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whats the weirdest thing you have seen while driving?

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Originally posted by: BIGk
A big black woman walking down the middle of the road.
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BigK!!!


Representin'.

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So I don't nef too much, I haven't seen much crazy stuff in traffic, except the typical "roadhead" or other sexual act. I have a friend who's old girlfriend used to climb on his lap while he drove, what idiots.
 
Wow, I frequently drive, using my knee, while eating lunch or dinner.
When I commuted to college and had an 8am class that required a 2 page essay for homework every day, I wrote the essay on my way to class, driving with my knee for 30 minutes. (Very little traffic in my area)

Most surreal accident was on I95 just North of Richmond. Cars were flashing their lights in the oncoming lane to warn us of something happening; freezing rain was predicted and I was glued to AM radio, listening to reports. I immediately threw on my flashers and started slowing down. By the time I was down to 30 mph, I was sliding. Cars were bouncing off the guardrails everywhere... everything looked like it was in slow motion as cars bounced from guardrail to guardrail until they eventually went into the median or off the side of the road in a break between guardrails. People in SUV's were blowing by me (I was in 4 wheel drive and managed to slow to about 5 mph) only to begin spinning, as if in slow motion, and losing car parts as they smashed into the guard rails. There had to be 100 cars that wrecked in a 2 mile stretch, if not more (that's when I hit the offramp, and went straight to the first motel.)
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Wow, I frequently drive, using my knee, while eating lunch or dinner.
When I commuted to college and had an 8am class that required a 2 page essay for homework every day, I wrote the essay on my way to class, driving with my knee for 30 minutes. (Very little traffic in my area)

Most surreal accident was on I95 just North of Richmond. Cars were flashing their lights in the oncoming lane to warn us of something happening; freezing rain was predicted and I was glued to AM radio, listening to reports. I immediately threw on my flashers and started slowing down. By the time I was down to 30 mph, I was sliding. Cars were bouncing off the guardrails everywhere... everything looked like it was in slow motion as cars bounced from guardrail to guardrail until they eventually went into the median or off the side of the road in a break between guardrails. People in SUV's were blowing by me (I was in 4 wheel drive and managed to slow to about 5 mph) only to begin spinning, as if in slow motion, and losing car parts as they smashed into the guard rails. There had to be 100 cars that wrecked in a 2 mile stretch, if not more (that's when I hit the offramp, and went straight to the first motel.)
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Lol, southerners and winter always amuse me.
 
I've seen...

A brand new Porsche 911 Turbo...towing a trailer with a wave runner on it. 😕
A Mazda MPV attempt a U-turn at a speed that an Elise would have had trouble with. It ended up on its roof right in front of me.
A home window A/C unit mounted to a board facing into the slider window on an old pickup, complete with duct-tape insulation around the edges
A utility truck half-up on one of those 4 ft high concrete dividers. The driver's side was way up in the air, and the passenger side was still on the ground...the whole thing looked like it was going to tip over any moment. The front drivers' side wheel had been completely sheared off from the impact.
An old pickup, pulling a trailer, going the wrong way on an expressway at 11PM. :Q
A MASSIVE deer carcass that appeared in the left lane on the expressway, JUST after rounding a bend. I couldn't avoid it, and trucked over it in my Trans Am at about 80 MPH. The impact bent the driver's side tie rod all to hell, messed up my air dam, screwed up my brakes, and got rotten deer meat and fur all over my car. I had to pick deer guts out of my brake calipers with a pliers - and my car smelled like rotting meat every time the exhaust warmed up for a good 8 months after that .
 
Originally posted by: Brackis
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Wow, I frequently drive, using my knee, while eating lunch or dinner.
When I commuted to college and had an 8am class that required a 2 page essay for homework every day, I wrote the essay on my way to class, driving with my knee for 30 minutes. (Very little traffic in my area)

Most surreal accident was on I95 just North of Richmond. Cars were flashing their lights in the oncoming lane to warn us of something happening; freezing rain was predicted and I was glued to AM radio, listening to reports. I immediately threw on my flashers and started slowing down. By the time I was down to 30 mph, I was sliding. Cars were bouncing off the guardrails everywhere... everything looked like it was in slow motion as cars bounced from guardrail to guardrail until they eventually went into the median or off the side of the road in a break between guardrails. People in SUV's were blowing by me (I was in 4 wheel drive and managed to slow to about 5 mph) only to begin spinning, as if in slow motion, and losing car parts as they smashed into the guard rails. There had to be 100 cars that wrecked in a 2 mile stretch, if not more (that's when I hit the offramp, and went straight to the first motel.)
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Lol, southerners and winter always amuse me.
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Its like a fish out of water.
 
Originally posted by: Black88GTA
I've seen...

A MASSIVE deer carcass that appeared in the left lane on the expressway, JUST after rounding a bend. I couldn't avoid it, and trucked over it in my Trans Am at about 80 MPH. The impact bent the driver's side tie rod all to hell, messed up my air dam, screwed up my brakes, and got rotten deer meat and fur all over my car. I had to pick deer guts out of my brake calipers with a pliers - and my car smelled like rotting meat every time the exhaust warmed up for a good 8 months after that .
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ewwww (to the rotten venison). What year Trans Am?
 
