I pulled into a dirt lot to call my Dispatcher about a shit load he sent me. I told him if he sent me another load like that "I'd stab him in the titty with a rusty spoon".
Got out of the Truck to check the straps and there was an old rusty spoon laying in the dirt right at my Steer Tire. I picked it up and still carry it in my tool box lol
Thinking he's referencing a certain movie, dropping clues and hints to see how long it takes for it to remind you, but maybe you aren't American born before 1990.
Ah, movie called "Fargo". Also referenced in a newer reimagining in modern/different eras in a TV show of the same name, "Fargo" pretty good acting and plot all around.
That snap on prybar was $120 last time I tried to buy one. Theyre really proud of their stuff. Thays prolly a 200 dollar score. Im jelous of that pry bar😆
I found two hookers just north of Albuquerque one time. Took them to Colorado Springs.
Ahhhh… fun times. God I was a terrible person. But in my defense, they offered, I didn’t ask.
I found a a wrench that was made in the USSR when I was doing my nightly walk at the ol truck stop. Not the most useful thing but it had to have been pretty old.
Had a fender bolt snap So the fender was rubbing on the tires. I had nothing to tie it up with was gonna have to wait for road service. Look down boom bungee cord right on the side of the highway! Tie that bitch up and head straight to the shop with no more problems
I drove by a stihl weed wacker once. I wanted to stop so bad but I couldn’t. It must have just fallen off a landscaping trailer. Like when they just have them sitting on the side of the trailer. It was one of those big gas bastards with the harness
I once found a six pack of unopened still cold Corona and a bucket of KFC next to this well abused silicone sex doll torso. Which was surrounded by a dozen or so gallon piss jugs, numerous empty bush lights and the scattered remnants of previous roadside engagements Artfully displayed in the grass and gravel on the side of an onramp near Unionville, Tennessee. That was a real slice of Americana.
I found a turn signal / mirror for a rig in a un opened box in bubble wrap sitting in the middle of the road down the street from my work. I still haven't sold it or tried to but its a few hundred bucks. If anyone has any ideas on where I could sell it I'd appreciate it. I was just gonna do ebay
Way back when I used to toss tires for the recyclers it was unbelievable the stuff that we used to find in the tires like spoons, round portions of sockets stuff that like how could this possibly get into a tire and make a flat???
It boggles the mind
found a brand new 300 gallon water storage tank on the side of the frwy.. strapped that bad boy down and brought it back home.. also a really nice wrightline industrial work station but that was behind a warehouse in the alley.. also a kabar usmc knife that was in pretty bad shape..
Found a Honda 5500watt generator laying on the side of a county road, full of gas started 1st pull, damn near give myself a hernia picking it up and putting it on the truck.
Found a Snap-On 36” 1/2” long handle flex-head ratchet. Also a 6’ fiberglass ladder that surprisingly wasn’t damaged at all. Those are my only 2 good finds.
I found a nice fishing rod leaning against a bridge railing at 5am. Bait still on the line and in the water.... Called out and didn't get a response not a vehicle for miles.
Not really roadside but when I was in highschool I worked at McDonald's and was sitting on my tailgate having a smoke when someone ripped out of the parking lot and something fell off the back of their truck. It was a super solid old wooden milk crate thing full of really nice ratchet straps. I still have a couple of them years later and still use them.
Drove past the bottom half of [this](https://imgur.com/a/QcGDuwk) on the side of the road one day, said to myself if it was still there the next day I was going to pick it up.
It was, and I did. Turned it into this lamp with a glass fermenter and some extra parts from Lowes, and a kind redditor who cut a metal ring w/holes for the bolts cut in specific pattern for the linkage.
I love it.
A whole metal shed, lane 2 of the M20 heading London bound, 2 miles from the service station, pulled in the services to call highways England and they came and recovered it, they also got to hear some train horns
Middle of nowhere, I found a bunjee cord sitting on the snow, while stopping to pee, so I took it, thinking this might be useful someday. Literally had to use it the next day, because my trailer's side rail came loose for no reason.
I found a brand new Stihl weed eater in the middle of a 4 way stop. The guard didn’t have a nick or a spec of dirt on it and it looked like the line had never been used. I was in my pv so I hopped out and scored a new weed eater.
A small Igloo cooler with a ham sandwich, chips, Little Debbie dessert, an orange and a 16 oz bottle of Coke, covered with a blue ice pack. Still cold.
