What is the weirdest thing you have found in a place it does not belong? I'm thinking largely of the natural world but manmade stuff reaches odd places, too. I was prompted to think about this by a BBC news article where a volunteer litter crew found an octopus on a hilltop in the English Lake District. The sea is a about 15-20 miles away as the crow flies.

BBC News - Octopus found in Scafell Pike litter pick

Actually, before reading the article--I was thinking this was going to be one of those Hoarders type threads--meaning-about sloppy housekeepers.

One night my three kids and I were driving home to our acreage. Stopped at a light and my oldest daughter said "hey, look, a pig". Standing there on the shoulder was a massive porker. We went home, just a short distance away, and I told Missus P&R Fan, who is a sucker for strays. She immediately wanted to see, so we loaded up in the car and went back. Still there. I called county dispatch and reported it. They sent out a cop, and we just kinda looked at it wonderin' what to do. Finally called the Humane Society, and they sent out a Woman, who had NO idea what to do. Missus Fan took over, and we backed it up a board into the van. I told her if nobody claimed it, I wanted it.
Checked back several days later, they said I couldn't have it, as they had "found a home for it".

I just wanted bacon and chops.
Jim

There was a case on a patient who started to develop some sinus trouble. Years before, he had been in some kind of accident with a car. When they looked at the Xrays, they found a spark plug stuck in the sinus he was having trouble with.

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[QUOTE=P&R Fan;137307768]One night my three kids and I were driving home to our acreage. Stopped at a light and my oldest daughter said "hey, look, a pig". Standing there on the shoulder was a massive porker. We went home, just a short distance away, and I told Missus P&R Fan, who is a sucker for strays. She immediately wanted to see, so we loaded up in the car and went back. Still there. I called county dispatch and reported it. They sent out a cop, and we just kinda looked at it wonderin' what to do. Finally called the Humane Society, and they sent out a Woman, who had NO idea what to do. Missus Fan took over, and we backed it up a board into the van. I told her if nobody claimed it, I wanted it.
Checked back several days later, they said I couldn't have it, as they had "found a home for it".

I just wanted bacon and chops.
Jim[/QUOTE

I hate to think this but the 'home' they found for it was probably an incinerator or garbage dump.

Many years ago a dog approached me that was starved and had bad mange from nose to tail.. no fur and was shivering in the cold. That was the absolutely sweetest little dog I'd ever see and I fed him and let him sleep in my car while I was at work (on a cold day with the windows cracked) I don't remember my circumstances but at the time I couldn't keep it and certainly couldn't pay the vet bills to cure him. I decided I had to take him to the shelter and told them I was coming with a sick dog. As soon as I got in the door I could see a caretaker pulling a syringe full of stuff in a back room. I know they put the dog down immediately. Whenever I think about it I get heartsick and how much I would have loved to have that dog. I know this is off topic but I had to let it out. (triple sad faces)

I'm about to cry right now.

Well I had an ex girlfriend who,...come to think of it never mind.

Took my wife out for dinner to a resteraunt that had valet parking. After the meal, the valet brought the car around and we discovered a pair of woman's panties in the back seat that wasn't there before. This happened a number of years ago and my wife still gives me a good natured ribbing about it.

I found a small gold anchor in one of my potted plants. I looked like it was run over a few times and was bent up. I'm thinking a Blue Jay put it there.

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There is an infamous "That 70's Show" episode along those lines. I thought my Dad was going to break a rib when he saw it. Turns out HIS father had once taken him aside the day after my dad had borrowed the car and gave him a pair of panties to be returned. Trouble was dad had not taken a girl out that particular night so they must have been from an earlier excursion, but with who?

I knew a guy years ago who told a group of us about his grandfather turning over a pile of manure with a pitchfork and finding a gold pocket watch.

Someone asked him why his grandfather was digging through the manure. He said, "He was looking for his watch."

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If you have ever played with a metal detector, you know that squadrons of aliens flew all over the earth dropping out millions of pop-top tabs. They had too, because you can dig them up in places where no man has ever been.
Closer to home, I have found bullets in lumber. Rocks grown in, up in trees and two years ago, after one of our tornadoes, I found a gun box in one of the hay fields. Gave the box to a safe vendor at the next AGCA show in case he could use it for why you want a safe.
Larry

How about things not turning up. Onboard a submarine you are in a sealed environment. As the ship's personnel officer I was responsible for all admin type supplies. I would order several gross (144) of click type government pens for the crew. The crew is 125 people. By the end of a 3 month deployment the pens would all be gone - we cleaned every day and deep cleaned (under and behind stuff) once a week and no one ever found a stray pen. I think they are with the single socks that disappear from my dryer.

It was likely carried there by a Sparrow. The question is, African or European?

Kind of related, I think...one day, I was working in the ER. We were really busy, and it was shift change. I couldn't find anyone that could give me a report, so I started going from one treatment bay, to the next getting my own report. I entered one bay, and there was a huge guy wearing a set of bib overalls, no shirt, and only one shoe. I don't know why, but I felt compelled to say: "Lose a shoe?" To which the guy said: "Nope, I found one". Ewwww!


