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saw a red tailed hawk sitting on a fence post like a giant parrot today e: did not take it home, to be clear
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Maigius posted:My dad once saw turtles loving. Some friends and I were on the Toronto Islands a few years ago, walking back to the last ferry of the night after enjoying some psychedelics on the beach. We stopped on the multi-use path and almost missed the ferry because we were gawking at two toads getting it on.
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 my secret is to rib it.
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A box of chocolate. On the road. We looked at the road chocolate. Then we ate the road chocolate
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a loving Bunch of psilocybe mushrooms, right by a 4-way stop, they were on all four corners
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And how many corners there were after you shroomed up?
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So one time I was driving through the woods at age 17 or so, in the middle of nowhere to go to a Boy Scout event that was like 2 hours away from where I was when I stopped. I ran over something and it made a crumpling sound so I pulled over and got out, checked my tires and everything looked alright. I figured it was just a stick or something that made a weird sound - so I went to get back in my car. As I walked around to the drivers side I saw these two masks sitting there staring at me, leaned up against a tree. So of course I grabbed them and have kept them ever since. 
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ManBoyChef posted:found a bowling ball. didnt fit my fingers. found a bowling ball, fit my fingers perfectly but was about 30 years old and chipped all to hell we found uses for it though 
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Your mom! But seriously folks I haven't found anything cool on the side of the road, but when I was five I saw something horrifying; on the walk to school, for some reason there was a huge deer head lying halfway in the gutter. Like, I don't know, some hunter killed it, cut the head off and flung it into the street? It gave me loving nightmares. Then there's that scene in Evil Dead II where the deer head is laughing at Ash and gently caress I saw that movie when I was like seven and it gave me flashbacks and my mother made fun of me forever because I "got spooked by the deer from Return From the Living Dead" and she never believed me about seeing a giant fuckin deer head -- like seriously almost as big as I was! -- lying there, and not like, a skull, but a bloody head with eyes goddammit
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Dec 26, 2022 03:28
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A massive brick of drugs right by my driveway. Don't know what kind, just a big white brick wrapped in plastic and tape. The night before cops had been chasing somebody past my house, I guess they ditched it.
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Dec 26, 2022 08:37
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gleebster posted:As much as twenty dollars, US. A few years ago, a church down the street from me was having a yard sale and I bought a digitial camera for $25. I went for a walk the next day and passed by the church and found $20 in the same spot.
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Dec 26, 2022 14:07
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PirateDentist posted:I found a big dewalt measuring tape. Like a 30 foot one. Last year I found a Milwaukee cordless impact gun. 50' Stanley tape and an 18v DeWalt impact driver here. I still use the tape and my brother still uses the driver. they were both in the middle of the road at the stoplight closest to my house, 2 separate occasions. other things: -folding hand truck -someone's bowling bag from the 80s, replete with shoes, ball, and some sort of championship towel -really cool piece of wood -two sex-toy boxes and next to them the ID of the person one presumes had bought those sex toys
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Dec 26, 2022 18:47
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A robin, head down in the neighbors lawn, scrawny little feet pointing to the sky. We poked it with a stick and discovered that it was, in fact, headless. There was also the time the neighbor lady ran over a cat right in front of the school bus stop. I remember watching its eyeball bubble while waiting for the bus to pick us up. eta: the dead cat was not cool but it sure was memorable butthole pornpig has a new favorite as of 06:34 on Dec 27, 2022 |
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My grandad once found a tortoise hanging out on the side of the road. Not native wildlife in rural England, that. Years later I was in the car with him and we saw a radio in the same place he found the tortoise. That stretch of road then obviously took on Great Magical Significance to me, but I never found any more treasures there.
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Dec 27, 2022 10:40
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Just like Pie Dog! https://twitter.com/ChrisBramwell/status/950819881120825344?s=20&t=Ysr1az3pyUSajgwk3CJFVg
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A ten-pound note.  Also I once saw a live badger, but my friends and I were coming down off an MDMA all-nighter and they were adamant that I’d just hallucinated it. I know what I saw, dammit!
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i found a hundred bucks in a parking lot once, but that's not really by the side of the road. one time i found a complete PS1 literally in the gutter of the road, with a burned MGS1 disc in it. i gave it to a friend, who reported that the system worked, but it wasn't modded to read burned discs. maybe someone was disc swapping?
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I picked up a Swiss Army laptop backpack on the side of the road with a "free" sign on it. Was on a walk to a bar, got there and the bouncer decided to search it and found a bunch of loose pills in one of the compartments that I had no answer for. Later found out they were NyQuil tablets, but looked totally sketchy. A few years later during covid I found a box of random craft beers with a note from a pissed off girl friend that tossed her ex's poo poo out on the curb. Neighborhood was wild. E: gently caress, forgot that the backpack also had a pair of cheap motorola walkie-talkies and about $20 in loose coins spatial trait has a new favorite as of 14:59 on Dec 30, 2022 |
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Dec 30, 2022 14:56
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That backpack has seen more than most people do.
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Dec 30, 2022 18:26
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We get a lot of what my husband calls “ feral wigs” in our area. Just a wig, by itself, on the sidewalk or in the street. I’d love to know how they get there.
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Dec 30, 2022 18:48
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we call those tumbleweave
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Star trek warned us about those, get the national guard on the line!
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I think it's like hermit crabs. One will shed a too small wig and crawl into a larger one, leaving the old wig behind for another. The circle of life
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Dec 31, 2022 00:29
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A £20 note, a big bag of weed and a NATO parachutists smock. Not all at the same time, though.
