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Things you have found on the side of the road.

I found 3 chainsaws and a couple of gas cans in front of my house on the road when I lived in Pittsburgh. They were pro grade and well used so I put them on the porch and walked down the road to where my neighbor with the tree service was running around his truck losing his shit. He was happy to have them back.

I heard a ruckus in front of the shop last year and went out to see 3 big red plastic gas cans in the road. I put them on the tailgate of a truck in front of the shop for a couple of days but they went unclaimed. Mine now.
 
my buddy had a bro dozer in front of him the other day with a 12k chink winch in the receiver hitch. well he takes off hard and the winch jumps out. Billy stops and pick the heavy bitch up and catches up with the truck. Billy is honking his horn and flashing his lights and the guy really gouges on it and leaves Billy in the dust. so he has a big as winch now.
 
D Nelly said:
Pulled up to a stop light with a panhandler standing on the corner. Around here we get the fake ones out of New York and they're pretty easy to tell apart so those ones get negative levels of sympathy out of me. I guess he was waiting for the end of his shift to pick up all the change he dropped at his feet but I wasn't. Got out of the truck and picked up a handful of change
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gozuki said:
In 1991 I found a .41 Magnum Desert Eagle with just a tiny bit of road rash. Ridiculous thing, but a buddy HAD to have it and gave me a grand.
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About 2 months ago I found a Smith & Wesson model 586... I put an ad out on bookface, asked locally where I found it. Notta. The grips were toasted, but I had some hogue grips laying around from another L frame.
 
flecker said:
Thank you... Should make the perfect throw away. :flipoff2:
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Till a state trooper pulls you over and ends up running the serial number on what turns out to be a stolen weapon. Then they sieze the weapon, run ballastics and find a match in an unsolved homocide. Now you have attorney fees for a stolen weapon and homocide charges. Yep nice cheap throwaway.:shaking:
 
Stuck said:
Till a state trooper pulls you over and ends up running the serial number on what turns out to be a stolen weapon. Then they sieze the weapon, run ballastics and find a match in an unsolved homocide. Now you have attorney fees for a stolen weapon and homocide charges. Yep nice cheap throwaway.:shaking:
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C'mon.

I know you're a fed but let's be serious here. Even a drunk public defender can get the charge dropped if the only evidence they have is a matching firearm.

Furthermore, if you shoot that thing with any regularity the ballistics won't match. Wear and tear is a thing.

If you're really anal about it, buy a new barrel. They're cheap.
 
arse_sidewards said:
C'mon.

I know you're a fed but let's be serious here. Even a drunk public defender can get the charge dropped if the only evidence they have is a matching firearm.

Furthermore, if you shoot that thing with any regularity the ballistics won't match. Wear and tear is a thing.

If you're really anal about it, buy a new barrel. They're cheap.
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Whatever. You do you.
The homocide charge is easy enough. Possesion of a stolen firearm not so much.
Fed,:shaking::lmao:
 
My friend stopped by a couple weeks ago to bullshit, said he had to drive to town to buy a piece of 6" tubing for his back porch wood stove, we were commiserating about steel prices when I remembered the big truck weed burner I saw on the freeway shoulder and back tracked 5 miles to load in my clean SUV, because that's just too good to pass up:laughing:

Saved him $100 plus that day, that favor will come back around
 
Stuck said:
Till a state trooper pulls you over and ends up running the serial number on what turns out to be a stolen weapon. Then they sieze the weapon, run ballastics and find a match in an unsolved homocide. Now you have attorney fees for a stolen weapon and homocide charges. Yep nice cheap throwaway.:shaking:
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How about fawk off?

I have bought guns at garage sales where I live... No background checks, no questions, just a handshake and a transaction. Lot's of guns over the years have been bought and sold the same way.

I thought you were a Texan? When did you guys become such gigantic pussies? :laughing:

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arse_sidewards said:
C'mon.

I know you're a fed but let's be serious here. Even a drunk public defender can get the charge dropped if the only evidence they have is a matching firearm.

Furthermore, if you shoot that thing with any regularity the ballistics won't match. Wear and tear is a thing.

If you're really anal about it, buy a new barrel. They're cheap.
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Good call! 4" barrels are tough to come by though.
 
About 5 yeas ago I ordered a bunch of parts to fix a friends TJ and forgot to order the climate control knob. That weekend, walking on a trail near our cabin, I found the part, still in the mopar bag. I am still amazed.
 
flecker said:
How about fawk off?

I have bought guns at garage sales where I live... No background checks, no questions, just a handshake and a transaction. Lot's of guns over the years have been bought and sold the same way.

I thought you were a Texan? When did you guys become such gigantic pussies? :laughing:

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Did you ever wonder why it was laying on the side of the road? Buying one from someone is a lot lower risk than picking one up off the road. Guns with a history are way less likely to get sold as tossed out a window or in a body of water. Sure theres a chance it fell out of some bikers holster or pocket but doubtful. Like I said, you do you.
 
flecker said:
How about fawk off?

I have bought guns at garage sales where I live... No background checks, no questions, just a handshake and a transaction. Lot's of guns over the years have been bought and sold the same way.

