I am talking about stuff. Having worked traffic doing blue suit social work I have found tools of all types that have no name but, plenty of road rash. Most are still useable being just hand tools. My father found a Benchmade knife useable with the road rash sanded down. What have you found that is interesting to mention? .. VI

A big ass butcher knife that slashed one of my tires.

A 3 D cell Maglite flashlight, over $20.00 in cash and a professional quality pool leaf rake telescopic pole which I now use with my pool.

My favorite was a plumbers hacksaw laying in middle of a intersection...at least 40 years ago... Had to wash it off with disenfectant... top support frame tube was hollow as to act as storage area for 3 fresh new blades.........purse in street in front of house that the ID matched with money and credit cards returned to the owner a couple hours later and next day a bouquet of flowers delivered to the PDept addressed to me and took a good ribbing from some of my fellow officers. ........................................... drill sgt.

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A decent Estwing framing hammer.

A lady in tie-die, a bag by her side...

Friend of mine sodded his entire yard by pieces he found on the side of the road.

It was an interesting yard.

A brand new iPod (when they were a thing).

I’ve ran nearly 30,000 miles and biked 20,000 miles.

A variety of hand tools
About 50 new Dewalt 12” sawzall blades
Cash $1, $5, $10 etc.
bike pump with tags on it
Cell phones
Wallet
Credit cards

And a dead guy, likely murdered.

Driving into my subdivision there was a long narrow box next to the curb, stayed there until the next morning. Since it was garbage day I figured to pick it up and lay it next to my trash. Inside wrapped in plastic was also a professional grade pool cleaning telescopic pole. I needed one for my pool.

A undamaged Black & Decker 20v Lithium battery that just happened to fit my hedge trimmer

I found my iPhone after it fell off my hood at 40mph. Thanks to it's Otter it survived.
The other was a router that I stopped to pick up, it was broken. It was a Sears brand, and they replaced it, no questions asked

A small black bag of mary jane. Leaf, no bud

That was 40 years ago.

Well, back in the mid 70's there was this cute chick hitchhiking...

Oh wait, let me start over.



Dear Penthouse,

You won't believe this, but it happened to me.

quote:

Originally posted by ulsterman:
Friend of mine sodded his entire yard by pieces he found on the side of the road.

It was an interesting yard.

LMFAO, found sod on the road...like already cut?

Cause one doesn't find sod on the road lmao, it grows there. I mean, I routinely find trees in the forest too.

A few things come to mind:

Tools
$170
Wallets
A stolen revolver
Old boots
Car parts
A round bottom Coke bottle

But I haven't found a dead guy yet. He was behind a house.

I still have an original Leatherman tool that I found walking home from school.

A handful of various tools, a few coins, a come-a-long, chains, bungee cords, ratchet straps...and a BIG old blue ball that I thought was a beach ball.

What it was was a bouncy-ball like you see at gyms and rehab centers, with an "interesting" addition.

Molded into the ball was a 6" phallus. Position in relation to the handle made it's intended purpose fairly obvious.

Got MANY laughs with that before it disappeared.

Not a lot, and most damaged beyond use.
Ladders, coolers, gas cans, a roll of insulation, and shoes. It's a running joke here about all the shoes in/on the roads around Nashville.

But most notable was what must have been an entire tractor trailer load of toilet paper.

It was scattered down the interstate for at least 5 miles before and continuing past my exit as far as the eye could see. Cases all busted open. hundreds of rolls, seriously, hundreds if not thousands. A few rolls unwound streaming down the road.
A few people were stopping to pick it up but it was rush hour and that would have been dangerous... plus it was the commercial kind, big rolls on large cores, and it looked like the cheap thin rough stuff. I didn't stop, wasn't going to risk death over some toilet paper. It was a kind of shitty situation...

Out for a post-lunch walk, one day, after a rainstorm...