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I cycle on country and small town roads and it is interesting the amount of property there is on the
roads. I have picked up several spanners, pliers, a hammer and a fair few elastic straps. Knickers
and underpants seem to be abundant although I didn't retrieve these.
Anyone found any real "gems"
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cigarman@btinternet.com must be edykated coz e writed:
> I cycle on country and small town roads and it is interesting the amount of property there is on
> the roads. I have picked up several spanners, pliers, a hammer and a fair few elastic straps.
> Knickers and underpants seem to be abundant although I didn't retrieve these.
>
> Anyone found any real "gems"
Just the usual road kill, this close to the ground a dead cat looks like a hazard.
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cigarman@btinternet.com <cigarman@btinternet.com> said:
> I cycle on country and small town roads and it is interesting the amount of property there is on
> the roads. I have picked up several spanners, pliers, a hammer and a fair few elastic straps.
> Knickers and underpants seem to be abundant although I didn't retrieve these.
>
> Anyone found any real "gems"
One of those bent stick-things used for prying up manhole covers that don't seem to be sold anywhere
despite being so useful. Beats breaking your fingers when you want to inspect your drains.
Regards,
-david
<cigarman@btinternet.com> wrote
> I cycle on country and small town roads and it is interesting the amount
of
> property there is on the roads. I have picked up several spanners,
pliers,
> a hammer and a fair few elastic straps. Knickers and underpants seem to
be
> abundant although I didn't retrieve these.
I have on occasions found I have a spooky ability to find things that I actually need or am thinking
of buying. E.g. sometime last winter, a decent pair of cycling gloves and a scarf. Long nosed
pliers, tennis balls, Swiss army knife, quite a long list of small things. I used to leave stuff
like that where it was in case someone came back to look for it but it's happened so often now that
I consider it to be a gift from the gods for being a good person and stuff it in my pocket before
anyone else can get their hands on
it.
cigarman@btinternet.comtyped
> I cycle on country and small town roads and it is interesting the amount of property there is on
> the roads. I have picked up several spanners, pliers, a hammer and a fair few elastic straps.
> Knickers and underpants seem to be abundant although I didn't retrieve these.
> Anyone found any real "gems"
A £10 note on the road in York. Numerous allen keys.
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<cigarman@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> I cycle on country and small town roads and it is interesting the amount
of
> property there is on the roads. I have picked up several spanners,
pliers,
> a hammer and a fair few elastic straps. Knickers and underpants seem to
be
> abundant although I didn't retrieve these.
>
> Anyone found any real "gems"
>
> --
> replace deadspam with btinternet to reply Tom Anderson Leighton Buzzard England
I found inner peace.
cigarman@btinternet.com wrote:
> I cycle on country and small town roads and it is interesting the amount of property there is on
> the roads. I have picked up several spanners, pliers, a hammer and a fair few elastic straps.
I can't think of any really great things I've found by the roadside (that I could also carry on the
bike). Bungie cords, useful nuts & bolts, reel of parcel tape.... that's about it ...oh, prop stand
(good one). No bags full of cash :-(
Gloves are so common but I never pick up even nice ones because they're always odd ones. Bit dumb,
really, because it'd only a matter of time before pairs would be completed. I always wonder how
people loose them. Flapping their hands about through car windows?
I heard someone ask recently "where do all the tennis balls go?". How many hundreds do cyclists see
on each ride? What is all that about!?
> Knickers and underpants seem to be abundant although I didn't retrieve these.
That's ok. Your secret's safe with us ;-)
~PB
Andy P wrote:
> a gift from the gods
or Boo Radley wanting to be your friend
cigarman@btinternet.com tried to scribble ...
> I cycle on country and small town roads and it is interesting the amount of property there is on
> the roads. I have picked up several spanners, pliers, a hammer and a fair few elastic straps.
> Knickers and underpants seem to be abundant although I didn't retrieve these.
>
> Anyone found any real "gems"
A thrupenny bit .. An honest to goodness, 'old money' threepenny bit, the one with flat sides .. ;)
I was really pissed, I thought I'd spotted a pound coin. Then a friend suggested the threepenny bit
was possibly worth more than a pound, but alas, 'twas not so .. ;(
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In message <f43ae28de8a923f01d3bf08e2be1c0e6@news.teranews.com>, cigarman@btinternet.com writes
>
>Anyone found any real "gems"
>
My best one was a few years ago when I took my other half out for her first "serious" offroad ride
on her new mountain bike. Five miles from anywhere on a bridleway in the middle of a Cotswold field,
she stops and puffs: "I don't think I can go any further, I haven't any energy left. We should have
brought some food." I look at the ground in front of me. There, lying in the dust, is a seatpack. In
it we find two Mars Bars and two cartons of Ribena, untouched.
