Originally Posted by
Myosmith
Assorted tools, the best being a 1/2" drive torque wrench, lots of pliers, vise-grips, occassional wrench.
Unopened beer or liquor, often along rural roads where it was tossed out the window at night by an underage person when they noticed they were being followed by the cops.
Assorted clothing, found a Subway restaurant employees cap yesterday. The only other item of clothing I ever bothered to pick up was a nice windbreaker that was lying along the highway clean and dry.
Perhaps the most interesting was a youth sized Diamondback MTB in excellent condition. It was obviously dumped/abandoned so I contacted the local PD and took it in. It wasn't claimed within 60 days and was donated to a local charity.
There is one thing that I have to wonder about in regards to all of the clothing that is "lost" along the roads and/or trails/bike paths. I get that a certain amount of it is lost because the owner didn't store it in their car/trailer/pannier bags well. But if one stops and thinks about it there is really too much clothing being found on the side of the road/trail/path to be lost in this manner.
I mean if "all" of the clothing that we find along the road/trail/path was lost because the owner didn't secure it in their car/pickup/bicycle then why don't we find more articles of clothing in any given area? It almost seems more likely that the owner/former owner has taken it off and thrown it on the side of the road/trail/path.