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in the last couple of days, i found a 10 euro note and a big lump of hash. both walking to and from pub toilets. there is excellent stuff to be found on the ground, so i will continue to look. what say others?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 27 December 2003 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I never look at the ground because people in New York clean up their dog shit and people in London don't have dogs to begin with.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 27 December 2003 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

haha what about paris, tracer?!

obv, kilian: passport photos!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 27 December 2003 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

i found a pile of broken glass ornaments but also beautifully coloured christmas bows dumped in the parking lot of a textiles warehouse as i was walking by on xmas eve and used them to decorate my presents

― minna (minna), Saturday, 27 December 2003 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)

well cozen: friends from France found lots of things when they visited my neighborhood in Brooklyn. The coolest thing they found was a toy car squashed into the asphalt of Flatbush Avenue. It was a metal car that had been flattened down into the street. We couldn't tell if it was "art" or what but it was cool enough for me to search for it again. If you're ever in the area it's on the left side of Flatbush as you're walking towards the Manhattan Bridge, between Atlantic and Fulton St.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 27 December 2003 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm on it! um, if i ever get out of glasgow.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 27 December 2003 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

right now, on the ground, i'm looking for a 35cl bottle of jack daniel's.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 27 December 2003 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

$20 the other day. Not too shabby.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Saturday, 27 December 2003 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

my dad is the king of this, especially when I was little he was always riding his motorcycle and finding interesting things on the road. One time he found this enormous dead rhinoceros beetle and brought it home for me and I think I may still have it somewhere. When I was little we would pretend to feed it graham crackers.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 27 December 2003 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

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RAHHRHRR!

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 27 December 2003 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

my dad is totally like the dad in Danny the Champion of the World.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 27 December 2003 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I one found a copy of Geri Halliwell's autobiography on thbe ground. You all be jealous of me ok?

― Allyzay, Saturday, 27 December 2003 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: the $100 bill I once found; the porn someone left on the sidewalk right outside the Russian Embassy.

Destroy: dog poop (if DC would just enforce its pooper scooper laws in my neighborhood all its budget problems would be solved); the silver-colored piece of metal that looked from a distance like a nickel but wasn't.

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 27 December 2003 04:48 (twenty-two years ago)

search:

-a neat little copper(?) ring/disc. it has a detailed sun pattern etched into it, and a weird notch in the center.
-quarter with bullet hole in it
-spraypainted designs around Providence, RI such as rubber duckies, razorblades and umbrellas.

destroy:
-The pair of pants I found outside my dorm that are too small for me.
-dead animals such as birds, squirrels, chipmunks and deer.
-the dozens of scratched up shitty CDs found along schoolbus routes near my home in the suburbs. limp bizket, linkin park, DMB, no doubt, avril, etc.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 27 December 2003 06:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: the circa 1990 dance mix tape with technotronic and etc. Destroy: the bob seeger one that won't play.

But actually, fuck the ground. Search: dumpsters. In the last 2 days in 2 short trips I got:

-a stack of sealed promo music CD's
-$100 worth of sealed bagged assorted candies, good stuff to keep, and not so good stuff to feed a lucky horse of my friend's that loves mints
-stuff which I can't disclose that will be converted to $50-100 cash

Destroy: the 3 traffic tickets I just got from pig cops, for no reason except they are fascist, while riding a BIKE

― sucka (sucka), Saturday, 27 December 2003 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, destroy: cops. Their daily job duties should consist of patrolling with pooper scoopers to rid sidewalks of dog poop, and kissing my ass.

― sucka (sucka), Saturday, 27 December 2003 07:51 (twenty-two years ago)

found a $50 bill on Ave A while attend a CMJ fest two years ago. it was gone by the end of the night, thanks to the beer prices at the Continental.

― El Santo Claus (Kingfish), Saturday, 27 December 2003 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)

This sort of relates: Recently I was standing behind someone at a convenience store and watched him drop a twenty dollar bill. I looked around and realized I was the only one who had noticed. The guy was walking out the door and I was fighting a mighty yet silent battle with my conscience and I ultimately lost -- I stopped the guy and gave him his twenty. My friend gave me shit about it the rest of the day and proceeded to list all the things we could have done with that twenty.

I went through a period in high school where I was finding money on the ground all the time, the biggest find being a $100.00 bill.

When I was a kid I found some note cards that seemed to have something to do with the details of a murder. Being a dork I assumed it was a real murder and, misinterpretinge "clues," I called a bunch of people and businesses in an effort to crack the case. In retrospect I now see they must have been either a student's notes on a book or an author's notes for a book.

― jewelly (jewelly), Saturday, 27 December 2003 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn Killian I'm fucking jealous of you. Hash? sheeit. .

The best I've done is a $5 bill on the other side of the fence in the alley behind my apt. It was next to a used condom and I gingerly fetched it with a stick. Later I was about to get on the freeway when some legless guy panhandled me and I gave it to him.

