Have you ever found anything exciting on your commute?

chris_bass

I sometimes glance into the hedges and sides of roads half expecting to see a prestine shiny laptop thats come off a lorry and landed on some nice soft plants or a sat nav or mobile that has bounced out of someone's window whilst driving along but to date havent seen anything!

has anyone ever found anything good on their way to or from work?!

cyclingprop

There was a dead green parrot in the road this morning.

veronese68

When people say "it fell off the back of a lorry" they don't actually mean it literally. ;-)

jomoj

I like your optimism, when not in traffic I spend most of my time looking out for broken Lambrini bottles and animal faeces. Dog mess is deeply unpleasant but a horse turd can send you over the bars.

SimonAH

jomoj wrote:

I like your optimism, when not in traffic I spend most of my time looking out for broken Lambrini bottles and animal faeces. Dog mess is deeply unpleasant but a horse turd can send you over the bars.

....and the WORST thing about horse, erm, cakes is that they don't come in ones, usually they come in a line. Which means that you can come off on the first one and then slide through another four or five as I once did coming off a moped on a Hertfordshire lane in my youth.

prawny

Saw a dildo in the gutter once, didn't bother picking it up.

Twostage

Last week someone had put a bright green four foot donkey on top of a bin next to a bus stop. A kind of rocking horse thing. It was one of those 'did I really see that ?' moments.

This morning I saw a shoe

notsoblue

I found a Sony Xperia smartphone once. Pristine. Would have tried to return it but no SIM, no contact info at all.

roger_merriman

How about a antler? red deer, not huge but middling, quite fresh ie blood.

found a few iphones/ipods that i've handed in to the police.

notsoblue

roger merriman wrote:

How about a antler? red deer, not huge but middling, quite fresh ie blood.

Why didn't I see this affixed to your bike at the PS ride?

cadenzaaa

Came across a black bin bag full of ahem adult magazines in a layby once (excuse the pun). :oops:

bompington

Not a lot of two-wheeled traffic on my route, so I always find it exciting when I get to overtake someone. I should point out that I have never [/] been overtaken on my commute.

Long_Time_Lurker

cadenzaaa wrote:

Came across a black bin bag full of ahem adult magazines in a layby once (excuse the pun). :oops:

I found a load of ripped up porn mags scattered along the hedgerows the other day.
Bit like white d*gsh*t - a sight from my childhood that you no longer see anymore.

Felt a bit nostalgic to be honest...

essex-commuter

A bunch of keys including an expensive remote VW car key, a house Yale and Chubb. Also found a fiver once. That's it

aeon

*puff puff*

only myself, maaaaaan.

*puff*

mudcow007

on the Liverpool to Chester ride last year i found £50 - x2 £20 an a £10 rolled up in the middle of the road

it would have been rude not to pick it up.....

when i use to ride back from my girlfriends in the twilight hours would often find mobiles an stuff (handed in to the Rozzers)

i aint found anything in ages though

chris_bass

wow, wasnt expecting so much... errr... good?! stuff!!

i did once find a manky old printer cable, didnt get it though! oh and a smashed up laptop but it was far beyond saving, not even for ebay spares or repairs!

Tricycleboy

Found my own multitool. The zip on my saddlebay is a bit ropey and it dropped out when i was doing interval training laps around Richmond Park yesterday.

Couple more laps and i found it, although It had been run over ALOT. But after sanding the edges down it worked perfectly again. yay!

msmancunia

I found a massive (comedy-sized) spanner on Trafford Rd a couple of months ago. Only problem was 1) it was really heavy, and 2) if I took it home I wouldn't really know what to do with it. So I put my magpie tendencies to one side and left it by the side of the road.

Paulie W

This doesnt count as exciting but I once found a body. I could shorten my old commute by using bridal paths which I sometimes did in summer when it was dry or in winter if the paths were frozen. One morning found an old man, a local farmer, in a ditch alongside the path. It was clear straight away that he was dead. Seems he'd slipped and fallen in, probably the previous evening, and couldnt get out. His son who he lived with had been away so no-one noticed he was missing. Very sad story - he was 90 odd and still full of life by all accounts. Probably not the kind of thing the OP was looking for...sorry.

Ben6899

Long Time Lurker wrote:

cadenzaaa wrote:

Came across a black bin bag full of ahem adult magazines in a layby once (excuse the pun). :oops:

I found a load of ripped up porn mags scattered along the hedgerows the other day.
Bit like white d*gsh*t - a sight from my childhood that you no longer see anymore.

Felt a bit nostalgic to be honest...

I haven't seen a discarded grumble mag for about 15-years!

SimonAH

Presumably this change (which I have also noticed) is due to the rise of internet porn? There was a day when a main road layby was an almost sure fire source of a Razzle in the hedgerow.

Now, if this is the case, then we must consider that internet pr0n is not only fun - but also good for the environment!

Initialised

On my way home a few weeks back I saw what I first thought was some kind of animal, turns out it was a pair of chavs who had either just done it or were just about to.

Twostage

Initialised wrote:

On my way home a few weeks back I saw what I first thought was some kind of animal, turns out it was a pair of chavs who had either just done it or were just about to.

Animals rather than animal then ?

roger_merriman

notsoblue wrote:

roger merriman wrote:

How about a antler? red deer, not huge but middling, quite fresh ie blood.

Why didn't I see this affixed to your bike at the PS ride?

I've got a lot of other stuff, mainly animal skulls could of out maxed the mad Max's!

cougie

Not on my commute but on my Sunday ride I found a stack of flashy lingerie at the side of the country lane.
It's still there a few weeks on too - clearly there are no wombles around here.

PedalPedant

It was our wedding anniversary last Friday so I bought my wife some flowers on the way home from work. I thought they'd be okay shoved in my pannier with the heads poking out the top.

I eventually found them in the middle of the road, much waving of arms persuaded the elderly gent in the Honda not to run over them :-)

PP

redvee

SimonAH wrote:

jomoj wrote:

I like your optimism, when not in traffic I spend most of my time looking out for broken Lambrini bottles and animal faeces. Dog mess is deeply unpleasant but a horse turd can send you over the bars.

....and the WORST thing about horse, erm, cakes is that they don't come in ones.

They freeze solid too but are also brittle as I found out one night at 22:30 on the way home. It wasn't till I rode in teh following day I realised what I'd hit.

finnjävel

Ran into 10 cm deep semi-frozen puddle of slush ice at 30 kph yesterday. I found the resulting maneuvers exciting.