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[sfGnome]

Vurt, on Jun 30 2009, 10:08 AM, said:

i found a bag of Ecstasy in Surry Hills about 6 months ago....

Umm.... and how did you know what it was...    

[MattO]

Vurt, on Jun 30 2009, 10:08 AM, said:

i found a bag of Ecstasy in Surry Hills about 6 months ago....

sfGnome, on Jun 30 2009, 01:07 PM, said:

Umm.... and how did you know what it was...    

Well Vurt, I Guess that explains the avatar pic  

[Lame]

MattO, on Jun 30 2009, 01:57 PM, said:

Well Vurt, I Guess that explains the avatar pic  

............ did you put it all on the black vert?

[Sir Runalot]

The most useful thing I ever found: a petrol can (someone had obviously taken a walk to the nearest petrol station and decided they didn't need the can after they'd filled their empty tank) - use it for the lawn mower now.

The most useless thing I ever found: a shot gun cartridge, unsused - I don't own a gun!

Cutest thing I ever found: a baby echidna - he/she didn't want to talk to me. I went home and got a sack an took it to Wires. Even the baby ones have sharp spines.

Saddest thing I ever found: a couple of bottles of Carona lying in the gutter in the direct sun, argh....

[aura111]

a few weeks ago, just before hard rubbbish collection in Northern Melbourne suburbs, I found a rowing machine (just needed some new bolts and cleaning up to be fully operational again); and even better a original 1960s aqua coloured ladies Malvern Star complete with new tyres and tubes - just needed a new seat and some kill rust on a couple of spokes.

running is the ideal scrounger's pursuit. usually you're out there early in the morning so can grab the goodies and drag them home without anyone knowing...except the wife of course, who said if I bring anything else home though I am dead meat....

[andreaO]

I was running along and found $5 and thought cool but $50 would have  been nice.  Went a few hundred metres and found a $50.    it was a sunday morning so obviously a poor poor drunk person.

[Madrunner]

Today I found a dead small kangaroo, who a few minutes before was running parallel to me in a paddock on my long run, I was on a road.  A car came the other way and right before my eyes 10 mtrs away the roo jumped out and got hit by the car, beheaded, and nearly hit me!

The driver of the car just waved to me and sped off up the road.  I just stood there for a moment looking at this poor little roo, then kept going before I seized up (was on a long 28km run).

Scary stuff.

M

edit - sentence structure

Edited by Madrunner, 13 July 2009 - 11:22 PM.

[RodPlod]

One Sunday morning I found a guy after his bucks night slumped on a footbridge over the Monash Freeway in Melb.  He was covered in sticky stuff with feathers ( I spoze an attempted tar and feathering).  He was wrapped in a sheet, luckily had (some) clothes on. He looked miserable, bad hangover.  Hope the marriage went better than the bucks night  

[kidd05]

Fun read! Another great reason not to run on the treadmill!!! >.<

Time to schedule a 10k run around the rich suburbs.  

Edited by kidd05, 15 July 2009 - 11:09 AM.

[maryclaire]

Not something I "found" but rather witnessed a motorcyclist come off his bike at high speed along Nepean Hwy in peak hour traffic tonight in the dark.  He was lucky to get off the road before oncoming traffic.  Lucky also that he was unhurt.  The adrenaline rush I got gave me a nice fast finish to a decent 12k run.

[pullmyfinger]

Remembered another one - when my wife was pregnant with our first child I found a cot on a run when there was a hard rubbish collection. It had wheels so it was easy to push/run back home. A lick of paint and it was ready to go!

[pullmyfinger]

Coming home the other day I came across two 20 cent bits, a 10 cent bit and a 5 cent bit, all almost unrecognisable from being run over by cars. I had to swing by the video shop to pay my 45 cent fine so gave them my 'seen better days' change. It's legal tender after all!

