Garlic?!
Tuesday, 21st August 2007 by James Turnbull
Written on the ground beside the runway of an old World War 2 airfield is the most bizarre large type yet: "Garlic?!".
This airfield used to be RAF Hibaldstow, which has been inactive since 1947. Currently the site is used by a skydiving school, so I contacted them to ask if they've branched out into selling foodstuffs.
The person I spoke to explained that they were not in the garlic business, and what we are actually looking at is about 10,000 abandoned tyres that used to be stored to the South of the runway.
The tyres were frequently arranged into various messages for the landing parachutists and, more often than not, the message was something rude.
She couldn't guess why the tyres spelled out "Garlic?!" on the day this aerial photo was taken, but said that we're lucky it wasn't something less "family friendly"!
Thanks: Neil Bradley & Target Skysports
I think anyone familiar with the comedy stylings of a certain Peter Kay may know this one. I think they ran out of tyres to do “BREAD?” Also i love in that article that the tyre dump was ranked ‘seventh worse in the country”!!!! I didnt realise there was such stiff competition….or even that there was a competition. Is Simon Cowell on the judges i wonder?
Is this it by any chance Cookie?
They should have gone for “Rola Cola”
I’m going to go ahead and guess that based on what the woman said, Google will have to keep that “Garlic!?” up for awhile, since they’ll probably get something less presentable in the next pass…
I dislike Peter Kay a lot. I really don’t find him funny at all.
Those tires must take ages to re-arrange.
I’ve just shown this to a friend who jumped from this site for several years. He is amazed it isnt something ruder. He did tell me the type of thing thats normally written there but this is a family friendly website right? 🙂
hmm, are vampires involved?