This just happened a couple of hours ago. Driving back from an appointment, I saw a horse running along the side of the highway. No rider, no saddle .. just running along the shoulder. It then decided to run across the highway, but didn't make it. Lots of damage to the car, and the horse died.
 
Originally posted by: beemercer
Originally posted by: Black88GTA
I've seen...

A MASSIVE deer carcass that appeared in the left lane on the expressway, JUST after rounding a bend. I couldn't avoid it, and trucked over it in my Trans Am at about 80 MPH. The impact bent the driver's side tie rod all to hell, messed up my air dam, screwed up my brakes, and got rotten deer meat and fur all over my car. I had to pick deer guts out of my brake calipers with a pliers - and my car smelled like rotting meat every time the exhaust warmed up for a good 8 months after that .
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ewwww (to the rotten venison). What year Trans Am?
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It's an 88. Pic in sig 🙂
 
Saw a power transformer explode while I was waiting at an intersection. Darn near left me blind. 😉 Anyhow, it was wild.
 
Originally posted by: Whisper
Hmm, weirdest thing I've seen would probably be a wheel coming off of a car as it was going ~80mph down the highway.
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I've seen that too, Only at about 60mph though. It was on a typical highway, early in the morning, and the wheel came off.. kept rolling at high speed of course.. down through the ditch then back up onto the other side of the expressway...then finally off into the other ditch. I'm glad noone got killed. No cars in an accident.. just the car that lost the wheel managed to get on the side somehow.


Last weekend I saw someone cutting antlers off of roadkill on 80-90 in Ohio. Doesn't seem like a bright thing to do on an expressway where everyone is doing 80, its raining out, and you have to cross to the middle to cut them.

 
http://www.snopes.com/autos/audio/jackbox.mp3

If anyone hasn't heard that, they should listen to it.

It is a guy calling his boss, saying he will be late to work. He is in the middle of leaving a voice mail message when suddenly he gives the play by play on a traffic incident occuring infront of him.

I was laughing so hard I had tears coming down.
 
Originally posted by: Black88GTA
Originally posted by: beemercer
Originally posted by: Black88GTA
I've seen...

A MASSIVE deer carcass that appeared in the left lane on the expressway, JUST after rounding a bend. I couldn't avoid it, and trucked over it in my Trans Am at about 80 MPH. The impact bent the driver's side tie rod all to hell, messed up my air dam, screwed up my brakes, and got rotten deer meat and fur all over my car. I had to pick deer guts out of my brake calipers with a pliers - and my car smelled like rotting meat every time the exhaust warmed up for a good 8 months after that .
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ewwww (to the rotten venison). What year Trans Am?
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It's an 88. Pic in sig 🙂
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Nice, my brother has a black 2001 WS6 Trans Am.

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/beemercer/transam1.jpg
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/beemercer/transam2.jpg
 
Originally posted by: MisterJackson
I sh1t you not this lady in an Explorer had a CURLIN IRON plugged up, doing her hair, while on the cell phone and smoking!

All while doing 45 in a 55 and swerving.
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Here in Palm Beach County I have scene people with hair care probably plugged into a transformer of some sort...

I couldn't list the weirdest things, but WTF is up with people going s l o w that attempt to block your pass, and when you pass them go all road-rage on you?

I fvcking send those types return to sender. Soccer moms need to back off 😉
 
Woman in the outside(fast) lane, eating Quesadillas(sp>) and shareing them with her lapdog. She was the sole ocupant and was doing 70Mph. Houston.
 
I was in the car with my grandfather when I was about 10 and the road he lives on goes underneath I-79 a pretty big distance down. They were doing construction on the overpass crossing over my grandfather's road at the time-- anyone who lives in Pennsylvania can attest that there are indeed only 3 seasons: Cold, colder, and construction. Anyway, we drove underneath the overpass and not 10 seconds after I heard the biggest crash ever. We turn around to see what it was and the overpass had collapsed onto the road. LUCKILY, and this is a miracle as it's a big overpass and a decently busy road, no one was hurt as no one was ON the overpass at the time, nor underneath it. Had we left 10 seconds later though, we'd be underneath it. Was definitely one of those miracle moments.

I'll try and see if the news story is online... it was a while ago.
 
driving in mexico saw a horse carcass on the side of the road, on its back, with all 4 legs sticking perfectly straight up into the air perpendicular to the ground. it was covered in lye.
 
Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
After years and years of driving rush hour in major city I think I've seen too much crazy stuff to list, but here is a few.

Well dressed woman in business suit driving $70k+ mercedes smoking a 12" long glass crackpipe while stoped in traffic

Women in an SUV shaving her legs while proped on the steering wheel and driving and drinking a cup of coffee

Guy driving in reverse down the freeway in rush hour traffic

Chinese fire drill (everybody jumps out at a stoplight and changes seats), by four guys all buck naked.

Sex in the auto. I've seen this so much it's not even unusual anymore. Guys getting BJ's swerving all over the road, girls sitting in guys lap facing them and blocking view of the road, guys whacking off while driving, girls using sex toys while driving. I guess the boldest was a couple that were parked in the center median in a convertible with the top down durring rush hour making wild monkey love while traffic cruised by at 5mph in both directions
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Hahaha! :roll:
 
think people doing it is odd

How bout Cattle, that was special.
A few couples of em too
On the way to a Boy Scout camp too (I worked there)
 
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