I couldn't get (it) and came out covered in stinky mud smelling like a snapping turtle. The bike was gone.' But decades later, Ms Brown's own wife, Deirdre Olinger, discovered the rusted bike while she was walking along the stream, about a quarter mile from the bridge, tangled in the undergrowth. Polaroid: Lisa Brown, pictured with the bike she lost at 11, says the reunion was 'like finding a long lost friend' Rusty: The bike, pictured, was rusty and mangled except for the reflector light and the vinyl banana seat Wheels: The bike was brand new when it sank in the Herring River, Massachusetts 'I was just walking down here with my dog and I passed the bike,' she told CapeCod.online. 'I caught it out of the corner of my eye and I thought 'wait a minute, what kind of a bike was that'. I saw that it was a banana seat and was just about the right size for an 11-year-old girl.' Ms Olinger said everything was rusty except for the reflector light and the vinyl banana seat, and trees had been growing through it. Ms Brown knew immediately it was hers, describing the discovery like 'finding a long lost friend'. Discovery: Ms Brown's wife, Deirdre Olinger, pictured, found the bike a quarter mile from the bridge this spring Perfect: The bike's vinyl seat, pictured, was in perfect condition despite 42 years in the mud Bridge: The couple, pictured on the bridge where Ms Brown fell off in 1970, are may use the bike as art at home 'She comes running home and says I think I found your bike and low and behold that was my first bike,' Ms Brown said. 'Somehow that bike came from the mighty Herring River, deep in the mud, and travelled all the way over to that area there. It was like incredulity, I was like 'wow, that's my bike, I know that's my bike'. I could tell immediately it was my bike. It was like finding a long lost friend.' The women were unsure whether to take the mangled bike home or leave it in the woods, where it has spent almost all of its life. 'Maybe we'll keep it as an art form in the woods or maybe we yank it up and make an art form at the house with it,' Ms Brown said. [/quote] Read more: [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2149596/Lesbian-reunited-bike-lost-FOUR-DECADES-ago-wife-spots-muddy-stream.html#ixzz1w28d354c[/url]

Why is it so important that she's lesbian?

[QUOTE=d00msdaydan;36093414]Why is it so important that she's lesbian?[/QUOTE] I was going to say the same thing.

[QUOTE=d00msdaydan;36093414]Why is it so important that she's lesbian?[/QUOTE] Lesbian biker gangs?

Why is it specified that she is a lesbian?

Wow, cool things happen to lesbians too!

Whoa lesbians are people?

It's just a stupid attempt by somebody to make the words "Lesbian" and "gay" more noticeable in society. If we hear it more often, we get desensitized to the words. that being said, it was stupid to state it like it even mattered.

It reminds me of that one guy who left his bike chained to a tree before going to war, and when he came back the tree had grown around it

I'm surprised one object stayed in the same location in a stream for so long.

I expected a stock photo of a person lifting up a bicycle, and was disappointed.

What was her wife doing in the muddy stream for 40 years?

[QUOTE=icemaz;36093503]What was her wife doing in the muddy stream for 40 years?[/QUOTE] If that was her wife then who was bike?

[QUOTE=Raidyr;36093510]If that was her wife then who was bike?[/QUOTE] Dan.

[QUOTE=Raidyr;36093510]If that was her wife then who was bike?[/QUOTE] One of the same.

[QUOTE=Mr. Sun;36093492]It's just a stupid attempt by somebody to make the words "Lesbian" and "gay" more noticeable in society. If we hear it more often, we get desensitized to the words. that being said, it was stupid to state it like it even mattered.[/QUOTE] If the point is to desensitise us to the words (that is, make the words less 'charged' to the point where they are as commonplace and inconspicuous as the words 'man' and 'woman'), then how is it a stupid attempt? I'm not saying that anybody here is right or wrong; I think we can get away with saying 'Mrs. Nesbit and her wife' instead of busting out the word 'lesbian'. I'm just trying to understand what you're trying to say

[QUOTE=Nikota;36093496]I expected a stock photo of a person lifting up a bicycle, and was disappointed.[/QUOTE] Your dissapointment shall be no more! [img]http://i45.tinypic.com/2176gm.jpg[/img] And uh, cool?

[QUOTE=Nikota;36093496]I expected a stock photo of a person lifting up a bicycle, and was disappointed.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/inspirestock/inspirestock1112/inspirestock111206687/11428780-man-lifting-up-bicycle.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE=Sgt. Lulz;36093524]Dan.[/QUOTE] Dan was boobies

[QUOTE=d00msdaydan;36093414]Why is it so important that she's lesbian?[/QUOTE] Probably just to clear up any confusion that some people would encounter when they read "her wife" in the article.

[QUOTE=Psychopath12;36093743]Probably just to clear up any confusion that some people would encounter when they read "her wife" in the article.[/QUOTE] No, it was so people would read lesbian and open up the article to see what it was about. I really doubt anybody gives a shit about a person finding their bicycle.

[QUOTE=d00msdaydan;36093414]Why is it so important that she's lesbian?[/QUOTE] dykes on bikes But that's a stereotype or something.

[QUOTE=Psychopath12;36093743]Probably just to clear up any confusion that some people would encounter when they read "her wife" in the article.[/QUOTE] "A straight woman is reunited with her bike when her husband found it."

[QUOTE=d00msdaydan;36093414]Why is it so important that she's lesbian?[/QUOTE] Because the Daily Mail

[QUOTE=Dysgalt;36093425]Lesbian biker gangs?[/QUOTE] You mean the Buffalo Gals? [img]http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lej9um6dni1qaqlc8.png[/img]

open the thread and all the posts are nitpicky PC bullshit stay classy facepunch

[QUOTE=Pace.;36094917]open the thread and all the posts are nitpicky PC bullshit stay classy facepunch[/QUOTE] What the fuck are you talking about.

It says lesbian because her wife found it. I don't think someone straight would marry their own sex for the hell of it.

I've lost a duct tape wallet and found it weeks later before, but not that :v: pretty damn cool. [QUOTE=Mr. Sun;36093492]It's just a stupid attempt by somebody to make the words "Lesbian" and "gay" more noticeable in society. If we hear it more often, we get desensitized to the words. that being said, it was stupid to state it like it even mattered.[/QUOTE] btw I'm gay just thought you guys needed to know Right guys? Guys? :( [sp]No but seriously that shit gets annoying, I agree, who cares?[/sp]

[QUOTE=d00msdaydan;36093414]Why is it so important that she's lesbian?[/QUOTE] Daily Mail. Is it really necessary to ask?