Ogsarg

Yesterday I rode over to the coast and back via a big loop. On the return there is a nasty hill and at the top, I decided to stop and take off a layer as it was getting warm. This is farm/ranch land area with no houses or driveways for a ways. I leaned my bike up against a fence that looks like it was a corral at one time but hadn't been used for that purpose for some time. Looking at the fence I happened to see this...



Just wondering who was it that decided to stop there in the middle of nowhere and take the time to attach not one but two air fresheners to a fence post. What was there reason? How long have they been there and how many people have noticed them?

Just a random odd thing you see on a bike.

Mogens

Tpcorr

The other day I saw doe that must have just been hit by a car dead on the shoulder of the road. Her fawn was nursing, even though the doe was dead.

indyfabz

Does a snapping turtle laying eggs by the side of the road count?



In North Dakota I saw a the lower portion of a deer leg. The hoof and maybe 6" of leg. No other body parts around. My guess is that it was road kill that was mostly dragged away by coyotes.

Oh. Almost forgot about this. I think it was an elk because it seemed pretty large for a deer.




BTW...The air fresheners could have been tossed out the window and later hung there by a pedestrian.

GrainBrain

That's the saddest effing thing I've read in awhile.

Skipjacks

The Gnome Hill of the NCR trail in Maryland

It's just sitting there on the side of the trail in the middle of nowhere. The first time you see it you're like "What....did I make a wrong turn at Middle Earth?"

MikeyMK

I don't ride on the roads but i've seen some random things when driving. Shoes, usually. I have no idea how shoes find their way onto the roads, especially men's ones, but they do.
And an elephant. Just stood there near the side of the road, in an apparently empty field, watching me drive past. I didn't think much of it at first. Well it was early.

Skipjacks

Aren't you in England?

Why was an elephant wandering around England?

burnthesheep

No pics, just the story.

In Raleigh there's a few hills near the art museum on the greenway. I use it as a cut-thru to get to Umstead from my house. On the way home last year, I was climbing the little hill and a guy in a nice suit tries to stop me. Waving arms and stuff. Concerned it's a setup, I gun it out of there.

I thought the outfit a bit odd.

6 months later on a group ride, I shared this story with someone.....it was the same guy. He then tells me his friend or family member had been getting married or something at the art museum. Drinking ensued and the groom or this other guy randomly disappears and nobody can find him. They assumed he maybe tried to walk home that way and they were looking for him.

Lazyass

When I lived in New Jersey I found a baggie filled with rolled marijuana cigarettes. Must have been at least 30 of them. I smashed them all up. Smelled nasty.

TiHabanero

100 Yuan note standing tall in the grass along side the road. A few months later a 10 spot standing tall in the grass about 7 miles from where the Yuan was found. Not weird, but a good experience both times.

5teve

Roade past an older, somewhat battered motorhome on my ride last evening. It had a message written large on the back: "She's not a slow truck, she's a fast house." Still chuckling about that...

Also, this large sculpture made of recyclable plastics lives at a water treatment plant not far from me and is used to encourage recycling:

seedsbelize 

MikeyMK

Exactly! I don't think I'd ever even seen one in the flesh before, let alone just standing there on some undeveloped land by the side of the road in the new town of Milton Keynes (that particular field now the Middleton estate) whilst driving to work...

A work colleague suggested a circus were probably moving onto the land, and the elephant had gone for a stroll. But I never saw any circus.

Dirt Farmer

I believe the non-square term for those cigarettes is "joints".

Brooke1687

jasnooks

Same here.

indyfabz

When you fire up the first one you say "joint." By the second or third, you simply say "J." "Don't Bogart the J."

indyfabz

Many years ago I was out for a ride. I was coming down a slight hill and saw something in the middle of the road. It seemed to be moving a bit. As I got closer I thought to myself "Please don't be what I think it is." As I passed, I looked down and saw that it was what I feared. A dead momma possum. The movement was her babies, which had emerged from the pouch and were crawling all over her. The appeared to be still sightless. Fortunately, there was a nature center not far away that had on staff an animal rescue expert who, I learned later, specialized in possums. About a half mile later I spoke to a woman who had just come out of her house to walk her dog. I told her about the situation and asked for directions to the nature center. (This was before everyone had cell phones.) She offered to call the place for me. On the ride back I took the same road. The dead mother and the babies were gone. I should have called the center to see if they had, in fact, rescued the babies.

Shimagnolo

A few days ago I was approaching a stoplight, (it was red), and a rabbit crossed the street, using the crosswalk!
I had no idea rabbits understood traffic laws.

indyfabz

If I can get in a good ride on Saturday I think I am going to make rabbit cacciatore on Sunday. Or maybe white wine braised rabbit with Dijon mustard. It's to die for.

joelcool

I killed a deer using my motorcycle on the way to work one day. Three days later I clipped the wing of a vulture that had been eating the deer I had killed.

JohnDThompson 

I was passed by a pickup truck while riding up a steep hill. In the passenger seat was a person in a full space suit, helmet and all, who waved as they went by. In a trailer behind the truck was full-scale mock-up of a Mercury space capsule. No idea what that was all about.

indyfabz

Some more things I have seen during my bike travels.

indyfabz

A few more.