Stuff we find on rides thread

[withm]

In the last month I've found
* wallet/checkbook (returned to owner)
* green bandana (kept it but bleached it out just to be sure it was clean)
* screwdriver (it's now in my kitchen drawer, thank you very much)

And about a hundred 1/2" PVC elbows. Actually they were scattered all over the shoulder of the road in a minefield pattern but I left them there.

You never know what treasure you will come across.

[mimitabby]

gloves!

[SadieKate]

Roadkill in good enough shape to return to collect (mit rubber glubbies and bag). Bubba gets the honor of harvesting the feathers for flytying.

And, shhhhh, don't report to Fish & Game, m'kay? It could be a tad embarrassing . . .

[mimitabby]

we mostly just have crows and squirrels on the road. oh, and rats. ick.

[Aint Doody]

A long strip of unused condoms in purple wrappers. My riding partner (female) stopped to get them. Don't know what she did with them; don't want to know!

[divingbiker]

A long strip of unused condoms in purple wrappers. My riding partner (female) stopped to get them. Don't know what she did with them; don't want to know!

I often see used condoms...I don't stop to pick them up.

And we have plenty of rats also. It's interesting, in a disturbing kind of way, to watch them go from freshly killed to a bit smushed to nearly nothing over the course of a week or two.

[redrhodie]

I found a dog once. He was just running down the street, in a very affluent 'hood, obviously not supposed to be out. He was wayyyyy cute, I think he was a Fox Terrior. When I first saw him in the distance, I thought he was a rabbit, he was so fast.

I tried to catch him, but every time I got up next to him and slowed down, he'd speed up, which made people think he was my dog, and I got scolded for not having him on a leash. I ended up riding along with him, pointing him out to passing cars so he wouldn't get hit (at least he was running in the breakdown lane, which was good). Eventually he turned down a less busy street, and I had to leave because I was going to work, and really, what could I do if I did catch him? I was on a bike, after all. I couldn't hold him and the bike, and walk. So, I left and called animal control. Leaving him was the hardest thing to do. I still wonder what happened to him.

[sundial]

Roadkill in good enough shape to return to collect (mit rubber glubbies and bag). Bubba gets the honor of harvesting the feathers for flytying.

And, shhhhh, don't report to Fish & Game, m'kay? It could be a tad embarrassing . . .

LOL!

[OakLeaf]

The fan off a car.

Not the fan belt, the fan. No idea how it fell out. Or how far the rest of the car got without it.

[sundial]

The fan off a car. Not the fan belt, the fan.

Oh my gosh, that reminds me. When I was a young college student, I used to drive a real lemon. One day I was approaching an intersection and my driver's side hubcab came off and rolled through the intersection and made a perfect left turn. It jumped a curb and smashed into the side of a Pizza Hut.

[KnottedYet]

today I found a Nintendo DS along the road.

It works!

It was right in front of SKnot's old school, so I'll be calling the school to see if any of the kids have lost one.

I also "found" ("discovered" or "saw") a cruiser with pink rims and astroturf instead of paint on the frame. (the whole frame was covered in green astroturf!) It reminded me of Bill Nye's grass-covered car. (there is a brief glimpse of it in this video, but I can't find the vid of him driving it around Seattle http://youtube.com/watch?v=ymg7316fDCo )

[Flybye]

By George, I found something interesting on my ride today. I found a pair of mens undies, briefs, that were white with red stripes. I left them where they lay. How in the world do you lose a pair of underwear???? That's one of those questions that I really DO NOT want the answer to.

A Nintendo DS?? Wow! At first I imagined a Nintendo 64 console - they are pretty big and then I realized that it was a DS that you found.

Tomorrow I'd like to find a big ol' bag of money.

[7rider]

today I found a Nintendo DS along the road.

It works!

What's a Nintendo DS?? I will guess and say a handheld video game?? (yeah...no kids here, can ya tell?)

DH and I have found several cellphones (3 that worked and were returned to their owners and one or 2 that were smooshed beyond repair).
We found a great big honkin' bible. DH got to carry that one back to the church that was named on a sheet of paper inside it!
It's amazing what people appear to put on the roof of their car before they drive away.....
I once found the rechargeable battery for a flashlight from the local volunteer fire department.
DH found a wind-proof lighter that went to my (then) smoking neighbors.
And we have a fine collection of bungee cords, vice grips, screw drivers, and wrenches, courtesy of the side of the road.
Haven't seen any strangely dressed (or undressed) men (thank goodness!), but I have seen more than my fill of dead animals....dear, squirrels, birds, and other unidentifiable flattened fauna.

[spokewench]

Once riding my bike in the Lake Chabot area near castro valley in California, I was riding and a loose horse sans rider came running full tilt at me down the trail. Since I was a horse person, I got in front of him, waved him down and grabbed his reins to stop him. Do not do this at home if you do not know how!

A little while later, two people riding double came up on a horse to get the horse. I almost let him loose again and slapped him on the butt when they acted quite surly and never even thanked me for catching their horse! What is wrong with some people?

[mimitabby]

silly horse owners. I must say i'm impressed. I don't think anyone can outdo finding a horse!