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  • Best things you've ever found..
  • pinetree
    Free Member

    First day of living in a new city I came across a lottery ticket lying on the ground. Checked the numbers and it had won a tenner! So basically, a stranger in York bought me and the missus a couple of bottles of wine as a housewarming gift!

    Best bit is I’ve never bought a lottery ticket in my life.

    willard
    Full Member

    I found a fiver on the tidemark at Felixstowe as a kid. That was pretty impressive. Other than that, I’ve not really had much luck at finding things.

    Apparently the area round Felixstowe is amazing for finding stuff washed up from Holland-UK illicit trips. Despite spending a lot of time walking the beaches there with dogs as a kid, I’ve seen nothing like that.

    Oh, just remembered… I found a crashed R/C aeroplane once. I repaired it, then my mate crashed it for me. Amazing.

    ianmoody
    Free Member

    I found Threlkeld village in Cumbria. The pub to be more specific, ‘The Horse and Farrier’ I believe. I’d spent 4 days hiking and wild camping over a long bank holiday weekend and stumbled into the village to catch a bus, after a well deserved pint. That was one of the best pints I’ve ever had.

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    bencooper
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    Exploring the labs of a disused explosives factory, I found a grey lump wrapped up in greaseproof paper, with “Plaster Gelatine” written on it.

    So I did what any sensible person would do – I took it to the shop and tested it 🙂

    It was a dummy package.

    DezB
    Free Member

    This bike in a field. Needed a chain and some brakes.
    (and a cool dude to ride it 🙂 )

    Milkie
    Free Member

    Years ago… Hedge Porn! 😆

    Not so long ago I was on a local road ride, friend stopped rather abruptly in front of me I looked down and at my feet was a little bag of skunk in the road! We were rather happy after that! 😆

    McHamish
    Free Member

    This bike in a field. Needed a chain and some brakes.
    (and a cool dude to ride it )

    Are you sure that isn’t some kids bike that was stolen by drunk yobs and dumped in a field?

    I hope your kid doesn’t bump in to the previous owner!

    rocketman
    Free Member

    So many bike bits on the Chase I leave them there now

    Rear lights – literally dozens
    Sunglasses – mostly ridden over and/or scratched to blazes
    Gloves
    Jerseys/jackets/goggles
    Those fricken Rock Shox rebound adjusters
    Rear mudguards

    Quite a bit of loose change

    Five wallets – all handed in to the bike shop

    Elsewhere I have found prob £50 in dropped notes while propping up bars and prob the same again in coins on car parks and in the ‘rejected coins’ tray in meters – something my FIL got me started on years ago 🙂

    McHamish
    Free Member

    Oh and in the interests of the thread – we found £20 while going through security at the Olympic park yesterday…it paid for lunch.

    My wife always seems to find money…she found £20 in a stack of shopping baskets in Lidl once too.

    I think i need to check whether I have any holes in my pockets.

    DezB
    Free Member

    Are you sure that isn’t some kids bike that was stolen by drunk yobs and dumped in a field?

    Its possible, but it was pretty useless and took my “expertise” to get it rideable again. 😉

    SiB
    Free Member

    Was fishing in Anglesey about 10 years ago and my youngest daughter ran up to me with a silver object in her hand saying she had found a bomb…….and she had, a bud bomb (blue angel variety). Not my find but still comes in handy to this day

    Couple of years ago I stumbled across 3 bin bags with the remains of a weed harvest in……took it home and managed to get about two ounces of very nice pickings from it, took hours to do my harvest but worth it.

    A sheet of trips in Glastonbury……mad crazy weekend

    A wallet belonging to a teacher who I didnt get on with….had his cash card in with the PIN number written down on seperate piece of paper, the fool!!

    Plenty of hedge porn, still

    Madfly
    Free Member

    First time out on a road bike last night after years of swearing i’d never do it, spotted a fiver by the side of the road.

    Naturally, I handed it in at the local pub on the way home police station this morning.

    nbt
    Full Member

    Brilliant. *chapeau*

    maccruiskeen
    Full Member

    G spot…

    Pics or didn’t happen

    🙂

    alexstumpy11
    Free Member

    on the way home from wales i spotted a perfectly shaped turban on the side of the road! – obviously i didnt get it! but thought it was quite funny how it must have flown off an indian mans head in his convertible!:D

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    As mentioned in that planners thread.. Years ago I was renovating my G2 listed cottage in Ironbridge, Shropshire. Well as I was digging out the cellar (house was on massive hill coming out of the village) I found a safe dug into the wall under the road.. It took 2 days to dig out and was all rusted up. We tried to open it but it being iron we took it to Blists Hill museum so they could open it, turns out there were some plans of Coalbrookdale and some letter stamps ( the wax seal variety)
    I wanted to keep the map of the area but the museum insisted we hand it over to the museum. Last time I went there it was still on display.
    Nice.

    Lifer
    Free Member

    craigxxl – Member
    Found a set of keys with a BMW key on it at Morrisons. Went to hand them in at Customer Services and the dickhead that cut me up earlier in his X5 was given the girl behind the counter some grief over his missing keys insisting he must have pick pocketed. Decided to buy a lottery ticket instead and hand the keys in at the police station instead.

    Instant karma’s gonna get you!

    Milkie – Member
    Years ago… Hedge Porn!

    You just reminded me:

    http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/09/24/nation-mourns-death-of-last-depositor-of-porn-mags-in-hedges

    😥

    buzz-lightyear
    Free Member

    A gold ring.

    sharki
    Free Member

    Missing children on the Quantocks as darkness came in.

    They’d been missing for 3 hrs, it was raining and getting dark when i was told by the first policeman to arrive on the scene. I’d just finished a ride, but took off in search.It’s helps to know the area and how to use the landscape to your advantage when searching for people.

    Great feeling to reunite them all.
    Tops anything material i’ve found, though a silver sixpence on the SWCP was pretty cool.

    Mantastic
    Free Member

    Myself- after several operations I hit a dark period in my life. Through biking I found myself again and never looked back since 🙂

    neilthewheel
    Full Member

    A satsuma by the side of the road…about 500km inside the Arctic Circle in Finland, in the middle of a pine and birch forest.

    smiffy
    Full Member

    fossilised boob.

    nedoverendsmole
    Free Member

    Found a massive “king dick” adjustable spanner near a railway once

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