Lenny Dykstra spent 9 hours looking through dumpster for his dentures

Former Philadelphia Phillies and New York Mets outfielder Lenny Dykstra spent part of his weekend dumpster diving outside a Jersey Mike's Subs restaurant in search of his lost dentures.

Dykstra told Anthony G. Attrino of NJ Advance Media that he took his teeth out and folded them in a napkin because "the bread is so hard on those subs." He later realized he'd forgotten the dentures - which are made with bone marrow and valued at $80,000 - at the restaurant, but when he returned, staff told him they'd thrown all the napkins in the garbage.

"I told them there was no f---- way I was leaving without my f---- teeth," he said.

Dykstra then spent the next nine hours digging through the dumpster behind Jersey Mike's with his friend, a tag-team wrestler known as Sprinkles the Clown. Dykstra documented the search on Twitter.

The teeth were recovered early Sunday morning.

"I thought the cops were going to arrest me for trespassing," Dykstra said. "I wasn't leaving my teeth there in the dumpster. No way was I leaving them."