Have you ever wondered what the story is behind random abandoned items you see in public?

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Theallseer97@reddit

I wonder about this whenever I see random shopping trolleys in the most random and hard to reach places. On top of a roof? ✅ in the middle of a field miles away from civilization? ✅ In every body of water in the UK? ✅ In the woods miles away from literally any supermarket? ✅. The stories they must have to tell if only we could hear them 😂

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floatinginmyroom@reddit

Today on the street outside my house i saw two airfryer baskets, a pair of knickers, and a tube of hand lotion, all in the same place. I can't imagine the story behind this collection of items

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ArtistEngineer@reddit

Yes. Here's a photo I took 7 years ago

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kylehyde84@reddit

I once found an oven glove on a night out and had it all night but lost it on the way home. I wonder what happened to that oven glove and also where it came from. Hope you're well, oven glove.

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Prestigious-Garbage5@reddit

I once saw a bra, big Bridget Jones style knickers and a slip hanging from a tree near a busy road, on the outskirts of a city. It was a frosty morning in the middle of winter.

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Jacktheforkie@reddit

A slip?

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Dutch_Slim@reddit

It is worn underneath a skirt, the “bottom half” equivalent of a vest. In the old days the main purposes would be to keep clothes off of your skin (so you can rewear without washing) and for warmth.

I don’t think I’ve seen one since my mum stopped wearing them in the 90s.

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Jacktheforkie@reddit

I see thc

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Dutch_Slim@reddit

Like this

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rizozzy1@reddit

I was walking a dog along a busy road, we were going to cross at the pedestrian crossing. I pressed the button and waited.

Only to see he’d picked up a large pair of black lacy women’s knickers. I had to wrestle them from him, as he had a habit of eating socks/pants etc.

I got them off him and in the tussle they flew in full glory into the road. I couldn’t bring myself to look and see how many of the waiting drivers had watched the whole fiasco. We just scuttled across the road.

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cup-of-tea-76@reddit

Few years ago I see a small dead crab on the pavement, this was in Hemel Hempstead pretty much as far away from the coast as you can be

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rizozzy1@reddit

Maybe it was on holiday visiting the water gardens?

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Kimowi@reddit

I found a dead starfish on my patio in Lincoln once, also a fair distance from the sea.

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LahmiaTheVampire@reddit

I'm picturing Werner Herzog doing a monologue about it.

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Soniq268@reddit

I always chuckle to myself when I’ m walking my dogs early at the weekend and see one single, solitary high heel. I’m always like ‘how the fuck…’ (I am a wonan who wears heels on occasions)

I was out last weekend and my friend took her boots off and walked to catch our lift (which was my wife), when we arrived at my friend’s house she realised she had lost a boot. So now I know, drunk roasters take them off and drop them 😂😂

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ResplendentBear@reddit

Shoes on a telegraph pole are meant to be a drug thing, I think?

Otherwise Hellraiser VHS on a bus stop was notable enough to get a BBC story a few years back.

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Do_You_Like_Owls@reddit

This sounds like an urban legend. I've done a lot of drugs across England and I've never heard it mentioned as a 'sign'.

I have heard numerous reasons for kids doing it: end of year/school tradition, bullying, boredom, etc.

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ResplendentBear@reddit

I heard it was meant to signify that a drug dealer "owns" this territory.

So just by doing drugs you wouldn't neccesarily have heard about it.

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Fantastic-Sky-7913@reddit

In the US they throw the trainers of a dead friend or fellow gang member

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nathderbyshire@reddit

I always thought that was just a rumour. When I was younger a typical prank was to take your friends shoes, tie them and throw them over a telephone line or something. I just assumed that's what it is when I see it. Gotta say it's been a while since I've seen it though, maybe kids have moved on

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jeanclaudecardboarde@reddit

Who throws a shoe? Honestly?!

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InkedDoll1@reddit

I don't know if anyone else got your reference here, but I appreciated it

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Funny-Force-3658@reddit

Haha. A know of a family that spent an afternoon chucking all thier old shoes up on telephone lines outside their own home. Mam, dad, two kids, all got a couple of pairs up there. This was well over 10 years ago and the shoes are all still there. I'm wondering if they'll keep the tradition going when grand kids come allong. I can imagine a combined gender reveal / shoe chuck happening.

