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Crazy things you have seen on the road

JnRockwallJnRockwall Member Posts: 16,350 ✭✭✭
edited February 2012 in General Discussion
Let's hear the stories!!!

I was on LBJ once and this woman (DRIVER) hauls off and sucker punches the guy in the passenger seat. He has none of that and belts her a goodone and she returns. They had one hell of a fight over the course of a mile.

I have seen women driving topless, or changing clothes while driving. [:D]

A guy pulled a pistol on me and a friend on our way back to her place after getting home from Vegas. That was an awkward moment, I look in my rearview and he raises up a revolver.

My uncle was a long haul truck driver, he said he saw a guy giving his tool a really really good rub down will driving a mustang convertible. [xx(]
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  • buckstarbuckstar Member Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I ran over a bird on a busy, multi-lane highway and to my horror, looked in my rearview mirror to see a cloud of feathers and people swerving all over the place.

    A woman flashed me as the car she was riding in sped past... I put on my glasses and floored it. Ended up getting her phone number, window to window, at super-high (ok, maybe around 70mph) speed.
  • 17tobyracing17tobyracing Member Posts: 3,429 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Crazy... People actually willing to affix Pro-Obama bumper stickers to their vehicles (usually a Saab, Volvo, Volkswagen, Subaru, or Prius)[V].
  • woodhogwoodhog Member Posts: 13,115 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think maybe the best thing was going down into Bozeman along the Gallitin River Canyon and this Eagle was flying right alongside with me maybe 50 ft away for quite awhile.
  • oldrideroldrider Member Posts: 4,934 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wednesday I went through Rockwall and about the time I hit Dallas, in heavy, heavy traffic, I saw two motorcycle cops riding side by side at 65 mph. their handlebars looked like they were 18 inches apart.
  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,279 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I drive Hwy 17 here in central CA. There is nothing you can shock me with. From BJ'S to Commuter lane dummies. I have seen it all.
  • lkanneslkannes Member Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I once saw a guy hitch-hiking while carrying a chainsaw and a gas can.
  • reloader44magreloader44mag Member Posts: 18,783 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Seen many armadillos feet up...funny as hell looking...a natural pose...LMAO
  • TxsTxs Member Posts: 17,809 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by oldrider
    Wednesday I went through Rockwall and about the time I hit Dallas, in heavy, heavy traffic, I saw two motorcycle cops riding side by side at 65 mph. their handlebars looked like they were 18 inches apart.
    You must be referring to I-30, which I'm fairly familiar with.

    IIRC the speed limt is only 60 mph west of Rockwall. [:D]
  • westernMDhunterwesternMDhunter Member Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm too busy texting or watching movies while I'm driving to notice anything.
  • oldrideroldrider Member Posts: 4,934 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Txs
    quote:Originally posted by oldrider
    Wednesday I went through Rockwall and about the time I hit Dallas, in heavy, heavy traffic, I saw two motorcycle cops riding side by side at 65 mph. their handlebars looked like they were 18 inches apart.
    You must be referring to I-30, which I'm fairly familiar with.

    IIRC the speed limt is only 60 mph west of Rockwall. [:D]



