Roadside Finds
 

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 . . . :lol:

Lee in Ky

Found a bunch of Coca-Cola product caps.. you know.. the kind with the MyCokeRewards points in them.

Roadkill.

When I was a kid I had a gag silver dollar. It was a single piece of polished steel w/ a barbed stake on the bottom and the top finished like a silver dollar. You hammer it into the asphalt and watch from a distance as all sorts of people try their damnedest to pick it up, then bend their car keys trying to pry it up. It's probably still there on the side of the street in front of the house.

Krazy Glue and a quarter work just as well.

Didn't have Krazy glue back then.

It would have to have Ben Franklin, or maybe Grant to make me stop...

Someone probably found my Performance water bottle, complete with Used Gym-Sock Thermal Management Technology... :-(

Oh, I found a rather nice, good condition jacket a couple of days ago. It was ugly though, so I left it.

The last time BF member t4mv was here in Hawaii, we went out for a ride to Hawaii Kai. On the way back, I found $6 (a $1 bill and $5 bill) folded up on the road. That was pretty cool.

I also once found a little Tylenol case (the one's that are shaped like a Chap Stik) near Univ. of Hawaii-Manoa. I opened it up to find a joint inside. I ripped it open and it smelled real. No, I didn't smoke it.

I found a wallet next to a parked car riding up the side of Diamond Head. There was a little over $55 in cash in it. I called up the guy and he dropped by my office to pick up his wallet. He told me "thanks" but didn't offer me any kind of reward. I was a little bummed, but when I told my wife the story, she said, "Do good things for the sake of doing good things - not because you expect a reward." She's right of course, but a few bucks would have been a nice gesture.

I found a gold ring. It was thick and looked like it was a man's ring. It didn't have any kind of identifying engraving on it. I drove back to the same spot the next day to put up a poster to inform whoever lost it to contact me via email to describe the ring. I received 3 or 4 emails, but none of them gave an accurate description so I haven't been able to return it. I still have it in a box somewhere. It's probably worth at least $100, but I don't really know for sure.

I bunny hopped a dead vulture the other day. That was kinda sweet.

Found an ID in the middle of nowhere last year. I was a good boy and mailed it to them. Not even a thank you back.

An Elite trainer. Seriously. It was just sitting in the middle of the road. I already have one so I gave it to a buddy. He was stoked.

I still can't believe I found a trainer in the middle of the road. Hilarious.

Krazy glue hit the market in 1958. This was before that? No wonder people bent their car keys for a suspect silver dollar, that was like a whole day's wage for cryin' out loud.

Liar!!

I'm not really that fast, but I'm not usually going slow enough to see these kinds of things...do you find them while climbing?

No - mid 70s. I don't remember Krazy glue back then.

Well, I LOL'ed.

a bunch of credit cards in the ghetto.

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I found a turtle...

Found (2) used hypodermic needles in the same place on two different days.

I found a 5/8 craftsman socket once. I don't know where I put it, though.

A dead smashed turtle. Yuck, why, why, why did you take a picture of that, and post it on the internet?

+1

Why didn't you just eat the sucka?

I've found alot of cool things, but the day I found an iPod nano lying in the middle of the bike lane I thought I had won the jackpot. Turns out a car had run over it. =( On the plus side, it was alot thinner...

Several ripped up porno mags distributed along several hundred feet of roadway.

found a nice matco socket on my commute on the bike going to work. Put it on eBay and someone paid if i remember correct... something like $28 for it.. Way overkill for my bicycle wrenching. Also found a MSR fuel bottle in perfect shape last summer. So 2008 netted me approx $40. This came nowhere close to covering the addiction ;)