What have you found on the ground while riding?
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Sounds like drug dealer drop money
Drug dealers don't like to be holding either money or product, so if they get stopped by the cops they can't be physically tied to anything.
Even on a transfer of cash to the higher level dealer some don't like to hand off the money since if someone is watching it implicates both people. So some dealers will dead drop money where someone else will come pick it up later. Then if that person gets caught with it they can plausibly say "I just found a bundle of cash. I have no idea where it came from....I was going to take it to the local police station but you stopped me."
I used to be an addictions counselor in a prison. Worked with a lot of dealers. Interesting people. Some are REALLY smart and extremely creative, to the point where police who were actively looking for drugs/cash won't find it if they were standing on it. Some are dumber than a bag of lopsided rocks and will dead drop money on a well traveled bike path where it gets easily found.
Either that or posting here that you 'found it' is just part of your cover story....
Drug dealers don't like to be holding either money or product, so if they get stopped by the cops they can't be physically tied to anything.
Even on a transfer of cash to the higher level dealer some don't like to hand off the money since if someone is watching it implicates both people. So some dealers will dead drop money where someone else will come pick it up later. Then if that person gets caught with it they can plausibly say "I just found a bundle of cash. I have no idea where it came from....I was going to take it to the local police station but you stopped me."
I used to be an addictions counselor in a prison. Worked with a lot of dealers. Interesting people. Some are REALLY smart and extremely creative, to the point where police who were actively looking for drugs/cash won't find it if they were standing on it. Some are dumber than a bag of lopsided rocks and will dead drop money on a well traveled bike path where it gets easily found.
Either that or posting here that you 'found it' is just part of your cover story....
Our older eastern European and south east Asian residents also have a distrust for banking institutions and tend to have money hidden under the mattress (we have a pretty good aged pension).
Also could be ice dealers. A bit of that around of late. Where i found it though was in a gutter in a residential street, just in someones curbside gutter.
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Good thing to drop it off at the police station is that it is less likely that the drug dealers will claim the goods. Will they even think to ask?
I've found small amounts of cash, but the few larger finds, I never have gotten to keep it.
I found a wallet full of cash next to a parked car in Parma, Italy. There were kids in the car, so we asked them about it, and they ran off with the packet to find their parents. When they came back, they said it was theirs. My friend didn't believe them, but it wasn't really our money either.
A year or so ago, I was riding when I saw someone hunting for something on the other side of the 4 lane road. She yelled about an envelope. I was thinking manila. Anyway, 1/4 mile away up the hill, I found a white sealed envelope that looked right, so I took it back to her. She was happy to see it. It had > $100 in it, she offered me some, but I was happy to get it back to her without reward.
Anyway, that $3200 sounds like quite a haul.
If only I had been able to keep that Felt CF bicycle that I "found", but alas, I also found the owner.
I've found small amounts of cash, but the few larger finds, I never have gotten to keep it.
I found a wallet full of cash next to a parked car in Parma, Italy. There were kids in the car, so we asked them about it, and they ran off with the packet to find their parents. When they came back, they said it was theirs. My friend didn't believe them, but it wasn't really our money either.
A year or so ago, I was riding when I saw someone hunting for something on the other side of the 4 lane road. She yelled about an envelope. I was thinking manila. Anyway, 1/4 mile away up the hill, I found a white sealed envelope that looked right, so I took it back to her. She was happy to see it. It had > $100 in it, she offered me some, but I was happy to get it back to her without reward.
Anyway, that $3200 sounds like quite a haul.
If only I had been able to keep that Felt CF bicycle that I "found", but alas, I also found the owner.
At least to collect from the cops they need to provide approximate dollar amount and location.
I'd hate for a legitimate owner to have been short $3200. I think it's akin to stealing if you don't do what you need to do in order to return money that wasn't legitimately yours in the first place. I don't need that bad juju on my life.
All worked out well for me in the end though, it ended up funding my new Giant Defy and then some.
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A month or so ago I found an older IPhone and Otterbox case. First I saw one part of the case....then the phone. Phone was working and undamaged thanks to the otterbox. It likely fell from a car as the person who owned it was an old man and based on my interaction, it was not dropped from a bike. It was unlocked too. If I were not a nice person, I could have accessed all sorts of stuff. When I spoke to owner, I told him he should use the lock feature.
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A mouse. Alive, and scooting away from the curb, under traffic waiting at the stoplight.
Tomorrow perhaps: a squished mouse
Tomorrow perhaps: a squished mouse
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Lego pieces.
And a 10mm socket T-wrench on the very day I really could've used one.
