Things you have found on a run and brought back with you

50 dollar bill - 1 mile

20 dollar bill - 7 miles

Summer before senior year of high school me and the other guys found this enormous couch just sitting on the side of the road. We carried it around a mile and a half back to school, and then put it in one guy's truck. Dumped it on our coach's lawn that afternoon.

Good times.

Summer runners living together.

Several went on a run. Around a park. Found a back pack full of MaryJane.

Brought it hope. Probably a run of about 5 miles.

Helped the house budget.

A trio of us found an abandoned shopping cart. Took turns pushing it back (uphill, to our dismay) to campus.

Tool sets

Plastic road markings/sticks

A gargoyle Statue

a CD of a really bad pornography

I'm sure there's dozens of others im forgetting.

High school: collected spare change for a few years. End of JR year we bought several boxes of donuts and stuffed ourselves.

Teammates found a victim of rape crying on a trail. Found the cops, told them about her- she was 2nd victim. Shoot out killing the guy followed. Very sad.

Kids from my college hooking up in the park. Happened all the time cuz I went to a Christian college, so I'd see them all the time on campus and give a friendly grin.

Found a geocache without looking for it.

Carried a concrete pier home 2 miles skateboarding. That was hard. Serving purpose in backyard now.

I found a sweet potato and ran with it for half a mile before my teammate made me throw it away cause he thought it was gross :,,,,,,(

a lizard

Found a nice 1/2 inch ratchet on Thursdays run. Carried it about 3 miles. Finding tools is almost as good as finding money. A few years ago I found one of those M-powered Luci solar lanterns. Awesome find. Used it in many camping and backpacking trips since. Some homeless dude prolly dropped it. Too bad so sad.

The biggest thing I personally found was when I was running on a track and someone had spilled about $1 worth of quarters. My HS team practiced on country roads behind the school where lots of people dumped trash some things we found were: an old TV, a matress, a couch, a child's car seat, a stroller, and a bunch of popcorn on the ground that one kid actually ate.

I found my coach. God, he tells me what to do and I run for him.

Found 15 beers. Had to drive back to pick up.

abcdefghi wrote:

A trio of us found an abandoned shopping cart. Took turns pushing it back (uphill, to our dismay) to campus.

Tool sets

Plastic road markings/sticks

A gargoyle Statue

a CD of a really bad pornography

I'm sure there's dozens of others im forgetting.

Idk how I forgot about finding two machetes in the woods.

Good fun question: did long runs around Boston and had a teammate from Maine and of Scottish background (which means really cheap) and over the years, he'd pick up all sorts of shit, and bring back to to the lockerroom including: license plates, live bullets, loose beers, halfbottle of scotch, crescent wrench, screwdrivers, a "no parking, tow zone" sign, a small weathervane, small change, even a large dead snake roadkill which he said he would gut, dry out and keep the skin. We used to say he was so cheap he'd reuse a condom.

Had another teammate that said his high school team was running cross country in Franklin Park (Boston) and they found a dead body/murder victim..(they didn't take it home).

I once found a box of medals with about 3miles left to get home. My buddy and I brought one back each and told our teammates that we won a local 5K during the run. Still hanging in my locker today :)

my sanity

I pick up trash a lot if I know there is a nearby barrel or dumpster, but that doesn't count.

A couple of times I have found kitchen knives. One of them eventually broke, the other I still use.

My best find was also the most memorable - a pair of like-new Tifosi sunglasses, probably dropped by the landscaper. I found them in freshly cut grass about a mile from home. At first I ran by, thinking they were probably run over by the mower, but then I went back for them. Carried 3 miles to a meetup with some friends (along the way a car drove at me and ran me off the shoulder of the road). Did 8 miles with friends. Took a ride to breakfast with said friends, where I remembered the sunglasses and was told their value. Ran 3 miles home, so total 14 miles. I never wore them. I kept them in my car for a long time, and ended up giving them away to an acquaintance. A couple of years later she wears them just about every run, and every time she sees me she mentions how much she likes them.

Metoo wrote:

The biggest thing I personally found was when I was running on a track and someone had spilled about $1 worth of quarters.

"About $1 worth of quarters"? So, 3-5 quarters? You couldn't be bothered to count but you're pretty sure it was more than 2 coins?

Things I've seen, but NOT taken home. (I know, I know, that's not the post, but thought these things were interesting none-the-less.)

*Video game CDs (scratched-up)

*Porn DVDs (scratched-up)

*Pile of partially burned porn magazines. (I actually saw my neighbor's teenage son burning something earlier in the day in the burning barrel. I figure he must of burnt them & dumped them down the road later on.)

*M.C. Hammer cassette (copied, not even the real thing)

*various kid's toys

*6 pack of Rolling Rock

*Sledgehammer (size of a hammer, not a big one).

**Related, I ran past a car with someone or people "hot boxing." The inside of the car was absolutely filled with pot smoke. I have no idea how many people were even in the car! But, the smell--even with the windows rolled up--was so potent & strong.

College CC training run, 5 miles out found an eastern ringneck snake. Ran back, ate at the cafeteria then went to my room. He/she lived in my frat house for a couple weeks, but escaped.