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I found a kris once (Indonesian ceremonial dagger) on the side of the road with some other household junk, and ever since I've had terrible bad luck...
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shame on an IGA posted:we call those tumbleweave Holy hell thats hilarious. I live in Chicago and I too have always wondered why the hell they're always by the on ramp to the highway by my house. Tumbleweave!
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I didn’t really “find” it, but while I was training for my CDL, I looked out the window right outside of LA, in Chino Hills, and saw a Great Blue Heron eating a very large red squirrel. It had the entire body of the squirrel down its gullet and was trying to swallow the big bushy tail. Meanwhile, cars are rushing by at 70 on the freeway. It was a trip.
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Should have boxed him for it, free squirrel
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Maigius posted:My dad once saw turtles loving. did he hear them? because they get surprisingly vocal
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i found this cool thing sitting in a street gutter in an industrial part of my city with one paw raised, it was such a cliche full of mites, emaciated, no chip or tattoo, a few months old, pregnant (!), and completely domesticated and litter-trained. two years later and she's still pretty scared of lots of things, but she is very happy and is also very tolerant when i sing Ben Folds Five "Brick" at her all weepily
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My part of town has regular "hard rubbish" collection days where people put out old unwanted stuff which is too big to fit in the regular rubbish and the council sends around trucks to clear it all away so for one magical week in the year the streets are filled with random poo poo which is heaven for a One year someone threw out a taxidermied cobra fighting a mongoose but someone else beat me to it.  Captain Monkey posted:So one time I was driving through the woods at age 17 or so, in the middle of nowhere to go to a Boy Scout event that was like 2 hours away from where I was when I stopped. Do you want to get haunted by goddamn w*ndigoes??? Because that's exactly how you get haunted by w*ndigoes
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:My part of town has regular "hard rubbish" collection days where people put out old unwanted stuff which is too big to fit in the regular rubbish and the council sends around trucks to clear it all away so for one magical week in the year the streets are filled with random poo poo which is heaven for a Ah, free garage sale day. Got most of my furniture that way until the bed bug outbreak
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Do you want to get haunted by goddamn w*ndigoes??? Because that's exactly how you get haunted by w*ndigoes Look they only distantly scream my name when the temperature is under 10F, and I live in Texas so it's hardly a problem.
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Gravid Topiary posted:very tolerant when i sing Ben Folds Five "Brick" at her all weepily please don't torture animals
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Not exactly 'the side of the road' but I'm also always curious about 'floor scores' and usually ask my service industry friends about the weirdest or coolest things they've found on the floor at work. I've found drugs a few times working in various bars. Usually cocaine. One time I was heading to the kitchen to bus an order and I watched a guy drop a baggie of something while crossing in front of me to use the washroom. Instinctively I grabbed it without looking, and opened my hand in the kitchen to reveal what must have been an eightball of the stuff. Next time I walked by the guy's table, he and his buddy were on the floor looking for it with their phone flashlights. "Hey is there something I can help you find?" I asked, with a big poo poo-eating grin on my face. I didn't want to hold onto the stuff so one of the line cooks ended up taking it off of my hands and within a half hour all three of them were coked to the gills. Food came out really fast that night. Found a full bottle of some expensive-rear end Yves St Laurent cologne underneath a table at the arcade bar. That's become my 'walkin around' fragrance. But by far the weirdest thing I've ever found was a packet of smelling salts. I was working a bussing shift at the arcade and stepped on something, felt it crunch. Leaned in to inspect it and caught a huge whiff right away. Maybe some patron had a fainting disorder or something, I can't see why you'd want to get all torqued up to play pinball.
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I found a watch, once. Not some crazy expensive one or anything, but it was a nice-looking watch in good condition. I ended up giving it to a friend who was complaining about not having a watch, since I didn't have a use for it. Found some kind of bad speakers, another time. They work though, so I hung onto them. I was using them for surround sound on my computer for a while. It was pretty cool playing Doom and hearing a demon literally behind me in real life. I'll probably use them that way again next time I have the space for them. Saw a hatstand during one hard rubbish, but I was on my way to work and it'd been taken before I got home.
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Mister Speaker posted:I've found drugs a few times I found a nickel of weed once on the way to class. stuffed it in my sock, went to class, went home, called my brother to tell him the good news, clicked over on call waiting to learn from a friend that an airplane had hit the World Trade Center.
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Last summer I was on a hot streak of finding stuff abandoned around town. Best thing I picked up was a 6 cup Chemex coffee pot on a curb, makes the best cup of coffee I've ever had. I also found: - Brand new 16 oz insulated aluminum tumbler, Target price tag still in place - 24 oz Tervis water bottle - 24 oz Nalgene bottle - 24 oz Hydro Flask - Insulated aluminum mug (I am good on insulated drinkware for a while) - Jansport Merit backpack (I think this one had probably been stolen, cleaned out and abandoned; I spotted it on top of a bus shelter, every pocket was unzipped and all that was left inside was a receipt dated around two weeks earlier.) A year or two ago I found an LG Android phone lying by the road that I was almost certain was not functional, even after swapping out the original battery with a cheapie replacement from Amazon. Months later it miraculously sprang to life and I discovered that it was a prepaid phone that, based on the photo reel and message history, somebody had for maybe a week before losing.
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Empty Sandwich posted:I found a nickel of weed once on the way to class. stuffed it in my sock, went to class, went home, called my brother to tell him the good news, clicked over on call waiting to learn from a friend that an airplane had hit the World Trade Center. Come on, I think we all need closure on that anecdote.
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Unkempt posted:Come on, I think we all need closure on that anecdote. I can't even remember the date!
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