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Old 03-06-23, 02:43 PM
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Old 03-06-23, 02:45 PM
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Whenever I see a complete and intact automotive logo on the ground, I grab it for a Christmas tree ornament or year-round mantel decoration.

Our home now has several perfect Honda H's, one complete and shiny Toyota T, a squarish "F" from an F-150, and an SUV-sized VW badge with some animal hair lodged in it :/

I'm on the lookout for a Mazda M for my Dad who drives one.
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Old 03-26-23, 12:07 PM
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Old 03-29-23, 07:06 PM
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So far, a couple of toddler socks and lots of different types of N-95 type masks.
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Old 04-01-23, 10:03 PM
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Found this the other day; fortunately there was plenty of room to go around.


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Old 04-01-23, 11:02 PM
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I don't see the problem; if that's your bike up there, your tires look plenty of wide to get through that chunder
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Old 04-06-23, 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by RubeRad
I don't see the problem; if that's your bike up there, your tires look plenty of wide to get through that chunder
It's taller than it looks. And while my tires are plenty wide, not everyone's are. I forgot to mention the second one on a different street with the same circumstance; in the middle of the bike lane, with plenty of room to go around. Admittedly it's not as interesting as the fish last time. Poor Dory.
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Old 04-06-23, 08:00 PM
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Today I found a Craftsman ratcheting box wrench, but one ratchet part is rusted, so I'll take it to Lowes this weekend and get a new one if soaking it in WD40 doesn't loosen it up.
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Old 04-06-23, 09:20 PM
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I had forgotten about this thread last September when I found two baby snapping turtles that had just hatched trying to cross the MUP I ride. They were heading away from the river and towards a parking lot, so I carried them down to the water.



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Old 04-18-23, 11:37 AM
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Yesterday I found a smashed cell phone. It was on, but the touch screen had been reduced to rubble by traffic. I tried for a while to figure out what carrier it was or if I could call any contacts with the voice assistant. But it was locked. I waited for a call and only got one, from a bank who would give me no info who they were trying to contact.

I thought it might be a Verizon phone because I could make out the word "Wireless" on the screen. Today I took it to a Verizon store. I forewent a ride because the Verizon store is in the opposite direction from work. Friends let me tell you those guys do not want to deal with a lost phone that isn't theirs. I think they probably don't want to deal with a phone that is theirs but this gives them an out. They popped out the SIM card, which was bare of logos, and then told me to take it to the police station.

At the station, the lady at the front desk took it no questions asked except where and when did you find it.

I feel like I tried to do a good deed and had the ancient mariner's albatross for a day instead


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Old 04-18-23, 09:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Darth Lefty
Yesterday I found a smashed cell phone. It was on, but the touch screen had been reduced to rubble by traffic. I tried for a while to figure out what carrier it was or if I could call any contacts with the voice assistant. But it was locked. I waited for a call and only got one, from a bank who would give me no info who they were trying to contact.

I thought it might be a Verizon phone because I could make out the word "Wireless" on the screen. Today I took it to a Verizon store. I forewent a ride because the Verizon store is in the opposite direction from work. Friends let me tell you those guys do not want to deal with a lost phone that isn't theirs. I think they probably don't want to deal with a phone that is theirs but this gives them an out. They popped out the SIM card, which was bare of logos, and then told me to take it to the police station.

At the station, the lady at the front desk took it no questions asked except where and when did you find it.

I feel like I tried to do a good deed and had the ancient mariner's albatross for a day instead
Thank you for trying.
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Old 04-21-23, 05:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Darth Lefty
I feel like I tried to do a good deed and had the ancient mariner's albatross for a day instead
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Old 07-20-23, 07:47 AM
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On my ride out last night I saw a pair of pliers on the road but didn’t stop to pick it up. On my ride back home I road back to the spot and picked up this pair of Snap-on pliers.

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Old 07-23-23, 05:02 PM
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Today I rode up the steep 2-lane state highway on my way back home and picked up the majority of lost padlocks collected against the curb in a flatter section.

Three locks found in silt against the curb. Actually better quality than most I've found there before.
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Old 07-24-23, 07:51 AM
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Not exactly on the ground.
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Old 07-24-23, 08:30 AM
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An ancient Camry parked in the bike lane, with two guys harvesting leafy branches (bay leaves for industrial foodservice, or resale?). One guy was on his knees in the gutter (why I post in 'found on the ground') I think stuffing branches into the front passenger footwell. As I passed I could see the back seat/window was crammed full of branches, and there was a woman in the driver's seat. I'm not sure how the two men planned to fit back into the car.

That street is also lined with rosemary, but they didn't seem interested in that.
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Old 07-24-23, 01:32 PM
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That's wild.

California bay laurel leaves are shaped like spear heads with smooth edges and grow evergreen. California bay leaf is a distinctively different and stronger flavor than the (Italian genus) stuff in the grocery store and surprised they would want it if that's what it was.

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Old 07-24-23, 03:26 PM
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I'm not that educated, I've never understood what's the big deal with bay leaves in the first place. I've never fished bay leaves out of a stew or whatever and then later been "mmm, that's delicious from the bay leaves!" But I once did a carnitas recipe involving a rub made mostly from ground/powdered dry bay leaves.

Those leaves look about right, but checking for pictures online, the bark of the trunk doesn't look what I remembered this morning. Further down the road I grabbed a leaf from overhead to rub and smell when I was riding, I didn't really smell much. But I am very low on smell from being just a few days off a vicious (non-covid) cold. Maybe I'll pause and get a phone pic tomorrow morning.
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If you didn't smell anything when you tore it up, it's not bay! The raw leaves are powerful. Recipes for soups and sauces usually have one leaf that you fish out before serving. I put a local one ripped in my spaghetti sauce recipe (back before cooking for lowfat wife and picky bland-loving kids) and the flavor was just over the top. With hindsight the recipe needed a lot more garlic to keep it in check.

That was from a hike around Auburn, I think, quite some years ago now. I've always meant to find a tree around Lake Natoma near my house but never slowed down enough to check them all. There are a lot of other trees with similar looking leaves
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Not that it's any worse than any other garbage one might find but it ticked me off. I found a spent CO2 cartridge and tube with a hole in it. What a lazy jerk. Couldn't take 30 seconds to shove the tube and cartridge back into his pack or pocket. This was on a MUP so it wasn't a race or anything like that.

But now I have another spare tube.
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Old 07-25-23, 06:51 AM
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But now I have another spare tube.
That was my first thought as well: "Hey! Free tube!"
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Coulda been he did shove it into his back pocket, but it wormed its way out while riding
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Today, cheap sunglasses, nice because I didn't wear mine and the sun came out. Saw a couple of water bottles but didn't stop. Most recently, a Columbia rain parka.
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Solid steel bar

On a Sunday ride, I picked up this solid steel bar from the side of the road. I'm not sure what its original purpose was, but I'll hang on to it to use as a drift.


It's 3 cm in diameter and about 32 cm in length.
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