    Yes it was I-30. Seeems like the speed limit may have been 60, and maybe the motor cops were doing 60. Westbound traffic was traveling about 65. I thought that those guys must have been riding together for years, but maybe they're just that good.
  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Saw a pickup going down the road hauling two saddled horses in the back with no racks or side boards.
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    My brother has an entire photo album of snapshots he's taken from the cab of his semi.
    He has driven for Mobil Oil and Nalco Chem. for the past 30 years.THEIR ARE SOME REALLY COOL SHOTS!!!
  • OLDCOPOLDCOP Member Posts: 629 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Traveling on I-10 from LA to Palm Desert last summer in my pickup doing about 70. Had a heavy tailwind where those big white windmills are. Looked out the left side window and there was a white paper coffee cup flying eye-high and heading East about 85. Decided I didn't want to live anywhere near there.
  • WarbirdsWarbirds Member Posts: 16,934 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Saw a frozen lake today. b43fb632.jpg
  • savage170savage170 Member Posts: 37,569 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    About 3 years ago police Dept. Just North of St Augstine use to park a crusier in the media of 95 with a blow up doll in drivers seat use to work pretty good for awhile to slow them down
  • bigboy12bigboy12 Member Posts: 1,767 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    1. Several years ago I was travelling north on Hwy 18 in SW TN and saw a pickup pulling a horse trailer coming toward me. The door of the trailer flew open and two large white objects came bouncing toward me. About 50 feet away from the objects I saw that the objects were two full grown hogs (at least 300 lbs each). I stopped about ten feet short of hitting one. Both hogs got up and ran off, and the driver of the pickup never stopped.
    2. Almost hit an Emu (a local farm raises them) on my way to work one morning. When I stopped at a nearby gas station to alert a cop, I couldn't think of the bird's name. I told the cop that there was a six foot bird in the midlle of the hwy. He must have thought that I was drunk because he followed me for two miles when I left the station.
    3. I was in Alabama one time on I-20 just east of Birmingham. I came up behind a car that had three objects in the back window: a roll of toilet paper, a box of Tide laundry detergent, and another roll of TP. The message was: Roll, Tide, Roll! Funny!
  • bigdaddyjuniorbigdaddyjunior Member Posts: 11,233
    edited November -1
    Windy day, driving down the street in slow traffic, exceptionally good looking young lady in a sun dress struggling with something in the trunk of her car, parked just ahead and to the right of me. Traffic stopped cold, wind gusted, dress inflated and rose skyward, as if pulled aloft by angels. Likely her Mom never told her that sun dresses on windy days should be avoided, or if neccessary, should be worn only with some form of undergarment. As the seconds ticked, the traffic refused to move and the angels hovered, I began to understand that God is truly an artist, angels are mischievious and they inexplicably love me.
  • westernMDhunterwesternMDhunter Member Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Dave W.
    Saw a frozen lake today. b43fb632.jpg


    Where is that at? It looks exactly like Deep Creek Lake, a couple miles from here.
  • jwb267jwb267 Member Posts: 19,664 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    i was driving through what is called the narrows. one side of the road is a 15' high bank with train tracks, the other side 20' drop to the river.
    i was following several cars, when all of a sudden i saw money fly out the back window of the car in front of me. i hit the brakes, opened the door and grabbed the two bills that came from the car. in doing so i heard tires squeeling several cars back. i never looked back, just sped away. all for two $1. bills
  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    A rather ugly woman giving a rather ugly guy head and a tug job on I-71 near Columbus. Saw a German Shepard in South Dakota get blown out of the back of the pickup his owner was driving and basically get minced by the 18 wheeler that was tailgating him; neither vehicle stopped. When I pulled along side and honked and pointed at his truck bed the owner stared at me, gave me the finger, and sped off.
  • txlawdogtxlawdog Member Posts: 10,039 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express once...
  • lksmith03lksmith03 Member Posts: 1,742 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    the Wife and I were in Lousyana yesterday and saw a guy riding his horse down interstate
  • RocklobsterRocklobster Member Posts: 7,060
    edited November -1
    I was heading west into Atlanta on I-20 one night around 2:00 AM. I was still a ways out - I remember just having passed the Crawfordville exit. Topped a hill, and saw a man & woman standing on the side of the highway with their thumbs out, completely nude.
  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Right outside Camp Pendelton Came Around a Corner to see a car in a tree, He missed a corner.



    Up in Washington State Was on a Secondary road from Eastern to western Oregon. This was not a Main road every body used and it cut hours off the time from Yakima to Fort Lewis. There is one part that Had a road Sign that said Flying Rocks. Sign showed them not falling but shooting to the side.
  • MudderChuckMudderChuck Member Posts: 4,105
    edited November -1
    Was driving down the autobahn in the fast lane doing a hundred, it was overcast, drizzling and dark as heck and saw something ahead in my lane. I swerved right and changed two lanes jiffy quick, about a block past the Ikea on ramp. I recognized it as a mattress laying in the fast lane on my way by, then saw a guy running towards me in the fast lane waving his arms in the air, about fifty feet behind him some woman in a Burka waving her arms in the air and about thirty feet following her, three kids in a row, waving their arms in the air, ranging from around 8, 6 and 4 years old.
    I pulled right into the emergency lane, grabbed my case of flares and starting popping them and throwing them in most any direction as I ran up the shoulder. I was a good quarter mile past them by then, but figured what the heck, the flares really can't hurt anything. I guess that mattress was really important to them. I expected a multi car pileup at any moment and chickened out and headed back to the truck to get out of the danger zone. I never did see anything in the newspaper about it, I guess they all made it out alive.

