Hillbasher

Found an IPOD Touch on the road up in the mountains that I ride a lot.

gforeman 

Two weeks ago, I was riding north out of Duck, NC on 12 while on vacation. I see this small plastic box on the side of the road, like a tool box thingy. I stop, open it up, and it's an electronic receipt printer. The light is blinking, and I know this has to be expensive. Since I was just heading out, I stuffed it behind a post until my return trip back a couple of hours later.

I then managed to get it attached to my bike, and took it to the police station just up the road. The lady said the owner (a bread truck driver) stopped in to see if anyone found it. He was panicked, as I'm sure this would have come out of his own pocked.

Made my day to be of help!

GrandaddyBiker

I have a good friend that flipped a cigarette butt out his window. A South Carolina Highway patrolman pulled him over. The patrolman told my friend, I am going to give you 2 choices, one I give you a ticket for littering and the fine will be $$$ (don’t remember how much it was but it was a lot). Second choice, I give you a bag out of my trunk and you walk down this road picking up trash until I tell you it’s enough. My friend told me that the patrolman made him pick up trash until the bag was nearly full.

Now, if it was legal for the patrolman to do that, I do not know. I was also surprised that the patrolman would take up that much of his time. If you knew my friend you would know that he would never make up a story like this so I believe him that it happened.

qcpmsame 

I like the patrolman's justice system there. Sure someone will rail against the guy but I so hate people that throw cigarettes out of car windows or just on the ground when they are through with the coffin nail. Makes me furious, my dad never threw a cigarette on the ground, cars had ash trays for that back then.

We were taught in the Marine Corps to field strip our cigarettes, back in the mid 70's when you could smoke in boot camp and on military installations. You just unwrapped the paper, letting the small amount of tobacco fall out and wad the paper up, putting it in you fatigue's pocket. It dissolved in the wash and one less butt to have to pick up while policing the area. I quit cigarettes back in the mid 80's, running and smoking made little sense. Continued my pipe habit until 2000 when the multiple surgeries and health problems started.

End rant, sore subject for me, sorry.

Bikey Mikey

Discarded cigarettes are a major cause of brush fires.

The policeman could've just given the guy a ticket, but I like what he did.

David Bierbaum

I stopped for what I thought was a battery-powered light, but it turned out to be a merchandise alarm! The kind they put on merchandise to keep folks from leaving the store with it. Evidently shoplifters have figured out how to get around these things...

Bob Ross

A week-and-a-half ago I noticed one of my bar end plugs was coming loose. Made a mental note to try and fix it (not that I have a clue what that would involve). Three days later, I get home from a ride and notice it's gone; the bar end plug must've fallen out during my ride.

...and then this past Sunday I'm out on a ride, coming down the ramp to the local MUP, and I have to slow down because there are several idiot cyclists in front of me who have no clue how to execute a low-speed hairpin turn, so while their traffic drama is escalating I just stop and kill time, enjoying the sunshine, trees, birds, the bar end plug lying on the ground right at my feet...

Wait, wut?

I picked it up. Now, I can't be 100% certain that it was mine (though I did take this same MUP last week, and it was the exact same brand/model as the one I lost). But it's definitely mine now!