How many of you found garbage buried around your place from past owners?

[JasperFrank]

It was just common in the old days to dump rubbish in the woods.
It took me 20 years to pick out all the stuff that had been tossed out along the easement road that defines my property. I did little sections at a time. Found all manner of vintage glass. And in a way, it became interesting. One person, apparently liked a particular cologne. Which from the bottles, I could trace back to the late 40's and early '50's.
The creepy thing was finding all the porcelain doll heads. Some within tossing distance from the road, and some too far away to have been tossed.
Somewhere here, there is a story.

 

[Jstpssng]

There was a private road not far from the dump in a town not far from here. Both sides of it for 1/4 mile were lined with trash from people who apparently didn't know the dump hours, or who didn't care.
I went past one day and it was all cleaned up, with a handwritten sign saying "No more of this ****!" or something to that effect. I was talking later to a forester who helped look after the land and she said that one thing they found was old records from a business which had closed.
They paid a fine for that one.

 

[Oaktree]

I was talking later to a forester who helped look after the land and she said that one thing they found was old records from a business which had closed.
They paid a fine for that one.

Rule #1 for littering, don't leave anything that can identify you.

 

[tomplum]

Rule #1 for littering, don't leave anything that can identify you.

That's actually rule # 2. Rule # 1 is don't. Amazing what lots of you have dealt with in this thread. Makes me wish that I was the only one, but then again we are who we are.

 

[gstrom99]

I had stayed overnight at my hunting camper back in Indiana 10+ years ago. I heard a car back up to the drive and I saw a guy get out and start unloading garbage from his trunk. My dog started barking like crazy (on a leash thankfully, for him) and I yelled something like "What the F are you doing?" He yelled back "Sorry!", scrambled all the crap back into his car and drove off.

People can be really stupid.

 

[bigtiller]

When I got back from my walk around town, I called the local cop on his cell phone to report a dead white tail deer that was half butchered and laying on top of a blue tarp in the road ditch. It was about 200 yards north of the city limits.

He thanked me for the info and that he had an idea who put it there and it should be gone before dark. I noticed it was gone the next day on my walk.

 

[Shenandoah MF1760]

This entire thread had me humming the tune from Alice's Restaurant while reading it.

All of it very relatable.

I've found truck tires, a 4 cylinder Suzuki engine block, folding chairs set up in odd places, bowling ball, golf clubs & balls along with baseballs and bats, water skis and the thing I hate most of all - broken glass, especially broken tempered glass from car windows. I think glass is lighter than dirt which is why it keeps coming to the surface. The previous owners must have loved to break glass, it's everywhere within 200' of where their house was.

Our dump used to take anything for free, they'd just point you to the appropriate dumping site based on what you had. Last hurricane destroyed my wood fence and I filled the pickup up half full and headed there only to be told it was now $75 a truck, regardless of load. I took it to my property in an unincorporated part of the county and burned it.

I had to register an old '53 7.5Hp Merc outboard that I got from by brother's estate in California. Apparently California doesn't register them but Texas does (that seems backwards!)

And we used to dump the old oil on to the drive to keep the dust down too.

 

[Eagle1]

I found all the pieces to a hang glider in the woods here. Even put it back together before sanity took hold and I used most pieces for a chicken run frame

 

[Jstpssng]

Rule #1 for littering, don't leave anything that can identify you.

A few years ago one of our foresters got a call from a harvesting contractor, to tell him that somebody had dumped a couch on the road they were cutting from. He called the Maine Forest Service who sent Ranger went to check it out... he found an envelope which had fallen between the cushions. The guy drove 30 miles to dump it in the woods, only to have it come back the next day.
Along with a summonse for littering.

 

[etpm]

I hate glass coming out of the dirt too. But I have to admit to burying a bunch of glass. I put the broken window panes in the garbage can and it was refused. I called the garbage company and they told me broken glass needed to be taken to their main dump. 35 miles from my house. So the glass sat for a couple years until I needed to dig a really deep hole. I needed to get rid of some thatch ant nests because the ants were damaging trees and my house. So I dug an 8 foot deep hole with my Case580 CK backhoe. Then I dug up the thatch ant nests and put them in the deep hole. Then I flooded the hole about 2 feet deep. Then I remembered the glass. Threw it into the hole and filled it. That was about 15 years ago. Neither the ants or glass have returned. But maybe some archaeologist will find that glass with the ant nests underneath way in the future. And cuss the glass.
Eric