Good stuff picked up on the road...

Were you close to OJs house?

 

Looks like a murder weapon...
Was there any blood on it????

 

My wife gets pissed at me for stopping and picking something up on the road! I have picked up hundreds of things on the road, including a ladder, two complete tool boxes, load winches and straps, spare tires and unknown amount of single tools!






Bones

 

I'd just started driving for a trucking company out of Oklahoma back in the mid-'80s. I ran a load into Orlando, FL and had to deadhead out on the Florida Pike. I just caught a glimpse of what looked like a tarp laying on the shoulder and by the time I got stopped, I was a couple hundred yards past it. I jumped out and ran back to see if it was any good as it was partially unrolled. Turned out to be one half of a full canvas lumber tarp, 8' high x 8' wide x 28' long and heavy. I think it weighed more than me. By the time I got it rolled back up and carried it all the way back to the truck, I was wiped out and asking myself what the hell I was thinking. Over the years, it got used to protect a lot of stuff I didn't have inside storage for so, I guess I did good.

 

I bet CSI would love to run some tests on that knife.

 

Reminds me, one night I was coming back into Birmingham going west on I-20. Kept hearing guys talk on the CB about a tarp laying in the road just past dead man's curve. Kept my eyes open, spotted it, whipped off on the shoulder, threw it up on the catwalk behind the cab and hammered down.

Next morning at home, I rolled it out on the ground. Half a lumber tarp, about 24x24. It had gotten against a exhaust stack, had a hole burned in it about every two foot. I mean, all the way down each side, end to end. Rolled it back up and put it on the burn pile.

Never stopped for a tarp in the road again.

 

Someone probably tossed it leaving the scene of a murder.

 

One time driving back from lunch I spotted an exhaust pipe laying on the side of the road not too far from my place of employment and thought, "Hey, that looks like a pipe from OT car (of the same model I was driving)." After I got back to work, I walked around to the back of my car to find my exhaust missing. So I trudged back up the road, grabbed the pipe, and drug it back to work.

 

Jimmy Hoffa maybe????....

 

That happened to me a lot when I rode AMF made Harleys.

 

I found a gigantic crane hook on the side of the road yesterday .
Pulled over I was gonna grab it but the thing must have weighed 200 lbs !

good thing it fell off the on ramp to a highway, could only imagine the chaos it would have caused just a couple minutes later with that truck going 100 km/h down a highway

 

I've heard of not being able to hit the broad side of a barn, but tossing your change out the window and missing that canal???? Wow!!

 

Signs on the side of the road. An American tradition.

 

We’re in Iceland, been traveling here last week and until this Wednesday. We may see a very small sign for a cafe or museum but otherwise commercialization is nonexistent. It’s refreshing.

 

Some years back I spotted a front fender for a 60's VW on the side of a city street. It was timely as a friend was fixing up a VW and he needed one.

 

Arkansas toothpick, ain't it?