What is the most interesting thing you have seen laying in the road?

[Jumbo Jet]

A roll of quarters being run over by cars. My wife heard the jingling as the tires hit them. She dashed between the traffic and scooped them up.



Was riding my motorcycle one afternoon and saw a male doing a female on the hood of a car in a peach orchard. When I quit looking at them and returned to the road, I was on the wrong side of the road entering a curve. I didn't know if I was coming or going. Lucky for me I had brakes.

 

[Rebel_Horseman]

That kinda gives a new meaning to the phrase "public display of affection. " Oo. Not saying there's anything wrong with it though. :-laf



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[TowPro]

My buddy said one day him and his wife were out on there road bikes, and stopped along the rode so they both could use the outdoors bathroom. Then he started chasing her around the woods with his wood hanging out, one thing leads to the next and you can guess where it went from there. When there done they look up and here is a guy in a tree stand deer hunting, watching the whole thing



My buddy has a sense of humer so he said "hope you injoyed the show", they got back on there bikes and down the highway they went.

 

[radixr]

On my way back from Florida on I-95, a pickup passed me doing about 80MPH. The bed was loaded full and the tailgate was down. A portable cement mixer was resting on the tailgate partly hanging over the end. About 1 minute later I see a cloud of dust up ahead in the fast lane. Sure enough, the mixer had fallen off and was now junk. Luckily, no one was trailing this moron closely.

 

[tgbol]

One yeqr towing back from Utah a p/u passed me. the girl was bobbing for apples in the guy's lap. I reach up and grabbed the CB mike to give my partner a heads up. When they passed him they both flipped him off. Then I had to explain what was happening to him.

 

[Rebel_Horseman]

Originally posted by tgbol

One yeqr towing back from Utah a p/u passed me. the girl was bobbing for apples in the guy's lap.

Been there, done that. Problem is, my windows are tinted dark so no one knows but me and the girl.



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[JWChessell]

Was driving in rural California, near Salinas one afternoon a few years ago -- I was about 50 yards behind an old VW van -- we were both going about 35 mph, straight down the road, nothing unusual. All of a sudden the van's right rear tire and wheel came off the brake drum and went rolling away into a field. I don't know if the van driver stood on his brakes or what, but the next thing that happened was the VW van rear end went about TEN FEET into the air -- up to about a 60-degree angle. I thought the van was turning over for sure, if not end-over-end, then certainly it was going to go sideways and roll over, but the rear end slammed back onto the ground and the van skidded to a stop on the shoulder. I didn't know you could get the back end of a vehicle that high off the ground.

 

[JHerrlich]

Last month I saw the front passenger wheel (not tire) explode on a lowrider on the I-8 in San Diego. Lot's of sparks and everybody managed to aviod him.



A cooler fell out of a truck in front of me and I had no choice but to run it over. It got stuck between the road an my rear axle. Ground it up pretty good 'till it got spit out and knocked an exhaust hanger loose.



My friend's brother was towing a pickup from Alaska to California and when he got most of the way there, he didn't have a pickup anymore. Never knew where he lost it. Must've thought that his beater tow vehicle did pretty good up the passes.

 

[barbwire]

I once saw a horses ass flying through the air right in front of my crumpled up hood. This happened just after going through a cloud of steam just above the pavement, one cold nite at about 11:00 Thanksgiving eve. It was around -15* and calm.

 

[KBennett]

Last Thanksgiving we were headed down I-25 south of Pueblo when I noticed a "greyhound" style bus on the shoulder and the driver's rear axle and tires were missing. About 200 yards past the bus the tires and axle were stopped in the median. I was glad that it had not rolled into oncoming traffic.



I did see a guy laying in the road dead once. He was about 50 yards from his Honda CRX that he had been thrown from after taking a minivan head on. I was 30 seconds behind the guy.

 

[Mike Ellis]

1988 we were driving a van full of gear from San Antonio to Ohio. Were driving late at night through the hills in Tennessee, not much traffic at all, when we see a glow up ahead. As we get closer, we see an old car completely wrapped in flames (even the tires) slowly rolling down the road. No people in the car, no people on the side of the road, just car in flames coasting along like something in a movie. Cops showed up seconds after us and got in behind the car with lights and siren blasting, don't know if they thought the car would pull itself over or what.

 

[Mike Ellis]

My Dad had a good one a few years ago, was coming home from work one night about 11:30 and as he crested a hill a boat hit him head-on and he went off the road into the trees until stopped by a collision. Airbags did not deploy, truck was total loss, and the boat was in small chunks of fiberglass. It had come off somebody's trailer at speed and went airborne.



He was pretty excitable about the whole thing, didn't help when I asked him if anybody was fishing out of it at the time...



Actually was pretty lucky not to have been killed.

 

[Tony T.]

Found a louvered 5th wheel tailgate not to long ago half in road and half way laying on the shoulder, I don't think it would fit my truck, but still in good shape. Also my Dad use to be into metal detecting pretty heavy an we where cruising down the road when all of a sudden he comes to a fast halt, and starts backing up, he stops and looks over at me and said open up your door and pick up that nickel on the shoulder, I open the door and looked down and there it was. :--) I guess it was just the thrill of finding something for him, but how in the heck did you spot that nickel.

 

[davemac]

I was driving back to the States from my home in Mexico very early one morning. It was still dark and very foggy. An 18 wheel stake bed truck full of loose avacados had missed a turn and flipped on it`s side. There were several tons of avacados all over the shoulder, median and roadway itself. When you run over an avacado with a CTD the pit will quite often shoot out from beneath your tire at near-bullet speeds. Kinda like squeezing a watermellon seed between your thumb and forefinger. Some of those pits were REALLY moving when they disappeared into the fog. I have some tips for anyone thinking of driving in guacamole:



1. It`s really slippery.

2. It really smells bad when it hits a hot exhaust pipe.

3. Cleaning the truck afterwards is NO fun.

4. It`s REALLY slippery!

 

[Crazy Horse]

I recently saw an orange 10" vibrator laying in the middle of the road. I couldn't believe it, because it was in a fairly busy residential area. I really wondered how and why it ended up there??? This is the honest to God truth.

 

[Bob Wagner]

anyone spotted good ones lately

 

[RHARVEY]

How about a dead guy laying in the middle of the road... I got there before the police did... He ended up there because of a head on and no seat belts. Oh yeah it was 6 am and he was drunk... . or at least he was when he was alive...



Rick

 

[Highfinance97]

A Dildo!! No im not kidding





Michael

 

[JApol]

I had about 6 months of experience behind the wheel when this happened.

The freeway was slicker than an ice skating rink, I come around a bend in the road to find an 18-wheeler facing me but moving in my direction.

 

[AMink]

It wasn't on a road, but in a parking lot. I was running the old Ford tractor at work (an urban park) dumping wood chips in the islands of the parking lot. I go past this car and there was a BIG!! BLACK!! double headed you-know-what under the back of the car! I wasn't going to just pick it up, so I dropped the chips and went to get a bag. When I got back, this senior couple was at the car, just back from a walk. He opened the door and let her in, then went around the back of his car. He saw that thing on the ground, bent down, looked under the car like he thought it was a part of the car, went around the driver's side, looked again, got in and drove away! He didn't have a clue! I almost peed my pants laughing. :-laf



Also have picked up quite a few tools along side the road, a barn owl, a box of foam pipe insulation, 27 rounds of . 40 S&W, and lots of other odds and ends.