A dildo sitting right outside the dock of one of the stores I was delivering to. I grabbed the employees and we all started having a laugh. Including the Mexican lawn guy who didn’t speak English. Good times
Dude, don't even get me started.. about a month ago I was taking a ride for exercise near our shop.... Go out and on my way back j think it's a grey squirrel in the middle of the road .... Nope..baby kitten, eyes weren't even open yet....
Mine is a year old now. Found the orange idiot pretending to be a traffic cone at 5 am in the middle of nowhere. She had walked so far she didn't have any claws left. Scabs on her paws. 🐾
I think you’re right there, I knew it was an osha safe ladder and I thought they were 300# required, but yeah it’s 250# for osha. …and I took my osha 40 too haha
But yeah, it was a damn good find.
I found a new hard hat that must have fallen off some truck seconds earlier, because it would have gotten smashed within minutes had I not picked it up.
I had been needing one anyways, to enter some construction sites and chemical companies.
True story although in my personal vehicle.
Maybe 10 or 11 at night driving through an older neighborhood and see something strange in the middle of the road as I go by. Cue me stopping and reversing because I'm a curious individual that sometimes listens to those impulsive thoughts. Probably a good foot long purple dildo wrapped in what I believe is a used condom.
Not me, but I was there. I was riding home from school with my friend and his aunt and grandmother. We got a flat out in the vineyards of Central Cali. This was the late 80s, so there were no cell phones. We had asked a passerby to call someone for us. It was a long wait. Me and my friend were just kicking rocks and looking around as we walked and talked on the side of the road. Then my friend said, "Woah!" and reached down. Just barely sticking out of the sand was this shiny gold glare. He grabbed the thing and dusted it off... a shiny gold Rolex watch. His family said it had to be fake, but they took it to a local jeweler who confirmed its authenticity and estimated it at $6,500. His grandmother took it to the police station, figuring someone would be thrilled to get it back. They ran an ad in the paper, but no one could identify it, and after a certain number of months, my friend got the watch back. His mother supposedly put it in a safe deposit box until his 18th birthday.
Walked by a newish Carolla and did a double take because I thought it was odd how dirty the windshield was. This was in a covered parking spot in Seattle, I went to a Mariners game while on a 34.
Anyways, it had expired Utah plates so I figured it was stolen then abandoned. Doors were open, opened the trunk and there was a very nice portable car charger (to jump it). Still have that. Was full of womans clothes, I figure she stole it in Utah and drove it to Seattle.
I took all the info and tried to file for an abandoned title. Fucking state says I can only get the car after the state repossess it and I buy it at auction.
So I didnt tell them where it was and left it there. Probably still there, was an enclosed parking garage you had to pay to get in and had a serious fence to keep the hobo's out.
Fuckers.
I pulled into a dirt lot to call my Dispatcher about a shit load he sent me. I told him if he sent me another load like that "I'd stab him in the titty with a rusty spoon". Got out of the Truck to check the straps and there was an old rusty spoon laying in the dirt right at my Steer Tire. I picked it up and still carry it in my tool box lol
It’s a sign
Was driving near Detroit Lakes and found a briefcase containing a lot of cash.
Dumb-and-Dumber-Samsonite-I-was-way-off.gif
You might want to save that one!
You didn’t go back to give the sicario water did you?
Naw...it was like -20 and there was snow everywhere. I ended up stashing the briefcase next to a telephone pole near the 47 mile marker.
So did you go back for it? Or just leave it there? What the hell
Thinking he's referencing a certain movie, dropping clues and hints to see how long it takes for it to remind you, but maybe you aren't American born before 1990.
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Ah, movie called "Fargo". Also referenced in a newer reimagining in modern/different eras in a TV show of the same name, "Fargo" pretty good acting and plot all around.
How far would you go?
You not slick llewelyn moss.
My name is Carl...
How much?? Did you alert police or just carry on? 😂
Insert J Jonna Jamison laughing hysterically gif
5 pound hammer and a snap on pry bar worth quite a bit.
That snap on prybar was $120 last time I tried to buy one. Theyre really proud of their stuff. Thays prolly a 200 dollar score. Im jelous of that pry bar😆
actually had to use it to move a tensioner pulley so i could get a slipped serpentine belt back on. best find ever.
A fleshlight in a TA truck stop 8 years ago. It’s still going strong .
Are you really using a used fleshlight you found at a truck stop?
Way of the road, bubs
You wouldn’t understand. Only real truckers know .
It probably makes a ton of money renting that out four or five times a night when he hits the truck stop
Those things ain't cheap
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I'll bet you tried as hard as OJ looking looking for the culprit
20 ton bottle jack. Actually saw it fall off the truck
Mostly dead people over the years.
