What's The Craziest Thing You Have Ever Found...

[trophyoftexas]

...on the roadway while riding? The idea for this thread came to me after going through what my riding friends called "the rubber zone" over near White Rock Lake. Got out of the car and started rolling down the road, looked down and, no kidding, rolled through about 25-30 yards of concrete coved with over TWENTY rubbers! Someone had a PAR-TEE for sure!

Next best was the hand grenade I found on top of a climb at Hellweek in Fredericksburg, Texas about 3 weeks ago! A real honest-to-goodness WWII-type grenade! Pretty nutty, huh?! Figured after finding these items that others probably had goofy stuff to tell about, too! How about it?

[avalonracing]

While on a group training ride we found a new DVD in the box. This alone isn't a big deal but this was a few years back when there were very few DVD players. This wasn't even that big of a deal but it was a French language porno. A bunch of the guys voted to end the ride early and grab some pizzas. Just by chance they decided to have the pizza at the house of the one guy in the group who owned a DVD player.

[whitecda]

Haven't found anything, but lost a great French porno a few years back...wait....son of a .... :D

[David Kirk]

The was a road I used to ride in NY that was always littered with porn. It was a very rural area and I always wondered if folks tossed it out the window when they were done or what.

Dave

[avalonracing]

The was a road I used to ride in NY that was always littered with porn. It was a very rural area and I always wondered if folks tossed it out the window when they were done or what.

Dave

I think Whitecda must train on that road too.

[Ginger]

The guys I ride with stop for DVD cases.

Oddest thing:
a blackburn rear view mirror...(those things are huge, how would you NOT notice it fell out of your handlebar?)

The other thing I found that I thought was sort of odd was a single 3/4" ball bearing. Yeah...probably farm machinery...That had to suck when that bearing went south.

[FATBOY]

The dumbest thing that ever ended up in my panniers on the way to work was a 6 disc cd player ( as in large stereo component) that was laying in the road. Still works ten years later.

36" crescent wrench, still on the wall at the shop.

A small plastic killer whale that has adorned my front fenders for many years.

[Birddog]

Some of the treasures that I've found include 100' feet of garden hose, 50' extension cord, several wrenches, cell phone (owner called about 45 mins after finding it), baby skunk (about 2 or 3 weeks old), large manila envelop marked "technical manuals" with you guessed it....porn inside, and my favorite........a 2' digital level that I use all the time.

Birddog

[Keith A]

This in and of itself isn't that odd, but it is the number of them that I see that makes it odd -- and that is grass edger blades. The only thing that I can figure out is that (1) the grass grows all year long here, (2) these are short, flat, relatively heavy and would resist being moved much by passing cars or even street sweepers and (3) who's going to pick one of these up. I know were several are right now on my regular routes.

http://www.psep.biz/images/mower%20parts/blades/EDGER%20THE%20EDGE.jpg

Off course the ones that I see are rusted and rounded on the edges.

[nobrakes]

I once found a gun on the side of the road. It turned out only to be a Ruger replica bb gun. In the interest of safety, I picked it up and put it in my jersey pocket to dispose of it properly when I got home. I noticed most of the traffic went way over to the other lane when passing us and they must have thought I was packing heat, as the most of the grip of the pistol was clearly viseable hanging out of my back pocket. Wish I would have kept it, as it had a calming effect on the rednecks that would usually buzz us with their pickups.

[SoCalSteve]

A couple years back as my wife and I were starting out on a ride to the beach, we were climbing a short hill on our way and I looked down to see none other than a $100.00 bill just lying smack dab in the middle of the road. I dismounted, grabbed the bill and went along our merry way on a nice bike ride..

Later that day, I took my wife out for a great dinner at a pretty pricey restaurant that we had wanted to try.

True story.

Steve

[Steve Hampsten]

...and thus the phrase "road porn"

I found a large(ish) pink dildo in the middle of a jeep road outside of Las Vegas a few years ago. For the life of me...I just can't...

[Louis]

I found a large(ish) pink dildo in the middle of a jeep road

Steve, next time you tell the story be sure to say that it was a "very small" implement...