I thought you were a Texan? When did you guys become such gigantic pussies? :laughing:

:shaking:
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I have a "reasonable"amount of guns, some purchased over the counter, some private party, but I do keep bills of sale on the private party guns, and would probably get the numbers run on a found gun, or at least make a backup copy of your "found gun" ad, should the need ever arise.

A couple not too far removed anecdotes, a friend of a friend had a gun number run during a traffic stop probably 15 plus years ago, came back stolen, arrested, taken to the station. Called his wife, she brought the "gun checkbook" that had the carbon copy of the check, the date, the SN, the seller, everything. Walked out, probably without the gun.
A former co-worker who was previously a drug dealer, sold another co-worker an ar15, that he'd gotten "on trade", he was plinking and a ranger or something ran the numbers, came back stolen.
I bought a pistol from my best friends uncle, fast forward 5 plus years, it "goes missing" during my divorce, make a phone call, they make a phone call, 24hrs later I have a photo copy of the receipt I signed, with a description and a SN.
I make a lot of weird deals, but do my due diligence.
 
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GonPostal said:
Driving on HWY 101 in Humboldt Co, I pulled over to move a tire laying in the middle of the slow lane. As I rolled the tire off to the shoulder out of harms way, something in the brush caught my eye. It was a back pack. It contained 4 - gallon size ziplock bags full of bud. :dustin:
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Similar thing happened to me: southbound 101 just south of Garberville, some 2x4's in the right lane. I pulled way off into the gravel to get away from traffic to get them off the road. Right where I parked, a one gallon ziplock stuffed full of bud.

Bunch of Porn CD's on side of I 40 in New Mexico, a Chevy Rally wheel with a new tire on it on some gravel road in the Six Rivers NF (traded in at the tire shop for tires for my junk). Just recently on the road in front of my house, a 3/8 drive wobble impact socket, 1/2" I think, Snap On. Also just recently close to home, a pee stick (pregnancy test stick). Never checked the results, it was there for several weeks...
 
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A few weeks ago this was further up the hill at a turn out. I guess the tried to coast or drive it. Been sitting there at least a few days.

We'll see if its still there when i go home tomorrow

Its a full 30' long and was a big 5 or 6 bp. And a real pile of shit before it was crashed in the didth.
 
Found 2 complete wood Thomas train sets in a weathered cardboard box I found in the bushes off the I-15 when I stopped to take a piss. The way it was sitting there, it looked like someone had a flat, pulled the box out to get to the spare and forgot it. Kids played with that for years.

Picked up a M18 drill, 1/4" impact and charger set a few years ago sitting in its red case in the middle of the street.

Several trailer ball mounts, including a 2.5" OD pintle mount.

Nice set of cup holders I now have in my Explorer console.

Found six M-4 30 round mags loaded with blanks off I-5 in Camp Pendleton by the fence when I stopped to piss one night. Figured some Marine lost them while training.

Found a complete Porsche 911 engine in a orange grove in Ventura County. I called that one in. Nobody throws away a Porsche engine. CHP found more cut up body panels and the transaxle in same grove. They contacted the current owner of the car the engine was supposed to be in, who was a unintentional purchaser/victim of a stolen VIN switched 911.
 
BDK said:
Found a complete Porsche 911 engine in a orange grove in Ventura County. I called that one in. Nobody throws away a Porsche engine. CHP found more cut up body panels and the transaxle in same grove. They contacted the current owner of the car the engine was supposed to be in, who was a unintentional purchaser/victim of a stolen VIN switched 911.
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How weird. No lakes around there? But then, they find bodies just laying around all the time too...
 
plym49.2 said:
Nah. He is on record as having posted a lost and found.

But, out of an abundance of caution, I will gladly take it off of Flecker's hands for him.
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You really trust todays atf not to push charges like that? I dont. Guilty or not youd still have to deal with it.
 
subybaja said:
How weird. No lakes around there? But then, they find bodies just laying around all the time too...
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They were lazy, did a poor job on the VIN switch too. The primary VINs on those cars used to be riveted to the driver A pillar. Secondary was stamped into the bonnet floor under the carpet. They swapped the primary but left the secondary intact. Actually, they left every number but the primary intact.
 
Came out from a gun show to find a pistol case sitting next to the rear tire on my vehicle, space next to me was empty...I guess someone let their kid carry it and they sat it down to get into the car.
I picked it up, opened it to find a nickel plated SW wheelgun, I cut the nylon tie off of it.
Then carried it into the gun show, walking down the aisle holding it akd a guy behind the table says, hey, let me see that pistol, I just sold one JUST like it about 15.minutes ago.
He offered me 500 for it and I let him have it amd went home.
Best deal of the whole show.
 
DMG said:
About 5 yeas ago I ordered a bunch of parts to fix a friends TJ and forgot to order the climate control knob. That weekend, walking on a trail near our cabin, I found the part, still in the mopar bag. I am still amazed.
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Some times the world works like that. It sends what you need.

When I was 20 and really broke I needed to make enough to pay rent in a week. Had just been laid off. I posted adds for junk removal. Get a few jobs lined up and go to fire up the OBS f250 with 7.3. Starter motor was dead. Absolutely did not have any money to replace it. I go over to the dumpster of the apartment building I lived in and sitting next to the dumpster is a brand new 7.3 starter motor from Napa. Why that was there I’ll never know but I took it and put it in. Did the jobs, paid rent and made it through 2008
 
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