There is this apple tree I discovered in an older section of town where I manage some apartments. I had gone to show the apartment the other day and driving down the street afterward I saw the tree, loaded with apples, and the gutters on both sides of the street loaded up with them too. Large green, "cookin' apples", not the kind you can just pick and eat, too tart.
I thought of how that tree was probably planted for a practical purpose, providing supplemental food for the family who lived there. Now, it was mature and having a bumper crop, the family long gone and the apples wasting in the street, being run over, attracting yellow jackets.
Today I rode by and saw two people with boxes, loading them up. The idea of road kill did cross my mind, but I was glad they were making use of them. Wondered why I didn't get some myself.