[jimcav]

my best was an ipod photo (30gb) lying in a puddle, other decent stuff:
one of those long handled telescoping tree pruning saws--had to come back
colt tactical style tanto blade folding knife
complete skillsaw hole saw kit

[RABikes2]

No porn, but I have found various size wrenches, small hand tools, and bungee cords; all thanks to the local fellas in pickups.
RA

[AgilisMerlin]

What's the craziest thing you have ever found


My Wife

[bironi]

A couple years back as my wife and I were starting out on a ride to the beach, we were climbing a short hill on our way and I looked down to see none other than a $100.00 bill just lying smack dab in the middle of the road. I dismounted, grabbed the bill and went along our merry way on a nice bike ride..

Later that day, I took my wife out for a great dinner at a pretty pricey restaurant that we had wanted to try.

True story.

Steve

Steve,
I found a lesser amount, but spent it many times over rationalizing the free money found.

[Gothard]

A Leatherman multi tool, on the road a few weeks ago. Had been driven over quite a few times, but amazingly only one blade broken. All the rest in working order. Made my day, and now resides on the car's glovebox.

[William]

All in Oregon...

Found a nice pair of Oakleys on a climb.

Rubbers? Yep, seen plenty.

A mannequin in a ditch...out in the middle of nowhere.

A lost German Sheppard

A flat possum...and a bunch of flat baby possum's all around it. Both sick and facinating at the same time. Looked almost cartoonish how perfectly flat they were.

I noticed most of the traffic went way over to the other lane when passing us and they must have thought I was packing heat, as the most of the grip of the pistol was clearly viseable hanging out of my back pocket. Wish I would have kept it, as it had a calming effect on the rednecks that would usually buzz us with their pickups.

Gives me a good idea for a jersey design! :D Screen print/sublimate a realistic looking 44 Mag, or 9 mike mike hanging out of the left rear jersey pocket.





William ;)


William

[Keith A]

Gives me a good idea for a jersey design! :D Screen print/sublimate a realistic looking 44 Mag, or 9 mike mike hanging out of the left rear jersey pocket.Great idea -- but what would be even better would be to have a "decal" of some sort that you could just stick on your current jerseys. That way all of your jerseys would be packing heat :D

[DarrenCT]

No porn, but I have found various size wrenches, small hand tools, and bungee cords; all thanks to the local fellas in pickups.
RA

about the same sorta junk i have found.

no porn :(

[William]

Great idea -- but what would be even better would be to have a "decal" of some sort that you could just stick on your current jerseys. That way all of your jerseys would be packing heat :D

Hmm, what about a thin, to scale photo on thin plastic card? Have to be careful on it being "TOO" realistic looking. Don't want Beungood to draw on us when he's out on patrol. :eek:




William ;)

[Too Tall]

Steve, can you show us with your hands how big? Fish stories...you know??

Love this topic. I've found loads of clothing. Most recently an YSL mohair sweater...lots of 9 16/ths wrenches, 1/4 " sockets, at least 6 new tubulars and most odd was a freshly squashed IPOD :( That one really got me...I spied it an looked whole but it was just crushed enough to render it useless...bummr. Oooo, I found a charged working Motorola cell phone. The owner thought I was scamming them...wierd.

[Geoff]

I lost my Benchmade McHenry Williams knife yesterday when I was riding to pick up the car from the shop. Keep your eyes open.

Geoff

[sspielman]

Cell phones on a regular basis....oddly, mostly from Hispanic owners. Found a VCR tape one time...turned out to be an "amateur" production.....being in a small town, I recognized the "actors".....

[DWF]

I found Jesus. No kidding.

He was having some car trouble and I lent him my cell phone and he was able to habla a buddy into picking him up. I didn't recognize him as Jesus at first, the short hair and lack of a beard threw me off, but through spoken word he revealed himself to me. About I week later I saw Jesus again at a local eatery and Jesus bought my lunch. It made me wonder how many times I had seen Jesus and not realized it. While confessing my sins to him over the Burro Deluxe combo plate, I discovered Jesus lives less than 5-miles as the angel flies from my house and that Jesus rides and that his wife is a teacher of small children. The room suddenly got brighter and I realized there was hope. I still see Jesus on the trails once in a while. Jesus' bike setup is kind of lame, but he's always having a good time and is happy to see me. That always makes me feel a little better about myself and the world in general.

Jesus "gets it."

[old_school]

Best find: a giant box of fireworks
Strangest find: some crazy pagan altar - freaked the hell out of me.