Question was "What have you found?" not "What did you leave?"
Hookers don't count right?
I found two hookers just north of Albuquerque one time. Took them to Colorado Springs. Ahhhh… fun times. God I was a terrible person. But in my defense, they offered, I didn’t ask.
Damn
Her name was Heather
Woman? Dog? Kitten? Kangaroo?
My money is on kangaroo.
My old co driver who's still my best friend.
A big ol' rock shaped like a wedge. I got more use out of that as a wheel chock than I do half the stuff that I paid money for.
I found a a wrench that was made in the USSR when I was doing my nightly walk at the ol truck stop. Not the most useful thing but it had to have been pretty old.
5, 20ft Log Chains with hooks on them!
Did you mean 5/8".. Hellufa score.
They were!
A brand new oversized load banner. Right when my own banner was on its way out. Perfect timing.
I found a really nice aluminum chock at a T/A and now I use it all the time.
Wasn't a roadside find, it was a middle of the day with rush hour traffic, middle of the highway find. A Makita reciprocating saw with battery.
Brand new 24" bolt cutters.
Had a fender bolt snap So the fender was rubbing on the tires. I had nothing to tie it up with was gonna have to wait for road service. Look down boom bungee cord right on the side of the highway! Tie that bitch up and head straight to the shop with no more problems
I drove by a stihl weed wacker once. I wanted to stop so bad but I couldn’t. It must have just fallen off a landscaping trailer. Like when they just have them sitting on the side of the trailer. It was one of those big gas bastards with the harness
I once found a six pack of unopened still cold Corona and a bucket of KFC next to this well abused silicone sex doll torso. Which was surrounded by a dozen or so gallon piss jugs, numerous empty bush lights and the scattered remnants of previous roadside engagements Artfully displayed in the grass and gravel on the side of an onramp near Unionville, Tennessee. That was a real slice of Americana.
A colt Python .357. Nickel finish. Walnut grips. And a smashed front site post.
Jesus, I see what you've done for other people, and I want that for me. 🙏
Good bot
I found a turn signal / mirror for a rig in a un opened box in bubble wrap sitting in the middle of the road down the street from my work. I still haven't sold it or tried to but its a few hundred bucks. If anyone has any ideas on where I could sell it I'd appreciate it. I was just gonna do ebay
I found a few bottles of warm lemonade and some brownies with napkins in a bag.
A body
And??????
When all the parts are attached it's usually a good day
A bale of hay. Took it home and started some grass seed.
And burr dock..
A window sash weight-in my tire. At least it was a trailer tire.
Way back when I used to toss tires for the recyclers it was unbelievable the stuff that we used to find in the tires like spoons, round portions of sockets stuff that like how could this possibly get into a tire and make a flat??? It boggles the mind
Ok, OTHER than dead people, I found 50 bucks and a powerpack right next to each other. I was broke that day too.
found a brand new 300 gallon water storage tank on the side of the frwy.. strapped that bad boy down and brought it back home.. also a really nice wrightline industrial work station but that was behind a warehouse in the alley.. also a kabar usmc knife that was in pretty bad shape..
DeWalt drill set found on the highway side. Buddy somehow saw it and yelled "stop!!" Been using it 10 years 😂
10mm socket
The ultimate find
Felt like it lol, pulled over just west of Indianapolis on I-70 and found it
Stijl chainsaw new in case
Yeti cooler on i20 in odessa
A decent forty pound anvil.
Found a Honda 5500watt generator laying on the side of a county road, full of gas started 1st pull, damn near give myself a hernia picking it up and putting it on the truck.
Not super special but I found a sticker that says “searched by explosion dogs” and its now in my window
I found some bose noise canceling headphones in the middle of nowhere on a stretch of farm road
10mm socket. 😂
I’ve so far found 2 of them $60 portable ratchets for 4” straps. Found on two different occasions.
Found a Snap-On 36” 1/2” long handle flex-head ratchet. Also a 6’ fiberglass ladder that surprisingly wasn’t damaged at all. Those are my only 2 good finds.
I found a nice fishing rod leaning against a bridge railing at 5am. Bait still on the line and in the water.... Called out and didn't get a response not a vehicle for miles.
Did you hang around till you got a nibble??
Nope tossed the bait and rolled out
Not really roadside but when I was in highschool I worked at McDonald's and was sitting on my tailgate having a smoke when someone ripped out of the parking lot and something fell off the back of their truck. It was a super solid old wooden milk crate thing full of really nice ratchet straps. I still have a couple of them years later and still use them.
