Comments on: #519 - Route

By: Marmaduke

Marmaduke — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:19:40 +0000

Okay, three things:
- I wasn’t driving but walking along a sidewalk, and some guy lost his hubcap. This is a tiny sideroad, and there was almost an eight car pile up. Which is sad considering that the hubcap almost immediately fell on its side, making it very easy to just drive over.

- You know when people can’t quite fit things in their cars so they leave the trunk open and tie it down? I once saw someone doing that with a lazboy. They accidentally went over a bump of some sort and the chair fell out, while still tied down. The thing was on magnetic wheels, and it pretty muched dragged behind them until the next turn off. I really wanted to sit in that chair.

- 70 km/h car meets moose. Moose got away after the crash, car did not.

By: Torg

Torg — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:01:27 +0000

I once saw a bathtub on the side of a highway. No sideroads or anything nearby that I could see, just a random bathtub.

By: caffiend

caffiend — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:52:19 +0000

nastiest thing i’ve avoided on a freeway was a drop in bedliner from the back of someone’s pickup. I managed to get around it but the car behind me didn’t.

By: sic

sic — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:36:27 +0000

The most annoying load in front of you is a tractor with a trailer full of cow dung. I once had to drive beyond such a trailer and it lost its load piece by piece every few seconds. And it stank. Eeeew!

By: Youma

Youma — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:20:32 +0000

I don’t drive but I removed fallen things from the road a couple of times while walking to work. A chair, a bucket, a shovel, a couple of tools, all at the same street corner. People drive too fast at that corner.

My mom had an accident when a truck dropped some metal bars and she rolled on them. Her trailer was too heavy so she couldn’t regain control of her car after losing it. The trailer was a total loss but by miracle no one was injured and the car was almost undamaged.

By: PsychoDuck

PsychoDuck — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:48:49 +0000

Although it didn’t actually fall off of another vehicle, the following predicament will still freak you out.

My dad was driving his BEAUTIFUL old-style Cadillac, when smoke starts to come out from under the hood. He pulls over, opens the hood, and is greeted with FIRE. He pulls all his belongings out, then sits there on the shoulder, helpless to do anything. Luckily, an off-duty fireman drove by and used his fire extinguisher. Any later, and the gas tank could’ve exploded. Yipes.

Still, despite the fireman’s efforts, the car was unable to be saved. And so ended the legacy of one of the finest cars I’ve ever rode in.

The Duck Has Spoken.

By: AdmiralChaos

AdmiralChaos — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:10:01 +0000

crowbars, sheetrock, transmission gears…you people scare me half to death what i’ve missed while i’ve been driving ><

By: steve-o

steve-o — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:50:08 +0000

One of my dad’s friends was driving one day when a deer ran in front of his car. It didn’t get away in time. That buick had a front that looked like an oversized metal accordion

By: Lone Wolf

Lone Wolf — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:39:52 +0000

My mom and grandmother have told me about being stuck behind a truck hauling sheet rock slabs once. One slab fell off and “walked” down the freeway, falling on one corner, then the next. They wound up having to drive through it, but no significant damage or anything.

By: Rayza_Black

Rayza_Black — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:25:13 +0000

That is a roomy truck Biff is driving there.