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2009-08-09 11:37 AM

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Subject: What's the COOLEST thing you've found on the road?
This morning while on the bike I picked up a set of keys with a return postage card on them, so I will return them.  Then as I was almost home I saw a really nice cooler which had blown out of someone's vehicle laying beside the road which I just went back and got. 

Got me to thinking that there has got to be some really cool stuff found with as many miles as we go up and down the roads. 


2009-08-09 12:09 PM
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This is definately crude, but I once came across a d1ld0 stuffed in a stop sign post.  Gave me a nice giggle.
2009-08-09 12:20 PM
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Recently I saw a decent bike out at the curb for garbage but since I was biking I couldn't grab it and it was gone later.
2009-08-09 12:22 PM
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all 4 pairs of sunglasses i wear now i found while riding.

a unopened bottle of smirnoff vodka

2009-08-09 12:25 PM
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brand new 100' coil of rope.  Picked it up and ran 3 miles home with it. 

2009-08-09 12:35 PM
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a $50 bill.

It was folded up, I assumed I found a dollar, and stuffed it in my little waist band pocket. Later, got home and unfolded the wet-with-sweat bill and it was a $50! 


2009-08-09 12:41 PM
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3 tubes of silicone fell off truck? tire wet look spray bottle. new roll of window tint 2 big Buck knives, tricycle in garbage trunk mnt bike rack in garbage. numerous screwdrivers and wrenches bike helmet, wallet, lots of porn mags that I pick up to throw away, no really. lots of good junk!! Hard to come by now with the housing problems, less guys leaving stuff on their trucks and driving away. John.
2009-08-09 2:21 PM
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Found a Garmin 205 on the road while doing a ride on vacation a couple of weeks ago.  I recognized the back side and turned around and figured it would be destroyed, turned it over to find it was a 205 and it turned on.  Charged it and now I use it.

I did contact Garmin customer service with the serial number and the previous owner never registered it so I made the attempt to get back to it's proper home with no luck.

2009-08-09 2:47 PM
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I have found a life jacket...a cooler and a very nice fishing knife that blowed out from a car with a boat behind in a trailer....

2009-08-09 2:51 PM
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Picked up a pair of mint condition Oakleys about a month ago on the shoulder. Lovin em!
2009-08-09 3:29 PM
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A mink coat! 

From a post I wrote a couple of years ago:

Went out on my bike this morning and saw a dead mink on the side of the road.  I was only about 10 miles out when I passed him and didn't want to carry a dead mink with me on my ride but I decided to get him on the way home.  I had a mini-leatherman tool in my seat pack with a small blade so I'd just take the hide.

On the way back I stopped and skinned him right there on the side of the road.  I hit my watched when I stopped and when I started back riding again and my mink-skinning split was 6 minutes flat.  I found an empty Kroger plastic bag and put the pelt in there, put it in my pocket and rode home.  When I got home, my son and I finished cleaning/scrapping/preparing the hide. 
On the way back I stopped and skinned him right there on the side of the road.  I hit my watched when I stopped and when I started back riding again and my mink-skinning split was 6 minutes flat.  I found an empty Kroger plastic bag and put the pelt in there, put it in my pocket and rode home.  When I got home, my son and I finished cleaning/scrapping/preparing the hide. 
 
OK then, you might be a redneck if you stop to take road kill hides on your bike ride! 
~Mike

 



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2009-08-09 3:29 PM
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money!  two $20s is my best.  it pays to keep an eye open.  
2009-08-09 4:34 PM
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2009-08-09 4:44 PM
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chasing3 - 2009-08-09 1:35 PM

a $50 bill.

It was folded up, I assumed I found a dollar, and stuffed it in my little waist band pocket. Later, got home and unfolded the wet-with-sweat bill and it was a $50! 




Wait! Did it have a picture of Ulysses S. Grant on it? I lost one while.........


2009-08-09 4:55 PM
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I've found money (up to $83.00), sunglasses, a wallet, and others.

One time I found a fishing rod with reel on the side of the road. I saw the truck and boat that the rod and reel fell out of at the gas station and stopped to try to give and back and they said it was definately not theirs.

I am a boater and have been wanting a new pad to stand on while I drive the boat and I found one on the side of the bridge during and ride.

I have found alot of sunglasses and you would be amazed at how many companies fix glasses in all kinds of conditions.

I guess I run with my head down too much

2009-08-09 5:19 PM
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wow! I need to start riding more!


2009-08-09 5:21 PM
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You guys find cool stuff...me I see only garbage and odd things....one run 2 used condoms. I see shoes often singletons and wonder why they are there.

I saw lots of dead snakes this weekend.

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2009-08-09 5:58 PM
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Found a benjamin on the way home from the school bus when i was a kid 5 other kids walked past it. I was so excited, but i kept my mouth shut. (I didn't want to share)
2009-08-09 6:00 PM
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Yeah, wow, I need to get some new routes. I never see anything. Maybe I should wear my contacts.
2009-08-09 6:06 PM
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I found myself........ cool..........

2009-08-09 6:14 PM
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Two wallets-  Both returned to owners including one I mailed back to Ohio from SC.  I figured  I would get a thank you note.  Nothing.

Kevin


2009-08-09 6:15 PM
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KathyG - 2009-08-09 3:21 PM You guys find cool stuff...me I see only garbage and odd things....one run 2 used condoms. I see shoes often singletons and wonder why they are there.

I saw lots of dead snakes this weekend.

I was heading up into the mountains and was riding just to the left of the white line. I looked ahead and saw a grayish upside down hub cap. I decided since there was little traffic I would pass around it a little to the left. I was out of the saddle with my head down. I looked up when it was about 20 ft away and realized it was a coiled up (live) rattle snake. I gave it a wide berth.

2009-08-09 7:19 PM
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a dewalt sawsall. tough riding 20 miles home with it but wasnt going to pass up a free saw.
2009-08-09 7:39 PM
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A 15 lb. turkey... Still frozen. Did not take it, way to big....

2009-08-09 7:39 PM
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A 15 lb. turkey... Still frozen. Did not take it, way to big....

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