Mark68
Ãœber Member
- Location
- Near york uk
I don't know how people can just drop stuff without thinking. Makes me so cross.😡 Don't they notice litter laying around and think it looks awfulThere were also 913 alu cans and 114 glass bottles
What have you found while riding?
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DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
classic33
Leg End Member
"Someone else will pick it up."No, they are generally too dim and stupid...
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Agreed...
Some kind of casserole might be in order as with pheasants, it's pot luck whether you get a nice one or end up (quite literally) with a tough old bird...
I know put the little fella soaked & shivering in my panniers and got him to the RSPCA. Bonus he found a good home as well.
snorri
Legendary Member
- Location
- East coast, up a bit.
A couple of years ago I spotted a black compost bin in a deep ditch so not visible to anyone passing in a car. It reminded me of the compost bin lid I'd seen whilst beachcombing a few weeks before. I went back to retrieve the lid which had lain undisturbed and was pleasantly surprised to find it would fit the bin which was lying not far from my home so I was able to cycle home with the bin in one hand.
Operation success!
Operation success!
I road run as well as bike plus I am a Council Litter Hero and keep my village and nearby roads litter free. I do see a lot of stuff on the roads. I have picked up hammers, saws, spanners, two dildos ( at separate times,) knickers, pieces of timber. Two toilet bowls, old kitchen cupboards. Once a sack full of new jeans; I guessed from a shop burglary, unfortunately none were my size.
Two gay dogging sites complete with condoms in a bag attached to a tree.
Two gay dogging sites complete with condoms in a bag attached to a tree.
taximan
senex crepitu iuvenis cordi esse
- Location
- Whitby North Yorkshire.
Strangest thing I ever found was a hanging pub sign, a fibreglass black swan about 6 ft tall. It had been nicked from my then, local in Whitby. Goodness knows how they got it down without being seen in the middle of the town. I found it in a field about 10 miles away
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
I must be un-observant I can't remember picking up anything of note. I've seen the usual litter/ illegal dumps but I certainly wouldn't pick up anything from them.
Tail End Charlie
Well, write it down boy ......
- Location
- In green and pleasant hills.
I found a builder's bucket a few weeks ago. I was cycling home late after a short cycling holiday between lockdowns. I strapped it to my bike and carried on. A little later on I stopped to turn on my rear light. I swung my leg over the bike, but forgot I had a big bucket there and my foot got caught in it, causing me to fall over, fortunately no-one was found to witness my embarrassment. It's a really useful bucket.
Johnno260
Veteran
- Location
- East Sussex
Apart from all the trash which is worse than ever these daystools mainly.
The best I have found but it also was the one that caused me to almost stack my bike was a huge chisel.
Someone left 6ft fence panels in the road the other day as well just dumped during the night.
The best I have found but it also was the one that caused me to almost stack my bike was a huge chisel.
Someone left 6ft fence panels in the road the other day as well just dumped during the night.
Mark68
Ãœber Member
- Location
- Near york uk
Chromatic
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
Here's today's find, encountered on the A38 as I rode back from Berkeley after my trip there to photograph the church.
It's a 4.8m length of 4x2. It was laying diagonally across the cycle lane completely blocking it but luckily not sticking out into the main carriageway. I suppose I could have tried to bunny hop over it but I would probably ended up going arse over tit and getting run over and killed by the following traffic. I wisely stopped instead and moved it out of the way. You will be disappointed to learn I didn't bring it back on my bike, as I was less than a mile from home I chucked it onto the verge and came back in my car to fetch it.
It's a 4.8m length of 4x2. It was laying diagonally across the cycle lane completely blocking it but luckily not sticking out into the main carriageway. I suppose I could have tried to bunny hop over it but I would probably ended up going arse over tit and getting run over and killed by the following traffic. I wisely stopped instead and moved it out of the way. You will be disappointed to learn I didn't bring it back on my bike, as I was less than a mile from home I chucked it onto the verge and came back in my car to fetch it.
