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Now I'm sure that someone has already told you how/why someone would put forks in the ground, but just to be sure, I'll tell you anyway.

First off, you have to do this trick when the night is going to be very cold.  (Did you ask the person who took the picture if it was cold that night?)  Plastic forks or spoons are pushed into the ground and left there overnight in the cold.  In the morning the new plastic lawn ornaments are discovered and when someone tries to pull one out, they are met with quite a surprise.  When you try to pull out a plastic fork or spoon that has been in the cold dirt overnight, it won't come out, but will break, leaving the handle still stuck in the ground.  So you can imagine the headache  the groundskeeper had when he or she had to dig out all 3000 of those plastic handles. I'm a big fan of your site.  Keep up the good work!   Jess