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nathderbyshire@reddit

We always had fun with shoes. I never did the lace one but I was done to me once, we did used to kick/flip them though as high as we could and one day my friend kicked her shoe right over a man's head and it landed on the school roof, he thought it was a bird that flew over him 😂 the shoe stayed there for ages. It was common to come home with one or no shoes

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gxb20@reddit

I can tell you from experience that some shoes on telegraph lines are from bullying

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YouCantArgueWithThis@reddit

Usually when I see a shoe. It's always just the one shoe...

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Simbooptendo@reddit

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SomeWomanFromEngland@reddit

I’ve often seen pairs.

One time I found a decent pair of flip flops when I’d been meaning to buy some summer sandals and kept them. Had them for years.

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UglyFilthyDog@reddit

Waste not, want not.

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Positive-Mud-11@reddit

Yeah like how did they not realise? 🤣

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Happy_Chief@reddit

I always juat assume its fallen out of a bag.

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SamVimesBootTheory@reddit

Back in college one of my coursemates was late one day because she lost a shoe getting on the train and had to get a new pair of shoes

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hdhxuxufxufufiffif@reddit

I once saw an innocent pedestrian get hit on the head by a shoe thrown from the window of a passing bus.

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Wooden-Scholar6833@reddit

A wig/weave in the gutter on a Saturday morning in Lewisham....near a night club. Take from that what you will....

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cap_time_wear_it@reddit

Tumbleweave

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maksigm@reddit

Glad someone beat me to it.

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Wooden-Scholar6833@reddit

Winner 😂

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Virtual_Opinion_8630@reddit

danced their wig off

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Wooden-Scholar6833@reddit

There was skin and blood as well....but I love the optimism lol

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Virtual_Opinion_8630@reddit

oh my god that is grim

I somehow forgot it's glued on

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Wooden-Scholar6833@reddit

Welcome to South London lol

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maksigm@reddit

Always. Every single time I see one.

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GlamorganTestesWard@reddit

Last Saturday I was in Newport City Centre (visiting Newport Market, which is lovely) and I saw an abandoned AirFryer (basket had separated from the main bit) in a disused shop doorway. “Oooh” I thought to myself, “the tales you could tell”.

I guess it is a lesson for us all that although AirFryers are popular, most homes have one, and Britain is known as a national of AirFryer-lovers, many are abandoned in such a way.

Remember, an AirFryer is for all meals, not just for supper.

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Jacktheforkie@reddit

I once saw a kettle casually boiling away in a cemetery in town, then the homeless guy behind the church proceeded to come out and make a cup of tea

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Simbooptendo@reddit

Cemeteries have sockets now?

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Simbooptendo@reddit

Yeah. Just yesterday I found a disc on the ground which was Series One of the HBO show Hung. Would've taken it but their was a chunk of the disc missing. Same with Tchaikovsky and Luther Vandross records I found once

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carjo78@reddit

A kids little tyke red and yellow sit in car thing abandoned by the canal in the middle of nowhere.

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shutterpete@reddit

A haggis in the train station shelter.

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hamstertoybox@reddit

Sausages caused quite a stir in Bristol lately https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj69x3w8p1go

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GuybrushFunkwood@reddit

I once saw a false leg propped up against a fruit machine in Wetherspoons and to this day I still wonder about its origin story!

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InviteAromatic6124@reddit

Maybe two people stole it from a drunk person, tried to pawn it, and they gave it back but the person whose leg it was had gone?

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mattjimf@reddit

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Virtual_Opinion_8630@reddit

legless in spoons

it fits

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Appropriate-Wasabi94@reddit

Copper Kettle on the roof of the Lamb pub in Chichester. Had a pair of shoe laces tied to the handle of the kettle.

Some flash sales rep had tried to win a bet by launching the copper kettle over the pub. We all knew he was talking nonsense.

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levezvosskinnyfists7@reddit

He’s thrown a kettle over a pub, what have you ever done?

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InviteAromatic6124@reddit

When I was interning in New Quay, Ceredigion, for a summer we found an abandoned safe on a beach (a small moneybox one, not a bank safe) with a spoon, a pair of women's underwear and a load of letters hidden inside it.

We then spent the rest of the evening being amateur detectives and trying to unravel the mystery of this safe, lol.

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Imaginary_Finger7844@reddit

I've spent four decades trying to figure out why there was a pair of trainers hanging from a power line.

The one that really sticks out was a fresh bunch of flowers in a skip.

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Old_Introduction_395@reddit

Flowers as an apology?

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Imaginary_Finger7844@reddit

I'm thinking that the guy got dumped, tried to apologise, make it right and got rebuffed.

Whatever it was, my imagination has never tired of it.