BTW: Just when I was missing Archibald, DWF cranks it up a notch and saves the day!

[Keith A]

I found a large(ish) pink dildo in the middle of a jeep road outside of Las Vegas a few years ago. For the life of me...I just can't...http://home.midsouth.rr.com/greyhawk/images/snowman.jpg

[gt6267a]

Back in PA, I rode the same street a few times a week. Someone dropped a p*rn mag on the street. It was there for 3 weeks. Everyone once in a while, a new page would be on to top … cars were driving over and wearing it out. Finally it rained and it went away. So sad.

[Vancouverdave]

My wife and I were driving sag car for the To Hel'en Back ride in 1990. This was the precursor to the Tour De Blast=--Mt. St. Helens area in southern Washington.
We found an ID-less stray grey toy poodle who stayed with us for twelve years until she died old, dotty, and spoiled.
Best thing found while actually riding a bike was a 6' carpenters' level, on the I-205 bridge--couldn't carry it on the bike, though.

[William]

We found an ID-less stray grey toy poodle who stayed with us for twelve years until she died old, dotty, and spoiled.



That's great!

I tried to get the German Sheppard to come with me. Even got off my bike and walked with him for a while. He was scared,well groomed, looked cared for, yet out in the middle of nowhere. He was a bit skittish and veered off into a field. By the time I got home, got in my car and drove back he was nowhere to be found.




William

[MarleyMon]

I've found 2 cellphones, 1 a Virgin Mobile that turned on for about 30 seconds and died. I called VM and they told me it had been inactive for 6 months, so if I wanted to activate it, it was mine. I bought a $10 charger to see if it worked and it held a charge but no numbers stored. I've had it for nearly 2 years.
A nice multitool in a case.
A Tiffany Portfolio watch - works great, a couple small chips on the edge of the crystal.
An Altoids box w/ herb & papers
A mini pump

[cadence90]

I found the original atmo youtube thread just discarded there, wadded up, right by the side of the road.

Crazy weird.

I didn't stop and check for fingerprints since I was late for work and it looked like George Tenet was on the scene already anyhow. He was wearing a Che t-shirt and had NWA blaring from his boombox, just to show how serious he was about the whole thing.

[William]

I "found" a yard gnome on a front lawn while riding back in Oregon. I saw him on a couple of rides, and knowing that yard gnomes don't like to remain in one place too long, I snuck up and grabbed him one day. I placed him in another yard about 20 miles away. Every ride I would sneak up on him again and them set him free in another yard. That was about ten years ago.
He's currently working his way across Rhode Island now. As a matter of fact, it's about time to plan his gnome-knapping and re-home him again.


Wish me luck.



PS: Before you go off and call me a thief, understand that I only do this for purely ethical reasons...

http://www.freethegnomes.com/

[Cinci Jim]

...and thus the phrase "road porn"

I found a large(ish) pink dildo in the middle of a jeep road outside of Las Vegas a few years ago. For the life of me...I just can't...

Too funny! I actually found the same sort of thing this past weekend! The one I found had a pair of thong undies wrapped around it. :banana:

The really wierd thing is I was on a MUT out in the middle of nowhere. No access for at least 2 miles in any direction, no houses around, only farmers fields... The owner had to either bring it to that spot on foot, bike or horse! :rolleyes:

New meaning to the question of what you carry in your jersey pockets on a ride! :D

[Karin Kirk]

We came across a still-frozen box of Schwan's soup on an evening ride. We considered bringing it home for dinner, but the box was too large to fit in the jersey pockets.

Some friends of ours we also out for an evening ride and witnessed a grouse getting killed by a car. The bird was still relatively intact so they put it into their saddlebag, brought it home, plucked it and ate it for dinner.

[weaponsgrade]

My road finds include a sledge hammer, a very cool metal hub cap from a Caddy, a cell phone, a bike light (which I used and promptly lost - karma I guess). I couldn't bring home the sledge hammer or hub cap, but reconnected the cell phone with its owner. My best find was an old, dirty Raleigh with 531 that was sitting in the trash along with a cappucino machine. Tires were flat and wheels were tweaked, but I took it and towed it the 5 miles back home. Must've been a funny sight - me dressed in lycra and shades, riding a $4k bike, and pulling a beatup bike.

