Just why?

Ok, somewhere in the cosmos is a list of items you never expect to find in a park. A list that stretches the imagination and logic sections of your brain, to ponder how said items came to be in a park. I now get to add Tomato Shaped Kitchen Timer to that list. This is exactly how I found it. It has not been dropped or fallen out of a bag. It is not in an area that requires timing for races or any sports event. It is by the tourism office, near the town hall. Somebody has just decided that the perfect place for such a timer, is right there. I do believe I spent the better half of the morning trying to figure out why it was there. I was torn between whether it was Aliens that were baking human sacrifices in a lunar oven, or whether the wooden pillar has suddenly decided to sprout colourful plastic fruit offerings for the Wooden Pillar Gods of old.