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TatonkaII said:
I live in a curve of a busy road and it is sad how many beer cans and liquor bottles I pick up. Probably two grocery bags worth each time before I mow the grass. I guess they feel that in the curve no one can see them actually do it. LAZY F'ers!!


Yall are going to make me stop to pick up stuff more often. I've seen a ladder here or there, but its usually on the interstate.
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I lived on a corner at one time too
the science is true, you have to pick up garbage before you mow
 
On the way to work one morning and saw a "briefcase" laying in the road. No traffic so I stopped and ran to get it out of the street. Blue plastic case full of Snap On tools. I keep it in the Toyota now. Looked a lot like this, but is bigger.
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Halffastford said:
The theory behind it was if you threw it out in a nice yard, theyd pick it up. If it was a trashy place, not so much.
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The theory behind it, is people suck:grinpimp:
The bigger problem is I had a old cranky miserable woman in the next house, and she swore that it was me that was throwing my trash in her yard, so she would push it my way

Even explaining and showing her that walking past the garbage cans over to the next yard wasn't convenient way at all to throw away a piece of random trash........

she just responded with , 'I don't drink that kind of soda'

old bitch :laughing:
 
100 bucks in a ditch.
Other junk I don’t remember so must not have been that exciting.
 
MuntCuffin said:
You prob got a guy that lives near ya that uses them for work in co2 powered tools or some shit.


I'm constantly walking ditches and field edges during harvest and planting.

The amount of liquor bottles, wine coolers, and beer cans obviously being consumed while driving and then chucked out the window is staggering.
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How many piss bombs ?
 
Slightly unrelated...
Friend told me this story last night. They were driving down the highway and there was a fairly large box sitting in his lane on the road. He joking floored it and told the other person in the car he was gonna smash it. In the very last moment he changed his mind and swerved hard to go around it . They look back and the box sprouted legs and a little kid jumped out of it and ran off. How fucking terrible that story could have been...it Gave me chills.
 
muzzleloader, milk crate full of ratchet straps, catalytic converter, lots of roadkill deer and partridge dinners,
 
V30crewcab said:
I rolled out one morning on the way to chiropractor. theres a freakin stihl chainsaw sitting on the side of the road. I figured somone was using it or would be back for it soon, and I was in a hurry. came back an hour later, still there. picked it up, asked a few people, and a neighbor came looking for it a week later. he sat it on his rollback one evening and forgot it was there. I asked him a few questions before I gave it to him, just to make sure it was his!
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Reminds me, I found a local volunteer fire departments chainsaw on the road. We lived in VA at the time and had a nasty wind storm that blew down a bunch of trees. Somehow it had got left behind as they were clearing them off of the road. Ended up giving it to some neighbors who knew a guy with the department.
 
I don't spend much time scanning the side of the road so I rarely find anything good... But one time driving up I-80 to truckee, my kid had to pee so we stopped at a park and ride parking lot so he could take a wiz. I also walk off into the bushes to drain the lizard and lo and behold, I found scattered around in the dirt a little snap-on 1/4 drive socket set. Score.
 
samy crawler said:
I once bought a few sticks of 2x2 steel square tubing and on my way home one slid out of the back of my truck under heavy acceleration getting on to the freeway. Did a loop around town to go back to the on ramp and that sumbitch was already gone. Someone came up
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When I worked for a lumber yard in college we lost 2 24' LVLs off the back of a truck on a bridge on I-95, we used the emergency access only crossway between the lanes to go back over and come back to grab them. Maybe about 2 minutes worth of time. We had to tell the seasonal workers in the rusty toyota that they needed to unload the 1 LVL and put down the other. they wasted no time.
 
Toreadorranger said:
When I worked for a lumber yard in college we lost 2 24' LVLs off the back of a truck on a bridge on I-95, we used the emergency access only crossway between the lanes to go back over and come back to grab them. Maybe about 2 minutes worth of time. We had to tell the seasonal workers in the rusty toyota that they needed to unload the 1 LVL and put down the other. they wasted no time.
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for us window lickers what is a LVL?


Coworker found a pretty nice Stihl polesaw on the highway on the way into work. he watched CL lost and found for a few weeks and nobody ever posted. he said it was damn nice and still uses it..
 
Log splitter, a couple load binders, a brake/whee/hub combo off a semi trailer. The 22.5s make nice stands for stuff like axles and transmissions you don't just want to put in the mud.
 
