Things You've Found on the Road while Driving

[Claudia Love]

I once was taking highway 400 and I saw a deer head with pools of blood in front of me and then last week I drove on highway 26 and there was a brown couch on the road blocking the lane. Somebody was driving too fast I think lol

What have you found on the road driving ?

 

[Boss Nass]

Lots of tools. It seems that a lot of people like to use vise-grips to hold parts of their car together, and after a while they fall off, and some leave a wrench or socket under the hood and it finds the same fate. I once found a large size Maglite, quite expensive, that had dropped. Still works! In the summer and fall I stop to pick up PFDs that people haven't properly secured in their boats before hitting the road, I donate them to kids camps.

 

[Ponderling]

I have an office near the Ford Assembly Plant in Oakville. I find tons of work gloves that truckers have set on the truck while tightening chains, etc then blow off once under way. I find them on walks along the side of the road at my lunch time.

Then tons of tools - lots of them rusted, but a product carried by CTC called Krud Cutter brings tons of items back to life.

Like a 16" adjustable wrench, 3' long bolt cutters, 5 claw hammers. Enough tools to have a second set of most tools now hanging in the garage. Nice to not have to go and get the tool box from the shed. Wet vac that needed $20 worth of new brushes to make it good as new. 2x 24" adjustable bar clamps.

A 46" Samsung flat screen tv on the curb. It has one red line on the screen. It is our main living room TV.

High vis winter coat, next to the gate of a truck yard. Needed a couple of loads through the washer - is now my snow shoveling coat.

1.5l sealed bottle of brandy. 1l Jagermiester, sealed.

A box with 60 K cups that has been providing us coffee over the Christmas break.

4 banquet sized trays of cellophane wrapped commercial kitchen made baklava. I saw a person set down in front of me as I walked. They went into the freezer and gave me work lunch snacks for me and one kids for about 3 months.

 

[Robert Mugabe]

Black chick who could suck a golf ball through a garden hose. (somebody was going to bring it up)

 

[thumper18474]

Big Ass Snow Blower..(still works)
BBQ
iPad
Cell phones
LV wallet..purse

 

[tml]

Several years ago driving at night it looked like there was a garbage bag on the road rapidly twisting in the wind. As I got closer I realized it was a raccoon that had just been hit by one of the cars in front of me. I've seen many dead raccoons on the road, but none that were in the midst of dying. I'm not the biggest fan of raccoons, but this broke my heart.

 

[Ponderling]

BBQ also- just needed oven cleaner round and $40 of new heat diffuser plates bought wiht CTC money I had accrued.

Fake leather couches and clu chairs that live on the back patio- Just stick them under a tarp for the winter.

LED Chistmas light string - just re-arranged the bulbs to go from 10' to 40' of the 50' working- Used it around the hot tub this year.

My list gets quite a bit longer if we expand this to dumpster diving.

I cannot believe at times what still good stuff gets tossed.

I head out on a 20km long route kiinda standard route of potential honey pots most Sunday mornings.

I come home with free Saturday new papers and whatever else I happen to find.

Lots of clothing that gets washed and then donated to a thrift.

 

[bcd]

Thousands and thousands of Tim Horton's cups. The ones where you roll up the rim and the message revealed underneath says 'When you are finished drinking this coffee, roll down your window and toss me out onto the street'. Well, I figure that must be what the message says. I mean, what else would compel someone to throw their trash onto the road rather than take it home and throw it into their garbage?

 

[Tomoreno]

I had a surreal, straight from the movie, experience once.

As I was driving, I saw a flat bed truck driving in an opposite direction with a bunch of portable toilets on it. There was a pothole in that road and truck couldn't avoid it. What I saw was that truck jumping up and a cloud of money, in $20 and $50 denominations flying out of one of the toilet's roof. It started snowing money and many people stopped in complete awe and disbelief. I collected just over a $1000 that day and those, who stopped earlier, had a lot more. Unbelievable, once in a lifetime experience.

 

[Jenesis]

My last cat that I got I saw being dumped with his litter mate at the side of the road. One of the more traumatic experiences of my life. To see someone just discard life like that. Was hard to witness.

I took the one I could catch. Construction worker found and took the other one. Thankfully it was a good day for these kittens. Not to many animals are that lucky when dumped.

 

[kherg007]

A beautifully intact wombat on the road north of Hobart in Tasmania. Pulled over to have a capn cook. Took a happy snap of my gf next to it. The wombat was dead, but no detectable signs of trauma. On the way back next day looked like the devils dragged him into the bush and he was mostly gone but some tufts of fur.

 

[Robert Mugabe]

A beautifully intact wombat on the road north of Hobart in Tasmania. Pulled over to have a capn cook. Took a happy snap of my gf next to it. The wombat was dead, but no detectable signs of trauma. On the way back next day looked like the devils dragged him into the bush and he was mostly gone but some tufts of fur.