[BURCH]

Found a small plastic green lizard in Wyoming. He was put on my stem and I called him "Found" He sat there for several thousand miles before I dropped him off on random road in Cape Cod, MA. Wonder if anybody else found him after that? Don't like to litter, but I felt that it was fitting (darn little hitch hiker!)

Also, found a cell phone. Got in touch wiht the guy who never came to pick it up. It eventually went into the recycle bin at Best Buy.

[Too Tall]

Yo Weaponsgrade...reminds me of a story. Last yr. the local Brevet riders organized a Flesche (basically a 24 hrs. ride). Welllll, one of the support people thought it would be cute to "hide" a treat along the route for the riders...but how do you attract the attention of weary riders? They cleverly attached a blinky light to a sack of mars bars and chucked it by the side of the road...just a bit down an embankment to simulate a down rider ;) Apparently that worked.

[chuckred]

Just found my second one last night...

More discouraging.. what is it with people who think it's ok to throw their empty GU wrappers on the side of the road?

[Erik.Lazdins]

As a kid growing up in Somerset, NJ I was riding my bike and found a $10 bill. I think I was about 7 or so at the time so it ocurred to me to find the rightful owner. I saw some "older kids" playing down the street so I rolled up and asked, "Did anybody lose $10?"

Long story short I was chased home by about 5 kids on bikes who were shooed away by my mom, and I learned a valuable lesson about not revealing everything you know!

The $10 was put into my piggy bank.

[David Kirk]

In a way for me it was finding my future wife. I met her while on a MTB ride and fell for her at first sight.

I wanted to strap her to my stem and call her "found" but she had other ideas.

Dave

[bodaciousbbq]

My emotions…

Anger – at self and others :crap:

Hate – at those damn 4-wheel motor buggy :mad:

Frustration – the hill was to damn steep :crap:

Joy – there was a downhill on the other side :banana:

Peace – quite :)

Bodacious

[old_school]

I wanted to strap her to my stem

Ah, Dave, this is a family forum :no:

[d_douglas]

with a flying hubcap. I literally swerved out of the way of it, as the car drove by. It would've sliced my leg badly if I had been hit.

Others? The thing that gets me and freaks me out is the amoutn of empty alcohol bottles on the side of the road. We are not just talking a beer bottle either, but an empty vodka bottle! I have passed hundreds and hundreds of these and it makes me think twice about riding on busy roads where people get up serious speed and might have polished off a few drinks beforehand!

DD

[Kevan]

Trophy, what did you do with the hand grenade? I just like to know what's in the back pockets of those I ride with.

Me? Little stuff. A leash. An adjustable wrench. And yes...some porn. I gotta say it came along just at the right time too. It was cold out and I needed something to stuff into my jersey to protect my chest.

Hey, I threw it out afterwards!

[DWF]

I found this guy once. He seemd pretty crazy but Serotta Andrew thought he was hawt like tabasco!

[atmo]

I found this guy once. He seemd pretty crazy but Serotta Andrew thought he was hawt like tabasco!
drunkenfool atmo.

[vandeda]

Must've been a funny sight - me dressed in lycra and shades, riding a $4k bike, and pulling a beatup bike.

In all honesty ... most people probably don't realize it's a $4k bike and you probably more looked like a po' trash picker ;)

Boy ... I wish I had some of these fun finds. I've only found (and kept) two utility knives, both of which I still use. Good thing too. I have 3 utility knives now and routinely misplace them. Sometimes I can't find all 3!!!! Arg! LOL

d

[avalonracing]

...and thus the phrase "road porn"

I found a large(ish) pink dildo in the middle of a jeep road outside of Las Vegas a few years ago. For the life of me...I just can't...


I probably would have said that "I saw" this instead of "I found" this which implies that it was "a keeper". ;)

[A.L.Breguet]

Tools
Porn
An unopened package of bacon
Earmuffs
Big Bird squeaky toy
A jeep grill(hung it on the wall in my apartment like art or something)

[SponsorsWanted]

I found out how to suffer and enjoy it

[C5 Snowboarder]

A set of golf clubs, golf bag - everything.... in the bushes at Echo Falls Golf Club parking lot. someone had a "Case of the Mooundays"

[Birddog]

The thing that gets me and freaks me out is the amoutn of empty alcohol bottles on the side of the road. We are not just talking a beer bottle either, but an empty vodka bottle! I have passed hundreds and hundreds of these and it makes me think twice about riding on busy roads where people get up serious speed and might have polished off a few drinks beforehand!

