what's the weirdest thing you ever found while picking up trash?
So I went to my town's Community Pride day today, which is where they split up the town and give you a park/section of forest to go to and pick up trash and paint picnic tables and trash barrels and stuff.
We were also supposed to plant flowers, but......it was windy and snowing. Despite the fact that it was 72 degrees here earlier this week. Anyway. Beside the point.
I have picked trash up before, but this time was really weird. In addition to the expected tons of food wrappers, beer cans, and cigarette butts, I found:
-a toothbrush
-a Bart Simpson rubber doormat
-2 condoms (gross!!!!)
-a microwave
-about a million small pieces of styrofoam (damn coolers!)
-a fencepost
-a pair of men's leopard print underwear
What's the weirdest thing you've ever found while picking up trash?
i worked at a summer camp where one day out of every week we would walk back to our cabins from lunch and pick up as much garbage as we could find. this was a camp for kids aged 4-16 and i also found a couple condoms.... uh.. yeah.
but a microwave!? weird!
i worked at a summer camp where one day out of every week we would walk back to our cabins from lunch and pick up as much garbage as we could find. this was a camp for kids aged 4-16 and i also found a couple condoms.... uh.. yeah.
That's crazy! Maybe they blew in from somewhere? Or maybe from the staff??? Gross. You'd think people would have a little more respect, if not for the earth, at least for the kids walking around...
When I taught in Houston, we used to find condoms and syringes on the "playground" (read: large rutted grassy field with 6 swings and 1 slide) all the time. It got to the point where you would just bring gloves and a bag out with you for recess and you had to teach all the kids to tell a teacher.
I've seen a lot of panties along side the road. I don't pick those up though, for obvious reasons.
I find a lot of unusual objects while walking on railroad tracks that really make me wonder what these people are like and what the hell they are doing.
i found LOTS of underwear when i went to college, especially on frat row and behind the party houses in my area. gross. i couldnt imagine doin it in such filth, with all the bugs, and being that often times it was winter in PA! i guess they had so much alohol that the dirt and weather didnt really matter.
Pregnancy test (complete with a plus sign) in the men's restroom at City Hall in San Francisco.
It would have to be a used condom and a beer bottle....yuck. Thank god for rubber gloves. Knowing that whoever did this was on camera...LOL
A crack pipe. no lie
A crack pipe. no lie
Whoa. Now really. Who would leave a crack pipe?!! What is wrong with people??
Pregnancy test (complete with a plus sign) in the men's restroom at City Hall in San Francisco.
Dude. You win.
yeah.....I would never leave my crack pipe on the ground....
A crack pipe. no lie
yeah, i have found many a crack pipe lying on the side of the road...
Several times, a single shoe. Howcome never a pair? How can a person ditch one shoe and keep going? Or are we plagued by Long John Silver?
The worst find was a vertebrae from some large animal, probably a cow, found on the banks of the Des Moines River during a summer camp. One of the counsellor's father was a vet so she took it back, shellacked it and made it into a candle holder for his den! Gross!
yeah, i have found many a crack pipe lying on the side of the road...
Really? Many? I would think it would be a precious commodity to those who had owned it.
yeah, i have found many a crack pipe lying on the side of the road...
Really? Many? I would think it would be a precious commodity to those who had owned it.
Yeah, I'd say 3 or 4. They were all of course homemade. It's kind of interesting t o see the creativity. ;D
Several times, a single shoe. Howcome never a pair? How can a person ditch one shoe and keep going? Or are we plagued by Long John Silver?
I always wonder that too, especially on the side of the highway! I usually assume that someone was pissed off at a passenger in their car and angrily threw one of their shoes out the window at 70 mph
Several times, a single shoe. Howcome never a pair? How can a person ditch one shoe and keep going? Or are we plagued by Long John Silver?
I have to comment that I laughed out loud when I read this part.
The worst find was a vertebrae from some large animal, probably a cow, found on the banks of the Des Moines River during a summer camp. One of the counsellor's father was a vet so she took it back, shellacked it and made it into a candle holder for his den! Gross!
i can top that haha.
my cousins live in like..the middle of nowhere michigan and there are like a bunch of farms and stuff and once a deer got hit by a car on the road in front of their house...
and they ate it.
yeah.
wheres a barfing face when i need one haha. :P
The worst find was a vertebrae from some large animal, probably a cow, found on the banks of the Des Moines River during a summer camp. One of the counsellor's father was a vet so she took it back, shellacked it and made it into a candle holder for his den! Gross!
That is so disturbing on so many levels...
I found a switchblade on the side of the road in Galveston once. Not really weird I guess.
i found a dildo on the street once. that was, uh, yeah.
Thanks for the giggle, BP! You kill me--but in a nice, humane, veg*n sort of way. ;)b
I think the condom thing is sometimes a joke. Girls in my high school would do that with the free condoms we would get (unroll them and leave them floating in the toilet). My sister 1-upped them though: she put lotion inside.
I've seen lone socks (I guess the shoe didn't show off that other driver enough). I saw a sex toy (can't remember what they're called... a rubber ring with bumps) in a library parking lot. Also a jacket, half of a shovel, and coathangers...
I found a pocket knife that had been run over a few times (but I still used it for many years). Also, several antlers (deer shed them), as well as a deer skull and other random bones. Hm, and a while back some nitrous cartages that my mother wouldn't tell me what they were...Plus various condoms and things (but I didn't pick any of the last things up) I agree--the pregnancy test in the men's bathroom wins!
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