And a 10mm socket T-wrench on the very day I really could've used one.
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I have found a guinea pig the last 3 times I rode.
I'm sure it's the same one as it's in the same place every time. Obviously it's a runaway pet. But every day it's sitting there in the same place and runs into the bushes as soon as I approach.
That's a new one on me.
I'm sure it's the same one as it's in the same place every time. Obviously it's a runaway pet. But every day it's sitting there in the same place and runs into the bushes as soon as I approach.
That's a new one on me.
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Funny... I was sure that story was going to end with "every day it's sitting there in the same place because it's squashed"
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0n my commute I found all kinds of tools and even cash money! One day I found a six lb bar of copper.
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Man, I've found so much stuff I keep my eyes peeled now. In fact, about 2 days ago, while riding out in the country around here, I spotted a smart-phone hidden in the grass just off the pavement. I knew that had to have slid off a car roof or something, (which turned out to be the case). I turned around and grabbed it, the screen came right on, and when I stopped at the store where I top off my bottles, I started looking through recent calls to find someone to ring up. Long story short, that evening the girl's father came to get it, and even gave me a $20 gift card from the Dollar Store right up the road, LOL!!
I've found a couple single Allen wrenches, of the common bike size, so i assume they were lost by cyclists. I've found numerous other tools, (adjustable wrenches, screwdrivers, rolls of duct tape, etc), good work gloves, nice wool beanie cap (best one I own now). I once found a nice Columbia rain jacket, with a few bucks in the pocket, and business card for a hair salon on the other side of the county ( I called, but no joy). It was too small for me, so I gave it to my niece.
I also found a cool OD green Frog Toggs rain jacket, which I came back to at the end of the ride, and carried home (it's my car jacket now).
My mom needed a way to organize her snakes-nest of extension cords for her leaf blower and weed-eater, and all of a sudden, I spot one of those things that hold wrapped-up extension cords !!! The timing on that was downright weird !
I've found people's car keys, then posted them on Craigslist lost & found, but no luck there. Same with a kids baseball glove I found that had his name on it, I posted it, but no luck there,either.
Heck, I'm sure I'm still forgetting several things.
(edit: yep remembered another one! I once found a little nylon/velcro pouch that I believe attaches to the shoelaces of joggers, to carry a little cash and car/house key, and it did have several bucks in it.)
Years ago, my home-made bike rack in the garage needed some padding where there bike's top-tube rested across two 2x4's, and I happened to find about a 4-5 ft piece of foam pipe insulation. It may have fallen from a construction/plumbing truck, but it looked to be exactly what i needed. I folded it up across the mtn bike handlebar, and rode home with it, and it worked perfectly !
I've found a couple single Allen wrenches, of the common bike size, so i assume they were lost by cyclists. I've found numerous other tools, (adjustable wrenches, screwdrivers, rolls of duct tape, etc), good work gloves, nice wool beanie cap (best one I own now). I once found a nice Columbia rain jacket, with a few bucks in the pocket, and business card for a hair salon on the other side of the county ( I called, but no joy). It was too small for me, so I gave it to my niece.
I also found a cool OD green Frog Toggs rain jacket, which I came back to at the end of the ride, and carried home (it's my car jacket now).
My mom needed a way to organize her snakes-nest of extension cords for her leaf blower and weed-eater, and all of a sudden, I spot one of those things that hold wrapped-up extension cords !!! The timing on that was downright weird !
I've found people's car keys, then posted them on Craigslist lost & found, but no luck there. Same with a kids baseball glove I found that had his name on it, I posted it, but no luck there,either.
Heck, I'm sure I'm still forgetting several things.
(edit: yep remembered another one! I once found a little nylon/velcro pouch that I believe attaches to the shoelaces of joggers, to carry a little cash and car/house key, and it did have several bucks in it.)
Years ago, my home-made bike rack in the garage needed some padding where there bike's top-tube rested across two 2x4's, and I happened to find about a 4-5 ft piece of foam pipe insulation. It may have fallen from a construction/plumbing truck, but it looked to be exactly what i needed. I folded it up across the mtn bike handlebar, and rode home with it, and it worked perfectly !
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saw 2 large adjustable crescent wrenches Friday (several miles apart). neither was in nice enough condition to turn around & pick up
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I feel like the pickings are slim here because there’s a lot of homeless getting to it first. Cf my story above about the purse.
Same goes for the cherry and orange trees
Same goes for the cherry and orange trees
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Today:
- Nicely cut rectangle of sod, roughly 2' x 10' (I assume it fell off a landscaping truck).
- Christmas stocking.
