The Wildest, Weirdest Stuff Left Behind at the 2024 Sturgis Rally
Anytime 400,000 of your closest friends drop in for a visit, they're bound to leave a few things behind.
And when those friends are in town for the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, some of those items are quite unusual, to say the least.
That was the case once again this year at the legendary Buffalo Chip Campground, which has now made it an annual online event to post photos of some of the more bizarre items that turned up in their lost and found.
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Some of it is the usual stuff you'd expect after a gathering of so many people from all over the world:
- Helmet: 1
- Sweatshirt: 1
- Rings: 2
- Bracelets: 2
- Wallets: 3
- Phones: 5
- Hats: 6
- Government-Issued IDs: 7
- Credit Cards: 14
- Sets of Keys: 16
- Pairs of Glasses: 27
But some of the other left behind items have to be seen to be believed.
Here are the 12 best from the 2024 Rally:
2024 BUFFALO CHIP LOST & FOUND
What Did South Dakota's License Plate Look Like the Year You Were Born?
The first number on a South Dakota license plate is the county that the car is registered. For example, Pennington county where Rapid City is has a '2' starting its plates. In Sioux Falls you have either a '1' or a '44' depending on your relationship to 57th street.
When established in 1956 (and revised in 1987) the first nine counties were ordered by population. Starting with 10 they are in alphabetical order through Ziebach, with Oglala Lakota County (65) and Todd (67) rounding out the list.
Today the top 10 plate numbers and populations don't correlate anymore. 1 and 2 are still 1 and 2, but Lincoln (44) is now 3rd in population. Beadle is 4 but it's now 11th in population. See the list by population here.
On January 1, 2023, South Dakota started issuing a new license plate design for license plates.
So, let's take a look back at what South Dakota license plates looked like over the last 100 years.
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35 Movies That Take Place in South Dakota
When it comes to South Dakota and Hollywood, we've seen our fair share of films that have used our state as the backdrop for a number of productions over the years. They may not have always filmed here, but movie folk love to set stories here.
We're all familiar with the blockbusters like 1990's Dances With Wolves, 1959's North By Northwest, and more recently, 2007's National Treasure: Book of Secrets. But our state's life on the big screen goes back nearly 100 years.
According to IMDb, it all started with Courtin' Wildcats, a 1929 film which, like so many of the 29 films on this list, is a Western set in the time before South Dakota became a state in 1889.
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Have you ever notice how much outsiders (and some insiders) get wrong about South Dakota? They believe and repeat some of these ridiculous South Dakota stereotypes.
SO, to do our part in educating folks, here's a list of some of the most ridiculous myths outsiders always believe South Dakota.
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