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Not sure I've ever found anything good. Found a gold necklace with stones set into it. Kept it until the new GF threw it out thinking it was an exes..
hedge porn
Aside from the afore mentioned Bush Bongo, I recently found something similar to this whilst doing some ground work around the back of my place...
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Not worth anything but it cleaned-up quite nicely. Found an old brass weight in the same hole but haven't given it the Time Team treatment yet.
At work, I used to find tools inside machinery from the hire centres. Usually Snap On stuff too. Found a few ratchets, spanners and allen keys...cheers!
Roast Beef Monster Munch (more 'discovered' than 'found')
Oh I found a candle stick grown into an elder bush 6 feet up
My bottle at Leith Hill last Monday.
found a ratcheting spanner in the road the other day.
My wallet, in the bathroom at a houseparty, 6 hours after I'd lost it in a nightclub.
Still haven't managed to work out how that happened, but I was very happy.
A sponge.
I wanted to wash my car, realised I didn't have sponge, so set off for Halfords. Literally 10 yards from my house, lying in the middle of the road was a large, brand new, bright yellow, car washing sponge.
So I took it [s] to the police station, no one claimed it and 6 months later it was mine[/s] home.
I just found a T25 torx bit in the door of my 06 Fiesta.
How it took 6 years to rattle loose & start rolling around inside the door trim, i don't know.
A tenpin bowling ball.
On Kinder.
Some smashed up Oakleys in a bush near Leith Hill. Repaired as new by Oakley for £13. A cheap year for sunglasses... :O))
Omega Seamaster. Found while night riding - mate got a flat, I slowed down to pull over, noticed something half buried in the mud, thanks very much!
In my defence I did go and talk to the local plod the next day. He advised me to keep it as it couldn't be traced and if handed in would most likely be claimed by some friend of PC Unscrupulous. Also spoke to the local Omega dealer who confirmed you can't trace ownership through serial number.
Maybe not the best, but pretty amazing -
An intact .303 bullet complete with rifling marks from the barrel. Found in the dunes at Yellocraigs.
The dunes were used for target practice by Bristol Beaufighters during WW2 so I guess it come from one os those.
chugg08 - did you make a necklace out of it?
Me and an ex used to while away hours and hours walking the tideline at various Westcountry beaches in the hope of finding washed up contraband.. specifically packages containing very expensive exotic illegal imports..
we never found anything though, and ironically, when the MSC Napoli ran aground we didn't attend the free for all that saw people 'finding' brand new BMW motorcycles, Landrover parts and endless mountains of toothpaste and toilet rolls..
A sponge.I wanted to wash my car, realised I didn't have sponge, so set off for Halfords. Literally 10 yards from my house, lying in the middle of the road was a large, brand new, bright yellow, car washing sponge.
Proof that God does exist.....
DrP
😉
Not really found, but left in an attic to a new home we had just bought at auction, found a collection of early playboy mags from the 1960-70's in our attic, all neatly wrapped up in yearly bundles and stacked away neatly.
Thinking about it, they are still up there 😯
A stash of crow bangers in a box (200+) which had been dumped with a pile of rubbish down a lane, had a great deal of fun letting them off!
A wallet stuffed with notes in a Spanish nightclub, I handed it in and it was claimed by a gorrila of a guy, who procceded to tell us how he was wanted in many differnet countries round the world, he then proceed to get our group of friends slaughtered on Sangria!
Proof that God does exist.....
And with that God disappeared in a puff of logic.
A 'leopard skin' g-string hanging on a branch in the hedgerow, with a hole cut in it for a 'gentleman sausage'.
Actually, that wasn't a great find.
Back in the day, it would have to be a hedgerow bongo stash
hedgerow bongo
Ahhh, happy days!
an 1/8th on a chip shop floor whilst on holiday in cornwall, spent the rest of the week looking up at the sky, contemplating and eating crisps.
A parsons jack Russell. Me and a mate were cycling down an old train line late one night after a shift. The area is surrounded by farms and we thought we could see an escaped piglet running in front of us (it was dark). Chasing after it we realised it was a dog, my mate took him home and rang the RSPCA etc next day. To cut a long story short my mate ended up keeping him he's a great dog 4 years later.
