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It’s not every day something falls out of the sky<\/a>, least of all a piano. We’re just on the edge of the season to be jolly, fa la la; but this is almost as good as if Albert the Alligator had risen from the dead to give us one more round of Boston Charlie<\/a>.<\/p>\n There it sits in the middle of the woods, a light wintry dusting on the ground around it and a keystone cop struggling to make sense of it — human interest 2008. I don’t see any sequins on the policeman’s uniform, but we’re told the Harwich gendarmerie have entitled this photo, “Liberace.” Ah, creativity. . . . it droppeth as the gentle snow.<\/p>\n Indeed, it’s almost as though, in this season of dearth and stringency, some god with a sense of humor had decided to favor the folks in Harwich, MA, with a pick-me-up, though I suspect human agency — perhaps some high-school students with no more serious trouble to get into than attempting harmlessly to cheer up their fellow citizens. Here’s a bit of what the very clever folks at CNN have to say about the whole thing.<\/p>\n Discovered by a woman who was walking a trail, the Baldwin Acrosonic piano, model number 987, is intact — and, apparently, in tune.<\/p>\n Sgt. Adam Hutton of the Harwich Police Department said information has been broadcast to all the other police departments in the Cape Cod area in hopes of drumming up a clue, however minor it may be.<\/p>\n But so far, the investigation is flat.<\/p>\n Also of note: Near the mystery piano — serial number 733746 — was a bench, positioned as though someone was about to play.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The ever vigilant Harwich police, who note<\/i> that they will not be “holding a holiday party in the storage bay” to which they have banished the offending instrument — no self respecting piano should presume to show itself in the woods around Cape Cod after all — have observed with great solemnity that “it took a handful of police to move the piano into a vehicle to transport it to storage, so it would appear that putting it into the woods took more than one person.”<\/p>\n O tempora o mores!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s not every day something falls out of the sky, least of all a piano. We’re just on the edge of the season to be jolly, fa la la; but this is almost as good as if Albert the Alligator … Continue reading