Stuff you've found on your travels..

[wafter]

I'll be honest and say I never really gave it any thought. Ran over it, so stopped and went back to see what I'd hit. Then I found out what it was, and what was in it.

Where would you take something like that. A phonecall to the police would have taken longer than the trip to the station. I was taking the easy option.

Absolutely - not questioning your decision, just stating that I'm not sure I'd be able to just casually chuck the dismembered bit of person in my wicker basket and continue merrily on my way

FWIW I'd probably have left it where it was and popped my head around the door of the cop shop to let them know. Same outcome either way I guess

 

[classic33]

Absolutely - not questioning your decision, just stating that I'm not sure I'd be able to just casually chuck the dismembered bit of person in my wicker basket and continue merrily on my way

FWIW I'd probably have left it where it was and popped my head around the door of the cop shop to let them know. Same outcome either way I guess

No wicker basket on the mountain bike.

 

[wafter]

No wicker basket on the mountain bike.

In your teeth then?

 

[classic33]

In your teeth then?

One hand on the handlebars, the other holding the shoe.

Edited to add,
I've never put anything I've found on the road into mouth. You never know where it's been.

 

[Dave7]

Back in my motorbike days, wearing a tight fitting helmet, I came across an exhaust pipe in the middle of a country lane (I was going in circles looking for mates I was meeting)
To clear the road I threw it over a fence.
Eventually I found my mates, took the helmet off and the noise told me whos exhaust it was.
I then had to go back, find it and fit it back on.

 

[Drago]

Aftermath of an accident. I ran over it.

Picked it up and took it to the local police station, which I'd to pass anyway. They were non too happy at me handing it over.

in the early 60's an American F-104 made an emergency landing at Cranfield. It didn't go well, the place crashed and disintegrated. The mess was cleared up, but some days later a ruddy faced farmer boy walked into the local cop shop, dumped a burlap sack on the counter, and said rather angrily, "I'm fed up with rubbish being dumped in moi field!". The desk Sergeant opened to sack to find it contained a helmet worn by the F104 pilot, with the head still inside it.

 

[gbb]

On the bike, a very very nearly new general purpose woodsaw, still in its scabbard, at the side of the road. Lovely
A good few screwdrivers, mole grips, adjustable spanners etc.
A dead fish ?....in the road, in the middle of nowhere ?
Had i cycled an hour earlier, i might have found a dead body in the Nene on a quiet stretch between P'Boro and Whittlesea...as it was, the Police had just turned up as i rode past, they hadnt even got him out the water. A poor fella that had disappeared some months earlier at the beerfest nearby.

 

[figbat]

....F-104...crashed and disintegrated....

Par for the course I believe.

On finding stuff, is there a point where seeing something becomes finding it? I have seen and ridden past quite a few discarded gloves, trainers, woolly hats, wheel trims etc; I assume that I didn't find them as I didn't pick them up.

 

[classic33]

Par for the course I believe.

On finding stuff, is there a point where seeing something becomes finding it? I have seen and ridden past quite a few discarded gloves, trainers, woolly hats, wheel trims etc; I assume that I didn't find them as I didn't pick them up.

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Found an upturned Porsche, I couldn't lift it, in a field next to the road cycling to work one morning. Did report it on the off chance I might be able to claim it later.

 

[Sharky]

Just walking across Blackheath Common and found this...

So if anybody has lost a saddle...

 

[Beebo]

Just walking across Blackheath Common and found this...

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So if anybody has lost a saddle...

I was there yesterday but not on my bike.
I have never seen the common and park so busy. Greenwich park was rammed.

 

[Willd]

Ladder, badger, fox, several buckets, draw-bar pin and that was only yesterday 😄

 

[Sharky]

I was there yesterday but not on my bike.
I have never seen the common and park so busy. Greenwich park was rammed.

Yep it was choc a block. I'd hate to be a cyclist there. They couldn't ride for more than a few yards without stopping or swerving round people. But it was really spring like.

 

[randynewmanscat]

5 trail cameras this morning, all in one place on a major beast trail, different owners by the looks. Childish and needlessly offensive person that I am I took a wee in front of them.

 

[randynewmanscat]

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Found an upturned Porsche, I couldn't lift it, in a field next to the road cycling to work one morning. Did report it on the off chance I might be able to claim it later.

Many years ago I found a white Lamborghini Countach on its roof up on the steep banking near the Manchester airport runway tunnel opposite castle mill lane. There was nobody inside, it must have been a squeeze to get out and nobody in attendance, a very bizarre thing.