DS found suitcases on slip road.

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DS 20 was on an A road slip road. There were two suitcases dumped on the carriageway. Other cars were slamming on the anchors or swerving at the last minute. It was safe for him to stop so he retrieved them and brought them home.

They're both PU leather and look to be 70s vintage. The most important thing though is he opened one and saw a bundle of fur in there, 'Oh God, it's a dead animal.'

My reaction was, 'We'll have to report it if that's the case.'

I want to give him credit because he immediately took it outside to investigate. He was calm and collected when he came back with a fox fur stole, presumably the same vintage as the luggage.

Now I want to have a go at him for clearing the carriageway. His face and his actions when he saw the fur, though, made me so proud.

If, indeed, there would have been £kkk or dumped pets in there we'd be waiting here for CID.

It was probably fly tipping. There's always a story about fly tipped baby animals around Christmas. Please don't let it happen anywhere near where you live.

Maybe it was an amateur theatre co trying to get too many props into a trailer. If so I've got your fur stole and the plastic suitcases in the garden.

Good question. I’m not sure about the jackets. I can’t imagine there’s much of a market for ostrich-shaped high visibility outdoor wear. But maybe they announce themselves with loud squawking. I haven’t seen them myself, just read about them in the local paper.

Anyway, if I’d found that money I’d have bought a Dracula lolly. And possibly a gerbil if I had enough left over.

Double and triple @ kissingintherain.

All your posts! :)

I've so many stories to tell. Mainly about drivers who refuse, or can't, reverse in country lanes.

Please come back and tell us the stories one day, OP

You can get ostrich high viz jackets - what do you think the ostriches that work for the AA and on oil rigs wear? They sell them in Decathlon, I think?

youre not even meant to get out to help a person let alone some luggage

Kissing a Dracula lolly AND a gerbil would have blown the budget.

Dog I have no proof but my mum broke the sad news after triple maths one wet Wednesday afternoon. I hope he didn't go to the lay by rather than the big desert.

Is this a sock puppetry hole?

Oh yes, please OP.

Include every detail: makes of car, colours, bumper stickers, roof racks or boxes (or none!), road markings - the lot.

Wha?

Kissing a Dracula lolly AND a gerbil would have blown the budget.

Yeah, I think was getting a bit hopeful there. Maybe a Cider Barrel lolly and a mouse?

Nothing else in the suitcases? Disappointing!

I can't believe some people are so outraged that OP's son stopped and cleared the road, making it safer for other road users. OP said her DS said he felt it safe to do so. I'd've done the same, if I felt it safe, and I genuinely can't believe so many people would have just driven on and left debris in the road.
I've occasionally stopped and cleared tree branches and, once, a bag of cement. Ds2 and I once rescued a baby Moorhen that was flapping around in the road (vet CBA treating it, said it would die anyway, but said he'd euthanise it. Probably with a spade 😠). Not had anything as glamorous as a theatrical fox fur, but I did once hit a fox in the dark, then have a protracted game of trying to either rescue it or finish it off. By the time I'd got hold of a crate to put it in, the bastard had disappeared.

what do you think the ostriches that work for the AA and on oil rigs wear?

Really? The AA? Flightless African birds are employed fixing broken-down cars now? That can’t be safe.

Does the Ministry of Transport know about this? It’s pretty brazen of the AA if the ostrich high viz jackets are on general sale. What do they do all day these civil servants?

I'd have gone and got the suitcases too, if I could have done so safely, because I am hugely nosy. I suggest you/DS contact the local police to say you have retrieved these items in case they are reported lost. I think it's six weeks you have to wait before you can eBay them.

Well I can believe it, an emu gave me a jump start yesterday.

Weird thing to dump.

Can I have the stole?! :o

Isn't it possible they flew off somebody's roof rack? They will probably be grateful to get them back.

Far more likely than that someone dumped them on an A road. We had our top box burst open once - on the M25 .....

DS 20 was on an A road slip road. There were two suitcases dumped on the carriageway

So the cases were on the main motorway (or dual carriageway?) and not the slip road? It's kind of crazy to be fetching stuff from a road where it's not unusual for maniacs to driver at up to 100mph. Unless I could see for miles and miles in a straight line, I don't think that would be a risk worth taking. Better off staying safe and calling the police.

an emu gave me a jump start yesterday.

I find that unlikely. They’re notoriously bad with electrics, emus.

Emu's have always been used in the car recovery and breakdown service, ostriches only from about 1990. It was because of all the people buying ostriches and land to 'cheat' planning - you could build a dwelling if you had exotic animals to look after. Then, once the houses were up and Kevin McCloud had signed it off, the ostriches were released. They found a natural bent in car maintenance and recovery.

Decathlon cornered the market in big bird high viz's.

If I'd have found say £2, I would have bought a gerbil, a Funny Feet and a bag of Sausage and Tomato crisps. And ... gone to the fair for a ride of the waltzer and squandered the rest on the penny falls.

I also want to know about the ins and outs of reversing on country roads. I could win reversing competitions in the day time but how do you reverse in the dark? I wish cars had rear headlights for such a thing.

Cider Barrel lolly oh my giddy aunt I had forgotten their very existence but now I can taste one.

Fly tipped baby animals is rife around here. That's when I know it's Christmas.