[DownhillDiva]

Yesterday I did a 12k run from Mt Sugarloaf to Wakefield on the Sugarloaf Range Rd.  It was beautiful: shaded road, lots of bush, valleys, mountainous sections, nobody around.   I was surprised to come across this roadside memorial about 8k into the run.  I hope it is not invading anyone's privacy as there is obviously some significant grief behind this memorial.  It reads: "In loving memory of Stewart A. Matley 29.5.1945 - 26.7.2003, still running in the valley of a thousand hills"

What a great tribute to a runner!  After that I rather felt like I was running the remainder of the run with Stewart, although I suspect he probably flew up those hills much more easily then I did.
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[DownhillDiva]

I just found a mention of Stewart regarding the way he died on a previous thread:

http://www.coolrunni...x...2&hl=matley

[Jogger]

flesh:
http://www.smh.com.a...90904-fa90.html

[pullmyfinger]

JoggerK, on Sep 4 2009, 07:31 AM, said:

flesh:
http://www.smh.com.a...90904-fa90.html

Someone having a skin-y-dip?  

[SoLucky]

This morning I returned home from my run wearing a new white T-shirt emblazoned on the front with “Air Force” in dark blue letters and a mini red kangaroo within the “o”.

I had started out just before dawn to do a few laps on a local 400m grass track and noticed a number of RAAF guys and gals setting up a hot air balloon in an adjacent area. My curiosity impelled me to  trot across when I had finished my short session to see what was going on. They were arranging the tethered balloon as a recruitment promotion while a Defence Air Display was being held nearby on the Townsville waterfront. I was invited to sample a basket ride conditional on wearing a T-shirt as protection against possible sparks from the burner.
Agreed.  So, I got my tethered flight and wore the new shirt home.
It demonstrates that if you get yourself out of bed and go running, you can sometimes be pleasantly surprised with the result.

[aDrain]

pullmyfinger, on May 25 2009, 02:07 PM, said:

In the news, bodies are always found by "early morning joggers" and I would hate to have that happen.

Yep - like the bloody body in Centennial Park this morning. Not found by me.

[birdy]

This morning I found a Hills Hoist clothesline.  Sheesh...

birdy

[Bellthorpe]

pullmyfinger, on Aug 3 2009, 05:09 AM, said:

Coming home the other day I came across two 20 cent bits, a 10 cent bit and a 5 cent bit, all almost unrecognisable from being run over by cars. I had to swing by the video shop to pay my 45 cent fine so gave them my 'seen better days' change. It's legal tender after all!

Yes, but only up to a limit.

[Peterhorse]

RodPlod, on Jul 14 2009, 10:54 PM, said:

One Sunday morning I found a guy after his bucks night slumped on a footbridge over the Monash Freeway in Melb.  He was covered in sticky stuff with feathers ( I spoze an attempted tar and feathering).  He was wrapped in a sheet, luckily had (some) clothes on. He looked miserable, bad hangover.  Hope the marriage went better than the bucks night  

reminded me of ~4 yrs ago, ran back to get my car after it had a sleepover at the office. happened upon a chap passed out in broad daylight on the footpath near work. must have been hundreds of cars passed by without stopping??  as i knelt down to check he was alive, i put my hand on his wrist to check for a pulse and he suddenly woke up and jumped up all startled. he said nothing even as i asked if he was ok and then holy chit he ran like the wind for 100metres and disappeared around the next corner still bolting. must have thought 'gosh is that the time?'

[Didge]

3 injured turtles washed up on the beach - on separate occasions. S'pose that doesn't really count as it wasn't on the road...
Roadkill - 1 cat & 1 koala - also on separate occasions.
And there's always a shoe - doesn't matter when I go out for a run, there's always a shoe. Never a pair, just a single shoe!

Edited by Didge, 06 October 2009 - 10:13 AM.

[glenda]

Out cycling Sunday morning with a friend and we found a tomtom( car navigation thingy). Complete with the data chip. Anyone in western suburbs of brissy lost one?

[sol]

glenda, on Oct 6 2009, 03:16 PM, said:

Out cycling Sunday morning with a friend and we found a tomtom( car navigation thingy). Complete with the data chip. Anyone in western suburbs of brissy lost one?