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Old_Introduction_395@reddit

Flowers from the garage in the early morning, when he failed to come home the night before.

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Imaginary_Finger7844@reddit

Possibly.

Whoever dumped the flowers may have realised that they weren't worth it.

My mind has ran through all scenarios. None of them give me the warm fuzzies.

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Old_Introduction_395@reddit

Allergies. Recipient had cats, flowers not suitable.

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ThginkAccbeR@reddit

A single black patten leather high heeled shoe on a garden wall.

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PaleozoicQueen@reddit

There is a hill I walk down where someone abandoned a suitcase in the middle of the footpath and a duvet.....

I have no idea

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smellyfeet25@reddit

I would have looked in that if i could open it and nobody was looking .It could be full of money for me.Better to waste a minute and find nothing rather than miss an opportunity to be rich.

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PaleozoicQueen@reddit

Oh no, it is lying there empty and wide open.

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Britkraut@reddit

Sure sure 😉😉😉

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glittertwunt@reddit

Never more so than the abandoned huge Y-fronts full of fecal matter

I mean I can obviously deduce from the evidence that a man shat himself in the street

But I would like to know the lead up to this, and also the epilogue

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Revolutionary-Rub231@reddit

In our old house we woke up one morning to 2 odd shoes in our back garden. The only conclusion we could come to was it must be foxes? We never found out who they belonged to.

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UglyFilthyDog@reddit

In all fairness foxes seem to have a particular passion for taking shoes. Maybe it's like cats bringing you a dead animal as a gift of sorts.

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TomatoChomper7@reddit

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St2Crank@reddit

This is instantly what I thought of.

OP if you’ve not seen it, watch the Diddle Diddle Dumpling episode of Inside No 9.

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Dico80@reddit

Came to post this, first thing that came to mind!

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SamVimesBootTheory@reddit

There's a couple of road signs I pass on a country road that for some reason have a small football stuck on top of them and I wonder what that's about.

I had a weird experience once though when I worked in Poundland where I was sweeping up under some shelves and found a mysterious trainer, wasn't one we sold it was just some random beat up white trainer.

Also not a thing anymore but I still wonder about the whole thing where you'd find random vhs tape or cassette tape tangled up in trees as I used to see that a lot as a kid.

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MteQmcC@reddit

4.5 million people have died in the UK since 2020 . I just assume these items belonged to those people . That the population of Scotland

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Lynex_Lineker_Smith@reddit

My favourite is the half leg prosthetic with a sock and shoe that we found one night .

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Compact_Discovery@reddit

I buy children's hats and gloves online and leave them on low walls and on top of bollards.

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FewAnybody2739@reddit

I've seen a few pushchairs over the years. Fortunately none had babies in them, but the only thing I can kind of is the baby decided to run off and the parents left the pushchair to try to catch it.

Well, more likely is that it's fly tipping when the baby outgrew the pushchair, but it's funnier to think of a baby running around.

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SamVimesBootTheory@reddit

Yeah I've seen stray pushchairs too and often guessed it's fly tipping by way of obnoxious youths

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Old_Introduction_395@reddit

I lost a shoe getting on a train one, someone stood on the back of it in the scrimmage to get on.

I was 10, I cried. A railway employee got it back for me.

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nhema94@reddit

Have a read of “The Keeper of Lost Things” by Ruth Hogan.

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SomeWomanFromEngland@reddit

Around 2005, I was cleaning up a small patch of ground full of litter. It was inaccessible to the public and the litter got there by being thrown over the wall.

I found a two disc DVD box set. The discs, the open and empty cases for them, and the outer box that both had come in, all scattered around in the long grass, somewhat faded by damp.

I didn’t know the show, and couldn’t possibly tell you the name now. But it looked like an American sci-fi thing.

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layshaft@reddit

A pair of old blokes Y fronts in an alleyway will always haunt me....

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ResplendentBear@reddit

Finding some empty bottles of alcohol and a very new looking, scarlet red bra in a layby. Out in the woods. Whilst we didn't touch the bra for obvious reasons, judging by the size of the cups, someone had a good night.

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Possible-Ad-2682@reddit

NSFW language.

https://youtu.be/VTYjp9S1Q_o

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hauntedathiest@reddit

A shoe left at the side of a motorway.

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Stefgrep66@reddit

In the 70s and 80s nearly every hedgerow had a copy of Razzle or Fiesta porn mags in them.

I often wondered who the perv was who put them there.

Whoever it was, I thank you sir!😁

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