coolest thing you found?

[Killyp]

Found a vintage (but top of the range at the time) B&O stereo in a neighbour's house which they were just going to skip. Needed a little work but after a replacing a few of the caps and rheostats, it works beautifully. Sounds lovely too, although the speakers leave something to be desired...

1. A $20 dollar bill in a pool (it was wet, but i still used it)
2. A friends computer, that had been stolen (Powerbook G4)
3. iPod Nano on a park bench

There's a difference between stealing and finding you know

 

[FoxyKaye]

Growing up, I found a money clip on a ski slope with about $20 in it.

Two weeks ago I was walking to lunch in downtown Oakland, and found a set of master keys to the city's electronic parking meters just dangling out of the keyhole in one of the meters. Essentially, the access to both the innards and cash reserve of hundreds of electronic parking meter machines across downtown.

I really pondered this one for a while, but in the end did the Good Girl Scout routine and gave them back to a city parking enforcement person I encountered at an ATM while walking back from lunch to work. He was stunned, and asked me, "Do you know what you're holding?" to which I replied, "I think the real question is, do you know what I'm holding? Because the way I see it, it's access to hundreds of small pots of gold all over Oakland." He was grateful, and based on the location of where I told him I found them, even knew whose keys they were. He told me that it's a major pain in the ass for the parking employee if they lose their keys.

I walked away still feeling ambivalent about not using the keys for my own gain, but feeling much happier about potentially having saved someone's job from the crushing bureaucratic heel of oppression that is the City of Oakland. So, I suppose the moral here is something along the lines of, it's people and not cash that matters.

A duffel bag with $200,000 in it. Turned it in to the police, it had traces of cocaine so they kept it. I think they got some police equipment with it. I have no problem with that.

A lot of cash has traces of cocaine on it. I forgot where I read that, but apparently folks like to roll bills and snort.

 

[steveza]

When I first moved to London (back in 2000) on my first weekend in the city, I was waiting for a train at Trafalgar Sqaure tube station and a woman sitting next to me on the platform got up to catch a train and left her handbag on the seat. I only noticed after the train left so I took a quick look inside to see if she had some ID with her address or phone number on it. Her mobile phone was right on top of the bag so I knew I couldn't call her but looking under the phone there was a lot of cash in the bag. I didn't count it but it was a whole bunch of notes. Anyhow I thought it was best to hand it in rather than try and return it myself, just in case I got accused of helping mysleft to some £££s.

A lot of cash has traces of cocaine on it. I forgot where I read that, but apparently folks like to roll bills and snort.

It's true - people trying to traffic large sums of cash are occasionally caught by drug sniffer dogs due to the amount of cocaine on the notes.

 

[Scubajay]

All the cool things I have found have been locatd whilst diving in 40m+ deep dark water off the UK coast.

To date I have found some really nice crockery and glassware, all dated around 1886 or so (when the wreck sank)

I also fond some WW2 cannon shells from aircraft cannons.

I am still looking for that elusive bell - the true prize of all deep wreck divers.

 

[Abstract]

Weapons of mass destruction.

 

[Santa Rosa]

I found 5 pence once.... thought that was a pretty good day.

 

[mperkins37]

Got a Bondi Blue Imac 266 out of my neighbors garbage a year or so ago.
Had some extra plugs so I plugged it in & It hung up, Re-loaded the os9 disc I had from my G3 300 & Voila!
Nice little MacMame machine.

 

[EricNau]

I found $70 in a wallet once. Unfortunately, there wasn't an ID card or anything else by which I could find the owner, so I turned it in to the establishment nearby and a few months later it was given to me.

 

[IJ Reilly]

i also found a money clip once in a parking lot, bets part, it had 120 bucks clipped to it...

I've found quite a bit of money over the years, but the best find was a sterling silver money clip in a gutter in London, with about £50 in it. I hung around on the sidewalk for about ten minutes looking for anyone who might frantically searching but saw nobody.

 

[Eric Lewis]

1) iPod Shuffle 512mb (on street near curb)
2) iPod 30gb (on Plane pocket)
3) iMac G4 700mhz..it was at a walmart parking lot..it worked too!
4) $100 dollar bill in the forest
5) $20 dollar bill (at wally world...water park)

 

[0098386]

I've got a habit of finding dead sheep. And not just "oh look it could be asleep" kinda dead, more the mutilated sort.

1- Out with a few friends, spotted a mound of sheepy fluff near a fence. The sheep had half its face missing, eye gouged out, huge hole and the insides empty. You could see its ribs and spine. As if it had all just been scooped out.
uploaded the pics here, btw don't look. NSFAnyplace or Anywhere. Tried to get a good closeup in that last pic but took the photo blind... urgh!

2- A nice one. Just a sheep skeleton.

3- Last monday went out with a friend and spotted a sheep's head perfectly intact but with its spine rolled out with a few ribs still attached. Lots of fur. Smelled an awful lot like fish.

There are stories about wild cats up on the moors. Once owned by landowners who released them which kinda thickens the plot!