Things You Find In A Ditch

Do you guys ever look in a ditch to see what's in it?

I have, and let me tell you, I have seen some strange things in there! First, you have Budweiser cans, Pepsi bottles, Tim Hortons cups, Mc Donalds bags, and basically food and drink items. But...I have also seen two toilets in a ditch, and even a couch or sofa!

Think you guys can top that?

Can I top that?

Quite frankly, I'm not sure I want to.

Cars.

Well, technically they're canals, but they're small enough to be ditches.

The large majority of my personal effects.

I found a shot-put in the gutter once. That was my favorite toy for many years. I used to bounce around with it on the trampoline trying to dodge it.

I don't look in ditches, but I do proudly consider myself a scavenger. When you get in the habit of picking up clean, useful objects off the ground, it really helps you become aware of your surroundings. I mostly pick up dropped gloves, which turn up pretty regularly in New England as long as the weather is cold.

We did that with a soccerball.

And a trampoline covered in soap.

It was BRILLIANT.

edited 7th Mar '12 11:42:14 AM by Jimmmyman10

The skeleton of a dog, crusted over with mud.

I've never done soap on a trampoline, but jumping on one that was wet was always really fun.

wrong topic

edited 7th Mar '12 11:50:04 AM by Leradny

Snitches.

Soap on a trampoline is incredible. It's one of the slipperiest things I know of.

We...we don't speak of what's in the ditch...

I should try that sometime.

I remember seeing a shoe in a ditch once; that's all that comes to mind at the moment.

A Ford Fiesta.

Well, it used to be a Fiesta.

Not quite the same thing, but there's been a few times I've gotten on the train, noticed an article of clothing on the seat next to me and taken it home with me - mainly gloves. My current umbrella is one I picked up off a train when it happened to be raining.

I'm generally curious about uncovering left-behind objects, but not to the point where I'd go into a ditch for 'em. Once I went and squeezed behind a bush in front of a public building because I thought I glimpsed something unusual there - it turned out to be a record with a chunk broken off of it. There was a thrift store nearby - maybe someone bought a broken record without noticing and didn't have anywhere else to dispose of it? And while cutting through a park one night I once picked up a frozen sock off the ground. You know, for science.

edited 7th Mar '12 1:29:43 PM by MikeK

You take a bottle of dish soap (or any other type of liquid soap) and squirt it all over the trampoline. then take a hose, and hose the whole thing so you get suds.

That's how we did it, at least. Warning: extremely dangerous. (also extremely fun.)

Oh!

Also, a burnt-out Ford Ka!

That dead body I like to poke with a stick.

Ahhh.. fond memories of my childhood poking dead hookers I would find in the ditch with a stick :3

There's a drain that runs around the back of our property, and when it rains it usually floods. One day after a storm, we went walking and found the sodden head of a purple teddy bear, trailing strips of fabric and stuffing, about five metres away from the drain's usual course. I didn't realise until then how dramatically that thing flooded.

So, that is my only 'found in a ditch' story.

edited 7th Mar '12 6:44:29 PM by LoniJay

I have never seen a car lying around anywhere except for occasional woods, and those were unusual cases. I'm not from the sort of area where such things happen.

In the end, nothing gets tossed into ditch-like areas either in my home neighborhood or here on this college campus other than pretty ordinary trash. This angers my parents in both contexts, but usually nothing is done about it...

Oh lord, the things you can find in a ditch the further you go into the woods...I think the absolute weirdest was a bunch of animal parts and bones just thrown in...it was probably just a couple of red necks hoping to freak out some random people, but it was still memorable.

Construction pylons arranged around a dead cat, like it was meant to be some sort of shrine.

We don't have ditches around here. However, I've got some interesting stuff, anyway. The river that goes through the city is slow-flowing, and water level is maintained by weir-gates along its course. Every so often, something goes wrong and the river winds up completely drained. Apart from dead fish, lots of duck-shit and the usual plastic bags/bottles, on the riverbed you may find a variety of chairs, shopping trolleys, wheelbarrows, boat equipment (one prominent section that is also the most frequently drained is used as a rowing lake), shoes, brooms and garden tools, and very rarely a car, and even more rarely, human remains.

edited 7th Mar '12 9:58:49 PM by ekuseruekuseru