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I've found all sorts of things including a couple of wallets and purses which I've returned to their owners.
Also found tools including a 15 inch adjustable spanner back in 1987. It's come in handy ever since. (Thankfully I was on a supported ride at the time and was able to put it in the vehicle following us.) I've certainly found a lot of roadkill, including hundreds of kangaroos, several snakes and even three dead camels together by the side of the road. |
Could have done without that...
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About 5 years ago I found a wallet in the middle of the road with $2300 dollars in it. It had the owners drivers license and his High Point University student id.(Bookie or dope dealer.) As I was picking up it and some of the money that had come out a guy stopped and asked me if everything was ok. I asked him to call the police for me on his cell phone so I could turn it in. When I told the police I wanted to turn it in, he took the money, said "Let me get this straight. You are turning in 2000 dollars?", laughed at me, and left.
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The best thing I have found is a $50 note on a local road which is one of the main roads back to some areas from the pub. It was a short but steep climb after a big ride and I was standing and climbing at 10kph, I was really hurting and then noticed the fifty in the gutter. |
i found a bungee truck tie down. (the strong industrial ones)
I was stoked for the day, thinking back... Its only a tie down. But has come in useful more than once. And to the previous poster.. Sure a cash reward is nice, but we both know you got a better feeling from doing the right thing, and helping the guy out. |
talk about dirty...smashed turtles? where is PETA!
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As for what I've found, it is usually odd tools and other bits of metal for my 5 year old - he loves to try to figure out what they are. |
An Ipod. Posted it on Craigslist and was able to return it to a young lady.
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I found a wallet with $26, Best Buy gift card with $14 on it, but no ID. It was in Washington CT. I left massages at the Town Hall, police and somewhere else asking if there was a lost & found or anyone had asked about a wallet. No one returned my calls. Finally spent the money recently, although I would have felt better finding it's home. At least it wasn't a lot of money that someone lost.
I found a tool to open locked cars doors the other day, and various hand tools here & there over the years. |
I've found 2 wallets with no ID, one with about $160au and the other had its contents laying in the grass nearby, about $180au and a $10 US note..must have been an American tourist's?
I gladly kept the money and regularly ride past there hoping to find more..... Oh yeah, and lots of tools and innumerable bungey cords. |
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Wrenches, screwdrivers, some cash, bungee cords, folding knife, steel lugged frame & fork (in bad shape), sunglasses, leather gloves, etc.
Once I found a wallet with a little cash and 2 credit cards. Found the owner and gave him his wallet, he offered me some reward, but as I wouldn't accept it, he came back with a bottle of wine. |
Lots of coins...wallet with insurance card but nothing else. Probably was stolen and then the perp dumped the junk. Bungies all the time.
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I once found a Victoria's Secret catalog on a bench in a remote rest area along the Katy Trail.
And yes, I looked at it. Every page. |
I found a Dale Earnhardt knife. Just like this one, except mine's been run over a few times.
http://www.ioffer.com/img/item/165/2..._earnhardt.jpg |
you people haven't found zen if you are noticing things on the road. i ride in a trance like a shaman and occasionally i see spirits by the roadside
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I found a cell phone in the road once, and a taillight. I actually used said blinkie on the way to work this morning, as a backup for my planet bike superflash.
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Visegrips, side cutters, screw drivers, case of beer with 8 unbroken bottles. Many single shoes - I cant imagine how anybody would not notice that they are missing one shoe.
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I find OJ's other glove all the time.
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Oh yeah, on a typical ride I usually find 15+ of these...
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...7/polarpop.jpg |
Porn, which we then distributed into the paper boxes ( I dont know why, we were young and thought it would be funny.).
Oakley sunglasses which I was able to warranty A horseshoe, which I still have. |
A carpenter's square today. I was in coasting's zen-like state and ran right over it.
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found an assos rain jacket, my size in fact.
i posted to the PNW sub-forum and found the owner - turns out it was someone's new jacket, i would've felt like an ass keeping it. everything else i've seen on the roads falls into these categories: nuts/bolts, single shoes, trash bags, pee bottles, and of course a huge assortment of roadkill. |
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