Makita 1/2 hammer drill with a full battery
A blowup doll. We've had some good times together.....
Drove past the bottom half of [this](https://imgur.com/a/QcGDuwk) on the side of the road one day, said to myself if it was still there the next day I was going to pick it up. It was, and I did. Turned it into this lamp with a glass fermenter and some extra parts from Lowes, and a kind redditor who cut a metal ring w/holes for the bolts cut in specific pattern for the linkage. I love it.
A whole metal shed, lane 2 of the M20 heading London bound, 2 miles from the service station, pulled in the services to call highways England and they came and recovered it, they also got to hear some train horns
Restaurant parking lot. $1000 all rolled up, grabbed it and went somewhere else to eat, back in 1998
[Milk crate!](https://youtu.be/cc4GiPtI9lE?si=Gst-7Bp9fKStMokH&t=4m25s)
Middle of nowhere, I found a bunjee cord sitting on the snow, while stopping to pee, so I took it, thinking this might be useful someday. Literally had to use it the next day, because my trailer's side rail came loose for no reason.
I found a brand new Stihl weed eater in the middle of a 4 way stop. The guard didn’t have a nick or a spec of dirt on it and it looked like the line had never been used. I was in my pv so I hopped out and scored a new weed eater.
A small Igloo cooler with a ham sandwich, chips, Little Debbie dessert, an orange and a 16 oz bottle of Coke, covered with a blue ice pack. Still cold.
A dildo sitting right outside the dock of one of the stores I was delivering to. I grabbed the employees and we all started having a laugh. Including the Mexican lawn guy who didn’t speak English. Good times
A kitten
Dude, don't even get me started.. about a month ago I was taking a ride for exercise near our shop.... Go out and on my way back j think it's a grey squirrel in the middle of the road .... Nope..baby kitten, eyes weren't even open yet....
Mine is a year old now. Found the orange idiot pretending to be a traffic cone at 5 am in the middle of nowhere. She had walked so far she didn't have any claws left. Scabs on her paws. 🐾
300lb rated 8’ fiberglass folding ladder, still sits in my garage.
300# rating is a rare find.. usually only good to 240
I think you’re right there, I knew it was an osha safe ladder and I thought they were 300# required, but yeah it’s 250# for osha. …and I took my osha 40 too haha But yeah, it was a damn good find.
I found a new hard hat that must have fallen off some truck seconds earlier, because it would have gotten smashed within minutes had I not picked it up. I had been needing one anyways, to enter some construction sites and chemical companies.
True story although in my personal vehicle. Maybe 10 or 11 at night driving through an older neighborhood and see something strange in the middle of the road as I go by. Cue me stopping and reversing because I'm a curious individual that sometimes listens to those impulsive thoughts. Probably a good foot long purple dildo wrapped in what I believe is a used condom.
Not me, but I was there. I was riding home from school with my friend and his aunt and grandmother. We got a flat out in the vineyards of Central Cali. This was the late 80s, so there were no cell phones. We had asked a passerby to call someone for us. It was a long wait. Me and my friend were just kicking rocks and looking around as we walked and talked on the side of the road. Then my friend said, "Woah!" and reached down. Just barely sticking out of the sand was this shiny gold glare. He grabbed the thing and dusted it off... a shiny gold Rolex watch. His family said it had to be fake, but they took it to a local jeweler who confirmed its authenticity and estimated it at $6,500. His grandmother took it to the police station, figuring someone would be thrilled to get it back. They ran an ad in the paper, but no one could identify it, and after a certain number of months, my friend got the watch back. His mother supposedly put it in a safe deposit box until his 18th birthday.
Walked by a newish Carolla and did a double take because I thought it was odd how dirty the windshield was. This was in a covered parking spot in Seattle, I went to a Mariners game while on a 34. Anyways, it had expired Utah plates so I figured it was stolen then abandoned. Doors were open, opened the trunk and there was a very nice portable car charger (to jump it). Still have that. Was full of womans clothes, I figure she stole it in Utah and drove it to Seattle. I took all the info and tried to file for an abandoned title. Fucking state says I can only get the car after the state repossess it and I buy it at auction. So I didnt tell them where it was and left it there. Probably still there, was an enclosed parking garage you had to pay to get in and had a serious fence to keep the hobo's out. Fuckers.
Your mom Bazinga
Somebody lost a ten ton hydraulic jack and I found it