Regards,

Dave

Was out on my boat fishing in the Chesapeake Bay years ago. I spotted what appeared to be a cap floating just under the surface. I used the gaff to get it out of the water. It turned out to be a ship ball cap from the destroyer escort had I served on twenty years before...Very strange

One of my bosses chewed us all out about not throwing trash in the 30yd container. One of the guys said to him "turn around" sea gulls were raiding the container and what they didn't want went on the ground. We all just laughed at him. Frank

I once drove through new york.

Saw another white guy in harlem........guess you can call that finding something in a strange place lol

Also one time found a handgun sewn into the mattress of a baby crib at the dump.

Also found a woman eating pizza in a asian restaurant........find weird stuff all the time haha

Gerbils in actors....no link provided.

I remember once finding a pair of lady's nylon stockings in my dresser one day. I handed them to my girlfriend (non-live in) and the temperature dropped 50 degrees instantly. They did not belong to her!

Doctors were operating in a rather large lady with a problem in her right buttock. When they opened it up they found a pork chop bone! Can't hardly type as tears are dripping on my phone from laughter.

My wife came to the head of the stairs and yelled down to me while holding a pair of ladies panties, "Whose are these!?!?"

I said I don't know. Where'd you find them?

"In the laundry!" she said.

They were too big for my girls, not my wife's and certainly I wasn't cross dressing on the sly.....

I don't know where they came from.

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However when we were younger, before kids, there was a time she found a bra in my truck glove box, and from that day on I've been wearing my lucky hunting bra every deer season.....

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This has to be one of the funniest sections of the forum. I will have to check in more often.
Thanks for all the laughs
Bob

My wife found a bra under the ironing board. Too small for her, too big for my daughter. Turns out it was my son's. Well, not really, but it belonged to the girl he managed to sneak in while we were upstairs. We also found the owner, who had run away from home.

It's funny now, it wasn't then.

Many years ago I was forced into a treatment center for alcoholism. My employers sent me pretty much at gunpoint, to save my job.

When I got ready to move from the detox to the residential unit I was re-packing my suitcase (an old hard-shell Samsonite with zippered pockets around the inner sides) when I felt something unfamiliar in one of the pockets. It was an old-fashioned manila pay envelope, the kind used when workers were paid in cash, and it contained a set of eight Polaroid pictures of an extremely attractive young lady who was...inadequately clothed, let's say. To put it mildly. I had absolutely no recollection where they came from, who the lady was, or who took the photographs. This really frustrated me. I figured if I was the guy with the camera, I must have had a very nice time that I couldn't remember.

Once I found a missing insurance policy in my refrigerator, but I did that one sober.

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A buddy of mine had a photo he took on Treasure Island (San Francisco Bay) of what he swears is a penguin! I couldn't tell from the picture if it was a hoax or not, but he swore it was legit.

There was a manatee that showed up in the MS river around memphis a few years back ..

There is a seal that has been spotted in the city of Worcester in England several times in the last year. I think it was seen swimming in the flooded cricket ground at one point.

In an Oakland, Ca. Mexican restaurant near the coliseum we found Asians running the place. It seemed so weird I just knew the food had to be great. Shows you what I know.

I was sawing up an old oak into 18 inch blocks for firewood that was about 4 ft. across. I found a horse shoe at almost the center of one piece. The tree couldn't have been over 6 in. in dia. when the shoe was placed there. I had moved all the blocks to a shady area before splitting so I don't the exact height from the ground. I wish the shoe could talk. I left the shoe in that piece of wood and have it put up and labeled. Larry

I was deer hunting in Meigs County, Ohio and followed some deer into a heavily overgrown area. I came into a small clearing and found an old school bus that had been converted into living space. It had a potbellied stove where the driver's seat used to be, a bed and shelves with old canned goods. There was a 1974 Playboy magazine on the bed. I told my cousin about the find. He owned the land I was hunting. He said he had heard there had been a commune on the property at one time but had not discovered the bus.

How about six 20s in a wad on a Pensacola, Fl street, then another right around the corner.
Steve W

Was this before or after the blue lights?? Just kidding...really. Most I have ever found is a lonely $5 but I'd rather find the $20's like you.

Back to the panties in the car thing.... I had a really good friend who owned a boat harbor. He loved the harbor and wouldn't leave it. His wife was insanely jealous, but insisted on taking vacations. So one year she took off to Florida for 2 weeks with their kids. When she got home she found a ring in the back seat. She ragged on him for months over it. The ring was a kids crackerjack toy and they had a daughter, probably hers. It didn't matter, she had him dead to rights.

So the next year the day before her return, he cleaned the car. Used the shop vac for at least an hour. It was showroom clean. But the fool left the car unlocked! OK, we took up a collection. Then we sent one of our crew of evil doers out to a store. It helped that it was around Valentines Day. So he picked her up at the airport and drove home. But he had a bar to run down on the river, and it was a weekend night. None of us had seen his wife in a couple of weeks and I was pretty sure she'd be down after the kids went to sleep.

