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Craziest payload as a messenger?

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Old 06-21-07 | 12:34 AM
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I overheard some messengers at Critical Mass discussing a urine sample delivery, I guess that beats blood and tissue?
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Old 06-21-07 | 01:04 AM
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I forgot I had 2 humongous law books on me a couple weeks ago. they had to of weighed like 40lbs a book. it was insane.
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Old 06-21-07 | 08:22 AM
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Old 06-21-07 | 08:47 AM
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Pft. You always have cervixes.
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Old 06-21-07 | 09:13 AM
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I once saw a guy on a bike with a small couch on his back.
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Old 06-24-07 | 12:51 AM
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Tonight I had to transport 16 fragile flute champagne glasses from my restaurant to my restaurant without breaking the glasses. that was a pretty good challenge. There was a lot of traffic due to the local community festival, so it made it fun.
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Old 06-24-07 | 08:38 AM
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lets see here, poster sized packages we call mounts that some times are like 36 x 36 or some ridiculous sizes that act like sails in the wind. i also carried about 85 pounds in my backpack(reload) that consisted of a copy box and 3 pretty hefty sized rolls.
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Old 06-24-07 | 09:19 AM
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I pedicabbed 3 200+ dudes 3 miles uphill once. They tipped me out $50 and made it almost worthwhile
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Old 06-24-07 | 10:23 AM
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Old 06-24-07 | 11:01 AM
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Old 06-24-07 | 11:41 AM
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a fake vibrating vagina not in a box to a solicitors firm.
2 cheques for over €million (return)
bring back a dvd to the video shop
a six pack to the biggest newpaper in ireland.
2 poster tubes a least 4 foot high and about 9 inches sqare.
i letter to the postoffice that was addressed to a place on my route to the post office and i had to RETURN the dockets from the post office to the company.
some sort of biohazardous polestyrene box.
a wedding dress.
thants all i can think of for now.
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Old 06-24-07 | 05:48 PM
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Not a mess but carried a 24 pack of water 5 miles and the this about 8 miles to the shop and then back to a post office:

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Old 06-24-07 | 06:12 PM
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largest at work was probably a 70-75 pound gift basket. weirdest is hard to say. i did some nba finals tickets a few weeks ago. some townes van zandt demo tapes. a $4 million check. someone's homework....
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Old 06-24-07 | 06:16 PM
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Not a messenger, but I've carried some awkward loads. the best were probably a wheelchair, and an 8 foot long pine 4x4. Also a couple of times I've carried boxed bikes down to the post office.
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Old 06-24-07 | 07:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Landgolier
One of the Chicago vets was talking about a client they used to do some crazy weekly run for that was a big wheelie tub full of stuff, you just threw your bike in it and pushed it, only like 4 or 5 blocks or something but still ridiculous.
the goldberg mail! it was a daily run. $1.75 in your pocket, or something dumb like that. i was pulling that bastard tub once in the rain. the tub caught a pothole and i spilled a crapload of lawyer's mail at monroe and wabash.

weirdest tags: 2 bottles of champagne, a pack of nudie cards, and a 3 foot tall rendition of the eiffel tower to a hotel guest, during the sox world series celebration madness. heavy ass box with an umbrella sticking out of it. box of rocks. box of feathers.

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Old 06-24-07 | 07:36 PM
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not a messenger. . .but my best load was strapping a bass drum to my bag and riding home with it. not heavy, but pretty big and awkward. i've also toted a djembe around which was both heavy and awkward but didn't have the visual appeal of the bass drum.
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Old 06-24-07 | 09:05 PM
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Not a messenger, but I work at a gym as a trainer. One friday my buddy calls me up and tells me he needs a couple plates (45lbs. each, probably about 2 ft. diameter) and a couple of 25lb. weight plates so we could train the next day. I loaded them all into my bag and proceeded to ride home 4miles uphill. Not ****ing fun. My shoulder went numb w/ 140lbs. of weights back there. The chrome bag did hold up pretty well though.
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Old 06-24-07 | 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Otto Rax
I pedicabbed 3 200+ dudes 3 miles uphill once. They tipped me out $50 and made it almost worthwhile
pedaling a cab uphill alone sucks. Luckily I pedicabbed in a fairly flat city.
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Old 06-24-07 | 10:48 PM
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Originally Posted by fatbot
What's the biggest/most cumbersome/annoying thing you've ever had to haul as a messenger?
There are messengers on this forum, I thought everyone wore those bags for style??
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Old 06-25-07 | 12:10 AM
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there are courier bags and careeriour bags. the careeriour bags are over couple hundred dollars and you can fit a small village inside, or a copy box and some. Unless your paying rent with a bike, bag and radio, you don't want or need something so big. There was a kid at the naccc's that had probably the largest custom bag I've seen, he was from chicago? mabe, I don't really know, but he had a huge bag that he could fit a small, but full grown, skinny adult male inside, all of him except his knees and up and head, and ride with this grown man on his back.
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Old 06-25-07 | 12:14 AM
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Pedicabbed three linebacker-sized dudes and their equally corpulent girlfriends a mile or so after an ASU game. Had my ass slapped my many a drunken ASU student, not to mention a few cougars out for a night on the town in Phoenix. Rode a mile and a half with a dude's money to a gas station, bought gas cans and filled them with gas, took them back to dude and his outtagas car where it was parked illegally. After a Suns game I hauled a drunk guy less than half a mile to a hotel so he could sleep it off--he gave me a C-note. Broke a derailleur cable in Tucson and hauled a few people up that goddamn hill from the U of A stadium to the parking lots across Speedway stuck in the middle ring and the second cog from the small end of the cassette. Drunk Red Sox fan gave me $40 to trade ballcaps; his was Sox, mine was ASU. I think he thought I was a Diamondbacks fan.

****, I'm gonna miss pedicabbing. But my hat's off to the messengers who dodge traffic with file boxes balanced on their bars.
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Old 06-25-07 | 01:09 AM
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Originally Posted by ecpowertap
There was a kid at the naccc's that had probably the largest custom bag I've seen, he was from chicago? mabe, I don't really know, but he had a huge bag that he could fit a small, but full grown, skinny adult male inside, all of him except his knees and up and head, and ride with this grown man on his back.
that was pretty amusing. i don't think that guy was from chicago. super rookie from mpls has the biggest mess bag i've ever seen. he had it built to fit two banker's boxes. i could probably crawl inside with a case of beer and fall asleep. thing is ridiculous
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Old 06-25-07 | 07:25 AM
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largest at work was probably a 70-75 pound gift basket. weirdest is hard to say. i did some nba finals tickets a few weeks ago. some townes van zandt demo tapes. a $4 million check. someone's homework....

what!?!?!! tvz demos?
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