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?
The shoe thing may be because they are blown out of the beds of pickup trucks. I have seen more trash come out of the beds of pickup trucks when driving down the highway.
I met a guy this past weekend who left his handheld GPS on the back bumper of his truck and forgot about it when he drove away. That would be an interesting thing for someone to find. Luckily it wasn't a real expensive one but he was mad about it becuase it had been his favorite one.
If you are a geocacher like I am, that would be your worst nighmare! I listened to his story in horror as he told it, squeezing my handheld GPS possesively, looking at it every once in awhile to make sure it didn't vanish. I LOVE my GPS and can't imagine life without it, I love to geocache way too much to loose my GPS, I would just die! Poor guy, but he has another one now, so he is back to geocaching.
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
:-D
When I used to work in accounting several years ago for a cereal company I'd go out on all our "Adopt-a-Highway" pickups. Every time I would pick up something porn related. Either magazines, skeevy lighters, etc. I was always glad to be wearing 2 sets of gloves.
Many crack phials, once. A whole stack of headless dolls, another time. This was in Chicago.
Many crack phials, once. A whole stack of headless dolls, another time. This was in Chicago.
Headless dolls...now that's disturbing! Maybe for an art installation? We can hope...but it's still disturbing.
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