What's the strangest thing you've found on a run?

Trucker bomb that landed on an eviscerated raccoon.

http://www.vice.com/read/the-things-they-throw-out-on-the-side-of-the-road

While running with 2 friends at 6:30am we stopped at a park bathroom. On the floor was a big dildo.

I met my fiance in a running store, and we're both pretty strange. Does that count?

Inner peace.

Outer beauty.

About 20 years ago, running in a part of the park that nobody goes into because most people don't know there is nature path there.

1) As soon as I got this point, 2 guys in trench coats opened up and flashed each other. It wasn't meant for me. I just happen to run at the absolute wrong moment.

2) The cross country path in the back of park. One stock Hispanic woman giving oral to her husband. It is about .8 mile loop. I come around and they're still going at it. Next loop, I see the guy by the parking lot and calls out to his mom "this is the guy."

3) Another nature path that has been deserted for a long time so not many people in there. Two big black guys (probably at least 270 lbs each) going hog wild with each other. I ran and sprinted out there and didn't step a foot in that park for like 15 years. It was like that moment of Pulp Fiction. I only started going back there 2 years ago because they redid the park and the path.

Not strange, but sad. I was running on the bike path on the street and saw a body being covered with some sort of tarp. She was hit by a car crossing the street. One of her shoes was about 20 meters from her body.

In the same area, someone found a homeless body in the park down a cliff and there was a lot of first responders activity and I did not go over to see the action like everyone else.

I found our Lord Jesus Christ. It just hit me during one of those endorphin moments. I believe the more running you do, the closer we get to Him. Keep running, my friends.

High school, 1997. Day before the SAT, my team and I are running an easy run. My teammates not taking SAT go farther than we did, and at the top of the hill, find a woman crying. She had been raped a few minutes prior. The attacker fled. One guy stayed w/ her, the other ran for help (a mile to the nearest house). He finds the cops, tries explaining the situation, and the cops keep saying, "yeah, we know." turned out they were talking about 2 different women--the attacker had struck again. 45 minutes go by, and there's a shoot-out, resulting in the death oceans attacker (who we learned had been released that morning from CA state pen on Good Behavior). Scary day.

Other things found:

Money

A college classmate of mine giving oral to her b/f-- she pauses, looks up and makes eye contact with me (and 2 hours later I have Health Care Ethics class w/ her.)

A geocache (without looking for it).

New places to skateboard (drainage ditches and such).

No, it doesn't.

themanontherun wrote:

I met my fiance in a running store, and we're both pretty strange. Does that count?

Dozens of urine-filled glass bottles

About 15 years ago:

Rounded the corner on a run in a state park, going from woods to a grass path, and there was a couple going at it. She was a natural redhead.

Let Us Run wrote:

Dozens of urine-filled glass bottles

Was this dozens found in one spot or do you mean over the years you've discovered these?

Let Us Run wrote:

Dozens of urine-filled glass bottles

I'm not sure I want to hear the answer to this, but how do you know it was urine?

Old Ultra Guy wrote:

About 15 years ago:

Rounded the corner on a run in a state park, going from woods to a grass path, and there was a couple going at it. She was a natural redhead.

That's not strange at all, not for a redhead.

Sacre Bleu wrote:

Let Us Run wrote:

Dozens of urine-filled glass bottles

I'm not sure I want to hear the answer to this, but how do you know it was urine?

Good question, you have to stop and check these things. I once found a full bottle of whisky at the end of a music festival. Everyone must have passed it by thinking it was a bottleopiss.

Not really a strange item, but after 9/11 I found a lot of American flags on the roads. People would buy those car window flags and forget they had them and open the window and goodbye patriotism. Being someone who still has a bit of respect for the flag, I carried home quite a few flags over the next several months.

WWII Lookout and Gunnary Station.

On vacation in Cambria, CA. Found a series of trails that meandered on some ranchland from the coast up a ridge. Thick fog. Was nearly 100 meters from it when it appeared through the mist. Two huge 50 ft. gun towers overlooking the Pacific.

Found a hole in the fence and spent a half hour exploring the abandoned place. All the barracks and quarters where still there - some still had furniture. All the conveyor systems they used to move artillery from the armory to the gun towers was there.

Gun towers were open and you could take the ladders up to the lookout catwalks.

Save for some rust/weathering, the place looked way to well-preserved to be battered by the Pacific for 60+ years.

One time we were running and there was a blue thing in a bush, I assumed it was a glove or a hat, but my teammate stopped and it was a dead blue jay.

I saw a snapper turtle eating a frog near a lake. Also a snake eating another frog a year or two earlier.

This isn't that strange, but near a pond we always ran by we stopped to swim one day in the summer and there were like 25 pairs of underwear all around it. The plethora of beer cans, condom wrappers, and used condoms in the area make it understandable.

In high school there was a playground in a closed campground we always ran by and there was a huge crowd around the tennis courts. Two kids decided to go there and fight, naturally we stopped our ran and watched it. One kid took the other down and then just got elbowed and punched by the guy on the bottom and there was blood everywhere.

Another time we were running through the trails behind our school and we saw a freshman couple fighting. It was a trail we went out and back on, so about thirty minutes later we come back and they're 20 feet off the trail and she's bent over on a tree getting plowed by her boyfriend.

I know there's a lot of other stuff we saw but I can't remember exactly.