So in she storms, screaming. She did that a lot. But she was screaming because of what she found in the car, under the seat. It was a pair of women's panties, all frilly. He almost died on the spot. Then it got worse as she started to unravel them. They were beyond huge. Our buddy had gone to a big and bigger shop. He bought the biggest set of sexy underwear they had. Hey, nothing is too good for a friend!

When she finally got them all stretched out, they were at least 72" around. And no one could keep a straight face. Lots of jokes about "a lot of lovin". And his wife even called him an idiot for leaving the doors unlocked with all his friends around. With friends like us, who needs enemies?

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If your house is like mine, it's always full of neighborhood teenagers who leave EVERYTHING there and always end up in our laundry. I can't say that I've found anything feminine (though I expect that any time). Maybe one of your daughter's girlfriends??

Was manatee an Elvis look-alike?

I loaned my Father a coiled roofing nailer. Several months later I needed the roofing nailer. Dad swore that he remembered returning it to my wife. Nope no roofing nailer was returned said the Mrs. Shortly after this conversation we move to a new home. We thought that we would find the roofing nailer during the move but no such luck. I buy another roofing nailer in order to roof the garage at the new house. Six years later I am in my parents garage with my Mother. I asked my Mother what is under that sheet? Oh that is the antique stove that we bought some time ago. She then remembers that the instructions are in the oven and wants to take the instructions in to the house. She flips the sheet back opens the oven door and said what is that? I said oh that is the roofing nailer that Dad said that he returned to my wife six years ago! So now when my parents misplace something I ask have you looked in the stove?

Whats the statute of limitations? I may have something!?

came across a crudely built cairn off in the woods, wasnt even on a path. it was memorializing a policeman that was shot down while unarmed trying to talk the mclean boys into surrendering.

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Guess he should have had one of those S&W Heavy Duty .38-44's bought by the B.C. Provincial Police about 1940. I've seen pics of them in the forum for guns of that era. The RCMP gpt them when the forces were joined.

Who were the McClean boys, and when was their crime spree?

My only real panties story involves two pair that I bought a girlfriend. Her parents found them in her car when they borrowed it the next day. She told them her boss had left them in there when he sold her the car a few weeks before. They were under a seat still in the store bag, so that was just possible.

The "boss" told her to just keep them, so I got to see her in them. Thankfully, the parents never asked her boss about them.

I don't know why she didn't just say that she'd bought them and hadn't brought them in the house yet. The styles were more daring than she'd been wearing, so her mother might have questioned that.

I have found other people's clothes in my laundry in apartment laundromats. I just left them there. But I think I've lost socks in them.

Somehow, a Swiss Army knife disappeared from my bedroom, and I think I know where I left it. Maybe a maintenance man came in and didn't leave a note, like they're supposed to. Nothing else was missing. I still hope that knife turns up, although I replaced it.

Oh, I know! I thought I'd lost my favorite little 6X20B Zeiss monocular a couple of years ago. I thought it must have fallen from my coat pocket onto a restaurant floor, but they hadn't found it. Probably stolen by whoever found it, right? It wasn't in the car.

A few months later,I found it on my closet floor when looking behind a box there. It must have gotten home okay, then fallen out of the coat after I hung it up. It landed on soft carpet, and was undamaged, thank goodness. It cost several hundred dollars and that model is no longer made. I am delighted to have it back.

years ago i worked at a sawmill here in central ky that bought walnut logs we would run a metal detector over the logs when they were delivered,i asked why they did that and was told it was to check for any metal(DUH) like fence,or bullets or anything that a tree could grow around,then i was shown an article in one of the trade magazines about a company that found a flintlock rifle inside a tree,had some really neat x-ray pics showing the weapon from all angles,you could see the flint,and also the lead roundball still in the barrel,always wondered what could have happened to the owner

A while back I spent more than a few years working as a sawyer in a saw mill in upstate Pa. Never found a flint lock but did run into more than one horse shoe deeply embedded in a log. Also cut into rail road spikes, ceramic electric fence insulators, oodles of bullets and many of the 3 bladed broad heads of the style used back in the 50-60s. The hollow logs were often full of old acorns and dried leaves but we occasionally found animal skeletons, usually squirrels but also raccoons. Even sawed a live 5' black snake in half! My idle hope was to find a stash of old coins. The old fellow who taught me to saw recounted a story of finding what was left of an old Winchester in a log.
Logs with metal embedded in them will usually have a gun metal blue stain showing in the cut end, but not always. The wire fence insulators were the worse. The nails used to mount them on the tree are very hard and will ruin an $8000+ head saw in a flash. If a log came into the mill with a blue stain on the butt I would run it past the saw without cutting and the mill crew would roll it out the other end of the mill. We were allowed to cut it up for fire wood for our own use as long as we did it on our own time and with our own saw. I once cut up an 8 foot white oak log that was about 2 foot in diameter with a blue stain deep in the center of the heart wood. Took it home and split it up, exposing metal in one of the chunks that looked to be the end of a rail road spike. The next winter I tossed the piece into the wood stove and later found a very big horse shoe sitting in the ashes. That tree was over 100 years old.
John