In my area we have a lot of that too. They're thrown out at night by mostly underaged drinkers heading home after the party. I see a ton of new ones every Saturday and Sunday morning, not so much during the week.
Just don't go riding after midnight, you'll be OK.

Birddog

[Birddog]

The thing that gets me and freaks me out is the amount of empty alcohol bottles on the side of the road. We are not just talking a beer bottle either, but an empty vodka bottle! I have passed hundreds and hundreds of these and it makes me think twice about riding on busy roads where people get up serious speed and might have polished off a few drinks beforehand!

In my area we have a lot of that too. They're thrown out at night by mostly underaged drinkers heading home after the party. I see a ton of new ones every Saturday and Sunday morning, not so much during the week.
Just don't go riding after midnight, you'll be OK.

More discouraging.. what is it with people who think it's ok to throw their empty GU wrappers on the side of the road?
In the same category are all the empty CO2 cartridges and used inner tubes.

Birddog

[Steve Hampsten]

I probably would have said that "I saw" this instead of "I found" this which implies that it was "a keeper". ;)

And let it go to waste? I mean ya never know when a need might arise, if you catch my drift.

I washed it.

I think.

[obtuse]

More discouraging.. what is it with people who think it's ok to throw their empty GU wrappers on the side of the road?


In the same category are all the empty CO2 cartridges and used inner tubes




dude to paraphrase a dirty old man-

of course you should litter the public highway. every chance you get. after all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly.

obtuse

[inGobwetrust]

This is a fun thread. I've found lots of tools, a pretty nice headlamp, porn, a beat up six pack of Coors Light, water bottles, a multitool that I still use.......

My son found a $100 bill while riding his bike less than 100 yards from the house. We made him split it with his sister.

[Serotta_Andrew]

it was an early saturday morning on my way to the shop travelling down highland ave almost at Davis (obtuse know the area) and I had to stop... turn around and there leaning against a wall was a set of Campy Shamal wheels almost new with a sign stating... "FREE" still have them

[Serotta_Andrew]

I found this guy once. He seemd pretty crazy but Serotta Andrew thought he was hawt like tabasco!


tabasco!!! that is what you call hot!

[atmo]

tabasco!!! that is what you call hot!
andrew -
nigella is what i call hot, and she knows
her way around the kitchen atmo. best
of all, you and can share since there's
more than enough to go around atmo...

http://www.kitchenkaboodle.com/product/Nigella.jpg

[obtuse]

it was an early saturday morning on my way to the shop travelling down highland ave almost at Davis (obtuse know the area) and I had to stop... turn around and there leaning against a wall was a set of Campy Shamal wheels almost new with a sign stating... "FREE" still have them

dude-
i'm so glad someone worthwhile got my wheels. pucci told me they were broken and to leave them outside his house and he'd throw them away for me but i couldn't make it that far.

did you get the legen ti frame they were attached to? it was a little spent; you know how those ti frames flex out after a couple hundred miles....

obtuse

[Peter P.]

I remember it was the 4th of July; all the local towns had parades that day.
I'm riding in some rural area and found a short bandoleer of .30 cal "dummy" rounds. Some parade participants must've lost them, I figured.

The number of rounds, and their length, was perfect to wrap around the extension of my ATB handlebar stem, so that's where I mounted them. It was at a time when the magazines were pushing the concept of having a "mojo" on your ATB. I can't tell you the number of people who would see these and ask how I got them. So I made up the line that "you had to earn them".

A few years later I gave them to some young cyclist when I told him he had finally earned them. It made his day.

[Serotta_Andrew]

andrew -
nigella is what i call hot, and she knows
her way around the kitchen atmo. best
of all, you and can share since there's
more than enough to go around atmo...

http://www.kitchenkaboodle.com/product/Nigella.jpg


Richard,
if you really are talking hot Indian
Aishwarya Rai

[atmo]

Richard,
if you really are talking hot Indian
Aishwarya Rai
heck i'd go to war for that atmo.
draft me first.

