Have you ever stopped along the highway and picked up a stray 5 gallon bucket?

[Egg_Head]

Five gallon plastic buckets have been around for years but what has caused the up tick over the past 5-7 years of buckets blowing out of pickup trucks onto the highways? I see these all the time now on the interstate but would not risk my life stopping for something that costs $2. I did pick one up once on a benign road. In it's former life it was used as a tar pitch bucket for a roofer ...

 

[Nick1994]

This post is oddly specific

 

[bdcardinal]

I'm not that big of a redneck. I would only do it if it was in traffic wreaking havoc.

 

[Delta]

Whatever you do, do not pick up a bucket on the side of the road that has a lid on it. If you know, you know...

 

[supton]

No. These days it worth the $5 or whatever to get new and avoid @Delta ‘s concerns.

 

[riff1006]

No, but I picked up a Texas flag a couple months ago. Got plenty of buckets.

 

[Pepperjunkie]

Picked up a 5 gallon gas can few months ago off the side of the road.

 

[DougR]

I picked up a like new 5 gallon plastic fuel "can" while driving on a city street where I could pull off into a nearby side lot. Would I stop to pick up a bucket? No, no, no.

 

[PWMDMD]

No

 

[wavinwayne]

No, but there was a nice looking wagon/utility cart that I saw on the far inside lane of a concrete barricade divided interstate one day, and I wanted that sucker in a bad way. I wanted even more not to get hit by other vehicles on a busy interstate so there it sat until I assume someone else crazier than me eventually stopped and got it.

 

[SC Maintenance]

I have noticed there is just more junk on the road these days than ever before. I think that street cleaning efforts have ended. Buckets, trash , dirt, stones.

 

[dishdude]

The only thing I'm stopping for that's in the middle of the road would be a live animal.

 

[supton]

Stopping on a highway with upwards of 80mph traffic is a bit dangerous. It's getting dangerous to stop on a 30mph side road... I'd think twice about stopping for something of little value.

 

[SC Maintenance]

I am constantly stopping to move turtles off the road. There are lots of turtles here but I can't stand to see them run over. People have tried to run me over a couple times, usually just being jerks.

 

[levi]

Uh, no. I'll just leave it for some other person's lucky find.

 

[Pablo]

$4.99 at HF
$4ish elsewhere

Heck heck yeah

And what the actual heck is with the blue buckets cracking on the bottom?

 

[walterjay]

No. Never .

 

[joekingcorvette]

Nobody is admitting to picking one out of a construction trash dumpster with the lid on it.

 

[c502cid]

If I can pull over safely and not cause anyone else to hit their brakes, heck yes. I pulled over for a nice piece of 4x4 post the other day.

 

[shortyb]

I pulled over for this young lady wearing leather pants and high heeled shoes walking along a desert road with a plastic duck.........