I don't know if this qualifies as a found "item," but my wife and I were on the local MUP the other evening and saw an oncoming cyclist riding his mountain bike no-handed, while strumming his full-size (dreadnaught) acoustic guitar. As he passed he also provided a very effective practical demonstration of the Doppler effect.

If you had picked him up and taken him home, it would have counted. Espcecially if you had put him in your found-stuff-display. Sadly, you did neither, so no, it doesn't count.

I found a crazy lady in the suburbs this morning. I did not take her home though. I am used to seeing people talking to themselves here in Portland. You never know if they are unstable, talking on a cell phone, or both.

However this was a rather well off lady in her mid 50s out for what appeared to be a morning stroll. She was walking on the left hand sidewalk I was in the right hand lane. She stopped cross the street locked eyes with me and kept saying to herself "Yep, Yep, biking, biking, biking, biking." I could hear her after she crossed the street. Not real sure what that was all about.

Now that I think about it though that seems to be a little bit of a nutty neighborhood. During one of our many rainy days in the middle of a hosing downpour there was another lady walking barefoot somewhere. She was not carrying shoes or wearing any. I don't even think she was wearing a coat.

A home pregnancy test "wand" that I pass by every day-
(yes, I always look at it and no, I'm not going to touch it!)
Gross, but always gives me a chuckle thinking who has to do that in a moving car-
Also probably didn't show the desired result, being chucked to the road and all-

Cruising down by the river last summer I found a pile of wet newspapers, tall black leather womens high heeled boots with one of the heels broken off, several soiled pornographic magazines, and a broken CD. Thats pretty weird. On other trips I have found a small empty jewelry box, a hatchet, a sleeping bag at the TOP of a pine tree, and a live conifer tree completely decorated with christmas ornaments in BFE (weird!).

Yeah, me too. Pretty interesting to see it dissolve over the last month.

And all sorts of other stuff: a like new leatherman, tire lever, water bottles, bike pump, and bungees.

so was it positive or negative?

In border towns along the U.S./Canadian border, canadians would buy new shoes in the U.S.. Wear the new ones across the border to avoid duty, leaving the old ones somewhere along the way.

I think a bunch of people failed kindergarten because they never learned to tie their shoes and weren't smart enough to figure out that velcro was a valid second option.

Only find so far was a single, solitary Dime . . . and I wasn't really inclined to go back and pick it up.

I could REALLY use a new leatherman though, so I'm always on the lookout.

I <3 that someone took the time to tag their Maglite with red/grey/white/blue/yellow tape to id it...... and then looses it.

and I really <3 the BP bottle.

I want in on that party. lol

I found a Harley Davidson Keychain with a metal canister on it...looked like one of those pill containers.

It wasn't, it was someone's ashes...

A pair of large mens underwear and a rubber glove.

I clean the tools and then added the tape.

That reminds me... there's been underpants hanging from a bush on my commute for a couple of weeks now. White briefs. They look soiled, too. I'm not interested in getting close enough to see the size.

A set of brand new socks still in the package today.

Golf balls, tennis balls and various tools are usually the norm. I stopped picking them up after awhile, unless the tool is something I don't have/ an upgrade.

This last week I passed by a childs black leather shoe, It looked absolutely pristine and I actually would have grabbed them up but there was just one ..Just one.....Daily for a week I passed by that same shoe watching it get dirtier and dirtier till one day it's absolutley pristine mate turns up with it.. .. WTF !!

and this...

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...es/Deadpig.jpg

That would make a good helmet.

From phrases.org

Plugs are the holes made in coins, which is then filled with a cheaper metal. Coins so tampered with are no longer legal tender and are thus worthless if spotted. The phrase is, of course, American. Before 'plugged nickels' there were 'plugged quarters' and 'plugged dimes'. The various versions of the phrase appear in the 1880s. The nickel, being a lower denomination coin, lends itself better than quarters and dimes to a phrase expressing worthlessness. Oddly though, the lowest denomination coin is the cent and the phrase 'not worth a plugged cent' doesn't appear until later. The earliest I've found for that is 1908.

I've got a work bench full of sockets, wrenches, screwdrivers, utility knives, etc. that I've found while riding. However, I think that the most surprising thing I found was my bicycle that had been stolen three months previously. It was being ridden by a young man and after a brief discussion we decided that it needed to go home with me. I didn't ask if he had found anything on his ride but he would be a good candidate for a thread about things lost on a ride.

I seem to find a lot of "tightie whiteys". Who wears these any more, and where do they buy them???

I found a pickup truck with a trailer attached to it the other day. I tried to tow it with a bungy tied to the bumper and my trunk rack, but I guess they left it in gear.:mad:

But you apparently did not find a comma.

Time for Big Mac.

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/h...oBullNoMoo.jpg

- a waiter's corkscrew, yikes!
- a nifty Japanese pocketknife which my dad identified and quickly shipped to the manufacturer for resharpening an cleaning free of charge! (go knife collectors)
- a cell phone, and I got to meet the girlfriend of the guy who lost it when i called the last number dialed. she bought me coffee but never saw her again. yeah she was cute.

I can't fathom the reward in such effort? What would the metal from the coins be used for? I suppose it might make sense of silver quarters, but nickels???

Oh, I'm sure this didn't come across as you meant it. Meet?

oops, haha