Interesting stuff on the streets

[Aint Doody]

Bungee cords--lots of them. I don't know what this says about their reliability. Maybe it's just people don't know to put them on fairly tight.

[Eden]

Bungee cords--lots of them. I don't know what this says about their reliability. Maybe it's just people don't know to put them on fairly tight.

HA - yeah my husband once wondered if you could start a second hand bungee store with all of the lost ones along the side of the road. On another note though I have worried about running one over going fast and having it tangle up in my wheel...... that would be a nasty fast stop.

[IFjane]

Televisions - there are two in the woods beside one of the roads I ride regularly. I'll have to agree - I'd love to pitch mine, too! I just wish they could have made it to the recycling station.

One of the best "lost" things I see is a wrench that dropped off a car or truck into the middle of the road - about 2/3 of the way up a really steep hill I have to climb to get back home. It dropped in the summer because the road (tar & chip) was soft & the wrench settled down into the tar. It has become my marker as I grind my way up & say to myself, "If I can just make it to the wrench....if I can just make it to the wrench..."

[GLC1968]

I see all the normal stuff (road kill, trash, food, etc) but some of the odder or sadder items:

appliances/mattresses
dogs (way too many...I can't handle it)
underwear

[mimitabby]

and the bottles with yellow "drinks" in them.

[Eden]

and the bottles with yellow "drinks" in them.

eeeewwwww!

[Velobambina]

This summer, I was riding before sunrise and came across a passed out drunk fella, snoozing on the trail. Not even my "mother of all bright headlights" could rouse him. Once I ascertained that he wasn't injured/dead, I pedaled on by. He was gone by the time I returned.

[Eden]

I've been trying to think of the most unusual things I've seen

I came across a lost load of chinese finger puzzles once.

Hundreds of pounds of frozen fish! from a truck crash - yes it was stinky and there was a haz-mat team there clearing it up.

[Aseradyn]

I nearly ran over a porcupine, once. I don't know if he was scared, but it surprised me!

The oddest thing I ever found was a trail of CDs. For about a two-mile stretch there was a CD or two every twenty-thirty feet.

In my area I mostly see construction debris - nails, screws, bits of wire, random chunks of cement, wood shims, stuff like that - and glass bottles (or what's left of them). Also, for some reason, a lot of wire clothes hangers. What's that about?

[Brandi]

The saddest road kill for me was a young fox. There are not many around here anymore so I felt really bad for him he was so pretty.
On a brighter note though I found a great bike light that was in exchange for the really nice tire pump that fell off my dh's bike one time (that person scored). And the funniest was a work glove that someone lost and another person put it finger's pointing up in the air so it looked like someone trying to get out of the ground (does that make since?).