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The strangest thing you've ever taken home?

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Simonlebonbon · 06/05/2023 13:36

I'm sure plenty of us took traffic cones or the occasional pint glass home once or twice, but what was your strangest?

Mine was a pig.
He needed homing (or he was due to me put to sleep) and I wasn't able to say no so I brought the fella home.
Had him 6 months until a proper home became available for him.
People would come into my house to find the dog just lying on the pig. Didn't tell people prior to this I had a pig, just because I liked to see their faces when he trotted in 😁
He wasn't massive, but "micro" definitely not!

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NotMeSecretFormular · 07/05/2023 01:30

An injured pigeon in a gift bag. A sanctuary took it.

JaneJeffer · 07/05/2023 01:47

It looked lost, so we took it home and stayed up all night with it watching telly,
🤣

ShandaLear · 07/05/2023 01:55

One of those massive toilet rolls you get in public loos.

CherryRipe1 · 07/05/2023 03:13

Shared a freinds flat for a while & he was into filling it up with odd stuff. We took home a Tampax machine dumped on a skip.

Furries · 07/05/2023 03:24

A cat that jumped into my car.

scrivette · 07/05/2023 07:28

Two pub garden chairs, very heavy, that we had in our garden for years afterwards. (Pub was closing down that week and we did ask!)

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Simonlebonbon · 07/05/2023 07:44

onefinemess · 06/05/2023 16:34

When I was in Uni I met one of my housemates at the train station, he asked me if I wouldn't mind taking a small rucksack home from town. It was strangely heavy for it's size.

Got home and left it on the kitchen table. Later that night, and in the middle of a drunken gathering, talk turned to the rucksack, the housemate in question opened it and took out a gun. He said it was a cap gun that his grandfather gave him when he was a child. We all had a laugh messing about with it, got very very drunk and eventually crashed out.

For the next two terms the cap gun found a home on the coffee table, and everytime someone came home, whoever was closest to the table would grab the gun, point it at whoever had just come in and deliver their best/bad movie monologue (think dirty Harry etc). It became a sort of tradition in the house.

One day, near the end of the year, I got back home to find two police officers standing in the hallway, and my housemate looking very sheepish. Apparently he had taken the cap gun into an AmDram society rehersal that he was involved with. One of the other members examined the "prop gun" and told my housemate that it was infact a WW1 revolver, very real, not a toy, and it needed to be handed over to the police.

I'm guessing the same guy actually called the police because two officers showed up at our house the following morning.

My housemate was given a telling off, but not (as far as I know) charged with anything and the gun was taken away.

I can't imagine what would have happened if one of us had been sitting on the couch and pointed the gun at them as they walked into the room.

I think that might be the best!

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Simonlebonbon · 07/05/2023 08:03

Sorry I missed who asked if the pig was easy to care for!

Yes very, but he was a total arsehole.

I loved him dearly despite of his deeply flawed personality.

He actually was so much of an arsehole the first 2 farms I managed to find him a home with sent him back to me because he was and I quote from one farm "a spoilt little bastard", and he would squeal as loudly as he could in the middle of the night if any lights went on in surrounding homes until someone brought him a hot chocolate.

The second place he just kept squealing 24/7 because he was so used to getting his bloody hot chocolate.

When I brought him back he looked at me like "ffs, you're not going to let me do that shit, are you?" So he went on a little health kick with me and calmed himself down.

(Just bedtime hot chocolate and one digestive, I'm not cruel!)

Anyway, he was so settled but it felt really unfair to keep a medium sized pig in the house and I didn't have a garden for him to do pig stuff. There was no enrichment for him (except he did love Jeremy Kyle with toast and tea and also loved shows on hoarders) so I didn't want to keep him when I couldn't give him things pigs should have.

In the end he went to a petting zoo with other pigs and immediately settled down, so I was right to not keep the little swine, but I did miss him terribly for a long time.

But unless you have a massive garden etc, I'd definitely not recommend!
But he did only wee and poo on puppy pads in his little corner, almost like a cat.

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IHeartGeneHunt · 07/05/2023 08:07

Three drag queens who didn't have anywhere to get ready for their act that night.

A kitten, who now lives with my mother because nobody ever claimed her.

Riapia · 07/05/2023 08:12

A saw fish’s saw.
Found it in a junk shop.

redbuttons · 07/05/2023 08:47

Walking home one winters evening I came across an eight year old lost boy, no one around so I decided to take him home with me, a few hundred yards up the road we came across a fat old dog waddling along, again no one around so I took him home as well. After a piece of cake, and cocoa for the boy, and a tin of cat food for the dog, I found out where the boy lived, ( over five miles away) and took him home. Never did find where the dog came from, a neighbour adopted him.

HelpMeGetThrough · 07/05/2023 09:14

A blow up doll me and my housemates found on a night out when we were at Uni (beginning of the 90s).