An unopened rather nice bottle of rum in a bush near my old flat. The used noddy over the top did put me off from imbibing it though 🙁
A divers knife in the sea at Seaford when I was about 8, I've still got it.
A live mortar round which brought out bomb disposal to blow it up along with a couple of others and a hand grenade they found while sweeping the area.
A shirt that was in a suitcase that some guys with big moustaches were going to blow up as part of a training film we were making. I grabbed it from them and told them there was no way they were blowing it up.
A tortoise in the park.
Not the best (definatley not the best!)
Found a VHS video in a layby at the start of our local 10 mile time trial (this was about 20 years ago). Friend took it home and later that week insisted I watch it.
So anticipating some hot sexual action film, I was disturbed to find it was a taping of the film 'Wicked Lady', which half way through was overtaped with a film of a man setting up his video camera, taking his trousers down, and me swiftly switching it off!
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Bought a phone of Ebay once. He couldn't figure out how to work it properly.
Apart from the video (of himself and the Mrs) which I found.
Thanked him for the video on his Ebay feedback 8)
I'm either eagle eyed or a jammy git with bad posture who looks at the floor a lot. My finds this year include...
several grams of white powder, quite a lot of skunk (three bags wrapped up in a £20 in one find!), several walletts/purses post theft with no money or cards but bus passes/driving licenses make sure they get back to their owners. A gun (though the police kept that), about £60 in cash so far, a spare wheel with brand new tyre for a citroen C3 (which my wife has), a memory card full of "compromising pictures" of a girl I know (friend of friend), a pile of stolen wood "arrived" in my garden (rough cut pine in 8ft lengths, about 20 of them), police advised since it was fly tipped on my land i could do what I wanted with it (i did check with the joiner up the road if he'd lost any..), a set of car keys, next to a nice Golf (which un-locked it).
I'm known for being a bit of a magpie and on most nights out I'll collect at least £5 form the floor of bars!
Best find ever though was my uncles watch, which he gave me just before he died. I lost it in a moshpit at leeds festival. several hours later, Less than Jake got the whole crowd to sit down, and where I happened to sit, was my watch. I then lost it again the next year (weirdly at a less than jake gig) but only found a camera at that gig.
My mojo ..... 😆
I found a wee magnetic plush alien dude once, and a little beanie baby giraffe. Both very pleasing
My mum lost her wedding ring on a walk in the lakes once. Several years later she walked the same route and five minutes in to the walk..... found it again.
Grot down a badger hole 😉
Snorkelling in Zante, saw something deep down (probably 15ft or so) that looked like it might be worth investigating.
It turned out to be a rolled up wad of Drachma that was enough to pay for that night's meal and beers for two of us.
Grot down a badger hole
I don't think anyone has considered the severe financial impact the government's Badger Cull is going to have on the porn publishing industry
A fiver wrapped around a (new) tampon. The fiver was the good bit, I binned the tampon.
Found an iPod crammed with music and signed by U2 in a pub in Sheffield. It kept me company for a couple of years and then I left it on a park bench in Hiroshima.
A straw hat.
I'd been on a school trip (as a staff member!) to Normandie, and somewhere on the way back I caught what I suspect may have been a hybrid of swine flu and AIDS. After seeing all the youngun's off the coach, I made my way back to my car in a daze only to discover a straw hat perched above the driver's door.
A big block of hash (at least an ounce) sat on a folded £20 note at a music festival.
A harder thing to find was my way home that evening
Some bits of burnt person...on a river in India.. 😯
Found a fiver on the floor of Pret a Manger in the only time I've ever been in one.
Doubt it paid for lunch to be honest.
Some bits of burnt person...on a river in India..
So what was the best thing about that ?
found a set of house and car keys on the ride today.... the only clue was a tag saying "I don't do mornings" 😯 gave it to a local walking a dog to hand in at the local supermarket. Other than that, chain splitter, huge black Tortoise, MMX helmet (in excellent condition), horse whip, rounders bat....