Me! me!

"I'm Brian, and so's my wife!"

sol, in Melbourne

[TrackRunner]

I once found a calico bag in the gutter while running on the Gold Coast, it had 45,000 Japanese yen inside. At first i thought it was some sort of play money as i didnt realise any country had a 20,000 dollar note.
Got home and checked on the net, and found out it was worth almost $500 Australian. There was no name or any other info so my parents let me keep it. Not long after i was the proud owner of a playstation portable.

Thanks to some careless Japanese tourist who helped stimulate our economy,  

[EnduranceMachine]

TrackRunner, on Oct 6 2009, 04:44 PM, said:

I once found a calico bag in the gutter while running on the Gold Coast, it had 45,000 Japanese yen inside. At first i thought it was some sort of play money as i didnt realise any country had a 20,000 dollar note.
Got home and checked on the net, and found out it was worth almost $500 Australian. There was no name or any other info so my parents let me keep it. Not long after i was the proud owner of a playstation portable.

Thanks to some careless Japanese tourist who helped stimulate our economy,  

Nice Find

[Paulawannabe]

I found a kitten once. Not on the road, but in the bush, alive, inside a cardboard box. It was xmas morning and the dog actually found it (ran off into the bush and wouldnt come back to I followed it to find this box with the kitten inside). Took it home, my niece got a cat for xmas, lived happily ever after.  Someone had obviously dumped the unwanted kitten and left it to die - idiots.

I've also found a wallet (returned to owner with money intact), a small esky (still have it in my kitchen, its great), and a couple blokes with their car bogged in the middle of no where. Luckily the running group got the guys out or else they would have been up for a 20km walk back into town!

[KatieR]

I have just come back from a walk and in front of a locked row of shops which included a real estate agent have found tenancy application papers. I will be going to the real estate in the morning to return them.

[droidy]

I'm kind of hoping that when I go for my usual day-off-from-work run, I'll find the armwarmer I dropped on the weekend...  not that I don't have plenty of armwarmers, but I kind of like these ones cos they're long and stretchy ... not sure how much hope I've got - I've seen a green scarf/kerchief thingy on the same path once, and I haven't seen it again since.

[MrUniqueName]

Paulawannabe, on Oct 16 2009, 03:14 PM, said:

I found a kitten once. Not on the road, but in the bush, alive, inside a cardboard box.

Wasn't running at the time, but when I was living in Hong Kong (where I grew up) a friend and I were walking to the local shops and came across a young dog that had been tied up in a hessian sack and dumped in a wheelie bin. Got my parents to drive over and my dad then washed it (it was covered in its own urine and faeces). Gave it to the RSPCA later that day so don't know what happened to it.

Pretty sad when stuff like this happens.

As for running, when I was in high school (here in Brisbane) we had to go for an early morning run for cross-country training. Went to our first class about an hour later when we were told that we'd actually run past someone who had hung himself during the night. His body was still there hanging and we could see it from our classroom window, but I'm just sooooo glad that none of us noticed it! Would probably still be having nightmares today...

Dave.

[Sleepy]

On my run into work this morning, I found a rabbit. Not so unusual except I work at Sydney Airport Jet Base, and this rabbit was on the grass verge on Qantas Drive (the road around the airport) I was so stunned that I stopped to look. I was about 3 feet away and it just looked at me and did not run off, so I assume it was a pet. As I was going into work I left it where it was, else I would taken it home and tried to find the owner - (providing it survived the ride own in my back pack) It was cute brown with a little white tail.

Off course at least it was still alive, better than the usual road kill I generally see on runs to work.

[MrUniqueName]

Sir Runalot, on Jul 7 2009, 08:24 PM, said:

Saddest thing I ever found: a couple of bottles of Carona lying in the gutter in the direct sun, argh....

What's perhaps even sadder is that when I read this, my first thought was - surely a few hours in the freezer will make them all better?!?



Dave

[brewer]

MrUniqueName, on Oct 23 2009, 02:59 PM, said:

What's perhaps even sadder is that when I read this, my first thought was - surely a few hours in the freezer will make them all better?!?



