Oddest thing found/seen lying in the road?

[ColinJ]

I found a 2 inch screw lying in the road once. The funny thing was that it was lying on its end. What was not so funny was that I found it by treading on it! It's hard to believe that a screw could fall onto its end and stay there, so I assume that it was placed there deliberately by some tw*t up to no good.

 

[SavageHoutkop]

Just saw a yellow Lotus Esprit 350 Sport brok down on the verge between here and the sandwich shop.

I saw a lamborghini with its front wheel/tyre off and its front axle resting on the ground...

 

[Bicycle]

Many years ago I was riding a tandem over the Bow Flyover eastbound and a Mini Clubman came past on our right making a grinding noise... it had lost its nearside rear wheel.

Moments later, the wheel and tyre bounced past on our left.

As the car slowed, the wheel caught up and sort of bumped along next to the rear nearside wheel arch, as if wanting to re-attach itself.

The Mini pulled over and we went on past....

That's the only time I've ever been overtaken by the one car on both sides at the same time...

Does that count as an odd thing on the roadside?

A more recent (and regal) example is a big, slow, lazy buzzard flying at just my speed about five feet in front of my nose, being buzzed by an angry pair of crows. It was my own, private David Attenborough moment and despite lasting only 10-15 seconds before the trio wheeled away from the road I can still remember it almost photographically.

 

[Black Sheep]

I just cannot pass the magnetic L plates (for learner drivers) I see on the grass verges as I cycle along.
The magnetism is just not strong enough to hold them to the car bodywork at 60mph. It's not so long since I gave a few away, but today there are seven on my freezer door awaiting recycling.

The ones my brother and, two years later, I used coped very nicely at 70mph on the dual carageway with only the lower magnet of the one fitted to the bonnet having moved slightly due to the airflow

I found a Madame Cholet (i think)Womble, the McDonalds happy meal cuddly toy type. It was among a load of other stuff scattered from what i presume was a stolen car in Solihull. There were lots of other kid's stuff like pencil cases and school books but i only picked the Womble up. She now adorns the front of my bike, as seen in Sloane Square at the Martlett's fnrttc:

think thats Alderney from the 1990's / early 2000's 'young wombles' series

 

[Jezston]

I rode past a newly killed fox at the side of the pavement a few weeks back on the way into town, came back the opposite way and had completely forgotten it was there, then later that day walked back past the original way with a mate, chatting away not looking at the floor and almost stepped on it, gave us both the shock of our lives, even though i should've known it was there.

I found a plastering scraper thingy in the middle of a busy RAB not too long ago sharp side up, had to move it before someone would've ran over it and probably caused a nasty accident.

Saw a dead squirrel in the road on the way in to work yesterday.

Today, In the same place, I saw a burgundy blob, and then a series of increasingly smaller burgundy blobs about a metre apart going about half a mile up the road.

I'd imagine some lorry driver is going to have a rather unpleasant cleaning job to do on his lorry this evening

 

[Christopher]

An intact banana in the road yesterday, at the foot of a bumpy 1 in 7 descent. Picked it up, it'll be my mid-morning snack today.

On another ride, I did see where a farmer towing a load of hay on a trailer attempted to keep going after a wheel came off the trailer. The axle ripped the tarmac to shreds - local coulcil must have been a bit miffed. I passed the tractor and trailer about 200 yards after the wheel came off - both were pulled up at the side of the road...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Going along the cycle track last Tuesday towards Glasgow in the driving rain at Milton (between Dumbarton and Bowling, just west of Glasgow), I came across a large, whole fish, just lying by the side of the path. I don't know what it was exactly, but it was probably a Trout or Salmon, or similar.

 

[annedonnelly]

Not on the road, but on a shared cycle/foot path - a guy kneeling on the white line, forehead on the ground as if praying. When he heard me coming he got up, looked around rather sheepishly and started walking away.

 

[XmisterIS]

Not on the road, but on a shared cycle/foot path - a guy kneeling on the white line, forehead on the ground as if praying. When he heard me coming he got up, looked around rather sheepishly and started walking away.

Lol! My road bike is rather silent when I am crusing; I rounded a corner once to spot a man urinating into a bush by the side of the road ... slowed right down until I was directly behind him on the opposite side of the road ... then I shouted "BAAAHHHH! as loudly as I could ... He gave a little falsetto shriek and jumped! Whether or not he peed all over his own foot, I don't know ...

 

[MrHappyCyclist]

An intact banana in the road yesterday, at the foot of a bumpy 1 in 7 descent. Picked it up, it'll be my mid-morning snack today.

That's amazing! I read this message this morning, then went to a meeting (on foot). On the way back, I found a whole banana in the road, undamaged! What are the chances of that?

 

[ColinJ]

That's amazing! I read this message this morning, then went to a meeting (on foot). On the way back, I found a whole banana in the road, undamaged! What are the chances of that?

Quite high if a sportive ride had recently passed by that way!

I found two separate bananas and a new windtop in the road within a couple of miles on the Kirklees Sportive. People stuff things in their jersey pockets and don't always push them in far enough.

I've also found a (smashed) MP3 player + earpieces, a map, and a few other bits and pieces which had clearly been dropped by cyclists.

 

[MossCommuter]

Found this chap pottering across the A57 on Sunday morning (3rd July).

I am guessing he's a newt but he's a very small one (about pencil thin and maybe 6 inches long).

 

[Digital_Cowboy]

Ive found money of various denominations, tools, bus passes (usually expired), clothing/shoes, but the two best finds was a Digital Camera, and a digital audio recorder. And of course roadkill in various stages of decomp. Came close several weeks ago to hitting a bunny rabbit, various items of clothing, no sex toys, yet

Oh, yes, both the digital camera and the digital audio recorder worked and still do to this day.

 

[abo]

A 'Snap-on' burglars type crowbar/ jemmy (brand new)

Off topic, but I once took my Escort into the garage for a new brake servo to be fitted. When I got it home and opened the bonnet I found a really good quality, new looking crowbar wedged in the engine bay

 

[Digital_Cowboy]

Well, I saw a discarded and clearly used condom the other day, some side street. Clearly someone had been having fun in the back seat of their car......

And yesterday I found my Oyster card after realising it had fallen out of my pocket, i cycled back the way I'd come. Lucky as I'd just topped it up!

Okay, what is an "Oyster card?" Is it like a prepaid debit card?