Slight drift since it was in the middle, a dead skunk.

Some of you should play the lottery that week!

Eagle eyed group here. As a teenager, I found a cooler of beer on ice in the ditch.

Mostly, dead 'possums and armadillos.

decent aluminum hand truck,
some road rash, but still works fine

a cooler with someones water and gatorade, I left that one,


I've recently seen a few ladders, but they were so mangled up it was not worth stopping,

On separate occasions, 2 dogs that had been hit by cars. Both became wonderful family pets for over 10 years!

Two things I've found while out walking are a little more unusual than the normal lost stuff:

I found an ATM. Not the big drive-through bank type but the little one you might find in a convenience store. I called LVMPD to see if they were interested. They agreed it seemed pretty unusual & sent someone out to get it.

I also found a 1/2" drive, five-point socket. The type utilities would used to bolt the plates that cover their stuff on the streets. I kept it though I've never had a use for it.

Not me but a co-worker found a Stanley branded socket ratchet set in a clamshell case. 1/4, 3/8, 1/2 inch drive with sockets. All looked basically new and none were missing. It was in a ditch across the road room a commercial building under construction. He thought It either slid of someones truck when leaving the site or was stolen and hid by a worker who was going to return to retrieve it later.

He had no use for it and offered it to me for 25 bucks!

Ditch porn

$100 bill in a gift envelope. No identifying info.

Great Buffett song and album. He wrote some great songs back then.

I also recently had an otterbox save my iPhone from a 45 mph mistake!

Well while running a newspaper route for many years at night we have found some stuff. Tools, wallets, cellphones, money, flashlights, a gun or two, lot of boating equip, police handheld radio. Lots more but too many things to list. Multiple of the wallets, cellphones and purses.

Always did our best to track down the owners of the wallets and cellphones and we got good at it.

The two things that really stood out was a purple Rabbit vibrator in the middle of the road.
And a purse filled with cow shit. I got a good laugh at those two.

Handgun still in it's holster.( Don't use a cheap clip on of you ride a motorcycle). Dead bodies. Two arms from an alive body. A tiny American flag that I cleaned up and is still in my patrol car.

I don't find many things when I'm in my personal rig, knock wood.

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Originally posted by heydrich:
Ditch porn

That struck a brain cell. I was taking lunch in front of commercial property and in the road was a magazine. A porn magazine. A gay porn magazine! Do not want!
I had picked it up then wanted 10 gal. of bleach.

In all seriousness when I was 16 or 17, two bodies. One dead, the other alive. Not something I’d care to repeat.

MikeinNC,
"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."

Apologizing for the thread drift in advance.

Some years ago I wheeled into my local Harley Davidson Dealership for an annual motorcycle safety inspection on my Road King. I checked in with the service writer and went outside.
They have a picnic table outside under a canopy for the people waiting for something quick in the service department.
There is a guy sitting on the picnic table bench with his right leg missing just above the knee and one wooden crutch next to him.
I didn't say anything to him, he seemed deeply in thought. I just figured he was a former rider and was just hanging out looking at the Harley's.
After a few minutes, the garage door exit from the service department opened, and one of the mechanics pushed a Harley Dyna SuperGlide outside and parked it with the kickstand down.

The one legged man thanked the mechanic and got up. He fastened his jacket onto the back of the bike, and strapped his wooden crutch against the right side of the bike.
Standing on one leg on the left side of the bike, he swung his remaining right leg stump over the seat and sat down.
He started the bike, leaned the bike almost vertical, and raised the kickstand with a quick tap of his left foot.
Then he quickly tapped it into first gear and rode out to the street in front of the Dealership. He turned and rode off to wherever he was going.

While I waited for my bike, I wondered how many times the guy had tipped over while he learned to ride with his missing leg.

Davey crocket pellet grill(GMG). It was in the snowbank along side the road, strew all along the shoulder, cover, 110 to 12v convertor. I was driving a large truck and couldn't stop. Went 5 miles to my house and drove my personal vehicle out and picked up all the parts. Someone threw the grill over on the far side of the snow pile by the shoulder, but I found it. Some pounding on the sheet-metal and it works great!

Hand tools mostly. A wallet in the Post Office parking lot which I gave to the Post Master...had $$$ & cards. Owner gave the Post Master $20 for me, & told him to have the owner give it to his favor charity - Karma.

Found a straight jacket, pretty good condition.

Dead hooker. Actually found by a road crew cutting weeds, which did the cadaver no good.

I was looking over the thread responses and saw the one about a half inch socket.

That reminded me. I've walked this neighborhood for around 17 years on a daily basis and I've found 5 different 3/8" 10MM sockets.

Why in the world are they all 10MM?