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Signal Mountain’s mystery bowl of fruit piques drivers’ interest

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photo A bowl of fruit and dried beans rests atop a rock alongside Signal Mountain Boulevard.

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Alert: An abandoned bowl of apples and oranges has been found on the edge of the highway coming down from Signal Mountain.

If you know the owner or why the fruit is sitting so neatly inside a wok perched precariously high on a rock between the two-laned road and a deadly drop of several hundred feet to the Tennessee River below, please reveal yourself.

Were they left for the birds? Was it a teenage prank? Or some kind of cult sacrifice? Was it left by a bargainer shopping at the world’s longest yard sale?

Just spill the beans. The mystery is maddening for some mountaintop residents.