Many years ago I was driving into New Orleans with my brother's '49 Chevy pickup and a big flatbed truck carrying what I thought was a load of refrigerators whizzed by me at 70+ mph. About a 1/4 mile ahead of me one of the boxes fell off the back of the flatbed. I had to pump up the brakes on the old '49 to get it to stop and pretty much had to steer around the box to avoid running into it. I went to drag the box off the highway and to my surprise the box contained 8 brand new mattresses. These were not normal sized twin mattresses but were smaller width--the size normally installed on large commercial boats like tugs--maybe about 30 inches wide. I waited on the side of the road for about thirty minutes and no one stopped by and the flatbed never came back. I had no way to get in touch with anyone as this was long before the days of cell phones and the highway was pretty desolate. Anyway, to make a long story short, as a shipbuilder, I knew a family back in Mississippi that was building two shrimp boats so I carried the mattresses to them on my return trip. Turns out they were just laying out the racks on the boats and they ended up building the bunk frames to fit these mattresses.
I didn't accept any money but as the shrimpers promised--shortly after the boats had started their first shrimp season, a pickup truck showed up at my place on the river and unloaded about 70 pounds of shrimp. So I guess the moral of the story is that we should exercise reasonable effort toward returning "found on the road items" but there's only so much you can do.
Sorry for the long story but I felt like sharing it.
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