Coolest thing you've ever found in the street!

Ok,

I'm not sure why this made me so happy but...
I was walking home (NYC) and I passed a radio shack, it was around 11PM so the store was closed and for some reason they were getting rid of a lot of their toy-like stuff. So they just set the stuff out in boxes on the street...
I scored a sweet looking foot-tall robot, 2 remote control monster trucks (without the remotes, but I always wanted one as a kid, so it sort of completes that long forgotten wish), a purple hippopotamus flashlight thingee and this kid's keyboard that has a fake turntable on it!
It's so stupid, but it made me feel so good to find these "things". It's like the universe was saying "buck up camper, things will get better..here's a monster truck and a robot to prove it.
OK...so then...what is the coolest thing you've ever found in the street...(I'm already saying "hooker, bum and dog shit, so think of something else)

SB

[Edited on Apr 23, 2003 by Strongbadia]

a lil' runaway girl that did my laundry and walked on my back....

A really hot gutter punk just laying there on Jackson Square.

Al,

You should've looked around the neighborhood, maybe there was a whole, free car, just laying in pieces waiting to be put together and driven home.
I mean, hey you never know...

i was walking to my grandma's house from highschool during my freshman year and found a porn mag lying in the street It was all downhill from there...

i found a quarter bag leaving a dennys one time a few years ago. was really really good shit to. i would have felt sorry for the guy who lost it if it didnt benefit me so much

twenty bucks

i used to know a girl that would pull over whenever she saw roadkill. she would take it home and do little creepy tests on it and then bury it in the field behind her house. i've never found anything in the street except myself when i used to drink.....

when i was like 5 i found a seashell on my street in butte, montana. i was mystified.

2.5 foot long cucumber that I did ninja stuff with and it broke in half and hit my friend in the head!!

a used glow in the dark condom and a used needle/safe kit.

i was in a market in guatemala and i found a living breathing dirt cover infant just wandering about. no one paid it any mind..i lost sight of it under a bus.

once i was walking around in nyc in the mid 90s and saw a dong enlarger tossed to the curb

do you still know this girl?

Maybe not 'cool,' but bizarre and intriguing.

she's around...why? did ya have something for her to pick up?

a black plastic rat. i found it with a pal of mine tonight. it's awesome. i'll post a pic asap

i find a lot of stuff in the street but the thing that came to mind straight away was a souvenir flag that i found in the street outside my work from the wedding of di&charles.

hahahaha word.

Cool but sad - In 6th grade I hade a rural paper route and I was walking by a freshly dead possum - when I went by I saw something moving and it turns out the possum had like four or five lil alive babies on its belly - their eyes were still closed but they were furry and cute and it was such a moment of heartbreak because I knew my parents would never let me help them

- some time later my Dad found a mouse nest full of babies outside and was calling our cats to kill them - I grabbed them all, yelled at my parents and kept them warm in a lit box and fed them at all hours for a few days - my Mom would find me up at 4am trying to syringe them milk and look at me like I was crazy - they started dying and I told her they needed formula cause the milk wasn't enough but she didn't really care and put off buying any - By the time I was able to get formula there was only one left - I came home and found the last one had just died - I remember sitting with this tiny thing in my hands and wishing upon anything that it would come back to life - Anyway that part was totally off topic and prolly rather silly to most of you - my memory just kinda spills out sometimes

A first printing of Slaughterhouse Five, in perfect condition. We were driving around town on trash day, and stopped for these rediculously large army PA speakers, and there it was sitting on top of a pile of books. At first I was psyched because its one of my favorite books. Then I realized that its worth a couple hundred bucks.

My favorite blogger has an obsession with roadkill; could you be talking about Rebecca St. Amand?

Oh, yeah, I found this:

i found a cheech & chong tshirt in the gutter