Watched a load of 2 by 4's come off the front of a pickup lumber rack and land on the trunk of the car in front when the stop light changed, and the driver actually stopped instead of running the light.
Have been known to dispose of old junk bendwrenches by scattering them on a road that traffic is not to fast, or heavy. Find a good place to watch from, and it will not take long for someone to stop and claim their treasure.
- One plastic backyard lawn chair on the James River Bridge in Virginia (very embarassing).
- One of four oak kitchen chairs (not cheap). They were each all wrapped in a plastic kind of bag and it kind of parachuted out the truck..... then.. because it was somewhat attached to a tie strap...got caught up listening to the radio......and dragged for about a mile down the road where a good chunk of wood was road sanded down. It's still in the workshop as a garage chaIr. (got the wife lecture on that one).
No more chairs in the truck.
Bill and Donna D.
2008 Wildwood 26TBSS
2006 Ford F250 XLT EC, 5.4 Ltr, 3.73 LS, Torqshift, & Tow Command
The keys to our "toad" that SOMEONE left on the hood after HE hooked it up. Didn't notice till we were "there". Luckily we weren't that far from home, so we turned around and got the spare set.
The Dunks - Terry and Steve
'05 Endeavor - The Oasis
'05 Jeep Grand Cherokee
In God We Trust
We saw what was left of a camper in the middle of the freeway, spread out over about a mile. We told our kids "THAT" is why you can't ride in the back. They never asked again...
Lawnchair. On I-495 in Massachusetts, at 70MPH with my Caprice. BANG! Curse, curse, curse.
Saw about a 50' long tarp on I-80 in Nebraska this morning, with 2 guys wrestling it back onto their flatbed.
John
1984 Ford B-700 school bus conversion, Thomas body
A bunch of other vehicles
3 nutty cats (Maya, Vierna, Briza)
One lazy dog (Marmaduke)
One wife (Liz)
"A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age"
-Jim Steinman
Came around a curve in a road not far from my house and had to swerve to avoid the computer monitor in the middle of my lane. Pulled over and moved it to the side of road. Amazingly, I wasn't broken.
I left Sears one day with a washer&Dryer, a dishwasher & a refrigerator in the back of the pickup. No room for anything th shift, tied down, refrigerator in the middle. At about 65mph, 10 miles out of town, I cought a glimpse in the right mirror of a flying box. Couldn't be mine It was. Amazingly though, it landed softly and had only minor cosmetic damage to the very bottom grill and a bent foot. I muscled it back into the truck and got it home. The only thing I could figure was a freak dust devil/wind shear, sucked it out.
Worked for the WA DOT for 30 years, 10 of it on the highway. You wouldn't believe some of the things we found. But the most disgusting were the bottles of yellow liquid that the truckers threw out!
Deen - Vancouver, WA
'02 Dutch Star 4090 (41+', triple slide)
435/1200 ISC Cummins/Banks PowerPak
'08 Honda Civic/dolly
'05 Honda Odyssey/dolly
NRA Benefactor Life Member
FMCA f47302s, Life Member: Good Sam, Newmar DP Owners Group
51st yr of RV'ing
CJ5 jeeper wrote: Watched a load of 2 by 4's come off the front of a pickup lumber rack and land on the trunk of the car in front when the stop light changed, and the driver actually stopped instead of running the light.
Have been known to dispose of old junk bendwrenches by scattering them on a road that traffic is not to fast, or heavy. Find a good place to watch from, and it will not take long for someone to stop and claim their treasure.
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It was.
Amazingly though, it landed softly and had only minor cosmetic damage to the very bottom grill and a bent foot. I muscled it back into the truck and got it home. The only thing I could figure was a freak dust devil/wind shear, sucked it out.
