2024 Pointless Prize: Street #Treats
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This game is about finding perfectly good, orphaned #treats while riding your bike that are “lost” or dropped UNintentionally by people as they go about their daily life. While “treats” are subjective, intentionally discarded trash or garbage doesn’t count as it is not “lost” and therefore cannot be “found”. The exception to this rule is if you rescue something from someone else’s trash and give it another life by re- or up-cycling it … thus diverting its fateful destination to a landfill.Some common street #treats are money, usually coins, and orphan gloves or hats. I’ve found $20 bills, sunglasses, a six-pack of unopened beers and a brand new pair of Speedplay Zero cleat covers. I even found a pair of Barr Mitts once,too.
How to play:
1. Find a street treat out in the wild while riding your bike. This means a random item that was “lost” by someone and “found” by you, not something that you intentionally went out to find like a friend, or intentionally discarded as trash unless you re- or up-cycle it (i .e. put it back into use).
2. Hashtag your ride title #treats on Strava
3. Post a picture (1 only, please) of the street treat with some part of your bike in it to this thread and/or your Strava post.
4. Follow me and allow me to follow you back on Strava so that your street #treats can be verified.Scoring:
1. One #treats point per ride posted on Strava
2. Extra point if you re- or up-cycle the street #treats and share a story of its new life about it here or on your Strava post.
3. Bonus points if you donate the street treat to someone in need and share a story about it here or on Strava.
4. Angel points if you return the treat to its rightful owner (as I did with Trey Harris’s Barr Mitts) and share a story about it here or on Strava.Note: Bonus & Angel points will be arbitrary, subjective & w/out appeal but your effort and creativity will be taken into consideration.
The winner will receive a special treat TBD. Send me a PM if you want to donate your street treat to become the award for this pointless prize.
Good luck finding street #treats!
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2/18/24 Found this leather tag on the ground when @boomer was teaching us about shipbuilding in Alexandria. Learned s few new things
#treat – 2/19/2024 – Another ear warmer band, a Smartwool merino one on Ohio Dr by the John Ericsson Memorial
#treat – 2/20/2024 – Today’s ear band warmer was on top of the 7 mm on the W&OD’s Citizens Bridge over W Broad St in Falls Church
2/20/24
I found a hat today up near Langston & Glebe. Put it on the cone to be found
I’m thinking it’s probably okay to post 2 pictures on one post if they’re different views of the same found object – but lmk if I’m off about that.
This pic I’m including cuz it has the cross street2/20/24 three treats–a pink silicone doodad that I have no idea what it’s for other than to adorn my bike; a bic lighter, a drill bit
2/20/24 – Another crazy treat found on the Carl Henn Millennium Trail. When I picked it up, it completely feel part. The only useful part was possibly the stick.
treats – 2/21/2024 – Looks like somebody left the bow behind from their Valentines Day TREAT on E Columbia St in Falls Church
2/21/24 you can’t make this up. I found a drivers license on the ground this morning. I came home and telephoned the person I had googled. She would be at work Near where the license was lost later today. So, that was the beginning of my second ride today. Not only did I get to return the license. We chatted, and we come from the same part of the country. She is relatively new, and Arlington, and is interested in biking, so I told her all about her lovely community and plan to have her join me on some rides. We hit it off immediately, so I could be making a another new friend because of Freezing Saddles. The happy meetup for the return of the treat found in the photo below.
#treats – 2/22/2024 – Ball! on the Holmes Run Trail next to Brookvalley Park. It didn’t belong to any of the kids there (I did manage to return a tennis ball at Bluemont Park yesterday, but I had already claimed the treat from an earlier ride)
2/22/24 Excited for this hat and curious where I posted the drivers license yesterday???
Will take to my grandson the Cat in the Hat hat found during my bike ride on a table marked as free in someone’s front yard. Left some other worthy items behind
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2/22/24 – Chair
Does this count as a street treat? When it has a “FREE” sign on it like this? Idk cuz it’s kinda large 🤔🤷🏻
or 🤔 maybe it’s a moot question cuz I forgot to put my bike in the pic? But lmk anyhow cuz if it’s OK except it needs a bike I’ll see if it’s still there tomorrow 😁2/23/24 – glove
I found this wet glove on the W&OD just below Carlin Springs rd.
I put it on a mile marker post to be better seen
2/23/24 it took great restraint, not to return in my car to take the sign, which you cannot see very well in this picture because I hidit so that no one else would grab it before I got back with my car. It said something like “live with passion, laugh out loud, love always.” I have a tendency to want to pick up things and save them from the landfill, but I don’t need any more stuff in my house.
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