    I was following a bus and look up to see a nice pair of naked boobs pressed against the rear window. I eventually looked up and directly into the face of one of my daughters high school girlfriends. She covered her face with her T shirt (to late). She is a grown woman now and I still say nice to see you again, every time we cross paths and smile, she is really fair skinned and blushes nicely. [:D]
  • mackcranemackcrane Member Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Goat in the back of a station wagon.
  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    saw a guy reading the newspaper just last wed, while driving at 65mph

    saw a blonde in a black corvette spin out across all lanes on popular street bridge, the big bridge going over the mississippi, downtown stl

    guy driving with his brakes on fire

    flashed boobies, mooned butts by an entire bus, head bobbing up and down on a driver

    was about 300 yards behind an suv on hwy 70 near north stl. guy shoots over all lanes, hit the medium wall, bounced off, spun back across, a baggie pants got out and started running

    saw a girl once walking down the street, dressed appropriately like a hooker on tv, without breaking stride she had green projectile vomit, 2x, kept on walking like nothing happened

    i posted the video of me almost getting creamed on a bridge by a guy doing 90mph into on coming traffic during a police chase, it was filmed by a news helicopter, {posted full vid here}

    helped rescue a guy the rolled his tractor trailer on an off ramp, carrying a load of betty crocker cake mix and brownies all over the place, he was trapped inside, diesel was pouring out, soon as rescue, law and media showed up i left, didnt feel i needed recognition or an inquiry

    drove up on a few corpse before, closest one was a guy that got hit by multiple cars on a major interstate hwy walking down the shoulder, another was ejected from a roll over {wear your seat belts}

    more than once while in front of me driving the hood of a car pop up, bending it over the windshield, saw a guy attempt to open a convertible top at 70mph, what looked to be a brand new car

    been passed by a semi, in a snow and in a rain storm with no more than 20 yards of visibility on a no passing lane more than once

    thats just off the top of my head, 100k miles a year for 9 years, your going to see allot
  • danielgagedanielgage Member Posts: 10,581 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Rocklobster
    I was heading west into Atlanta on I-20 one night around 2:00 AM. I was still a ways out - I remember just having passed the Crawfordville exit. Topped a hill, and saw a man & woman standing on the side of the highway with their thumbs out, completely nude.


    did you give them a ride[?]
  • texdottexdot Member Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Funniest thing I ever saw was in Arkansas. A highway sign that proudly stated that the next 2 miles of road were kept free of litter by the KU KLUX KLAN.
  • stegsteg Member Posts: 871 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Years ago (early 1960's) there was a billboard sign just outside of Perry, Fla. that said "The Klu Klux Klan welcomes you to Perry Florida". I wonder whatever happened to it?
  • edgecamedgecam Member Posts: 3,280
    edited November -1
    A few years ago I was driving down I-89 on new years eve. I see same twinkling lights up ahead in the break down lane. As I got closer I see a christmas tree set up with an extention cord running down into the ditch
  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Tried to find a Photo. But road signs at the Calif Border early 80's an d for sure in the 70's.

    Welcome to Oregon Please don't stay.
  • grdad45grdad45 Member Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Driving East on I30, about 50 miles from Texarkana, a drunk in an old Ford PU enters and proceeds to take up both lanes and the median at 40-45 MPH. I was the first one behind him and traffic was backing up. I dialed 911 and it took only 4-5 minutes until Highway Patrol and county cars arrived. It took at least 10 miles to get him hemmed in. The next day, a nice lady from the Highway Patrol called to thank me for calling it in. I was afraid he was going to cross into incoming traffic and kill someone.
  • cce1302cce1302 Member Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I saw this on December 13-

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    Yeah, a guy on a bike with a T/C muzzleloader on a rack on his handlebars.


    Oh yeah I saw this billboard last fall. Not my pic, but I did see the sign. South Bend pubic schools.

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  • partisanpartisan Member Posts: 6,414
    edited November -1
    Saw a huge herd of camels just north of Dallas.
  • EVILDR235EVILDR235 Member Posts: 4,398 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Me and my wife were on our way back from visiting my daughter in the Seattle area.It was late at night and foggy out.We came over the top of this hill and spotted a Washington State Patrol officer watering the flowers along the side of the road.We only had one headlight working and thought for sure we were going to get a ticket, but didn't.I told my wife she should have taken a picture of the crime.