Wenger Swiss Army Knife in Buxton swimming pool changing rooms when I was a kid
Found a fiver on the floor of Pret a Manger
early in my drinking career i found a crisp £20 on the doorstep rushing into a pub to catch last orders. Mild was 65p a pint then. Three people could have quite a lot of fun in the 10 minutes of before the bell for that kind of money.
IIRC we woke up in my friends bedsit with two other finds- a life size cardboard cut out of Maurine Lipman and a revolving sign that may have come off the roof of the Walls Ice Cream depot but we weren't sure.
A block of semtex with wires sticking out of it on a beach on the Isle of Man - bomb disposal, helichoppers the lot turned out
huge bag of porn in a hedge hiking on our way to a patrol camp at scouts, obviously over-excited me as i had an asthma attack and had to be taken home later that evening!
bag of weed on a nightbus 🙂
£20 note on the floor of a Lidl. On a negative note, I'm pretty sure that I've lost more than £20 in my life in misplaced notes.
An iPod shuffle, and a 20€ note on the trail which, combined with pro-discount, covered nearly half the cost of a new set of Oakleys!
Lots of good finds 🙂
Here's mine.
On my birthday this year my new GF and I were staying in the Cotswolds in a Shepherd's Hut (Gypsy Caravan) thing. Glamping or something.
We went out for a walk and the GF announces she's lost an earring, a nice pearl one her sister brough back from her honeymoon. (earrings on a walk? well it was my birthday 🙂 ). Kinda spoiled the mood.
Later on in the hut/caravan I take my shoes off to appreciate the fur/hide rug and what do I feel with my feet? One pearl earring.
😀
Jon, did she have any other pear....
Actually, no.
😉
I found a poo resting at the bottom of the deep end of the local swimming pool.
I found a poo resting at the bottom of the deep end of the local swimming pool.
with your toes?
Or were you fetching plastic bricks and fished that up instead?
if thats a highlight in your life then you've made me feel a little bit sad 😥I found a poo resting at the bottom of the deep end of the local swimming pool.
with your toes?Or were you fetching plastic bricks and fished that up instead?
I was on a scuba course and the discovery of the poo helped the break up the monotony of the pool tiles.
if thats a highlight in your life then you've made me feel a little bit sad
Don't feel sad on my account, I wouldn't call it a highlight but it was certainly memorable. I was going to write something about having found true love but I made myself a little sick with the sugary sweetness of the comment.
love.
Three of us were in a motel in S Carolina on a company do - turns out the state is dry on Sundays, the bar was shut, walking despondently across the car park we find the remains of a six pack with three bottles of Budweiser in it. Ok, so the quantity and quality could have been better, but it almost makes you believe in benign providence.
Found out the next day that the N Carolina state line was a few hundred yards down the road, could have got a drink there.
And a foot length of railway track, now lives in the garage and makes an extremely useful mini anvil.
Another ipod here. A shuffle with a nike plus attached to it, after the royal parks half marathon. I was in a hurry to meet somone, and wasn't minded to give it to the marshall who'd told me off for standing on a fence to look for them, so I took it home.
It was named "Nicki's iPod", and had her run time from the Nike+. A little gentle stalking through the results found two Nickis with similar times, I emailed organisers asking them to get in touch with them, one emailed me, very grateful, I posted it back to her.
I would have been quite happy keeping it (it was etched as a corporate gift anyway, and there was some good music on there too) if there hadn't been a very good way of getting it back to the righful owner, but there was, so I got a nice warm glow instead.
hedgerow bongo
I remember that, they drink it in the Congo, don't they?
The waank bank on facebook today
Pre war Snap On 3/8" drive racket buried on a hill in Wilshire, is still in one of tool boxes and gets used for bike jobs at home.
Set of nice Allen keys in the car after a pricey service.
Four cycling caps.
Two Buffs.
About 15 cycling bottles at the bottom of the last climb in a Spanish stage race, but I was in the race, so rolled back down to pick them up after the finish.
