2006 North Carolina Big Sweep Animal Entanglements And Unusual Finds

                County     	Entanglements And Unbaggable/Unusual Finds
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              ALAMANCE		Luggage, paint buckets, 4x4 post, part of wheelchair, shelfboard, TVs, A/C.     
 ALEXANDER (w/Catawba)  	Golf club, helmet, cooler, 30 styrofoam dock floats or parts of floats, 16 pieces of lumber.   
    ALLEGHANY (w/Ashe)	     	
                 ANSON     
                  ASHE 		2 entangled animals: small mouth bass and cat. Commercial popcorn popper, grill, table, TV, washing machine, kiddie pool, mailbox, ball of barbed wire, car bumper, truck tailgate, siding.
                AVERY 		(See Watauga.)    
              BEAUFORT  	Plastic chairs, rug, clothes, buckets, balls, fishing tackle box, propane tank, building materials.
                BERTIE     	Bike seat, car filter.
                BLADEN        	Lot of cigarette butts.
             BRUNSWICK     	2 gulls entangled in fishing net.
              BUNCOMBE    	Fire safe, parking meter, slot machine. 
                 BURKE  	   
              CABARRUS  	Street sign post, bike, ladder, mower, desk, drum, siding, smoker, lawn chair.
              CALDWELL  	Entangled: fish in fishingline. 4 car gas tanks, bed springs, 2 chairs.
                CAMDEN     	 
              CARTERET  	Beach umbrella, wood, lawn chairs, tabletop, 8' piling, big styrofoam pieces, insulation, wire, electrical box, auto breakdrum.
               CASWELL		
               CATAWBA  	(see Alexander.)
               CHATHAM  	Carpet, building materials, 2 propane tanks. 
              CHEROKEE     
 
                County     	Unbaggable/Unusual Finds
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                CHOWAN     	 
                  CLAY     	Windshield, exhaust pipe, carpet.
             CLEVELAND  
              COLUMBUS  	Grill, flea and tick shampoo, large floats. 
                CRAVEN     	 
            CUMBERLAND  	Car parts, rims, 55 gal. drums, gutters, screen doors.   
             CURRITUCK     
                  DARE  	Fireworks debris, balloon, ladies underwear, beach chair, bait containers, fishingline, net, buoys, light sticks. 
              DAVIDSON  	
                 DAVIE     	
                DUPLIN     	Car parts, signs, carts, building materials, carpet, furniture, slide, toilet, sink, crutches, lots of metal poles.
                DURHAM     	Car parts, signs, shopping carts, carpet, furniture, slide, plumbing, toilet, sink, TV w/remote, crutches, animal skeletons.
             EDGECOMBE     	w/NASH
               FORSYTH     	
              FRANKLIN     	Big Wheel, purse, china plate, pipe. 
                GASTON     	Tin roof, tent, 14" turtleshell (not entangled), hood dryer top, golfballs, car gas tank, headlights, car batteries, green card, computers, styrofoam blocks. 
                 GATES     	
                GRAHAM     	 
             GRANVILLE     	One 6' PVC pipe, 10 long pieces of fishingline.
                GREENE     	Cardboard boxes, styrofoam, plastic buckets.
 
                County     	Unbaggable/Unusual Finds
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              GUILFORD     	Craftsman toolbox with tools, sofa, bike, shopping carts.
               HALIFAX     	 
               HARNETT     	Carpet, ceiling fan, vinyl flooring.
               HAYWOOD     	Carpet, toys, bikes, car transmissions, sheet metal, lots of plastic.
             HENDERSON     	Entangled: turtle and oyster. 1916 Georgia auto registration, staircase.
              HERTFORD     	Lawn chair, scrap metal.
                  HOKE     	
                  HYDE     	$10 bill, dog skeleton, lot of food wrappers and cigarette butts.	
               IREDELL     	White barrels, 1000 pounds of treated lumber, mannequin, dog house.
               JACKSON     	Folding chairs, car parts, wood deck.
              JOHNSTON     	Head of duck (not entangled).
                 JONES     	
                   LEE     	Plastic pipe.
                LENOIR     	Full can of beer, metal detector head, car parts, shopping cart, homemade broom.
               LINCOLN     	Belk's cart.
              McDOWELL    	Snorkeling equipment, crack pipe, bed springs, chairs, Barbie toilet, newspaper vending machine. 
                 MACON    	 
               MADISON    	 
                MARTIN     	3 balloons, 150 beverage bottles, diapers, fishingline, toy kitchen set, car batteries, license plates, hub caps.
           MECKLENBURG     	Bra, tricycle, fire extinguisher, toy Jeep, toy spaceship, exercise machine. 
 
                County     	Unbaggable/Unusual Finds
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              MITCHELL     	Shopping cart, clothing, vehicle and heavy equipment parts, many cans and bottles, old washing machine.
            MONTGOMERY     	Metal tables, boat windshield.
                 MOORE     	
                  NASH     	
           NEW HANOVER     	False teeth, mannequin head.	
           NORTHAMPTON     
                ONSLOW     	
                ORANGE     	 
               PAMLICO     	
            PASQUOTANK     	 
                PENDER     	TV screen, siding, lawn chair, umbrellas, bricks. 
            PERQUIMANS     
                PERSON     	
                  PITT     		     
                  POLK     	2 one gal. oil.
              RANDOLPH     	Deer, fishing pole, hardwood flooring, crack pipe, logbook, rusty wire, spittle, liftgate, carpet padding, suitcase, cooler, floormat, propane bottle, weed whacker, mattress, tabletop, concrete mesh, swimming pool, volleyball net, car parts, Tonka truck comforters, tricycle, golfbags, toy boat.
              RICHMOND     	 
               ROBESON     	Toilet.
 
 
                County     	Unbaggable/Unusual Finds
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            ROCKINGHAM     	Scarecrow, Social Security card, chain ladder, sink, pacifier, trolling motor, orange barrel.
                 ROWAN     	
            RUTHERFORD     	Lawn chairs, fishing rods, tent, mailbox, propane and fumigant tanks, basketball, soccer ball, child carseat, tank cover.
               SAMPSON     	
              SCOTLAND     	
                STANLY     	5 fishing rods.
                STOKES     	Bus seat, hot water heater, buckets, matting.
                 SURRY     	 
                 SWAIN     	
          TRANSYLVANIA     	
               TYRRELL     	Salt treated lumber.
                 UNION     	
                 VANCE     	15 trash cans, carpet, steel rod.
                  WAKE     	Pig skeleton, coconuts & lemons, pink flamingo, many yellow tennis balls, 60' metal piping, 8 sheets metal roof.
                WARREN     	
            WASHINGTON     	
               WATAUGA     	
                 WAYNE     	
                WILKES     	 
                WILSON     
                YADKIN     	
                YANCEY     	 
 
 
 

Check out other years' animal entanglements and other unusual finds:

2005.

2004.

2003.

2002.

2001.

 

 
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