Strange encounters on the trails

So the Yarra trails I ride often throw up a few surprises. They’re basically shared and really close to the city so some days it’s like every freak is out.
Today I was hanging it out on one of the dh lines the kids build off Wurundjeri Spur, not a section you’d expect to find anyone not on a mtb, and spotted police tape across the trail. I go around the tape slowly and the 1 officer I initially saw becomes 3, then 6, maybe 10 total. Not mucking around. One approached me, very somber, so I asked if everyone was ok, thinking maybe one of the kids had binned it badly. He confirmed no one had been injured riding fortunately.
He then suggested purposefully that I do not look over that side of the trail as someone is deceased, and inferring I’m unlikely to be able to stomach what I get an eyeful of. Got the hell out of there.
I’ve seen plenty of odd shit around my local over the years but, geez
 
Not so much on the trail, but...


I am riding along the pacific highway (or city road or Stuart avenue) which is probably the busiest road in town here. There isn't really a lot of spots for a car to safely pull over and a lot of the ride is on a piss weak shoulder, but sure enough...as I approach one of the spots where a car could pull over someone has indeed pulled over. It looks like they did it in a hurry too! Car is barely off the road, 1 wheel in the culvert, and I have no shoulder to ride on. There is a gap in traffic so I cross over and ride towards oncoming traffic which is pretty unnerving.

Anyway as I come up next to the car I look over at it and there is a man in the passenger seat turned back to the door and holding his phone in a position I would say is for the purposes of shining his torch on his lap or (as the sun is shining brightly) filming his lap. Behold! There is someone else in the car and judging by their body position on the driver's side (arse up at the window) they are either looking for a dropped cigarette lighter in this man's lap or (as there is no eratic movement one would imagine should the cigarette lighter have been dropped into this man's lap) delivering an urgent roadside head job. Which the passenger is recording. The man waved to me. I waved back.

This is not the first time I have passed people performing such antics on this stretch of highway. Of all the places! Where can I find someone who will drive me to glenrock lagoon and perform an urgent roadside head job along way?
 
As I said in the other thread went to Wylde yesterday. Loads of roos all around almost got cleaned up as they jumped across the trail. Anyway the strangest encounter, stopped on Smiles for Miles on the side of the track to see if there was a way to get back to the top quickly for the cool jump section anyway there's some long grass there, all of a sudden a massive lump gets up out of nowhere, a big farken gray male, puffs out his chest and is giving me the stares, I stare back and he realises I'm no threat and bounds away. Geez he was a big bugger 6 foot easy. 😲

edit happened to fast so I couldn't get a photo which is annoying
 
F G said:
all of a sudden a massive lump gets up out of nowhere, a big farken gray male, puffs out his chest and is giving me the stares, I stare back and he realises I'm no threat and bounds away. Geez he was a big bugger 6 foot easy. 😲

edit happened to fast so I couldn't get a photo which is annoying
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Ah yes, this guy. The whole family was laying across the trail a few visits ago. They move on, but not in a big hurry.

https://www.rotorburn.com/forums/in...your-bike-today.235524/page-2421#post-3614935
 
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