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

[EKlem]

I work on a schooner in Maine in the summer and at the end of each season, we downrig all of the boats. Some of their boats leave the gaffs and booms onboard and others take them to someplace nearby. To move the spars, they tie one end in the bed of a pickup truck and attach a special dolly to the other end. One of the boats was moving a 60' long main boom that weighed about 2000lbs and they had done a real good job of tying it into the bed. As they went down the hill in town, the old bolts holding the bed onto the truck snapped and the boom, bed and dolly passed the truck in the oncoming lane. Talk about a mess trying to get the boom back on another truck without a crane there.

 

[Highfinance97]

:-laf I found "these" on the side of the road yesterday in the snow.



(not these ones but the same thing, color and all:-laf )



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Michael

 

[fest3er]

I once found a great high-end Trek bike laying in the road, next to a pile of clothes and a naked girl. She told me to take what I liked. Engineer that I am, I took the bike; the clothes clearly wouldn't've fit.

 

[crobertson1]

:-laf I found "these" on the side of the road yesterday in the snow.



(not these ones but the same thing, color and all:-laf )



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Michael

I'm amazed that guys put those things on their trucks. That's about the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Do they think that makes 'em look cool or tough or what? It makes 'em look gay if you ask me. No offense of course.

 

[RandyHamilton]

I'm amazed that guys put those things on their trucks. That's about the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Do they think that makes 'em look cool or tough or what? It makes 'em look gay if you ask me. No offense of course.

I always figured that those guys hung em there to remind themselves of what they had before they got married!!!

 

[hammersley]

This was it BUT not this picture......

I was coming home one when I came across a worse scene than this ..... Thousands of bottles/cans and cases of beer from an overturned truck... . the driver was just allowing folks to put them in their cars... ... and here I was in a Company Car - a nonundercover US Govt Vehicle What the luck.....

 

[donnier]

Every time I go on a road trip, it amazes me how many car parts you see on the side of the road.

What Im waiting to see is the vehicle that they belong to parked on the side of the road and the driver scratching their head wondering whats wrong.

 

[hintonJ]

Well, this wasn't laying in the road, but it may soon be. Was driving to the store today to get some cold refreshment after work, and had to slow down to pass a moped. The strange part was it was pulling a trailer. I can honestly say I have never seen that before. :-laf

 

[bighammer]

About 3 weeks ago I found a nice tote bag in the snow on the side of the road. Nicely made laptop, type bag full of beer coupons, stickers, pricing tags, etc. Nice embroidered Molson logo on it. Must've worked for a distributor. Funny thing is there was nothing with a name, nothing important like a logbook, datebook, or something you would want back. After sorting thru it, (and throwing away the trash) it seemed like it was all easily replaceable stuff, so I kept it. It will make a nice laptop bag when I travel.

 

[skobylenski]

So Tuesday this week I was at work, using the skidsteer to push back snowbanks. I work for a small college prep. high school in NH, so there are more than a few kids who's parents are rather loaded. Anyway, I had just scooped a pile and was picking it up when I noticed something non-natural mixed in with the snow. I got out, dug out what I'd seen, and lo-and-behold, I'd scooped up an Apple iBook (the old toilet-seat style, any Mac users will know what I mean). Later that day I mentioned my find to the proper people above me, letting them know I was going to hold on to it to dry it out properly, but to let me know if anyone came looking for it. I even booted it up last night to try and find a name or something, but no dice - there weren't even any saved papers on it. So it's now been 2 days, and nobody has reported it lost... ... gotta love kids, lol. It's amazing the stuff that kids lose and never report missing.

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[To those of you who are gonna comment on how I said "so there are more than a few kids who's parents are rather loaded" let me mention that I went to this school for my HS education, as a day student, and my family is nowhere near loaded, and now I've returned, and I'm making a pretty good living for myself, enjoying my job, and enjoying life post-high school and college, so I can say things like that, since I have first hand experience on the subject. ]
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[OKish]

I once found a great high-end Trek bike laying in the road, next to a pile of clothes and a naked girl. She told me to take what I liked. Engineer that I am, I took the bike; the clothes clearly wouldn't've fit.

you took her too..... right?

 

[mazdarotary]

A few years back while I went to get the mail at the end of my driveway I was walking back to the house,and heard an awful sounding bang,and then a sound of plastic skidding on the asphalt. It turned out to be a port-a-john that a coulpe of guys were transporting in the back of their pickup. Needless to say it was tied down,and thankfully it was empty!!!!It scared the crap out of me. HEHEHEHE!!



Also a bunch of years ago I saw a woman driving down the interstate talking on her cell phone with the gas pump handle,and hose dragging behind. I wish I had a camera for that one. I bet you can't geuss what color her hair was?





Chris