Weirdest thing you've ever seen on the ground during a run..? (Read 11262 times)

Candice?

Creepiest animal yet.

Rattlesnake was on sidewalk in front of me. Scared it into street where a truck ran over it.

In the past few weeks I have seen several very odd things: A HUGE blue Croc. Just one...but I didn't even know they made them that big. It looked like a men's size 13, at least. Crocs are fugly. But the thought of a guy with feet that big wearing the dumb things made me chuckle. It was like a clown shoe. Yesterday I saw someone had spray-painted a massive pecker and balls that crossed both lanes of the road. Lately I have noticed a seriously high number of empty plastic booze bottles in the ditch...yesterday I saw about a half-dozen within maybe 20 yards of one another. I'm guessing maybe they came out of a single trash bin or something. But I've noticed a LOT more hard liquor bottles in the last month or so than usual. Used to be I'd see a lot of beer cans in the ditches, but now it's vodka and rum. I have to wonder if this is due to MI's wretched economy/unemployment. It would be interesting to see if alcohol consumption and/or types of consumption have changed in the past year.

Saab car key with massive fob attached. I picked it up figuring the owner was walking the lake loop I was running. I asked a few people in the area, but no one claimed it. I was on the early miles of a 14 miler, so I detoured a complete 5K loop around the lake flicking the Unlock button at all the Saabs I came across. Along the way I grabbed a doggie bag from the dispenser stand. One complete loop yielded no luck, so I headed toward the police station. One block down sat a Saab, so I tried the Unlock button again, and there she was! I put the key into the doggie bag, toyed with the idea of locking it in the car somehow, then clamped it under the windshield wiper. The police station was on my route, so I memorized the license plate, reported the found key, plate number and disposition to the front desk, and was on my way. On my return six miles later, the car was gone. Nice! Within a week I was again out running near the lake and, lo and behold, who drives by but the Saab lady with the memorized license plate! I thought to wave or yell, but figured it would take way too much explaining and would ruin the good deed. Not exactly weird in the spirit of this thread, but a decent story.

A HUGE blue Croc. Just one...

Saw a Gator crossing the sidewalk right in front of me yesterday. Not a huge one but even a 5 foot long reptile kind of spooks me. Then today I was chased by an Armadillo. These aren't scary, (just stupid) but it was right at my feet and didn't want to trip over it.

Not necessarliy odd, but the first time I've seen it: Lots and lots of empty cold/sinus med packages, the kind with 8 or 10 pills per sheet, blister packs, with all the pills punched out, strewn all over the place in empty subdivision.(Roads, no houses yet) Those crazy tweakers and their meth labs.