Shit you see at the side of the road

[Partridge]

That made me genuinely laugh

[mercrocker]

A long time ago a friend who cycled to work every day told me to keep an eye on the verge when out on the bike as it's amazing what you can find. I started doing this for a while and managed to get quite a few useful items. The best by far however was a very nice Snap-On 3/8" drive ratchet. That was 20 years ago and I can still remember the joy.

Me and Mrs Rocker used to ride along the road between our place and the next village.  It also led to the local tip - great verge pickings along there - stuff tends to bounce out of wobbly trailers.   A quarry opened up and its dicing with bloody death cycling along there now.   My dad used to do the same in the 1950s, apparently, and once found a Dinky Triumph Renown.  I still have it!

[Bren]

I found a crab's claw in a layby in Thetford a few months back. It was bloody massive. I assume it had been chucked in there, not dropped by a bird (it would need to be a very strong bird). Who drives down the A134 eating a giant crab? It puzzled me.

Maybe somebody had caught a dose at the local knocking shop.

[sierraman]

Bottles of pop with some pale yellow liquid in. Don't know what it is, I'll pick some up next time I'm on M1

[RoadworkUK]

Bottles of pop with some pale yellow liquid in. Don't know what it is, I'll pick some up next time I'm on M1

 

Mountain Dew.

[AnthonyG]

Audio cassette tape; fair enough. But I have always wondered about the roadside videotape.

The M4 around Reading was the place for that, miles of the stuff. I don't know whether it was Betamax or VHS.......

Roadside videotape: hedge outside Keynsham railway station, near Bristol, one frosty morning, January 2012.

 

How do I know? Because I went ass over tit after stepping on the broken wet bit of video cassette cover (the clear plastic case with the paper sleeve) that was on the pavement, that's why. Just like ice. The f**kers, it resulted in a sore arse and a ruined newish leather glove (which did save my hand, but skin's cheaper).

[Bren]

Go to Salford - fridges, TV's, mattresses, burned out motorcycles and the occasional person lying down because they have had too much piss/drugs.

[the judge]

Bottles of pop with some pale yellow liquid in. Don't know what it is, I'll pick some up next time I'm on M1

Swig roulette!!

[320touring]

Swig roulette!!

That just gave me the dry boke.

[martc]

Audio cassette tape; fair enough. But I have always wondered about the roadside videotape.

I always assumed the videos where "Gentlemen's Interest" or "Jazz" tapes and had been jettisoned to prevent embarrassment at home...

 

Bottles of pop with some pale yellow liquid in. Don't know what it is, I'll pick some up next time I'm on M1

Also known as Lorry Drivers Pop

[beko1987]

Something odd in this digital age, some actual video tape on the side of the road at Handy Cross!

 

 

I forgot to post this when I got to work as my clutch clip went at the end of this journey, but I remembered this thread when I saw it...

[alcyonecorporation]

It's not that uncommon to find a dead horse by the side of the road in the New Forest. They seem to like standing gormlessly in the middle of the road just over blind crests.

Yep. One walked out in front of me two years ago the night before the Beaulieu Spring Autojumble and I smashed straight into it. It went up on the roof and caved most of it in.

 

Obviously I stopped and called the police who informed the estate agister, etc.

 

Attending copper (who had to cover most of the New Forest from one police station) was surprised I'd stopped. "Your plate's disappeared and your car still runs; most people keep going if their car's still got coolant in it." The car - a Ford Sierra XR4i - was deemed a Cat C write off a month later, bought back from the insurance company by a colleague and cut up for spares.

 

Two shots rang out as I was giving my statement to the police. The impact had broken three of the pony's legs and the agister decided to put it down there and then. It had somehow managed to wander across the road in the excitement and was surrounded by ten of its ilk before it was put out of its misery.

 

I still have the breathalyser tube in my drawer at home. The glass sun roof in the car I was driving shattered and hurled toughened glass into my scars.

It was a day after I took the Piazza around Cadwell Park and I very nearly went down to Beaulieu in it.

 

TL, DR: Cars and the Magna Carta are incompatible, as are freeholds.

[TripleRich]

Whilst on a walk last year I found this A3 about 100 yards from the road.  

 

[Vince70]

I saw about a year ago a fruit machine dumped on the side of the road in Bexhill and it was still in one piece.. I imagine the locals must of had it away from the local pub.

[UltraWomble]

I hope the farmer shifts that A3 before going out with the combine.

[Vince70]

Are you sure it's dumped it just looks like a normal rat look A3 to me but someone has nicked the roof rack and pineapple off the top.

[Guest bangerfan101]

Walking the dog near my work in Harrogate. Some shitehawk has dumped about 500 charity clothes appeal bags in the ditch.

Community service lads probably

[chodweaver]

"If I ruled the world..."

 

....I'd have CSI get straight on that - fingerprinting should quickly establish who the lazy polluting convict is so I could get their sentence tripled them put out of their misery etc. etc.

 

That and fly tipping gets my goat more than it should

 

</reactionary middle class self righteous law abiding pseudo environmentalist rant>

[Guest bangerfan101]

Found a dead red kite in the same ditch too. Thought about reporting it as there endangered but the lack of arsed prevented it. Mr Fox had eaten most of it for his dinner next time I walked past it

[Pillock]

500 free bin bags is a bit of a result, never have to buy them again!

[beko1987]

They weren't salvation army ones were they? If so, I might be interested once I get my work hat on tomorrow.

[Split_Pin]

 

TL, DR: Cars and the Magna Carta are incompatible, as are freeholds.

Not at all, that's quite a harrowing story tbf.

[Guest bangerfan101]

M62 junction 30 Rothwell. 100 yards off the roundabout towards Wakefield. Old school Home made car trailer appeared today. If the wheels weren't at a jaunty angle it would be sat in my drive later on. Alas. It's kippered

[cros]

Throwing rubbish out of your vehicle should be a castratable offence.

[HillmanImp]

Walking the dog near my work in Harrogate. Some shitehawk has dumped about 500 charity clothes appeal bags in the ditch.

 

This used to always happen to the free papers down sarf when I was a kid. It seemed like a right of passage to get a job delivering the Guardian (local ad-funded free paper at the time) and to drop them behind a bush or in a river until the distributors cottoned on and sacked you.

[Craig the Princess]

I hope the farmer shifts that A3 before going out with the combine.

Our neighbor farmer had a burnt out Vectra left in his field. Police wouldn't arrange for it to be lifted as it was off the highway, scrap yard wouldn't touch it without a v5 so he was stumped.

Until it got stolen again.

[Guest Hooli]

Farmers around here lift them back onto the road & let plod deal with it

[AlabamaShrimp]

M62 junction 30 Rothwell. 100 yards off the roundabout towards Wakefield. Old school Home made car trailer appeared today. If the wheels weren't at a jaunty angle it would be sat in my drive later on. Alas. It's kippered

And seeing as I'm 5 seconds away from there it might end up on my drive!

[Guest bangerfan101]

I'm on the estate with premier shop on the corner

 

An it was still there this morning

[AlabamaShrimp]

Are you stalking me? Saying that, if you are they do nice sandwiches, bring us one