Also found £10'000 worth of French Francs in a street in Paris.
I did similar scruff except I found an eighth just after I had missed the ferry to the isle of man and needed to waste about 6 hours at Liverpool docks .. it came in useful! !
Also found £10'000 worth of French Francs in a street in Paris.
Flip! What did you do with them?
G spot...
[i]Flip! What did you do with them? [/i]
Got them home to England then bought a mountain bike, of course.
Long story, but I think it was money from a drug deal that had gone wrong and been thrown or dropped in the street. I tripped over it while drunk and saw it was cash.
I wouldn't call it a highlight but it was certainly memorable. I was going to write something about having found true love but I made myself a little sick with the sugary sweetness of the comment.
I sincerely hope that they were two separate incidents.
A cast iron fireplace outside a dodgy second hand shop on Wash Lane in Bury, which was an exact match to the one in the bedroom of the house I was renovating 20 miles away. It was covered in pink paint and I paid £15 for it. Fitted straight into place in the second bedroom (once dipped and stripped)
Walking along the road with the mrs and spotted an undamaged tin of tuna in the gutter. Picked it up and had a look, it looked fine so popped it in my pocket. Asked what I was going to do with it, I replied, much to the wife's disgust, that my sarnies for work the next day were sorted.
She thought someone may have poisioned it and left it there!
Road kill tuna sandwiches tasted great!
My marbles, lost many years ago in a haze of ale and drugs. Found them after a long bout of sobriety, leaving my ex and taking up cycling.
Not sure if it was the best but when I was a student in Hyde Park in Leeds I was lounging on the grass on a nice day - stretched my hand out and it rested on what I realised was a bag of skunk someone must have dropped, put my other hand out and found a full packet of Marlboro Lights. Happy days. 🙂
Maria Louisa........................in a restaurant in the mid 1980s. Bloody amazing
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.
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.
😀
In the road on my way home from school in '84 , a very nice but slightly scratched seiko stainless calculator watch which at the time cost around 180 quid ! The bracelet pin was missing which I guessed was the reason it ended up in the road, next day swapped it for a Sanyo personal stereo and headphones with dolby watchamecallit and built in radio ( cost around 70 notes at the time and was well flash and a pile of notes around 50 I think,
Local fat millionaires greedy son was the buyer , he had to have it the fat muppet, he's still a fat greedy so and so but I'm pretty sure he doesn't still have the watch , I spent the cash on bmx parts 🙂
One of my mates also claims he found a mont blanc pen in the garden of a bloke he was working for a few years back but I always thought he stole it from the guys house, I also saw him pick up a twenty pound note from outside his sisters boyfriends parents front door which I suggested he should give them back as it was clearly theirs but he refused and said finders keepers etc, he hasn't been my friend for nearly six years now and I'm bloody glad too, theiving sh1t bag
@duntstick - same here. bought a 2nd hand phone with quite a few personal pictures on it. one titled 'me and ma mans bobby'.
same with laptops i've bought on ebay. people don't seem to wipe them. naturally i delete the pics - after a good look.
found £50 on the street in edinburgh which went on drink.
maybe no the best things found but they entertained me.
A long time ago, when I was about 8, there was a robbery at a local off licence - a day or 2 later me and a mate found a holdall full of beer and spirits in the local woods. Naturally, we hid the bag while we went home for a bottle opener and then spent the next week getting pissed. When we finished all that, another bag appeared, this time only half full of booze, which we decided to share with another couple of mates. Happy days! I still can't understand how 2 bags appeared a week apart, but it kept us happy.
I originally trained as an archaeologist, so I've found a few things - albeit of very minor historical/scientific/material value.
But for sentimental reasons, my favourite find was a broken flint 'leaf point' arrowhead (dating from the [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_British_Isles ]Neolithic[/url], at a guess) on some singletrack at the Wilts/Dorset border, one summer's evening. I was rather in the doldrums at the time, in limbo after my undergrad degree and not really sure where I was going next. For whatever reason, finding it cheered me up immensely. Good stretch of trail, too. 🙂