# Things you've found on the highway **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 23, 2016, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youve-found-on-the-highway/772785 "2016-11-23T02:43:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Brodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Brodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brodi)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2016, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youve-found-on-the-highway/772785/41 "2016-11-28T15:05:08Z")
A good sized couch Tag off a dog’s collar Dead Coyote Dead Grey Fox Hot Water Heater Miscellaneous articles of clothing, both kid and adult Axis Deer (living) ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youve-found-on-the-highway/772785/42 "2016-11-28T23:02:16Z")
Years ago, I found what initially looked like a cheap digital wristwatch. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a [combination watch/TV remote](http://archive.casio.com/products/archive/Watches/Databank/CMD40B-1T/), a Casio product that evidently didn’t catch on. I took it home, cleaned it up, and used it until the novelty wore off (i.e., approximately three days). ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youve-found-on-the-highway/772785/43 "2016-11-29T00:29:03Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Stuffed animals, all the time. > > Have to imagine some poor child sobbing uncontrollably to mom or dad that their beloved toy got accidentally defenestrated while they were blasting down the highway–childhood dreams lost in the gutter of life… For some reason this makes me sad. I loved my stuffed animals the best of all my toys. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youve-found-on-the-highway/772785/44 "2016-11-29T01:16:58Z")
In the median, one perfectly good kitten. I looped around to get him. He needed some repair, but I had just gotten a good job. My son ended up taking him in. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youve-found-on-the-highway/772785/45 "2016-11-29T01:33:38Z")
Not something I found as much as something I had to avoid–a crazy person running across the freeway in front of me. It looked like she was trying to get to an encampment on the other side of the freeway and was taking a short cut :eek:. Luckily I was far enough back to slow down and pull to one side, but if she had darted out a few seconds later who knows what might have happened. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youve-found-on-the-highway/772785/46 "2016-11-30T13:06:19Z")
In the mid 1980s, my dad found a large stereo speaker laying by the road. He took it home, plugged it in, and got nothing. Opening it up, he found it was packed full of marijuana. He called the cops to come get it (:smack:), and they didn’t believe him at first. Eventually they came and took it. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youve-found-on-the-highway/772785/47 "2016-11-30T15:13:19Z")
Not exactly a highway… OK, not a highway at all. But 20+ years ago, we launched our small sailboat in Middle River, just north of Baltimore, to spend a week on the Bay. As we puttered out under outboard power, we saw something floating in the river - turned out to be a cooler full of ice, soda, and beer. There were no other boats in the immediate vicinity, so we hauled it aboard. A little farther along, we found the lid for the cooler. We drank the sodas, gave the beer to my BIL (we don’t like beer) and kept the cooler for a lot of years. In fact, our daughter may still be using it. Cool story, huh? ---
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youve-found-on-the-highway/772785/48 "2016-12-02T03:15:04Z")
found on a highway. Heck, I have a better one. In the last couple of years tire stores have started display of the various pieces of hardware they have dug out of tires. They probably skip the nails and screws. I am amazed by some of the things on display. Mostly because some of those chunks of metal (like the small ratchet wrench I saw) seem way too big to actually stick in a tire. Destroy it easily, but stay in the tire… I think I will start another thread asking people to post descriptions of the tire destroying implements they have seen. It is an amazing collection. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youve-found-on-the-highway/772785/49 "2016-12-06T12:59:23Z")
Sunday night was a pair of [horses](http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/real-time/Horse-killed-in-AC-Expressway-crash.html), one of which was struck. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youve-found-on-the-highway/772785.md?page=2)