Not me, but my father. He found his future wife, my mother, on the side of the road.

As he drove to his job from his dad’s farm he often saw a young lady walking at the side of the road. One day he offered her a lift. She was walking to her job, teaching several grades, in a one-room country schoolhouse. He subsequently married her.

Thanks for stirring that memory!

Most notable finds all at different times: a Jennings .380, a Glock happy stick and $500 cash in a money clip (with the guy's Ohio DL). It took a week or two but we tracked him down and sent him a check.

A friend of mine’s drivers license. Completely random spot where some stuff blew out of the truck. I stopped, looked down and there it was.

I was stopped in traffic one day and I just happened to look down at the median I was next too. There was a $100 bill just laying on some rocks. Of course I jumped out and grabbed it. I sure didn't expect something like that to happen.

While serving in the military as an MP/SP I was on patrol at around 2am and stopped at an intersection to move a toilet bowl. Yup - a Kohler toilet sitting in the middle of the intersection. I actually thought it was a squadron prank (my Flight Chief was a prankster - especially on weekday morning when nothing was going on). We never located the source or owner of the mysterious commode.

A large crescent wrench, and some hand clippers for shrub trimming, painted bright orange.

These were the only useable things, I've looked at a lot of broken ladders and such on the side of the road.
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Was on a hiking trail, but a very nice Benchmade that I've had for nearly a quarter century.

Early 2020 I found a middle-age guy on the side of the 805 freeway in San Diego that had sliced his wrists and throat. Didn't do the greatest job of it as he was still breathing, just barely, when the paramedics scooped him up.

A duffle bag full of sex toys.

A corded DeWalt sawsall in its case. Been using it for the last 16 years or so.

Also found a $100 bill once. Believe it might have blown down from a drug dealer I think lived halfway up the block.

A really nice Cornwell 1/2" drive long handle ratchet with a no-brand oxygen sensor socket attached.

No doubt it was stuck in some crevice during service and subsequently delivered to me when it fell out on the road.

I found a nice bridle laying in the road that had probably fallen off a vehicle. I posted a sign at the location and got several calls but no one could describe it in detail.

My guess is they say it on the roof or trunk and forgot about it. It was laying in the shoulder just down the road from Sportsman’s Warehouse.
Lid popped off and had to spend a few minutes picking them up but all were there. A few had some scuffed up brass but no biggie.

A Stanley toolbox full of DeWalt drill bits, screwdriver bits, and adapters.

1980 & Working a traffic post for a traffic crash at 3am and saw a shoe box in the gutter. I was 1/4 mile up the road from the crash at the next intersection. No traffic so I walked over and kicked it. Found $17,000 cash, all in $20’s and $10’s rubber banded together and a baggie of Qualudes. Was making $12,500 a year at the time.
Logged everything into property and the next morning the attorney for the driver in the traffic crash inquired if anything interesting had been found at the crash scene.
After the necessary dance moves the driver was charged with the felony drug charges.
The attorney got most or all of the $17K and the bad guy got a felony record.

Boat towable, life vests, gas cans, & probably around $100 cash over the years. I also caught a nice leatherman Skeletool while crappie fishing on day. Now that was a treat.

Three golf clubs in a cardboard box, Snap-On 1/2 drive torque wrench along with a 6” extension and a 3/4” socket, numerous Craftsman, Mac and Snap-On sockets, three Channellock brand pliers, two Estwing hammers, over the years probably two hundred dollars in paper money.

Found a day planner once along the road. Called the number in it, owner was a contractor, had a bunch of his business cards in it.

I called him from work to tell him I found it and he could come by to pick it up. The guy originally said “just take it to the address on the cards and leave it in the mailbox”! My reply was “No, you can come up here and pick it up!”

When he came to the parts counter and asked for me the first thing he said was “If you are expecting a reward you are mistaken.”

A simple thank you would have been sufficient.

I went to the local NAPA a few months back to pick up some minor stuff - probably oil and filters or some such.

While waiting on the counter guy, I spied a bill laying on the floor in front of the counter.

Picked it up and it was a hundred. At first glance it looked genuine, but something didn't feel right. Paper texture and weight was wrong. Called the counter guy over thinking he'd swab it with his counterfeit pen but he rubbed it between his fingers and held it up to the light.

"No watermark" he sez, and handed it back to me. I tore it up and threw it in the trash.

I expect some clown was playing a joke to see who he could sucker in.

A fully functioning Nintendo.