Andrew Levkoff said, "Oh, the unexpected consequences of perfidy."

     Don Puz was the recipient of a hand-me-down girl's bicycle in 1954.  His mother, recently widowed at the time, was happy to receive this two wheeler given the family's reduced financial circumstances.  Don, age eight,  was so embarrassed about riding around town on a girl's bike that he abandoned his ride in the woods and told his mother he lost it.  Just take a look at where it was found:

The tree grew around the bike and carried it five feet into the air.

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/bicycle-swallowed-tree-wash-154527745--abc-news-topstories.html

     Don Puz's mother Helen is 99 years old, and she finally knows the truth about her son's missing bike.  The truth will out.
     There are all sorts of interesting pictures on the internet of the things swallowed by trees.  There are park benches and traffic signs and even a pick up truck.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/13845408@N00/
http://hungrytrees.com/
     What I like about this story is the lying.  Lying is  universally expected and accepted.  You can exaggerate a bit.  You can tell a white lie or a protective lie.  You can lie by omission or mix a little truth in with the lie.  Some people lie to get ahead.  Irredeemable liars are called pathological liars. Sarcasm is always a lie, but nobody thinks of sarcasm as lying.  It's sarcasm.
     I looked up some quotes about lying.  Here are two of my favorites:

     "As a child I was an inveterate liar, as opposed to now, I am a Novelist"  John Green

     "There are three types of lies - lies, damn lies, and statistics."  Benjamin Disreali

     Finally, another quote from author John Green takes a little of the pressure off of the eight-year-old Don Puz.  After all, he learned to lie from his mother.  It might have been related to the stories about Santa and the Easter Bunny.

     "But mothers lie.  It's in the job description."