Objects on the road – how do you behave?

When I ran back to the car earlier after an appointment, I saw an “Lübecker Hütchen” lying on the road in an inner-city construction site area, which construction workers had set up before their break to secure the construction site. Some careless driver had probably captured this in passing and transported it to the road. Since the workers were not at the construction site at the moment, it remained so. What bothered me the most: without exception all drivers travelled around the obstacle either on the sidewalk (!), or drove over (!!) If the part had not been the rubber variant, the nice damage could have done. I then stopped the traffic and put the part back in its place. Was really not difficult. On the highway I had already seen the most great things lying. From torn exhaust through plastic tarpaulins to wooden crates, which a truck had lost. In such cases I had mostly by mobile phone emergency call Help alerted. So it was recommended to me once by a highway police officer (in the beginning I always had a somewhat bad feeling, but no one has scolded with me yet). When reporting from the highway you should of course be able to define the place. So for example the highway number, between which junctions and as far as possible still the km mark. Now the opposite variant: I had already lost something on the road myself. I still had the driver’s license pretty much new and drove with the trailer to the garbage dump to dispose of an old couch set. On the way I flew two cushions on the road from the trailer and stayed on the road. I probably had not secured them properly. Luckily the road behind me was empty and nothing else happened. I had stopped and put the cushions in the car. Did you have similar experiences and if yes: how did you behave? Ciao, Markus