NEW WTF, #6, and The Answer to the Hut Question

As today ( Tuesday the 13th) is a travel day, as was yesterday, Marci will allow me to write today's blog.

First, a little housekeeping. A few days ago, I asked the readership to help me figure out what these damn wooden huts were that I kept seeing in the fields of Hungary, Czech Rep., Poland, Austria and Slovakia. Here again is a picture:

Well, I received many replies, and most were indicating that this was some some kind of hunting blind.

I had had that though myself originally, but rejected it because why are they in the farm fields and not in the woods? And how can there be that many? I must have seen over a hundred in the last 2 weeks.

I also got a thoughtful (hopeful?) opinion from France that these are for bird watching.

I finally got a definitive answer via crowdsourcing - My good friend in Santa Fe, who is from the Czech Republic, forwarded my query to her brother, who still lives in the CR....here is his actual e-mail to me:

............ She told me if I could explain to you all those wooden huts which you can see all over our country. It is actually high seat used by hunters and game keepers. They go early in the morning and wait for hours with their rifles and shoot wild boars and deers from there. You can see them in the fields because game like to go there for wheats and corn.......

So, everyone who wrote me that these were for hunters was right ( Cliff, Bob, Gregory, Peachsushi, others I may have forgotten) were right, and I was wrong.....again.

Thanks to Joli and Jiri for making us all a bit smarter.

PART 2 - WTF #6

Today's puzzle is the item shown below.

What is it, and what is it used for?

A small prize to the winner, which as always is the first correct answer.

Since there is no scale to the picture, let's say that this is taller than 1" and less than 6"high.

It was seen, in use, during these last two weeks on the road trip thru Central Europe.

*********NEW RULE - Limit of 5 guesses per player ( looking at you, KP)

REMEMBER: WHAT and HOW USED

Thanks for reading, and thanks in advance for playing......

Steve Schwartz

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