Dave

Probably not. Beer does not respond well to large swings in temperature. In addition to this, Corona in a clear bottle is a big candidate for light strike. Basically UV light reacts with humulone (hop alpha acid) to create a skunky aroma.

[chilliman]

MrUniqueName, on Oct 23 2009, 01:59 PM, said:

Sir Runalot, on Jul 7 2009, 08:24 PM, said:

Saddest thing I ever found: a couple of bottles of Carona lying in the gutter in the direct sun, argh....

my first thought was - surely a few hours in the freezer will make them all better?!?

brewer, on Oct 23 2009, 05:23 PM, said:

Probably not. Beer does not respond well to large swings in temperature.

That reminds me in my younger and stupider days I found a XXXX stubby basking in the sun on a North QLD beach. Well straight into the icy eski it went and straight off to the doctors surgery went chilli for stitches as the freebee exploded on immersion in the ice.    A lesson learnt that day.

[droidy]

droidy, on Oct 19 2009, 09:24 PM, said:

I'm kind of hoping that when I go for my usual day-off-from-work run, I'll find the armwarmer I dropped on the weekend...  not that I don't have plenty of armwarmers, but I kind of like these ones cos they're long and stretchy ... not sure how much hope I've got - I've seen a green scarf/kerchief thingy on the same path once, and I haven't seen it again since.

I didn't get out for a shuffle til this afternoon (figured I should try to get over this cold/cough thing first), but I did find my lone blue and white stripy armwarmer, off to the side of the bike path, not looking too bad for having suffered a week's worth of Melbourne weather.  Made the run kind of worth it, seeing as it felt harder than usual - probably a combination of warmer weather, the tail end of this cold, and the week off from running...

[Owly]

Recently, a dead wombat and flying emu and I thought we'd found a dead body but turned out to be a young lady asleep on the verge after a hard night.

[chilliman]

The Owl, on Oct 28 2009, 06:15 PM, said:

Recently, a dead wombat

Warning. Don't read all my post if you are upset by dead animals, skip to the last paragraph.

I found a large Wombat too about a month ago on a normally closed fire trail, it had only been hit the night before from a 4WD guessing by the tyre tracks. There was hardly any damage though that I could see, just a small amount of un-clotted blood on the ground near its nose, which rested near the tracks. She was upright with all legs stretched out. I rolled her over to discover 2 fairly large legs outside of the pouch, unfortunately the joey was also dead, but due to the scratches underneath on the ground, I believe may have still been alive post accident. I'm no wildlife expert, but with the weight of the dead mother lying prostrate on the ground, I couldn't possibly see how the baby could have escaped the pouch without outside assistance. Not that it probably would have been able to have fended for itself if it could have escaped, but its size did make me wonder. It also annoyed me that whoever hit the wombat did nothing to move it off the trail or check for young.

Anyway sorry if I have upset anyone, but the purpose of my post is if you do come across recent native road kill, do roll them over to check for a pouch and more importantly any contents still alive. There are wildlife rescue services in most areas these days that can assist.

[FlyingFossil]

Not on the road, exactly, but alongside a disused railway track 5km into the John Forrest National Park in the Perth Hills this afternoon

[Tesso]

The Owl, on Oct 28 2009, 05:15 PM, said:

Recently, a dead wombat and flying emu and I thought we'd found a dead body but turned out to be a young lady asleep on the verge after a hard night.

Hey Owly, for a minute there I'd thought you'd spotted a flying emu  

[Owly]

Haha Tesso!  I'd post in the cr spotting thread if I did

[Outsider]

I had a wonderful morning.... jogging on my usual trail... then on an old hidden track - sauntering across the road was..... a goanna!
Not just a small goanna it was a dinosaur!
Head to tail it was almost the width of the track! (small road)
What a spectacular sight! A little apprehensive... I slowed to a trot...
It looked me up and down and continued on it's merry way!

How great it is to see such things!

