What are some of the best things you found on the side of the road?

A double banded pigeon, a Canada goose I had helped band ( a year after she was banded...same area she was banded), 3 shotguns in one pile (at a boat ramp. The owners were located), a wallet (returned), stolen purses.

 

The browning found reminded me of a event from shooting league sporting clays. A guy shooting on the team in front of us left his shotgun in the rack and walked to the next station not once, but 3 times. He was shooting a Kreighoff K-80 vintage Scroll Pro-Sporter! I made him buy the team a round of beer AND let me shoot a round of clays with it before I would give it back. He was very obliging and it really shot SWEET!!

 

Oh yeah forgot about this , last May was driving home from mushroom hunting. Hit a small town so slowed down.

As I roll through see what I think is a wallet middle of the dang road.

Pull over , it’s a gals wallet. What I did next was honest but I should have just went to her address, same small town.

However being such a small town I headed to the greasy spoon I’m familiar with and asked the locals.
One guy says she’s my neighbor offers to take to her and I obliged.

Later I googled more and somehow found the gals work email. We exchanged some messages

What I got from it was an accusation of stealing $100 bill. I didn’t even count the money.

Mind you I purposely didn’t rifle through any more than needed and actually put belongings back inside that’d fallen out.

She’d dropped the wallet walking home from the same greasy spoon I went to

 

I also found 4 boxes of 3” Hevishot. Tried to find the rightful owner but never did. Ended up shooting them.

 

No good deed goes unpunished! When I was 14 was at a campground and found a wallet with several hundred dollars. Found the owner and returned. He was drunk and yelled, “hell I didn’t even know I lost it”! No thanks, no go to hell, nothing. Oh well.

 

Picked up a 12' aluminum ladder and a bag of 6 flambeau goose floats. Wasn't enough to off set the 2 dozen G&H swivel head mallards, new w/ texas rigging that blew out of my boat.
Been other times I've seen interesting stuff on the side of the road but didn't feel safe stopping to investigate.

 

Found a Rolex on our local golf course when I was 20. It was returned to the owner.

 

Back in college... Hot chick hitchin' a ride (the way she flagged us down, we though something was wrong, but she just wanted a ride). Hunting the back roads with a friend, and she jumped right in, sat in the middle of a bench-seat mini-truck, right between our guns. Never questioned a thing... Wonder if she is still alive?

Picked up a guy with one of those "will work for food" signs... Asked if he was serious, and he said yep. Guy was an ox, and a tremendously hard worker, and helped us move (thinking he was going to get a hamburger). We paid him $50 (which was quite a bit back then) and got him a good meal with some beer. I turned some other fraternities and sororities on to him, who then turned some other businesses on to him, and he made a few bucks, and got back on his feet. Got a job and a place to live. Always felt nice about that.

 

I’m pretty sure @Grif found some wild parsnips somewhere between St. Louis and the shindig. Those sound pretty cool

 

I still ain't convinced those boys weren't forking with me.....rash or not.