[Truck Fek]

*CARP. About a dozen huge carp, about every 200' on a highway frontage road on a 90 degreee day. Oooh, peeeeeuuuh!
**A quite newish looking gas grill at the curb. I knocked on the door, confirmed they were really throwing it out (yes, someone had given them a new grill) and asked permission to pull it up on their porch until I could drive back and pick it up. I used it for years.
*** A cheap-o 5 speed tandem that I pushed home about four miles, flat tires and all. It's a great town cruiser!
****TWIGS... The most memorable was Twigs crackers. (I think they're a Nabisco product.) I was about three miles from home on an early season 70 mile training ride about twenty years ago. My buddy and I had way overridden our early season endurance and we were both soooo bonking- our tanks were EMPTY. I swerved to intentionally run over this box in the road and POOF, it pops open and these crackers blow out. We flipped around and began devouring them. I so distinctly remember how sweet they tasted. My body was so sugar or carbo starved that's what I remember tasting.

[Serotta_Andrew]

dude-
i'm so glad someone worthwhile got my wheels. pucci told me they were broken and to leave them outside his house and he'd throw them away for me but i couldn't make it that far.

did you get the legen ti frame they were attached to? it was a little spent; you know how those ti frames flex out after a couple hundred miles....

obtuse

Yo, Pucci said it was OK to take them off your bike!! said they were to good for you anyway

[nobrakes]

Reading truck fek's post reminded me of a road ride a few years ago that we did up on logging roads (paved) on Mt Hood. We were into it about 60 miles, had eaten all the food we brought, and just suffering these steep climbs on a scorcher day. I was so hungry I coulda fainted, but I looked to the side of the road, and noticed this largish white balloon just snagged up on some vine maple by a red string. It got my attention enough that I got off my bike to go see it close up. Well, on the end of the string, about two feet off the ground, was a box of circus animal cookies. I immediately ripped the box open and began feasting on the cookies, sharing them with my buddy Dave. They pretty much gave us the energy to get off the logging road and to the main highway, where we found a store to buy some real food. Turns out that these cookies I found on the balloon were from a grocery store grand opening about 40 miles from where we were riding, according to the logo on the balloon.

[bironi]

Reading truck fek's post reminded me of a road ride a few years ago that we did up on logging roads (paved) on Mt Hood. We were into it about 60 miles, had eaten all the food we brought, and just suffering these steep climbs on a scorcher day. I was so hungry I coulda fainted, but I looked to the side of the road, and noticed this largish white balloon just snagged up on some vine maple by a red string. It got my attention enough that I got off my bike to go see it close up. Well, on the end of the string, about two feet off the ground, was a box of circus animal cookies. I immediately ripped the box open and began feasting on the cookies, sharing them with my buddy Dave. They pretty much gave us the energy to get off the logging road and to the main highway, where we found a store to buy some real food. Turns out that these cookies I found on the balloon were from a grocery store grand opening about 40 miles from where we were riding, according to the logo on the balloon.

That a find I can relate to. I hate climbing in the heat short of energy, and I love animal crackers. Great find.

[A.L.Breguet]

My son found a $100 bill while riding his bike less than 100 yards from the house. We made him split it with his sister.

Brilliant! POTM!

[Vancouverdave]

Too funny! I actually found the same sort of thing this past weekend! The one I found had a pair of thong undies wrapped around it. :banana:

The really wierd thing is I was on a MUT out in the middle of nowhere. No access for at least 2 miles in any direction, no houses around, only farmers fields... The owner had to either bring it to that spot on foot, bike or horse! :rolleyes:

New meaning to the question of what you carry in your jersey pockets on a ride! :D
So, would the expression be, "Is that a banana in your pocket or are you just looking for some privacy?"

[DWF]

My son found a $100 bill while riding his bike less than 100 yards from the house. We made him split it with his sister.
Communist!!!!

[davids]

Either there's not much of interest littering the roads of greater Boston, or I'm not paying sufficient attention.

But the coolest think I ever saw while riding has to be a fox. I was riding up a fairly busy suburban route, and approaching a highway interchange. I saw what I thought was a small dog trotting across the road. At the same moment, I had my eye on a car exiting the highway.

As the car and I got closer to the animal, the driver and I each realized what we were seeing. We exchanged surprised smiles, and both slowed to let the fox finish his crossing. In a moment, we were all on our ways. Made my day, atmo.

[michael white]

My friend has an extensive collection of run-over cell phones. He uses them for his art, in his Cornell-like boxes; his preference is for almost unrecognizably damaged ones.

