One winter day, my wife looked down the coast and noticed that the bell buoy that marked the entrance to Plum Island Sound was lying on the beach. This thing is enormous, about 30 ft long. We drove down and walked around it with some other curious people. Took some pictures.

She thought that we ought to report it. I told her that many people would already have done that. A couple of days went by and there didn’t seem to be any action.

So we finally called the Coast Guard. They said, “Wow, we didn’t know that, thanks very much!”