"Doris" spent the next three years loud and proud in the hallway of the house. She was given clothes!

Minimalme · 07/05/2023 09:17

A bowling ball. I nicked it after getting pissed at a bowling alley.

I still feel embarrassed about it 30 years later.

HelpMeGetThrough · 07/05/2023 09:19

Minimalme · 07/05/2023 09:17

A bowling ball. I nicked it after getting pissed at a bowling alley.

I still feel embarrassed about it 30 years later.

Good effort!!! Those buggers are heavy!

nicetoseetgesunsout · 07/05/2023 09:34

Ant and Dec......although it wasn't my home but a hotel I was staying in, in Manchester when they were filming Pop Idol. It was 2002. They got into a lift we were in and convinced them to come to our suite. A couple of cameramen came too. It was a fun night!

x2boys · 07/05/2023 10:41

Simonlebonbon · 07/05/2023 08:03

Sorry I missed who asked if the pig was easy to care for!

Yes very, but he was a total arsehole.

I loved him dearly despite of his deeply flawed personality.

He actually was so much of an arsehole the first 2 farms I managed to find him a home with sent him back to me because he was and I quote from one farm "a spoilt little bastard", and he would squeal as loudly as he could in the middle of the night if any lights went on in surrounding homes until someone brought him a hot chocolate.

The second place he just kept squealing 24/7 because he was so used to getting his bloody hot chocolate.

When I brought him back he looked at me like "ffs, you're not going to let me do that shit, are you?" So he went on a little health kick with me and calmed himself down.

(Just bedtime hot chocolate and one digestive, I'm not cruel!)

Anyway, he was so settled but it felt really unfair to keep a medium sized pig in the house and I didn't have a garden for him to do pig stuff. There was no enrichment for him (except he did love Jeremy Kyle with toast and tea and also loved shows on hoarders) so I didn't want to keep him when I couldn't give him things pigs should have.

In the end he went to a petting zoo with other pigs and immediately settled down, so I was right to not keep the little swine, but I did miss him terribly for a long time.

But unless you have a massive garden etc, I'd definitely not recommend!
But he did only wee and poo on puppy pads in his little corner, almost like a cat.

What was his nsme?
I used to know Simone who had a pot,bellied,pig called myrtle😂

justprance · 07/05/2023 13:25

I can't stop laughing at the pig demanding hot chocolate, and eating toast whilst watching Jeremy Kyle!

tailinthejam · 07/05/2023 13:54

BrutusMcDogface · 06/05/2023 23:26

How did you know it was fossilised dinosaur shit and not just a lump of rock? (Genuine question!)

Also, I’ve learnt from my son’s book that it’s called a coprolite! <proud> 😂

I had a massive road sign that I and my housemates carried back one night. Bloody heavy.

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It was really unusual and I like unusual stones and whatnot. When I did some research, I found out what it was. Apparently they used to gather coprolite round here and grind it up for fertiliser in centuries past.

BrutusMcDogface · 07/05/2023 14:31

That’s really interesting, thanks!

I may or may not have been researching coprolites for a while after seeing your message, haha!

Addymontgomeryfan · 07/05/2023 16:04

2 pygmy goats. A guy in the local pub mentioned he was selling goats and being slightly drunk I thought it was a great idea because I had a paddock, so why not 😂.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 07/05/2023 16:58

NotMeSecretFormular · 07/05/2023 01:30

An injured pigeon in a gift bag. A sanctuary took it.

It's not much of a present, is it?😂

CremeEggsForBreakfast · 07/05/2023 17:19

LadyGaGasPokerFace · 07/05/2023 00:06

I went through a phase of ‘borrowing’ labelled glasses from bars. They had Southern Comfort, Jack Daniels, John Smith, Stella Artois etc emblazoned on them. I still have some in my cupboard to this day 😳 it was over 25 years ago. Not sure what sparked the drunken kleptomaniac in me.

As a child, the church my family attended was opposite a bar/nightclub on a street corner. People would take their glasses outside for a smoke on a Saturday night and abandon them.

My mum would gather them up on a Sunday morning on her way home from church and run them through the dishwasher. Still has loads more than 10yrs later.

Fernticket · 10/05/2023 11:34

elm26 · 07/05/2023 01:18

A 7ft cardboard cutout of Borat in a mankini when I was a drunk teenager 🤦🏻‍♀️

🤢🤮🤮
elm26. You must have been bladdered LOL.

waterlego · 10/05/2023 11:40

DonnaBanana · 06/05/2023 13:38

A Harry Styles tribute act

Ooooh. Very envious of this one. Did he look as good as the real thing?

PuttingDownRoots · 10/05/2023 11:54

A homeless soldier, nearly 15 years ago.

He hasn't left yet.

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