    EvilDr235
  • MudderChuckMudderChuck Member Posts: 4,105
    edited November -1
    I was driving from Barstow to Needles and was maybe ten miles past Fenner at a round 9 A.M.. I-40 was pretty deserted in that stretch, at that time, there was nobody behind me and the nearest car in front was miles away (you can see a long way in the desert). The car in front suddenly made a right turn, at around 80 MPH, headed into the desert and barrel rolled a bunch of times. My best guess was some sort of mechanical failure.
    I'm thinking this is going to be ugly. Suddenly a Cessna comes low over my truck and proceeds to land on the freeway a couple of miles in front of me. I see two guys jump out and head into the desert going to help. A California Highway Patrol Cessna doing speed checks. I always wondered if those guys got a commendation or an * chewing or both.
  • 11BravoCrunchie11BravoCrunchie Member Posts: 33,423 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by buschmaster
    down in dallas I'd see an overturned car once a year. not like they're bad drivers, it's just that in the middle of 3 million people you see some stuff. that place is an automotive mosh pit. worst one of those, was on the way to work about 11pm there was an overturned car in the middle of the street and 2 cases worth of beer smashed all over the place. nobody around.

    was going to work in the am, stop-n-go traffic, all of a sudden one car comes up trying to cut between lanes, only gets so far to the semi in front of me before he had to stop, then he jumped out and started running, ducked under the semi and was going out the other side when 3 cops tackled him. immediately started punching the crap out of him although he didn't resist. cuffed him and took him away. must have been fleeing.

    going thru oklahoma I saw a semi way off the side of the road on fire. fire trucks just getting on the scene and putting it out. right, well 5 days later I was returning and there it was, the trailer was a burned out heap of molten aluminum, and still smoldering so bad it looked like it was going to catch on fire again! must have been one hell of a fire.

    probably the most bizarre, a long time ago I was walking thru a golf course to get somewhere. in the middle of the night. there was some kind of canal thing dug into the ground with tie walls on either side so people can walk under it while other people walk over it. plenty big for golf carts. there was smoke coming up from it. you guessed it. well I sure as hell wouldn't have guessed it. as I got closer I saw there was a camaro flipped upside down in it, with smoke coming off it. in the middle of a frikkin' golf course. I don't know what that dude was thinking but he wasn't around to ask him. I bet he never saw one of those canal things in a golf course before.

    the motorcycle accidents on the cruisin strip were more interesting. at one spot there was almost a 90-degree turn (this is a street in town) dude was flying thru the turn, too fast to make the turn, went off right into the front yard of a church, his front tire didn't want to go up the steps, so he was horizontal and his bike was vertical 10 feet later when they both plowed into the church doors.

    or the time these 3 dudes were cruising down the strip on their bikes in staggered formation, minding their own business, and here comes this nerd that I saw before that I know doesn't know how to ride a motorcycle. he thought he would hot dog it and zoom right through the middle of them. wrong. he nailed them like bowling pins and I watched all 8 items (4 dudes and 4 bikes) sliding down the street right past me sparks and all. other crowd in the other parking lot handled it, they were taken away in an ambulance. it was funny because 2 weeks later the 3 dudes came walking around in crutches, arm and leg casts etc. asking if anybody seen that guy lately. I laugh every time I remember that.

    or the time some dude was walking down that same stretch of street, and these other dudes who hated him drove by in a van real close so the passenger could lean out the window just holding his fist out so it punches him in the back of the head when they drive by. knocked the dude over and from what I heard broke the passenger's hand too. fun times, fun times. [:D]



    In bold, sounds like the guy realized too late that he was going too fast to make the turn, and then target fixated on the church doors. if he would've continued looking through the corner to his exit point, he would have merely low-sided.
  • JnRockwallJnRockwall Member Posts: 16,350 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Reading a these has jared a few more from memory.

    Once I say a p/u with a matress on the bedrails with a 6-8 yr old black child on top of it. Of course this seems like no big deal, exceot it was on LBJ (635) the major loop around dallas and he was doing 60. To this day, I have no idea what kept that kid from dying.

    I have been flashed while working on open roads, nothing to report there, always fat ugly girls who have nothing better to do.


    I have seen not 1 but 2 ghetto cars with at least 22" rims catch air and spin into barrier walls destroying the cars.

    I passed a chevy x cab pu on the side of the road once and it was very obvious she was on top.

    one night after a concert or hockey game stopped at dennys for some late eats, walking up to the door, girl in car pops up suddenly and wipes her mouth. Hell if she had stayed put never thought a thing about it.
  • JnRockwallJnRockwall Member Posts: 16,350 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
    Tried to find a Photo. But road signs at the Calif Border early 80's an d for sure in the 70's.

    Welcome to Oregon Please don't stay.


    In the old days, Greenville, Tx sign (billboard) read Home to the blackest dirt and the whitest people! I have to admit it was before my time, I didn't see it, but the old timers use to talk about it.

    Frisco, Tx On St Hwy 289 is a water tank that use to read Frisco *. Surprised me, it wasn't painted over until 2005. Of course the local HS football team are the *'s.
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