Johnny Longrifle said:
An ex employer of mine lost a NV4500 for behind a Cummins out of the back of his truck. He told me approx where it happened. It laid there over the winter, but I found it the next spring before the grass got tall. I never told him about it, I just rebuilt it and used it in my Fummins project.
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Kinda fucked your Karma on that one.
 
gmcxt said:
Slightly unrelated...
Friend told me this story last night. They were driving down the highway and there was a fairly large box sitting in his lane on the road. He joking floored it and told the other person in the car he was gonna smash it. In the very last moment he changed his mind and swerved hard to go around it . They look back and the box sprouted legs and a little kid jumped out of it and ran off. How fucking terrible that story could have been...it Gave me chills.
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I heard the same story from an old dude I worked with... in 1997!:flipoff2:
 
my friend lived on a 2 lane highway

we would value village a purse and tie it to a string

set it like it fell off the room and wait:laughing:
 
Toreadorranger said:
When I worked for a lumber yard in college we lost 2 24' LVLs off the back of a truck on a bridge on I-95, we used the emergency access only crossway between the lanes to go back over and come back to grab them. Maybe about 2 minutes worth of time. We had to tell the seasonal workers in the rusty toyota that they needed to unload the 1 LVL and put down the other. they wasted no time.
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Back in college I was up at UC Santa Cruz with my buddy visiting his girlfriend. We had a party get broken up around 2 am or so and we're walking back through campus in the fog. It's an interesting school because it's up in the redwoods and spread out, so it feels like you're up in a mountain town somewhere. I'm about to cross the street to the parking lot where our car is parked when my friend stops me just in time to see some chick come tearing down the road in a subaru. She doesn't stop for the 3 way stop sign we're standing at, but instead attempts to turn into the same parking lot at speed, cuts the corner too close, hops the curb and plows the stop sign. It falls over onto her hood. She slams the poor car into reverse, peels out of the dirt and back over the curb, then takes off down the road tail lights disappearing into the fog, apparently deciding that she no longer wants to park in that lot.

My buddy and I are still standing there in disbelief at what we witnessed, when a small 2wd Toyota truck stops at the same intersection, starts to drive past the downed stop sign, locks up the brakes halfway into the intersection, throws it into reverse, and backs up to the sign. The driver jumps out with the truck running, runs to the side of the road, grabs the stop sign, post, concrete and all, heaves it into the bed of his truck, and drives off.
 
lagunaMS said:
Found an iphone in an intersection riding my DRZ in warrensburg MO. Waited for someone to call and went and met up with them to return it. I was worried someone would use the "find my iphone" feature and show up at my place thinking I stole it.

I saw a pintle hook hitch laying in the road earlier this year but I was towing a truck on a trailer and didn't feel like stopping and turning around to get it. I should've
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I saw a phone laying in the road and stopped and picked it up. The owner called it later and I told them where I worked so they could come get it. When they came and got it they didn't even thank me. I didn't expect much but a Thanks. I decided I should have left it to get run over.
 
actually now that I am thinking about it

driving to work one morning at about 4:30am

body on the side of the freeway. (outlet mall exit in Centralia for the local folks)
called it in

evidently someone checked out of drug rehab to find out that they haven't paid up on the drug tab so he got removed from the vehicle at freeway speed was the story that I got

I am soo glad that I wasn't another 10 seconds ahead of where I was
 
Found a ford dealer licence plate in its holder laying in the middle of the road, like a hour from the dealer that owned it. Turns out the general manger was talking a demo truck home every night and his kid didn't shut the tailgate right letting the plate fall off.
 
Harry Johnson said:
My buddy and I are still standing there in disbelief at what we witnessed, when a small 2wd Toyota truck stops at the same intersection, starts to drive past the downed stop sign, locks up the brakes halfway into the intersection, throws it into reverse, and backs up to the sign. The driver jumps out with the truck running, runs to the side of the road, grabs the stop sign, post, concrete and all, heaves it into the bed of his truck, and drives off.
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And that folks is how you end up with a free stop sign on the wall in your shop...

Aaron Z
 
lagunaMS said:
I know of several road signs laying on the ground in my county but I'm scared a sheriff will see me swiping them and get me for theft of govt property or some shit. I'd love to have some hanging in the garage but not worth the risk
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I've got like 10 in my yard hung on the fence! Collect away!
 
lagunaMS said:
I know of several road signs laying on the ground in my county but I'm scared a sheriff will see me swiping them and get me for theft of govt property or some shit. I'd love to have some hanging in the garage but not worth the risk
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Go talk to the county roads department. I know here they send older signs and even those that are slightly damaged to the scrap yard periodically. Offer to pad their coffee fund and I bet you get what you're after.




I've found likely hundreds of cooler lids and lots of coolers driving big truck down the highways in the PNW. A few times I've recognized lids and cooler combos near each other but never picked them up due to big truck. I did pick up a cheapo 8" crescent wrench a while back. Still had the tag zip tied to the end.
 
aczlan said:
And that folks is how you end up with a free stop sign on the wall in your shop...

Aaron Z
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Where I went to college in VA there was a small country road named Dickhoff (after some Dr.) that went missing. I am now told it's as secure as the Bourbon St. sign. :laughing:
 
D-Rat said:
Kinda fucked your Karma on that one.
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His legs work. We both drove past the spot everyday going to and from work. He had ample time to stop and get his lazy ass out of the truck and look.

Dude was so tight he squeaked when he walked. That's what he gets for using dollar store ratchet straps to hold shit on his flatbed truck.
 
Various pickings past 20 years~ Can't crop pix 🤪
.22 Rimfire has a U on head
.40 S&W
.223 Rem
Big one is damaged, has W S stamped
 

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No tool finds for me, best score to date is a pair of large rubber wheel chocks (likely fell of a semi when turning). Typically lately I will see plywood and such, most of the time it is on busy roads - I keep on driving as it is not worth getting run over for.
 
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