KIRO shares a report on the mystery piano found deep in the Cape Cod woods:

The Baldwin piano, which had a matching bench, was set up as if someone was about to sit down and play, reported WCVB-TV in Boston. Despite efforts by police to locate its owner, or at least explain how it came to be in a conservation area, police Monday said no one has contacted them….The piano is so heavy that it took more than a half-dozen men to load it onto a truck. Because the piano had not been damaged, it could not have been pushed out of a vehicle, police said. Someone took great care to place it in the conservation area in superb condition. Police said they have no idea how long it had been in the woods.

If littering one bag of fast-food garbage makes a Native American cry a single tear, ditching a whole honking piano will likely result in several dozen Native Americans committing suicide.

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25 replies on “Just Because It’s a Pristine Piano in Perfect Working Order with a Matching Bench Doesn’t Mean It’s Not Litter”

  1. “Deep in the woods” my hairy ass. The easy-walking trail they found the piano on is a quarter-mile from the road. It’s a standup piano, not a grand or anything – easy wheelin’ for fun loving piano video artists. Then leave it for publicity. No biggie.

  2. Can we please stop making a joke of suicide?? It’s not funny. I made a suicide attempt a few years ago and I haven’t been able to laugh about it since.

    Seriously Stranger! Suicide = Not Funny

    oh – and

    Native American Suicide = Even more not funny and very very offensive.

  3. Why didn’t Charles cover this article? It seems perfect for him.

    “If the psyche music in ourselves (through several years in the woodlands) can never be found, barring the aching caress of the true note (the brother, the nipple, the penis-mother), how then to explain the neural map of the taut wire and ivory beneath the pines?”

    And then there’d be a picture of a penguin.

  4. “If littering one bag of fast-food garbage makes a Native American cry a single tear, ditching a whole honking piano will likely result in several dozen Native Americans committing suicide.”

    Not me, I hate the piano.

  5. You know that guy from the commercial, Iron Eyes Cody, wasn’t Native American at all, but of Sicilian ancestry, right? And why draw Native Americans and suicide into this?

  6. @9

    Why in the world would a Native American suicide be any more tragic than a white person committing suicide?? That makes less sense than a piano in the woods.

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