- Nicely cut rectangle of sod, roughly 2' x 10' (I assume it fell off a landscaping truck).
- Christmas stocking.
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Man, I've found so much stuff I keep my eyes peeled now. In fact, about 2 days ago, while riding out in the country around here, I spotted a smart-phone hidden in the grass just off the pavement. I knew that had to have slid off a car roof or something, (which turned out to be the case). I turned around and grabbed it, the screen came right on, and when I stopped at the store where I top off my bottles, I started looking through recent calls to find someone to ring up. Long story short, that evening the girl's father came to get it, and even gave me a $20 gift card from the Dollar Store right up the road, LOL!!
I've found a couple single Allen wrenches, of the common bike size, so i assume they were lost by cyclists. I've found numerous other tools, (adjustable wrenches, screwdrivers, rolls of duct tape, etc), good work gloves, nice wool beanie cap (best one I own now). I once found a nice Columbia rain jacket, with a few bucks in the pocket, and business card for a hair salon on the other side of the county ( I called, but no joy). It was too small for me, so I gave it to my niece.
I also found a cool OD green Frog Toggs rain jacket, which I came back to at the end of the ride, and carried home (it's my car jacket now).
My mom needed a way to organize her snakes-nest of extension cords for her leaf blower and weed-eater, and all of a sudden, I spot one of those things that hold wrapped-up extension cords !!! The timing on that was downright weird !
I've found people's car keys, then posted them on Craigslist lost & found, but no luck there. Same with a kids baseball glove I found that had his name on it, I posted it, but no luck there,either.
Heck, I'm sure I'm still forgetting several things.
(edit: yep remembered another one! I once found a little nylon/velcro pouch that I believe attaches to the shoelaces of joggers, to carry a little cash and car/house key, and it did have several bucks in it.)
Years ago, my home-made bike rack in the garage needed some padding where there bike's top-tube rested across two 2x4's, and I happened to find about a 4-5 ft piece of foam pipe insulation. It may have fallen from a construction/plumbing truck, but it looked to be exactly what i needed. I folded it up across the mtn bike handlebar, and rode home with it, and it worked perfectly !
I've found a couple single Allen wrenches, of the common bike size, so i assume they were lost by cyclists. I've found numerous other tools, (adjustable wrenches, screwdrivers, rolls of duct tape, etc), good work gloves, nice wool beanie cap (best one I own now). I once found a nice Columbia rain jacket, with a few bucks in the pocket, and business card for a hair salon on the other side of the county ( I called, but no joy). It was too small for me, so I gave it to my niece.
I also found a cool OD green Frog Toggs rain jacket, which I came back to at the end of the ride, and carried home (it's my car jacket now).
My mom needed a way to organize her snakes-nest of extension cords for her leaf blower and weed-eater, and all of a sudden, I spot one of those things that hold wrapped-up extension cords !!! The timing on that was downright weird !
I've found people's car keys, then posted them on Craigslist lost & found, but no luck there. Same with a kids baseball glove I found that had his name on it, I posted it, but no luck there,either.
Heck, I'm sure I'm still forgetting several things.
(edit: yep remembered another one! I once found a little nylon/velcro pouch that I believe attaches to the shoelaces of joggers, to carry a little cash and car/house key, and it did have several bucks in it.)
Years ago, my home-made bike rack in the garage needed some padding where there bike's top-tube rested across two 2x4's, and I happened to find about a 4-5 ft piece of foam pipe insulation. It may have fallen from a construction/plumbing truck, but it looked to be exactly what i needed. I folded it up across the mtn bike handlebar, and rode home with it, and it worked perfectly !
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You guys are lucky. I found poop on the trail. Smallish grazer poop. I wonder if the yak men got a new yak?
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I found poop today. The past month, road crews have been working on resurfacing the residential neighborhood I ride through before I get to the arterials. The road that will be paved today (I might get to ride on it tonight) had half a dog turd on it. I briefly wondered if the dog's owner left or planted it there on purpose to see if any of it was evident through the new layer of asphalt
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Oh there's always something on the trail; otter, raccoon, dog, just usually on the edges not right down the middle for a surprisingly long stretch.
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True story: we have a dog who does not like anyone to watch him poop. We take him camping to RV parks and he won't go during a walk, he needs to be off leash and my back turned. And although that's a place I definitely need to pick up after him, sometimes I just can't find it.
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I found some birth control / STD prevention devices today. I make a reasonable living and can afford my own so I left them for the next guy who might be a little less fortunate.
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I found half a roll of duct tape this morning, and found it a half block from work. Who doesn't need more duct tape?
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