What have you found on the road?
What have you found on the road?
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Spare tyre

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12,534 posts

159 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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Over the weekend I found a usb rechargeable mechanics inspection light

A 13 to 7 pin trailer electrics adapter

Roll of 3m electrical tape


droopsnoot

14,625 posts

271 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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I keep seeing ratchet straps on the road, though I've never actually found the thing that they were holding in place. I found a complete box set of a series of Futurama, if I'd picked it up when I first walked past it, it would have been immaculate, now the packaging is a bit battered. I found someone's driving license the other week, and I've found quite a few credit or bank cards.

Master Bean

5,199 posts

149 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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Cyclists. There everywhere.

Doofus

34,291 posts

202 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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Maglite torch
Leatherman mini thing
£200 in £10s
Set of car keys. I spent nearly an hour in tbe surrounding residential street trying to find the Peugeot they fitted. Whe I did, I knocked the door outside which the car was parked and asked the lady if it was her car. "It's my son's, but he's out" so I handed her the keys and left. A couple of days later, I found myself in the same street and there was a note on the car windscreen saying "If you are the man who found my car keys, you saved me a lot of hassle. Thank you." smile

N111BJG

1,260 posts

92 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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Many years ago on a quiet country lane I came across a massive box of nappies right in the middle of the road, there must have been 500 in the box, god knows who uses them in that quantity.

s p a c e m a n

12,044 posts

177 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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A kitten, at 5am with no obvious sign of where it came from despite shouting and looking for open doors for 10 minutes. Can't believe people were just driving around it.

Left it on the doorstep of an old people's nursing home, rang the doorbell and legged it hehe

bobtail4x4

4,392 posts

138 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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a few years back I found a 3ft x3ft x3ft box of lightbulbs,

well "found" as in it fell off the truck in front of me,,
every one was broken,

K87

4,279 posts

128 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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I was walking through the Northern Quarter in Manchester, stood at a junction/ corner waiting for traffic to clear. A flat bed lorry turned the corner and shed its load of new brass fittings, taps etc. The lorry didn't stop, I did what I could to clear the road pushing the fittings into the gutter, must admit the I filled my briefcase so full that the handle broke!


Ànother time I was staying at a hotel in north Norfolk at Brancaster. Went for a walk along the road, behind a hedge there were boxes for kitchen appliances, kettles, toasters and so on, must have been about 30 of them, all new and different makes. I guessed that there had been a robbery so didn't want to touch it, went back to the hotel and called the rozzers.

Edited by K87 on Tuesday 18th July 18:56

FakeTaxi

170 posts

40 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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Driving licence of a young bloke who's address was on the same road as me.

Was covered in coke.

Took it back to his address. When his mum answered the door I quickly gave it a good wipe on the back of my jeans to clean it up.

Glosphil

4,872 posts

263 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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A hedgehog on a dual carriageway in Shropshire. 'Harry' then lived in my father-in-law's back garden for a few months.

A (smashed up) washing machine in lane one of the M5.

DavieW

950 posts

137 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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On a night out in Edinburgh just before Christmas a couple of years ago, I found a huge pile of cable ties on the pavement which I stuffed into my wife's handbag - she wasn't best pleased!
Found a flat blade screwdriver at a junction - almost fell off my motorbike picking it up.

kambites

71,445 posts

250 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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I found a really nice Stanley knife, blade extended, in the middle of the road about ten years ago. I still use it. smile

My wife seems to have a tallent for finding umbrellas. We have about 5 and only bought one of them. The one I generally use was in the middle on the road on the Swiss-French border.

Smurfsarepeopletoo

1,011 posts

86 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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Found a Red Squirrel dragging itself across the road a week or so back, couldnt use its back legs, tried to find a number for a local wildlife rescue, couldnt find one, so took it to a local vets who put it down.

Doofus

34,291 posts

202 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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Oh, I found a small Zombie knife, so I phoned the police and they told me to put in in the nearest bin rolleyes

Spare tyre

Original Poster:

12,534 posts

159 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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Doofus said:
Oh, I found a small Zombie knife, so I phoned the police and they told me to put in in the nearest bin rolleyes
Please tell me you knocked on someone’s door with it saying the police said it had to be the NEAREST bin

straight dad

530 posts

186 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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2m Spirit Level
Box of Poker Chips
Glue Gun
Step Ladders
Motorbike Logbook
Box of Baby Clothes
Caravan Hook Up Cable
Ladies Electrical Relaxing Implement
Box of Tools
Signed Framed Football Shirts
Dope
Cuddly Toy



shirt

25,377 posts

230 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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Last week: a dead snake. Kinda glad it was dead as it was about 4 foot long

2 sMoKiN bArReLs

31,998 posts

264 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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Early one morning on the A610 Eastwood bypass I found a woman laying across two lanes. I parked in the middle & persuaded her that it wasn't a good plan.

Spare tyre

Original Poster:

12,534 posts

159 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
Early one morning on the A610 Eastwood bypass I found a woman laying across two lanes. I parked in the middle & persuaded her that it wasn't a good plan.
You are Bob Dylan AICMFP

2 sMoKiN bArReLs

31,998 posts

264 months

Tuesday 18th July 2023
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Spare tyre said:
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
Early one morning on the A610 Eastwood bypass I found a woman laying across two lanes. I parked in the middle & persuaded her that it wasn't a good plan.
You are Bob Dylan AICMFP
Five whole pounds? yikes