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Update: Found a bowling ball in the intake last week near Mobile
We were pulling up river silt near the old docks, and the pump started making this wild thumping sound (like a giant washing machine with a brick in it). Shut it down, opened the hatch, and there's a perfectly round, slightly scuffed bowling ball just sitting in the basket. My lead guy just looked at it and said, 'Looks like an eight-ten split to me.' Had to rig a chain fall to pull the thing out. Anyone else dredge up something that made absolutely no sense for the location?
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michaelgrant2mo ago
Honestly, that beats the weirdest thing I've ever pulled out of a storm drain. Buddy of mine in sanitation once fished out a full, sealed jar of pickles from a main line. Like, who flushes that? Makes you wonder about the late-night decisions that lead to stuff like a bowling ball taking a river trip.
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finleyl391mo ago
Totally get that. Pulled a full, working bicycle frame out of a drainage culvert once, not a single bolt on it. Just the bare metal frame, perfectly clean. Another time we pulled up a car door from the 80s, still had the mirror attached. The stuff that just walks into the water never stops being weird.
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calebc401mo ago
Man, that car door is wild. It makes you picture the whole story, like some epic roadside argument that ended with a door just sailing into the creek. The bike frame is super strange too, like how does something that big and complete just end up spotless in a pipe? It's those finds that stick with you, way more than the usual trash. You start building whole movies in your head about how they got there.
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