We owe somebody out there a big favour. I just hope they made it without their Mars Bars...
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"M Series" <spamyou@127.0.0.1> wrote
> or Boo Radley wanting to be your friend
Boo who? I can remember a band called the Boo Radleys.
Pete Biggs wrote:
>
> Gloves are so common but I never pick up even nice ones because they're always odd ones. Bit dumb,
> really, because it'd only a matter of time before pairs would be completed. I always wonder how
> people loose them. Flapping their hands about through car windows?
>
I lost one of mine by putting them on the rack while unlocking, then riding off with them still
there. One fell off at the first pothole, but luckily I spotted the other one sitting there all
alone before it fell off too.
I went back and found the lost one, and there was much rejoicing in heaven.
Colin McKenzie
<cigarman@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> Anyone found any real "gems"
I kid you not, I found a cannon digital camera (at that time about £400 worth), dented, cracked at
the corner, but still working. Powering it up I found it was full of pictures of a couple in
various stages of... um... shall we say intimacy, clearly taken by a third party who was evidently
in on the action.
Needless to say, I handed it to the nearest police station. I've often wondered if it was ever
claimed... gave the plod on the desk a giggle.
I found an ancient network card, various tools, and also a brand new, unopened 12 pack of durex. I
bet that wrecked a drive out to the sticks...
Tim
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In article <f43ae28de8a923f01d3bf08e2be1c0e6@news.teranews.com>, cigarman@btinternet.com says...
> I cycle on country and small town roads and it is interesting the amount of property there is on
> the roads. I have picked up several spanners, pliers, a hammer and a fair few elastic straps.
> Knickers and underpants seem to be abundant although I didn't retrieve these.
>
> Anyone found any real "gems"
No, but I did find an entire bin bag full of clothes once. I was turning right into a main road and
this bag was just sat there in the middle of the lane. I got off the bike and moved the bag to the
pavement since it was clear no motorist would bother---much easier to swerve around it and leave it
as an SEP. I then saw the a guy waving at me from the other side of the road. It turned out he'd
driven off with the bag on his car roof and it had come off when he took the right hand turn.
Colin
"Andy Key" <news1notthisbit@freewheelnotthisbiteither.plusnorthisbit.com> wrote
> My best one was a few years ago when I took my other half out for her first "serious" offroad ride
> on her new mountain bike. Five miles from anywhere on a bridleway in the middle of a Cotswold
> field, she stops and puffs: "I don't think I can go any further, I haven't any energy left. We
> should have brought some food." I look at the ground in front of me. There, lying in the dust, is
> a seatpack. In it we find two Mars Bars and two cartons of Ribena, untouched.
>
> We owe somebody out there a big favour. I just hope they made it without their Mars Bars...
Somebody else with the talent.
In article <blcm1b$ap1sj$1@ID-144931.news.uni-berlin.de>, Pete Biggs wrote:
>
>I heard someone ask recently "where do all the tennis balls go?". How many hundreds do cyclists see
>on each ride? What is all that about!?
Can't say I've ever noticed a tennis ball in/beside the road, but my guess would be dog toys. Take
the dog for a walk with a ball to play with, start walking back with ball in dog's mouth, get home
with no ball in dog's mouth. Later another dog goes through the same hedge into the same ditch when
it's dried out a bit, and leaves the ball somewhere findable. Similar mechanisms possibly apply to
balls lost over the fence while actually playing tennis.
"Tim Dunne" <Bit_Bucket@Blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:<qVoeb.5342$mw6.44897492@news-text.cableinet.net>...
>
> I kid you not, I found a cannon digital camera (at that time about £400 worth), dented, cracked at
> the corner, but still working. Powering it up I found it was full of pictures of a couple in
> various stages of... um... shall we say intimacy, clearly taken by a third party who was evidently
> in on the action.
>
Pity you couldn't track down the participants - might have been a good way to earn a few bob:-)
<Herbert Anchovy>
Good evening, and welcome to "Blackmail"!
</Herbert Anchovy>
David E. Belcher
Andy P must be edykated coz e writed:
> "M Series" <spamyou@127.0.0.1> wrote
>
>> or Boo Radley wanting to be your friend
>
> Boo who? I can remember a band called the Boo Radleys.
>
>
To Kill a Mocking Bird. Watch out for holes in trees and bubble gum.
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<cigarman@btinternet.com> wrote:
> I cycle on country and small town roads and it is interesting the amount of property there is on
> the roads. I have picked up several spanners, pliers, a hammer and a fair few elastic straps.
> Knickers and underpants seem to be abundant although I didn't retrieve these.
>
> Anyone found any real "gems"
An adjustable spanner is about the most exciting thing I've ever found... Useful but dull :-)
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