PS - Nobody in my house believes me...

[steeples29]

i was running in a nature reserve and i saw a man spinning in circles so i stopped to see what he was doing but he just kept spinning i watched him for 2 minutes and got bored and left for all i know he could still be up there spinning in circles  

[Davo]

If it's roadkill you're after, come to Tasmania. There's on average one every kilometre.
A lot of my runs are stench-assisted. I've just got away from one rotting corpse when I'm up to the next one. Mostly wallabies or paddemelons.
Nobody yet has been able to give me a satisfactory explanation why the roadkill toll is so high in Tassie.
Fortunately I haven't killed anything myself yet.
As for things I've found, I came across a nice little pile of nails and screws once. Weighed me down for the rest of the run, but it was worth it. Things like that are always useful.

[slowaz]

I found a pile of broken glass next to my car this morning after i returned from a run - drivers window smashed but nothing worth taking was in in the car.

Reported it to the cops on the way home but will be surprised if I ever hear anything.

For my CR "neighbours" (bennie, Morley, Brettsrun etc) it was at the lookout just near Brimbank Park. In hindsight a stupid place to park as its notorious, but the park gates were locked. Should have gone to the Tan or Canning St. Live and learn!.

[Fig]

Too many things to mention including;

a bag of marijuana, many snakes, tools, wheel jacks off trailers, knives, 2 drumkits!, lots of great timber esp. for concreting, the list goes on!

I have also lost plenty of stuff too!

Fig

[julia]

A fox.

Although I wasn't running on the road - I was running on one of the Uni ovals at about 5am, when I heard some rustling behind me, thought it might have been a possum, but it was doing that sliding/walking thing and realised it was a fox - a reddish brown, bushy tail, long skinny snout fox!

It was quite tame though, I'd run and it would run next to me, and I sat down and it came and sat next to me, was quite nice!
It came back out to greet me a few times after that, and would do laps around the oval with me, but one of the greenkeepers that saw me with it said they will eventually have to catch it and put it down because it would eat the possums. I haven't seen it in ages
I think they got around to catching it.

[Streakrunner]

Earlier this year hubbie and I were in Canberra to do the unofficial Canberra marathon. The day before the "race", we did a short run to check out the route. At the same time we decided to go past the embassies and that side of town, as we have never been there before. Hubbie's eye caught on to a shiney object in a plastic bag outside one of the embassies. He picked it up and at first glance it looked like a silver press stud. We took it home, but I then discovered that it was magnetic. I took it to a friend who is a private investigator and he confirmed that it was a type of listening device. Makes you wonder who wanted to listen to whom?

[Kato]

Streakrunner, on Nov 9 2010, 01:22 PM, said:

Earlier this year hubbie and I were in Canberra to do the unofficial Canberra marathon. The day before the "race", we did a short run to check out the route. At the same time we decided to go past the embassies and that side of town, as we have never been there before. Hubbie's eye caught on to a shiney object in a plastic bag outside one of the embassies. He picked it up and at first glance it looked like a silver press stud. We took it home, but I then discovered that it was magnetic. I took it to a friend who is a private investigator and he confirmed that it was a type of listening device. Makes you wonder who wanted to listen to whom?

Oh! The fun you could have with that!  Keep muttering suspicious sentences that tail off...
...or fade in with some interesting "tidbits" that you left the start off.  Could be the start of something big!

[crowpower]

On today's run, a 45 rpm vinyl record. Decided to take it home, although I felt a bit silly carrying it for 3 km when everyone was out walking. Plays OK, although not a great song.

[pullmyfinger]

crowpower, on 13 October 2011 - 09:44 PM, said:

On today's run, a 45 rpm vinyl record. Decided to take it home, although I felt a bit silly carrying it for 3 km when everyone was out walking. Plays OK, although not a great song.

What's a vinyl record?

Wait I'm old enough to not qualify to ask that question. I had to exlain to a group of 13/14 yr old what a 'negative' was the other day. I think people are treating 5c pieces as a throw away item as I pick them up on runs all the time.