Off the top of my head, sunglasses, a couple of wallets, a woman’s wallet stuffed with cash (all were returned to owners via ID’s) 2 iPhones (a 6, and an 11), an older 30 gb broken iPod, a CRKT M16-03Z knife (carry it daily at work), functional undamaged plastic gas cans, about 30 rubber bungees strung out over several yards (found the truck that lost them a mile down the road re-securing his tarped load), a brand new large Rubbermaid trash can, several dogs along the interstate (before they were hit)… more I can’t recall at the moment I’m sure.

I found about 25 half containers of ice cream, just starting to get soft.
Loaded it up and took it home and was able to fit most of it in my "venison" freezer as I had not gotten a deer in the previous season.

My brother worked for the State Highway Dept here in Ohio and he said they purchased a magnet for picking up metal along the grass berms, because metal in the grass will damage the mowers they use. On one busy highway a 20 mile stretch they picked up a Dump truck of metal of all kinds.

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My brother worked for the State Highway Dept here in Ohio and he said they purchased a magnet for picking up metal along the grass berms, because metal in the grass will damage the mowers they use. On one busy highway a 20 mile stretch they picked up a Dump truck of metal of all kinds.

20 miles in Ohio would’ve netted 17 Ohio Highway patrolmen! I’ve always seen them but never been stopped.

I found an 18 inch pipe wrench. A few bungee cords.

Lots of hand tools and power tools.

A box with a couple vibrators and dildos in it.

I guess that’s sort of the same thing?

About 20 years ago I found a 1961 Gibson EB-3 bass guitar in a garbage can across the street from my sister's house. Took it home, cleaned it, restored it. But it doesn't sound all that good - so it's just hanging in my living room looking pretty now.

I forgot to mention the several pairs of discarded panties I've seen on the side of the road. Well, I guess when there's an opportunity you've gotta take it, even on the side of the road.

When I lived in Buxton while in the CG I found the following regularly:
Beach towels
Wallets
Flip flops- usually alone but sometimes in pairs

Once found a SOG fixed blade knife I gave to the neighbor who needed a dive knife

I returned one wallet, found owner thru a realty company, with the $800 cash -thanks to it being a small community-everyone knows everything

As a cop I found all kinds of stuff…
Guns, knives, dope, stolen items, just everything…

Weirdest thing I found when I rolled up to help a fellow officer who sounded frazzled on the radio. She was working a motorcycle wreck on US301 south in Wilson…as the guy was getting bundled up for the ambulance I saw a wallet and something else in the scene…went and got both…one a wallet and the other was the top of a bone in the guys lower leg that had been smashed…I took it over to the officer (to freak her out) and she got on the air and asked the 911 center to have the ambulance stop as she had part of his bone she wanted to return….shit you not. The ambulance hadn’t moved ten yards and stopped, Chasity runs up opens the back and peeled off her glove and handed it to a paramedic..dude lost his left leg at the knee…I went to check on him the next day and told him where his Harley was stored. Dude just cried cause he knew he’d never ride again.

When I was a kid I found a car stereo in the ditch. Took it home and gave it to my dad, who wired it up in the racecar trailer so we could have a radio when in bumfuck nowhere waiting to race.

An 1878 silver dollar.

Tupperware pie container complete with pie. No, we didn’t eat the pie.

Chris

I found a brand new I Phone in the gutter at the airport at 1:00 am. I brought the phone to my office the next morning and answered the phone each time it rang. I told the callers, "figure out another way to contact the guy you're calling and have him call me on my phone", (the battery on the I Phone was almost dead). About an hour later a guy called. I was about an hour's drive from where he was. We made arrangements and before lunch he picked up the phone.

My wife and I used to be members of Pennsylvanias "Adopt A Highway" program, where you volunteer to keep a certain stretch of road litter free. We chose the 2 1/2 mile rural road beside our house that we walk daily.

Two separate times we found $100 bills along the road. One was very faded from the sun, so I took it to the bank, and they said it was still good.

Another time we found a set of keys. We laid them on a rock by a bridge, so we could find them again. About a half hour later, a mile back the road a farmer we run into often asked if we found his truck/house keys. He said they fell off his 4 wheeler.

Last year we were finding fresh vegetables, fresh fruit, boxes of fruit drinks, individual containers of yogurt, and things like that every week during our walks. Apparently, someone would get stuff at the local food bank, and just throw it out the window of their car if they didn't like it. If we could've found out who it was, we would've had them shut off.

A Petzl headlamp. It was night time and drove past it, and saw a light glowing in the middle of the road. Thought it was a cell phone at first. A bicyclist must have dropped it.
I used it for years, until it broke one day.

I did find 2 cash registers in the road right in front of my house about 20 years ago. Called the cops as it seems to have just been dumped from a robbery.

Two years ago we were driving to our beach house in Hatteras, NC. For those that may not know Hatteras is probably the premier offshore fishing destination on the East Coast.

We were about a mile from the house when out of the corner of my eye I see something yellow glinting in the afternoon sunshine on the opposite side of the road. I slam on the brakes, much to my wife’s dismay, and jump out. What I found was a Penn International 50W reel mated to a Penn offshore boat rod with line etc. I looked around and there wasn’t anyone within sight so I threw it in the truck. The next day I posted online about finding a rod and reel and if someone could describe it I’d send it to them but no one did.

That combo is about $1500 and I use it whenever I go offshore!

I have commuted by bicycle for the past 12 years and find items on a regular basis:
- snap on tools
- work gloves
- oakley sunglasses - two pairs
- cords and straps
- all kinds of sockets
- hats and clothing
- brand new life jacket

If it is anything I consider valuable I always put an ad in craigslist stating I found it. I have never got a response yet. I lot of things fall off boats on the road.

Here's one Mrs. Flash reminded me of.

Her Father spent a lot of time on the road for his job and once he found a case of electric knives on the road.

He gave one to her and it still works 36 years later.

Two new car mufflers still in the box,
An air conditioner service gauge set,
A wallet with $100 in it, belonged to a guy that was in my high school drafting class.
A 24" pipe wrench,
A Schrade LB7 pocket knife,
Channer Lock pliers,
And an 85 pound weight off a pump jack that
came off a semi trailer. It almost got me.

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Went outside to check the mail. Neighbor across the street was retrieving his mailbox from the ditch. Hit and run. We talked for a bit, I headed home and called him over. In my hedge was a chrome rear bumper, license plate attached.

A carton of potato chips on Christmas Eve as I was going to a party. Other than that, nothing I can recall noteworthy.