CAR BUFF’S STONEHENGE-LIKE MONUMENT TO THE PLYMOUTH CRICKET TO CLOSE

A Wickett County man who spent 30 years and thousands of dollars building Cricket World, a Stonehenge-like public monument to the Plymouth Cricket on his ten-acre farm, admitted failure and announced the site’s permanent closing today.  

Cricket World will close at the end of next month

“Other people built monuments and sculptures with old Cadillacs, but I love the Cricket. I think it’s the best car ever built,” said Gleason, adding, “But I guess other people didn’t feel the same way.”  

The 48-year-old Gleason hoped the profits gleaned from the $2.00 Cricket World admission fee would provide a comfortable retirement income for him and his wife Cora-Dora, who makes a few hundred dollars a year selling homemade badminton birdies on the internet.

But only a handful of visitors showed up each year, and most of those were motorists looking for a place to pull off the highway and urinate, said Gleason. “They just stopped by to pee.”  

Argyle Gleason becomes distraught while discussing the failure of his Cricket World monument. Up to this point, he was traught.

“I guess I’ll sell my Crickets to Donat, the local metal recycler,” said Gleason as he fought back tears. 

Editor’s note:  This is the first Parksplug article in which the world “gleaned” has appeared.