I pick up quite a few, but not every one I see. There are just too many of them. I'm more likely to snag stuff at intersections where I'm forced to stop.

A year or so I saw a big pile of large construction staples right in front of a local tire shop, busy 4 lane road.

A car stopped, so I started pulling staples off of the road.

Someone from the tire shop came over with a garbage can and dust pan, I think. Anyway, within a minute or so we got all the staples removed.

Not one person from the cars got out to help remove staples.

As I was finishing up, one guy yelled from the car.. "hurry up, some of us have places to go", or something like that.... Perhaps he was joking, but I really wish his place to go was to the tire shop to get a flat repaired.