Dumpster diving finds - let's see yours

[paulsharvey]

Yesterday, found a Power Toque, 3/8" breaker bar in the road, broken. This morning, stop at Oreilys to exchange for a brand new one ($18.95 value), and there is a $10 bill laying in the parking spot. Redneck Santa is good.

 

[stuckmotor]

Back in the 60's it used to be a joke around here also.

In a town of less than 2000 people, a woman disappeared and all they found of her was her thumb in the sewage treatment plant. The cops speculated her husband took her body to the city dump and buried her. After that, the local dump had all kinds of officials rifling through everything.

So when a couple got into a heated argument, this remark was made "You want to go to the dump?"

Was the husband convicted?
With her thumb showing up at the sewage treatment plant, it sounds more like he chopped her into tiny pieces and flushed her.

 

[Hay Dude]

Just pulled this off the cub for zero dollars. Laugh, but it’ll be handy for yard tool storage.

In today’s high-inflation economy, anything “free” is good.

 

[bigtiller]

Was the husband convicted?
With her thumb showing up at the sewage treatment plant, it sounds more like he chopped her into tiny pieces and flushed her.

Her disappearance is a unsolved mystery to this day.

 

[Jstpssng]

There's a case north of here where the guy chopped up his GF, burned her in his outdoor boiler and threw the ashes into a major stream... off a bridge on one of our roads.
Everytime I drive over it I think of her.

Maine man convicted of killing missing woman

HOULTON, Maine (AP) — A jury working into the night Friday convicted a northern Maine man in the death of his girlfriend whose body still hasn't been found 15 years after she went missing.

apnews.com

 

[Hay Dude]

Pleasant conversation y’all got going on here….

 

[paulsharvey]

I never personally found a body. Twice I've found individual bones that I kinda wonder about, a lower leg bone once, that surely wasn't deer or bear... but it wasn't worth risking a job getting shut down over, so

 

[paulsharvey]

On the topic, I've gotten to the point I don't even turn around or pull over when I see a Yeti (or clone) cup on the side of the road. I did fine a "carrot" for pulling 1.5" HDPE conduit with a directional drill a few weeks ago, and threw it in the floor board.

 

[MossRoad]

I never personally found a body. Twice I've found individual bones that I kinda wonder about, a lower leg bone once, that surely wasn't deer or bear... but it wasn't worth risking a job getting shut down over, so

As kids, we found a mass grave in the county potter's field. They just dug a trench and laid in a bunch of concrete vaults. Anytime someone would die, they'd put the casket in the next vault and push some dirt over it, leaving the other empty vaults exposed. The problem was, someone dug into the dirt and opened up the last buried vault and left the lid off, exposing the casket.

We went home and told mom. She got ahold of the newspaper. They did an expose on the cemetery practices and that forced the county to rethink their burial process, spruce up the cemetery, put in some memorial markers, and generally take better care of the place. They might be indigent poor people, but they deserve the same respect as the rest of us.

I'm happy to say that over 40 years later, it's still taken care of and they even added a section for veterans who get actual grave markers.

 

[sixdogs]

No bodies here but daughter found this neat Toyota adjustable wrench laying on a dirt road in front of our house in very rural Maine 40 +/- years ago. It's not a dumpster dive but a close second.

It didn't look this nice but I cleaned it up and a lot of years of use and care got it looking pretty nice. It's a forever keeper.