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Originally Posted by mgw4jc
(Post 16859046)
I've thought about helping snakes, but don't feel comfortable knowing what is dangerous and what is not. I usually only see black snakes, as in they are just plain black and not that large.
How to you help them off? Use a stick or pick them up Crocodile Hunter style? There are plenty of mountain lions where I live, but they don't bug people and if they did I couldn't do much about it so I don't dwell on it. My morning commute is through the woods in the dark, though. I'm sure they are watching. |
Originally Posted by rekmeyata
(Post 16858509)
This turtle thing brings me to another turtle story here in Fort Wayne, I was riding my bike and saw a few stopped cars on the road to what first appeared to be an accident from far away, as I got closer people were outside their cars starring at the road which then I thought great someone hit another cyclist, but as I got closer I saw this good size snapping turtle just setting on the road. So like the Tortoise I was use to picking up I go to pick up this guy and WHOA look out here comes this head attached to a long neck, much longer than the Tortoise that almost got my hand! So we all sat around trying different ways to move him and nothing worked so I used my foot and flipped him over and over until he was off the road. This action did not hurt the turtle, in addition their not on the endangered species list either, but none of us in that stopped crowd wanted to see any car to hit it either. Once the turtle got to the side of the road it crawled off into the grassy area. |
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A safety vest hanging from a single vine right off the side of the road.
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-several portable hard drives. One was smashed to bits but the other looked OK. It spun up but it started "clicking."
-random tools, like small wrenches, tin snips, screw drivers -marijuana pipe. Yea, I let that one be. |
A corrugated tin roof sheet ghetto-fastened with wire to a pair of car roof bars. Probably a gust of wind took it from a car. I undid the wires, left the sheet and carried the bars home.
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Originally Posted by stdlrf11
(Post 16932521)
A safety vest hanging from a single vine right off the side of the road.
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Worked late one night last week. While riding home in the dark about 10 PM, I surprised a couple off to the side of the bike path in a dark section of the woods. The woman was on her knees in front of the man. Earlier in the ride, I saw a fox carrying a squirrel as it ran off. When I got home, I told my girfriend that I saw a fox with a squirrel in its mouth, then a few minutes later a saw a woman with something else in her mouth. She doesn't want me riding home in the dark anymore. Sorry, I didn't stop to take any pictures.
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Originally Posted by stdlrf11
(Post 16934102)
This is what I did with the last reflective vest I found. Added the tape to the back of my Performance Wind Jacket. |
[QUOTE=rekmeyata;I saw this good size snapping turtle just setting on the road. So like the Tortoise I was use to picking up I go to pick up this guy and WHOA look out here comes this head attached to a long neck, much longer than the Tortoise that almost got my hand! So we all sat around trying different ways to move him and nothing worked so I used my foot and flipped him over and over until he was off the road. This action did not hurt the turtle, in addition their not on the endangered species list either, but none of us in that stopped crowd wanted to see any car to hit it either. Once the turtle got to the side of the road it crawled off into the grassy area.[/QUOTE]
It might seem cruel, but the correct way for picking up this size turtle is by its tail. If you pick it up by its shell it can reach around and bite you. The tail is plenty strong. You just need to be strong enough to hold it at arms length so it won't bite you. |
Originally Posted by truthseeker14
(Post 16947427)
It might seem cruel, but the correct way for picking up this size turtle is by its tail. If you pick it up by its shell it can reach around and bite you. The tail is plenty strong. You just need to be strong enough to hold it at arms length so it won't bite you.
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I found a Snap-On 3/8 Torque Wrench today. Works.
Good find! |
Originally Posted by Sullalto
(Post 16952227)
I found a Snap-On 3/8 Torque Wrench today. Works.
Good find! |
Originally Posted by rekmeyata
(Post 16952370)
Now that is something good to find.
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Originally Posted by truthseeker14
(Post 16947427)
It might seem cruel, but the correct way for picking up this size turtle is by its tail. If you pick it up by its shell it can reach around and bite you. The tail is plenty strong. You just need to be strong enough to hold it at arms length so it won't bite you.
A year later, again driving home from a ride, I come upon the same snapper, in the same place on the road. I stopped again, but he was a little bigger and was already making good progress across the road, so instead of picking him up, I just did my best boy scout impression and walked him across. I think the snapper's luck ran out the next year; I haven't seen him for the last few years. |
Saturday afternoon as I was riding over to my GFs house I heard some of the music from the Blue's Brothers but couldn't see where it was coming from. I figured someone was playing on their stereo in one of the homes I was riding by until I saw a car that looked like this coming at me. http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/d...617_mf64h8.jpg
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Originally Posted by no motor?
(Post 16959332)
Saturday afternoon as I was riding over to my GFs house I heard some of the music from the Blue's Brothers but couldn't see where it was coming from. I figured someone was playing on their stereo in one of the homes I was riding by until I saw a car that looked like this coming at me. http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/d...617_mf64h8.jpg
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Originally Posted by no motor?
(Post 16959332)
Saturday afternoon as I was riding over to my GFs house I heard some of the music from the Blue's Brothers but couldn't see where it was coming from. I figured someone was playing on their stereo in one of the homes I was riding by until I saw a car that looked like this coming at me. http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/d...617_mf64h8.jpg
As a side note the newer Chrysler/dodge Charger units which are the fastest of the new crop do 143 mph. These new cars are governed, I wonder what the top speed of a non-governed car would be and if any enforcement agency "illegally" removed it? |
Originally Posted by ill.clyde
(Post 16959537)
Local celebrations of the movie's anniversary?
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I didn't find this, but noticed a purse on the trunk of a car I saw a car driving down the street in front of the office while I was cooling off this morning. There was no way I could have caught up with the car, so I figured someone else would get to find the purse.
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I (like probably everybody else) run across a lot of work gloves. I've actually been looking for a good sturdy right glove to use for hand protection when slicing carrots on a mandolin, and the last two gloves I had found were isolated lefts. So I was kind of stoked when I found a right glove this morning, made of actual leather. And then 100yd further, I found the left.
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I just found a really nice pair myself, the other day.
Couldn't use them for cooking, tho. :( Even after three rounds in the washer, they smell like diesel oil... |
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