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I don't have any long distance stories, but back when I was a kid I carried many a TV home on foot. Almost all were B&W sets, color sets were still worth too much to dump.
If it was the weekend that people put junk out on the street I'd go out looking with an old pram to wheel stuff home with. Sometimes I'd just strip stuff on the street rather than take the whole thing home. I brought a lot of stuff home that way. My parents were less than thrilled, but they eventually relented when they realised I got in less trouble when I was allowed to play with my junk at home.
Sometimes I'd find sets when I wasn't actually out looking. Usually I'd lug them home somehow rather than go back later with the pram. Every so often I'd find a set on the way to school. If I was closer to school than home I'd drag it into class with me and put it under my desk. They teachers didn't like it, but they allowed it because if they told me to leave it outside I'd take it all the way home.
Then there was the day I found a 25" Rank Arena color console on the way to school. There was no way I could move this thing on my own. Back then any color set was a big deal, so there was no way I wasn't taking it. It was still there after school, so I managed to convince a girl who had a thing for me to help me carry it all the way home. I should have known then that any girl who'd help me drag a TV home then spend rest of the afternoon playing Atari 2600 on one of my working B&W sets was a keeper. I never did get that Rank Arena working.
Old habbits die hard. Even now there are times that I find something when I am out walking and carry it home rather than go back for the car. Not that long ago I had walked down to the shops to get some food and found a complete Hitachi Peach computer system (an unusual 6809 based system from the early 80s, I also collect old computers). It was only the second one that I had ever seen in the flesh. I packed it all into a couple of suitcases that had also been dumped and carried it home.
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