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Things you have found on the side of the road.

I live by silver lake sand dunes. Used to flip a lot of quads and never had to buy flags....

Anyhow, I got low on flags years ago. Monday after labor day I find one near the onramp of the highway. It registers to me that there are probably lots of them since people are hungover on the way home from a holiday weekend, may have had similar issues myself once or twice?? So I drive slowly the rest of my 20 mile highway commute looking in the ditch. I found a total of 5 of them that morning....
 
When I was a kid we were on vacation camping in some off the path campground in CO. Dad took us kids for a walk while mom got dinner going. We were walking along the side of the road and my dad kept yelling at me to get out of the ditch. I looked down and found a wad of cash in the ditch. $238 bundled up in a roll. My dad gave me $20 and kept the rest. :flipoff2::flipoff2:
 
TatonkaII said:
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:
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There is an intersection about 1.5 miles from the house I grew up that's GOOD rd and BEERS Rd. It may have been removed a time or 3 over the years. The next road over is CASE Rd. :laughing:
 
Recently:
  • A really nice heavy duty shovel that I have used a lot
  • A fairly new Craftsman phillips head screw driver
 
DWT said:
There is an intersection about 1.5 miles from the house I grew up that's GOOD rd and BEERS Rd. It may have been removed a time or 3 over the years. The next road over is CASE Rd. :laughing:
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Close to me we have Rifle Rd and Jeep Rd. I think my brother use to have a Rifle Rd sign.
 
Harry Johnson said:
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.
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That was me in college. I watched some dude take out a sign while texting and got a free sign and sign post out of it. I've probably still got some sections of the post in my drops pile. :laughing:

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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There's an "autistic child ahead" sign in a neighborhood in my city. It's gotta be 40yo since they don't say shit like that on signs anymore. I've contemplated stealing it many times to hang in my garage.
 
TatonkaII said:
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:
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I know a guy that lived in a private development on "yellow brick road". That one kept getting stolen and it was up to the residents to pay for replacing it.
 
arse_sidewards said:
I know a guy that lived in a private development on "yellow brick road". That one kept getting stolen and it was up to the residents to pay for replacing it.
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Was that out in Washington State? I think I was in Washington and saw a street named that when I was visiting my brother.
 
10mm snap-on wrench
79 Bronco steering box clean looked rebuilt.
 
I found this wrench on the road

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I found 6 cans of brake clean in a auto zone bag, they were empty. I kept them anyways for the straws and nozzles.
 
There are so many bums and junkies in my area, wandering the roads at all hours, that anything decent on the road gets picked up to be added to their shantytown or used as a burglary tool.

A few months ago there was a full size gray contractor trash can in the slow lane on the San Mateo bridge, I figured I would do the other drivers a favor and nerf it over the edge into the bay, but it bounced off the rail into the center lane. That would have been a score to pick up.
 
Bascially every bungee cord and tarp strap I own. Couple nice 3" wide ratchet straps that someone used to drag a tree off the road and left, binders and all. Lots of hand tools, most of which I've lost or forgotten in cars when they sold.
 
Summer time, thousands of bungee cords. I had like 20 five gallon pails full before I quit picking them up.

Winter time, miles of extension cords, everything from 4' to 100' still in the package.

Best score was one early morning I am headed into work and there's a brand new minty super heavy duty pallet jack sitting on the side of the road. No way to get it into my truck so I grabbed a few ditch find bungees and tie it to my hitch. I pulled it maybe a mile to work and was loading it into my truck with a forklift when the boss happens by.

Turns out he actually needed one like it and offered me $750 for it. I had no Idea what it was worth so I countered with $750 with this Friday and Monday off with pay. He shook my hand and said deal.

I ended up blowing that money partying over my 4 day weekend so in reality I traded that jack for a real bad fucking hangover.:homer:
 
I pute cones down behind a paint striper for 5 seasons at 7mph. Other than putting cones down all there was to do was watch for trinkets in the ditches. Have a maverick 88 12 gauge couple pocket knives,leathermans, 1 chainsaw, 1 leaf blower, shovels,rakes,tool boxes,trailer tires, hitches, hitch pins, ect. Found a brand new mattress and box spring i had to pack out of road over bank never went back for it, a 1 inch 4x6 road plate that came out of a rollover in a really deep ditch that sat there for a week before i decided dude wasnt coming back for it.

In the winter we replaced road signs. Found lots of shit doing that to. Same small stuff as above lots of small bills and change, lots of drugs and sex toys. I guess When people wreck and cops and tow truck are on the way first think they think is better stash the meth pipe and dildo so i dont look horny and suspicious.
As for stealing signs just cost the tax payers a bunch of money to replace them but keeps people working i guess. Around here state signs are stamped with property of and county signs have a sticker. Its impressive what it cost the county to replace a sign. Seen it twice where supervisor had to go with cops and identity our signs hanging in someone's garage that had pissed the cops off and had a bunch of our signs.
Just to keep rambling ones that where constantly stolen we would pour them in giant concrete balls. Then they'd unbolt sign so we would theft nut the hell out of them. Then they would just cut the post off so we would grease the shit out of them. Usually solved the problem especially at school bus stops where kids like fuckin with them.
 
My power pole yard at work is a block from the main campus, and across the road from a homeless shelter and soup kitchen. They all camp out in the street in front. I’ve found a couple guns, a switchblade, smith and Wesson collapsible baton, tons of knives and homemade shanks, and more nasty shit than I care to think about.

Monday I got to work and there was a fucking walker in the main yard by my buildings. One of the nice ones with wheels and brakes and a seat. I figure they were trying to steal copper but we moved it inside after the last time they hit us so they left it and bailed. Now we have a cool rolling chair !

Random walker in question

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M92PV4U said:
I found 6 cans of brake clean in a auto zone bag, they were empty. I kept them anyways for the straws and nozzles.
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6 back up nozzles. That’s some next level thriftyness right there. Reminds me of all the shit I have thrown away and 5 minutes later I’m digging back out of the trash in case I “need it” later.
 
Here4memes said:
gmcxt I'm betting that bondage bag fell off a roof of a vehicle with someone forgetting they put it up there. In other words, I'm betting it's one of your neighbor's.:laughing: Do you belong to the web sight "nextdoor" by chance? Would be very interesting to post it as "found" and see if anybody claims it.:laughing:

I had a SIL "borrow" my floor jack without telling me. And then when I went to use it and it wasn't in it's spot I asked the wife and she informed me that he borrowed it. I went off on my wife for letting him without telling me and she went out and bought me one for my birthday. I felt like total shit for that but glad to have a backup when my old one was finally returned. But I be damned one fell off the truck in front of me the very next day when he took off from a redlight. They never looked back. And I had no choice but to get it out of my way so now I have 3 floor jacks.
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Amateur. I have 5 floor jacks. I am always moving them out of my way :shaking:
 
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