Big Keys
Friday, 29th August 2008 by James Turnbull
On display outside a French High School, there's what is claimed to be the world's largest key.
The key measures around 10.5 metres long, although may have lost its title earlier this year when Bethlehem claimed the crown1.
It's still impressive, especially in the fact that it's completely useless.
Not as large, but much more mysterious, is a 8.5m key lying around a carpark in Denver.
This key doesn't appear on Live Search Maps2 or the Google Street View imagery, so it was either dropped by a careless giant, or isn't a key at all. So what is it?
In the Live Search view, after one rotation clockwise, you can see a bear looking in the window of the building. He’s about three stories tall. He’s not so good in Street View View Placemark,,0,-7.460802696043779
The second ‘key’ looks as though it could be a fully extended ‘cherry picker’.
http://www.capricornhandling.co.uk/images/ist2_1732046_cherry_picker.jpg
I may be wrong, but the second key looks like a parking booth…
Yeah, I’d have to agree that the second one is a parking-lot (carpark) ticket-booth-plus-gate. You can see that the long part, the gate, doesn’t quite line up with the object at the bottom; different color, different position, etc..
I would agree with the fist thought, a cherrypicker. Since it looks like the building is under construction, with the excavator, and the boom truck sitting next to it, with the support legs extended.
I don’t know what it is, but i don’t think it’s a parking barrier. It’s too big, and there is no fence or anything near it. You could just drive around it. And if it’s a cherrypicker, it’s not attached to a truck.
Next to a construction site, it could be anything. A big pipe next to some boxes…
It may not still be there, but i think we need someone to go see it in person.
Almost looks like the flag part of the key is a handicap symbol painted in the parking space. But, there isn’t any yellow hatched area for handicap entrance and exit into vehicles.