Been for a bike ride this afternoon and there was a starter motor on the road! still nice and warm, someone is in for a suprise when they try to start
their car next! It slowed me down as I took it home, works fine has the numbers 96 518 987 and TX 120 on it.
Phoned the local ramblers club today, but the bloke who answered just
went on and on.
Most common thing I find on the side of the road are shoes... pairs or singles, they're quite a regular thing. And not old ones either, some
pretty expensive looking trainers and work boots.
Yesterday I did catch sight of what looked to be a nice 3/8" ratchet in the middle of the road, unfortunately I couldn't pull over and go
back for it.
Funny you mention a rachet I found a nice 3/8 Halfords one also a lambda sensor socket. I guess its just a variation of beach combing. My wife is not
impressed though
Phoned the local ramblers club today, but the bloke who answered just
went on and on.
I remember as a bicycle riding kid of 13 finding men's top shelf magazines. Not just one a whole bundle tied up with string at the side of the
road (think they were new, no page's stuck together).
Found a single boot in the middle of a field dog walking this afternoon. I am yet to figure out why I only ever find single boots or shoes, and what
decision was made to leave just one behind?!
“Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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posted on 2/5/15 at 08:44 PM
On another forum, i frequent, one of the guys had posted about odd noises on his 7, that he could never find
untill one day he accelerated away, and his car jumped violiently into the air
He had driven over his own alternator
Thats was probably spelt wrong, or had some grammer, that the "grammer police have to have a moan at
quote:Originally posted by Smoking Frog
I remember as a bicycle riding kid of 13 finding men's top shelf magazines. Not just one a whole bundle tied up with string at the side of the
road (think they were new, no page's stuck together).
My brother did a stint (trying to pay off uni fees) of motorway/highway litter picking for 9 months.
Porno mags, porno dvd`s and old school video tapes were an everyday occurrence. Along with thousands of bottles of lemonade.... Which was really
urine from people who did not want to stop driving.
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posted on 3/5/15 at 12:12 AM
I have found countless tools on the side of the road. The locost makes it really easy to pick them up. Especially having a RHD car in a LHD
country!!!!!!
quote:Originally posted by Slimy38
Most common thing I find on the side of the road are shoes... pairs or singles, they're quite a regular thing. And not old ones either, some
pretty expensive looking trainers and work boots.
From what I hear, awkward drunk people that end up in ambulances often end up with only one shoe once they get to the hospital...
Back in the days...
Tortoises...
Crabs...
Potatoes..
Pencils.
Not in a distant past:
A boa constrictor (uxcan) in a gas station...
Horseshoe crab at a diner by the sea...
Beware of what you wish.. for it may come true....
Large block of concrete in the first lane of an unlit motorway in the early hours of the morning.
Unconscious cyclist who'd been riding head down and failed to see a kitchen drawer lying in the road, despite the road being dead straight and
it being broad daylight!
Roll of carpet in the 2nd lane of the M6. Not exactly found - I saw it fall out of the side of a curtainsider and had to dodge around it. As I was in
the kit, with full weather gear, I couldn't put my hand out to try and point him to the hard-shoulder and it took me miles to stop him and tell
him.
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posted on 3/5/15 at 09:08 AM
50 Ton hydraulic jack
Settee and two chairs in a pass - strangely enough all were upright on their legs - truck stopped round the next bend with rest of suite on it.
Dead cow
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posted on 3/5/15 at 09:09 AM
Rubbish, rubbish and more rubbish.... you're very aware of the road surface on a motorcycle.
Ratchet straps are very common lethality, as are blocks of wood, bricks, shredded tyre fragments and diesel.
The pile of gravel, carnage and crap at junctions.. frightening.
The weirdest thing we've seen was a cow. Not out of the ordinary in rural Devon but this was on Basset Green Avenue in Southampton. Still no
idea where it came from or where it was going.
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posted on 3/5/15 at 01:28 PM
Most useful was a hefty chain and hook useful for the heavy items dangling from the engine crane
Back on the cow theme the worst was a herd of 19 Aberdeen Angus cattle strewn down the road legs in the air dead as dodos then an artic with all the
front stoved in. It turned out that someone left a gate open and they'd wandered out in the middle of a dark night. The driver would have been
on top of them as soon as he spotted them. It's a fast bit of road heading East at the end of the Appleby by pass on the A66. Quite often
when I'm pressing on in the dark I have that scenario in the back of my mind.
nice new set of four legged chain brothers on a roundabout.
i have three snap on spanners from different roundabouts
ratchet straps i have stopped collecting
various sockets and screwdrivers.
the dirty bits at roundabouts a favorite places to find stuff.
best one though was a kids ride on tractor found in a layby, i took it to the police and was given it back un claimed three months later. my nephew
loved it
The M11 and the A14 are littered with tyre carcasses , and ratchet straps .i once picked up a new roll of scanners that fell off the back of a lorry
and a pair of brand new Jerry cans left by the side of the road. The worst thing I found was a guys body when I lived beside what was the A604 which
is now the M11 A14 junction just north of Cambridge
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