Easy come, easy go.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Saturday, 27 December 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I found £35 once. I kept it.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 27 December 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

lately I've found:
vintage corduroy Lee denim jacket from the 70s... it was half buried under dirt so I pulled it out, touching it as little as possible and placed it in a plastic bag. I washed it and it fits me perfect, just afew holes and lotsa rust on it

three 5$ bills
several photos
hmm... nothing else really... but the jacket is pretty cool

― Heeee, Saturday, 27 December 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

But actually, fuck the ground. Search: dumpsters.

Au Bon Pain in Union Square throws out lots of bagels shortly before 8pm everyday and then, a little after closing, they throw out all of their other dessert pastries.

When college students move out of their dorms, it is prime dumpstering time. Stacks of CDRs, computers, CD players, LOTS OF CLOTHES!!!, couches... Brown students are notorious for throwing away good stuff.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 27 December 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

When college students move out of their dorms, it is prime dumpstering time.

True. The porn I mentioned was in an area where lots of dumped stuff winds up after a college term has ended and students move out of the nearby apartments.

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 28 December 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Sam, are you talking about the condom or the five bucks?

You dumpster people are disgusting.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 28 December 2003 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Half my friends and family say that. I didn't tell them where the great Xmas presents they thought I spent so much money on came from.

― sucka (sucka), Sunday, 28 December 2003 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

They know, sucka, they know.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 28 December 2003 04:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Be careful who you call disgusting. Dumpster people know your sins, Tracer Hand!

― sucka (sucka), Sunday, 28 December 2003 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I found a strip of ripped up gnarled film and it turned out to be about 30 frames of harry dean stanton in paris texas! crazy.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 28 December 2003 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

and I once got talked into climbing into a dumpster with a local crazy man who saw me passing by and said "hey you gotta check this out there's tons of good shit in here" and I climbed into it and it was actually just full of actual disgusting garbage. I still don't quite know what the hell I was thinking.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 28 December 2003 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

hahaha,

the money tracer, jeez.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Sunday, 28 December 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

About 5 years ago i found some old dear's pension book in an brown envelope, which also contained about £250.

My friend had just got the sack from the record shop we worked in because she been caught "shoplifting" a packet of maltesers from the Superdrug opposite the store. Her undoing was being caught wearing her logo emblazzoned work t-shirt. Their store security told our head office.

She claimed that she absent-mindedly forgot to put them back on the shelf whilst in store and decided to leave when she remembered she had to be somewhere else.

Anyway next day we were walking around and her temporary financial problems were resolved somewhat by the find.

I still feel sorry for whoever couldn't feed their cat that month, though.

― Nik (Nik), Sunday, 28 December 2003 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I once found a passport photo of myself on the ground, on my way home from my local pub. I hadn't seen it or used it for ages, I'm unsure how it got out of my house. It was kind of freaky though.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 28 December 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

aside from the usual small amounts of money - one particular sad, sad day i found a button that said simply "you belong". it cheered me up and i cherished it forever.

also this site is chalk full of ground gifts.

― dyson (dyson), Sunday, 28 December 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

hmmm. on the ground...outside--a small metal sign that said CHIEN BIZARRE. i took it to work (Bomp!) and put it on my desk. it fit, somehow.

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 29 December 2003 05:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I once found a wallet with a cheque signed for £1 million, no kidding.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 29 December 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

there's some really great stuff at www.foundmagazine.com.

― hmmmmmm, Monday, 29 December 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

that be the link i posted, dude.

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 29 December 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

best things: car badges that have dropped off, esp the bmw circle thingy one.

most outre thing = broken vibrator (ie you could see it was broken, I didn't pick it up)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 29 December 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

euw!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 29 December 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Found £40 quid once, it was getting to the end of term, I was particularly skint. I bought vodka.
The downside was I found out a friend of a friend who'd come to visit had lost £40 on the walk up to uni.
I didn't say anything, I did give him lots of vodka though.

― celeste (Celeste), Monday, 29 December 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

Found in Brighton on Monday, what we deduced to be part of a letter to Pr3ston of Big Br0ther/Ordin4ry B0ys 'fame':

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We then deduced further (because the author says he lives 100 miles away) that Pr3ston - a local boy of course - must have *received* this moving missive, and thrown it away. Heartless bastard.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 4 May 2006 07:50 (twenty years ago)

I found a ruby - but it turned out to be gum

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Thursday, 4 May 2006 10:31 (twenty years ago)

That mean man, Archel!

Still, psychos and all. You can't be too careful.

I found a €100 note on the ground once. I tried to find out who it belonged to, but couldn't, so I used it to adopt a cat.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 4 May 2006 10:52 (twenty years ago)

i am very good at finding money on the floor. I must stare at the ground all day, but a lot of time it's instinctual. I could be waiting at the bar and think "I bet there's money on the floor", look down and there's a fiver! It's a good feeling.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 4 May 2006 10:52 (twenty years ago)

Haha I totally would have thrown it out as well trish tbh. But doesn't he have an agent to weed out this stuff anyway?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 4 May 2006 11:02 (twenty years ago)

was it from passantino?

― -+-+-+++- (ooo), Thursday, 4 May 2006 11:04 (twenty years ago)

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