A week or so ago I found a big bronze pineapple in the middle of the road. a big ol doorknocker; weighed about 10 pounds. kinda stretched out my jersey pocket.

[harlond]

But the coolest think I ever saw while riding has to be a fox. I was riding up a fairly busy suburban route, and approaching a highway interchange. I saw what I thought was a small dog trotting across the road. At the same moment, I had my eye on a car exiting the highway.

As the car and I got closer to the animal, the driver and I each realized what we were seeing. We exchanged surprised smiles, and both slowed to let the fox finish his crossing. In a moment, we were all on our ways. Made my day, atmo.On a ride once, my brother and I saw a bald eagle (at least it looked like a bald eagle) skim the surface of a pond and then fly to a nearby tree with whatever he'd caught.

[spiderman]

we came across a huge snapping turtle
(shell diameter over 2 feet across)
upside down in the road, struggling to turn over.
i dismounted much to the dismay of the group.
i grabbed the shell above the front legs
and flipped him over
with considerable effort and encouragement from my friends.
the turtle then raced off
after snapping at me briefly...

[labratmatt]

I found one of the original sputnik satellites along the side of the road last year. Weird.

[labratmatt]

I found one of the original sputnik satellites along the side of the road last year. Weird.

Even stranger still, I found Kim Jong-il's corpse within 20 feet of the fallen satellite. Crows were pecking on him. Poor little guy had seen better days. Talk about weird.

[Tom]

It was fascinating. It was an environmental case, apparently some company was taking toxic stuff to a farm in Pennsylvania and pouring it down the ventilation shaft of an abandoned mine. How were they to know it was going to run out into the river?

It was complete with the company president's secretary being made an officer of the corporation so she was personally liable for anything she may or may not know, the company changing names and reincorporating every six months or so, testimony from the truck drivers that the surreptitious investigators from the EPA that were supposed to be tailing them undetected were as obvious as could be so if they couldn't lose them by driving maneuvers they'd just take them by every no-tell motel until they lost them that way... it was a hoot.

[bigbill]

I have found or encountered:

1. A burning car.
2. A crystal meth junkie yelling at his bicycle.
3. A fish under my front wheel while riding on a flooded MUT.
4. Many broken beer bottles. (my tires collect the glass I didn't see)
5. A pineapple. More than once.
6. A dead rooster.
7. Several live pheasants (this is Hawaii, they shouldn't be here)
8. About 200 cats every morning in Blaisdale Park.
9. The crazy old woman who feeds the cats.

The very best and most satisfying: A white ford ranger pickup that would often be parked on the MUT forcing all of us to ride through gravel to go around. One day the guy got it stuck in the mud and couldn't get it out. Over the next several days, I watched it get stripped to the frame, piece by piece. I wans't going to call the police.

[malcolm]

bigbill, I was in hawaii many years ago and there were many pheasannts on the big island. I'm not sure where they came from.

[tch]

Over the next several days, I watched it get stripped to the frame, piece by piece. I wasn't going to call the police.
True island justice.
What goes around, comes around

[Louis]

2. A crystal meth junkie yelling at his bicycle.


sure that wasn't Archie?

[rwsaunders]

Many pounds of roadkill; mostly deer, groundhog, raccoon and skunk. If prepared properly by the way, all are delicacies in West Virginia.

A downed weather balloon with some sort of monitoring device. Imagine getting hit in the head by that.

[zeroking17]

An 8 x 10 glossy of Pia Zadora.

[David Kirk]

An 8 x 10 glossy of Pia Zadora.


DING,DING, DING..........ladies and gentlemen we have a winner!


Dave

[atmo]

DING,DING, DING..........ladies and gentlemen we have a winner!


Dave
earth to message board...
pia zadora is 8" x 10" atmo...

[zeroking17]

earth to message board...
pia zadora is 8" x 10" atmo...

and glossy.

[SoCalSteve]

This is a fun thread. I've found lots of tools, a pretty nice headlamp, porn, a beat up six pack of Coors Light, water bottles, a multitool that I still use.......

My son found a $100 bill while riding his bike less than 100 yards from the house. We made him split it with his sister.

I dont have a sister, so I didnt have to split the $100.00 bill I found with her...

My wife and I did have a nice dinner though.