How stupid is this? You can pick them up all day long along the public roads and no one will care.
When I was a teen I found a new subdivision with rocks laying all over the place. I took my dad over there and we picked a trunk load of them from the side of the road for a landscaping project in the back yard. The developer happened by and came screaming down road in his truck and jumped out cussing and yelling at us. I told him I didn’t realize that someone would get that upset over rocks. He looked in trunk and said “Rocks? I thought you were stealing plants. Take all the rocks you want”.