# The odd stuff you find while strolling along **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 27, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927 "2005-01-27T15:35:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927/21 "2005-01-27T22:28:42Z")
> [@cher3](#): > > I’m picturing the voodoo priestess getting to a critical point in the frenzied ceremony and going “Where’s the chicken head? Who’s got the chicken head?!” :smack: [[BillyWitchDoctor.com](http://BillyWitchDoctor.com)] Arise Chicken, ARISE! [/BWD.com] My father, on at least two occasions, has found a gas can, containing gas, on the side of the road. ---
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927/22 "2005-01-27T22:37:34Z")
Years ago, I was cutting through a Days Inn parking lot on my way to work and I saw a cucumber, a condom, a piece of rope that was about two feet long and two grade B porno mags, like Swank magazine or something, just lying there in an empty parking space. WTF? ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927/23 "2005-01-27T22:45:42Z")
> [@WIGGUM](#): > > I always like the random shoe (singular) you see lying on the side of the road. I always wonder about the circumstances of how it got there. The other one’s still good. ---
**Author:** ![MercyStreet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@MercyStreet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MercyStreet)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927/24 "2005-01-27T23:37:29Z")
When I was a kid I found a cosmetics case crammed with a smelly, weedy-looking substance. It was by the side of the road, in some bushes. I threw it in a garbage can. Years later I realized it was pot. Someone probably tossed it during a traffic stop. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927/25 "2005-01-27T23:40:34Z")
You do know that not everyone has two feet, right? You also know that some people have two feet one day and only one later. Imagine if you will you’re being driven home from having a leg amputated, and you realize you are still carrying a left shoe for a foot you no longer have. So you roll down the window and chuck it out. Voila! Also, once I came upon an accident where a gentleman was thrown out of his Jeep, I pulled over to call for help, and to keep the man calm until paramedics arrived. One of the (many) things that sticks out in my mind was his personal belongings were strewn around including his shoes. For a couple of days afterwards while driving that direction one of those shoes remained on the side of the road at the site of the accident. It eventually disappeared. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927/26 "2005-01-27T23:53:40Z")
I assumed the shoes came from one of those festively hazardous do-it-yourself moves (very popular here is SoCal), where you pile all of your stuff randomly into the back of your brother-in-law’s pickup truck and hit the freeway. Always exhilarating to get stuck behind one of those. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927/27 "2005-01-28T00:01:29Z")
> [@slortar](#): > > Okay, now I’m curious. Which one was it? Rifts. The underwater/New Atlantis supplement. I never played GURPS, but I read the supplement, & it seemed fun. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927/28 "2005-01-28T00:36:20Z")
Gloves. I started noticing lost gloves, lying there forlornly, like severed hands. I collect photographs of them now. Look around you when you go out; lost gloves are _everywhere_. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927/29 "2005-01-28T04:53:57Z")
> [@nitroglycerine](#): > > Years ago, I was cutting through a Days Inn parking lot on my way to work and I saw a cucumber, a condom, a piece of rope that was about two feet long and two grade B porno mags, like Swank magazine or something, just lying there in an empty parking space. WTF? You know, I shouldn’t have tried to figure it out, but I did try anyway. Laughing is good. Good thing there was a condom- those cucumbers are hoes. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927/30 "2005-01-28T06:55:08Z")
> [@Verminary](#): > > Severed chicken head, in the gutter, in New Orleans (rather near the National D-Day Museum). > > If the rest of the chicken had been in evidence, I’d have chalked it up to roadkill, but it was just the head. Sitting there. Staring. Maybe it belonged to the severed chicken foot I found one day. I found half of a two-ring engagement ring set while waiting for the bus one day. It had part of a bow that was studded with diamond chips and a setting for a fair sized diamond, though the diamond itself was missing. I still have it. I also found a gold ring _on_ the bus. No one ever claimed it so I still have that one too. Another time, I found a silver bangle-style watch while walking to the bus. It was probably only worth $30 so it wasn’t surprising that no one put an ad in the paper for it. I eventually gave it to someone else because it was too small for my wrist. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927/31 "2005-01-28T12:46:58Z")
I found a sock full of old quarters once, face value $21.25. It kept my old Ford Falcon full of gas for close to a month. Gas was only 65 cents a gallon then. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927/32 "2005-01-28T13:38:07Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Rifts. > > The underwater/New Atlantis supplement. > > I never played GURPS, but I read the supplement, & it seemed fun. Ah, cool. Rifts is pretty fun, even if the rule set was written by a crackhead. _slinks back into the shadows now that curiosity is satisfied_ ---
**Author:** ![Bewildebeest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Bewildebeest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bewildebeest)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927/33 "2005-01-28T13:49:19Z")
Well, I was running not strolling, but I found a loaded rifle with a very nice scope. The rifle was all rusty though. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927/34 "2005-01-28T14:47:10Z")
Last week, Harborwolf and I were at Sam Goody’s, and we found a (possible used) condom back by the posters. Ew. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927/35 "2005-01-28T14:50:16Z")
Last July 4th I noticed a pair of heavy black work shoes (fur-lined leather) in the gutter. When I walked by again two hours later, they were still there. Since they looked new and they were my size, I took them. I am wearing them right now. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927/36 "2005-01-28T15:10:27Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Gloves. > > I started noticing lost gloves, lying there forlornly, like severed hands. > > I collect photographs of them now. Look around you when you go out; lost gloves are _everywhere_. Because of you, I notice gloves everywhere now too. I have been meaning to bring my camera to the kids school so as to capture these creatures in a range-free envirs and email them too you. I will probably be arrested as this is very odd, but all for you **Mangie** which, btw, I just realized after a lifetime here that your name is man-get-out. I’m such a moran. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927/37 "2005-01-28T15:15:17Z")
I use to enjoy bike riding the back roads here to pick up returnables since I can’t have cats, I can still be eccentric. and one of my favorite odd ball finds was some kind of shrubbery covered in cleaned ( no labels) mogen david bottles, stuck down over their branches. It was winter. The sunlight reflected so purty on it. But you know it was a bunch of teens drinking and driving and getting rid of their evidence. So I took it down and smited them. I use to be able to ride my bike and pick up one, two, three…the entire 6 or 12 pack on the road _and_ the box too. It’s scary to even think about yet funny at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927/38 "2005-01-28T15:24:50Z")
At the back of my old flat, there was a baby doll, lying face down in a little puddle, the kicker being there was a half empty bottle of Guinness standing next to it. I did a drawing of it. I know theres been a spate of squid and fish finds in random places on the street in Dublin recently. Also, on my way to work I walk round the back of a big shopping centre, and every other day there’s a box full of empty lager bottles (usually K1664) in random spots around the paths and walkways. Who drinks them? ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927/39 "2005-01-28T18:52:23Z")
> [@WIGGUM](#): > > I always like the random shoe (singular) you see lying on the side of the road. I always wonder about the circumstances of how it got there. Cecil speaks: [Why do you always see just one shoe by the side of the road?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_124b.html) Another link that might be of interest to those drawn to this thread: [FOUND Magazine](http://www.foundmagazine.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Craneop2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Craneop2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Craneop2)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927/40 "2005-01-28T18:53:59Z")
Just a Guess **shirley**. But sometimes people put bottles over small peaches or pears or fruit of the sort. The fruit then ripens inside the bottle and makes for neat conversation pieces like “How the hell did you get that pear inside the bottle?”. Just a thought . Then again you said it was winter… Never mind. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-odd-stuff-you-find-while-strolling-along/286927.md?page=3)