Oddest thing found/seen lying in the road?

[661-Pete]

Most of the stuff I see by the roadside is fly-tipped, so TBH the most welcome discovery I think, would be a sniper, all kitted out with night-sights, the lot, and ready to take out the next gang of ****ers that try that despicable game

Which reminds me - one of the most interesting discoveries in the road was a complete clip of rifle ammunition - .303 size I think it was, and definitely 'live' and ready to fire. I handed it in to the police and they were most interested to learn exactly how I came by it. But I never heard any more. I only wish the sniper had been around too, to take out the fly-tippers...

holding that porn mag and pointing out various fascinating photographs to his mates.

A bolder lad that I'd ever be! I often see porn lying by the roadside, wouldn't dream of touching it, don't know what it might be smeared with ....

I just cannot pass the magnetic L plates (for learner drivers) I see on the grass verges as I cycle along.

If they fell off a car driven by an 'L' driver, that would instantly make it illegal.

It transpired that the bag contained a house brick.

There have been worse things left lying in brown paper bags . Motto: leave alone...

 

[Brommie77]

Not a cycling one, but years ago a collegue of mine working nights drove into a wheelbarrow that had been left in the middle lane of the M25 - the van he was driving was written off, the wheelbarrow was collected by the recovery chap and wheeled to the hardshoulder with little damage!

 

[Chromatic]

Not when I was cycling, but once when I was walking through Partick, I went down a side alley and came across a pair of pants. Now these were big and looked like they were from a woman, but the thing which made me quicken my step was that it was full of shoot . Now, a kiddie, that is something, but an adult??

Not a cycling one either but a dog walking one out in the woods. I once found a pair of ladies knickers in a field but these were not big and not full of shoot. They were black, lacy and reasonably skimpy. I can only assume the owner had taken them off for a bit of al fresco shagging and had not bothered to put them back on. Also found, in the same woods but on another occasion, was a big pile of A4 printouts of pictures of TVs/chicks with dicks all with big hard ons and dressed in stockings suspenders etc. There was crumpled tissues around too.

 

[Brommie77]

Not a cycling one either but a dog walking one out in the woods. I once found a pair of ladies knickers in a field but these were not big and not full of shoot. They were black, lacy and reasonably skimpy. I can only assume the owner had taken them off for a bit of al fresco shagging and had not bothered to put them back on. Also found, in the same woods but on another occasion, was a big pile of A4 printouts of pictures of TVs/chicks with dicks all with big hard ons and dressed in stockings suspenders etc. There was crumpled tissues around too.

eeeerrrrr

 

[BrumJim]

Various parts of one of the jockey wheels from a dérailleur mechanism.

Mine.

Found all parts except on of the metal cups on the outside.

 

[phantasmagoriana]

Wow, some odd things on this thread!

Nothing exciting found around here - the only thing I've seen recently was a pair of men's underpants by a traffic island on my commute for the last couple of days (the same pair - no one's claimed them!). Though it's next to a university, so probably some student prank!

 

[Vigilies]

Pliers both large and small.
Pipe grips again large and small.
Junior hacksaw.
Magazines of all types.
Various dead and alive animals.
Crashed, burnt and burning cars.
An Ipod. Which I turned over to the Police and then got back.
Bikes and BSO's.
Clothing and shoes.
Kids toys.
Several wallets and purses both full and empty.
The unwanted proceeds of a burglary.
None of these were in the same places.

 

[Chromatic]

Once saw an empty Felt bike box in the hedge on my way to work a couple of years ago. No bike with it unfortunately.

 

[ianrauk]

I found a five pound note whilst waymarking on a FNRttC.

 

[Zoiders]

The oddest thing I saw in the road was a local from a pub I once worked in, the delightfully named "hippy john" who was in fact an agrresive binge drinker.<BR><BR>He had been turfed out of the pub and everyone assumed he was in the usual drunken stupour, he was in fact having a cardiac incident due to an undiagnosed heart defect.<BR><BR>Almost made me feel guilty about cycling past when I found out later. <BR><BR>The was also the weird bridge arsonist who liked starting fires on canal bridges when I went out night riding, I saw him scurry away into the bushes once when the lights hit him - I think he thought it was the police - they picked some one up for an arson offence nearby a few weeks later according the local paper so I have not seen the phantom bridge burner of old Burlsem town since. It is a bit unsettling to be tootling down a towpath at night only to find an unattended bonfire blazing away on a bridge as you know some loony is out there in the dark watching you.

 

[mickle]

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

 

[chris-s]

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

Whats odd about a broken down Lotus is ?

 

[fungus]

On one occasion I found about 100 CD's left at the side of a road & the ones I had a look at were in good nick, I presumed they had fell of the back of a trailer on the way to a car boot sale & another occasion 4 big boxes full of albums all either classical or from the 50's.

 

[HLaB]

I don't think I see anything unusual on the ride just the usual road kill and fly tipping; I'm not inclined to investigate any further.

 

[henshaw11]

I've also found (as opposed to come across..) a rather broken vibrator on a cyclepath...presumably it had been stamped on, either that or someone in Staines is rather...err....energetic