This runner has a few good observations.
http://www.vice.com/read/the-things-they-throw-out-on-the-side-of-the-road
For me, I've seen a dumped washer and dryer laying on top of a bloody mattress . Then, a few years back, I stumbled upon a a turkey vulture eating the dead carcass of a turkey vulture (run over) that was laying on top of a maggoty coyote.
What's the best trash you've seen?
I've seen my share of washers and dryers, as well. Water heaters, too. Mattresses, check. I suppose my "best" was an approximately 18-foot aluminum boat that someone had shoved into the woods right off the edge of the road.
A $50 saw in the ditch. Went back for it and my parents still have it 23 years later!
No lie, a broken iPhone, dildo box, 30 pack and weed container. They were strewn over about a 1 mile downhill on the side of the road in an affluent area. I boubt any of them went together but, I took the iPhone home to try to revive it, no luck there.
Bang wrote:
No lie, a broken iPhone, dildo box, 30 pack and weed container. They were strewn over about a 1 mile downhill on the side of the road in an affluent area. I boubt any of them went together but, I took the iPhone home to try to revive it, no luck there.
That's awesome. I forgot about the iPhone I once found under a patch of Japanese Honeysuckle near a busy highway in Florida. When I took it to the Apple store, the genius bar kid with the soul patch and Diadoras said he be right back. He returned 10 minutes later saying that I was a good man for returning it but no other details could be shared.
One time I was running in the country and noticed about 100 poloraid prints. I had to be nosy. Looked like a bunch of high school girl stuff, driving in a car. Goofy mugging for the camera.
Then ended up in a hotel. Then pictures of a stacks of money on a hotel bed with handguns next to it. And a bunch of black dudes posing tough.
Can't understand why anyone felt the need to drive out in the country and toss out that many pictures of that type.
7/10
Hackneyed of course, but brilliant timing.
In junior high, I was running on a country road and saw a beat-up, ragged porn magazine in the ditch. I didn't think much of it at the time. However, I eventually went back on my bicycle to retrieve it. I believe it was "Oui" magazine or something like that?
A huge dildo. No kidding...it was sitting right on the edge of the road. Try running past that as a coach with a few high schoolers; the laughter stopped them in their tracks.
a still-vibrating dildo w/ lube and road dirt on it.
Dead Tasmanian Devils as road kill...in where else??
And I'm not kidding.
Some of my college teammates and I found an old early 90's S&M bondage porn dvd. Took it back to the house and put it in the dvd player to see if it still worked. It did, but with all the scratches the audio was completely wiped out. It was pretty creepy because it was just some old dude wearing something a magician would wear, tying up women and spanking them, whipping them and dumping hot wax on them...all in eerie silence. We kept the dvd and eventually turned it into a freshman initiation where they all had to come over and watch it. haha.
Ah yes. In the pre-internet days ditch porn was a common thing.
The most money I have ever found on a run was a 20.
I was running one time and I came across a litter of baby skunks which are just as cute as puppies. They were so little they couldn't even get off the road because the grass was too high for them to walk through. One of them was already road kill.
When I lived in Eugene, I saw a used maxi pad on Pre's Trail. Slipped out of someone's shorts?
big, but not a fatty wrote:
Some of my college teammates and I found an old early 90's S&M bondage porn dvd. Took it back to the house and put it in the dvd player to see if it still worked. It did, but with all the scratches the audio was completely wiped out. It was pretty creepy because it was just some old dude wearing something a magician would wear, tying up women and spanking them, whipping them and dumping hot wax on them...all in eerie silence. We kept the dvd and eventually turned it into a freshman initiation where they all had to come over and watch it. haha.
You found a DVD in the early 90s?
Found the dvd a few years ago. The video was from the early 90's and obviously copied over by the company into dvd format in order to be sold and enjoyed with the more relevant digital video disc technology. I don't think the sentence was that unclear.
Everything I find is either dead or in some form of decomposition that's being eaten by scavengers.
VHS tape titled "Butthole Buffet".
One time I was out running with a friend of mine on a pretty remote dirt road and we came across two high school kids 69ing on the trunk of a car. The car was facing towards us and as we came up on it you could see a pair of legs sticking off one side of the car and when we got closer you could see the girls head bobbing up and down over the roof of the car. We were about ten to twenty feet away from the car when we realized what was happening and we both stopped and burst out into laughter. When the kids realized we were there they scrambled down, both completely naked, and jumped in the car and then backed down the road as fast as they could. That is still one of the funniest things I have ever seen
Not trash, but I found $80 crumpled up on the sidewalk during my long run.