Roadside Finds
04-08-09, 09:31 PM
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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.
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.
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04-08-09, 09:36 PM
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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.
04-08-09, 09:43 PM
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Found a dollar bill in the road today, wet but it dried out nicely. This brings to approximately $6 the total amount of currency I've found while bicycling (mostly coins, but I once found two $1 bills together). Also once a nearly new softball, and last summer a large folding knife with a picture of a battleship on the handle. A couple of years ago a trade paperback in good condition -- "The Confessions of Saint Augustine", of all things -- some kind of cosmic hint, perhaps? Maybe I'll get around to reading it sometime.
Anyone else care to share interesting or valuable things they've found while cycling? I'm sure there are people who can top this. For the sake of manageable parameters, let's limit it to things that were worth the trouble to stop to pick up. Obviously, merely strange or disgusting things would be a much larger category . . .
Lee in Ky
Anyone else care to share interesting or valuable things they've found while cycling? I'm sure there are people who can top this. For the sake of manageable parameters, let's limit it to things that were worth the trouble to stop to pick up. Obviously, merely strange or disgusting things would be a much larger category . . .
Lee in Ky
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.
04-08-09, 09:46 PM
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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.
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.
04-08-09, 11:25 PM
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Found a dollar bill in the road today, wet but it dried out nicely. This brings to approximately $6 the total amount of currency I've found while bicycling (mostly coins, but I once found two $1 bills together). Also once a nearly new softball, and last summer a large folding knife with a picture of a battleship on the handle. A couple of years ago a trade paperback in good condition -- "The Confessions of Saint Augustine", of all things -- some kind of cosmic hint, perhaps? Maybe I'll get around to reading it sometime.
Anyone else care to share interesting or valuable things they've found while cycling? I'm sure there are people who can top this. For the sake of manageable parameters, let's limit it to things that were worth the trouble to stop to pick up. Obviously, merely strange or disgusting things would be a much larger category . . .
Lee in Ky
Anyone else care to share interesting or valuable things they've found while cycling? I'm sure there are people who can top this. For the sake of manageable parameters, let's limit it to things that were worth the trouble to stop to pick up. Obviously, merely strange or disgusting things would be a much larger category . . .
Lee in Ky
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.
04-09-09, 02:23 AM
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An Ipod. Posted it on Craigslist and was able to return it to a young lady.
04-09-09, 05:20 AM
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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 found a tool to open locked cars doors the other day, and various hand tools here & there over the years.
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04-09-09, 05:38 AM
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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.
I gladly kept the money and regularly ride past there hoping to find more.....
Oh yeah, and lots of tools and innumerable bungey cords.
04-09-09, 05:40 AM
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04-09-09, 08:33 AM
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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.
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.
04-09-09, 09:17 AM
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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.
And yes, I looked at it.
Every page.
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04-09-09, 10:31 AM
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I found a Dale Earnhardt knife. Just like this one, except mine's been run over a few times.
04-09-09, 10:39 AM
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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
04-09-09, 10:43 AM
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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.
04-09-09, 10:48 AM
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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.
04-09-09, 11:05 AM
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The missing shoe goes like this. Tommy, get your foot in the window. If you lose your shoe, I am not going back. I told you I wasn't going back.
04-09-09, 12:39 PM
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Oh yeah, on a typical ride I usually find 15+ of these...
04-09-09, 12:56 PM
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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.
Oakley sunglasses which I was able to warranty
A horseshoe, which I still have.
04-09-09, 12:56 PM
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A carpenter's square today. I was in coasting's zen-like state and ran right over it.
04-09-09, 01:09 PM
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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.
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.