Whats the craziest thing you have ever seen on the road?

[theoldchick]

Tragic

 

[mandelyn]

Driving to work a couple of weeks ago I saw a deer in broad daylight hop across the road, strange for the area and time, but it didn't really prepare me for what I would see next. Pulled up to a redlight, and a half naked little person comes charging out between the cars across the way covered in green paint and wearing streamers from his arms. He was waving his arms and running between the cars... I had no idea what the heck that was about!

Apparently he was advertising a school's carwash.

Saw a deer at a bus stop, laying across the bench. It had already been hit, bad placement. Beginning to think we have too many deer in this town.


Been on a lot of roadtrips. Saw a F-150 pick up truck towing a horse trailer, towing a horse trailer, both with horses in it, up this huge mountain in Virginia. He was going like 25 mph. Scary! Live weight too!?

Was driving through the middle of no where and nothing in Maryland when I saw a trucker ahead swerve. Course it was dark. I guess a trucker had hit a deer earlier, and he must have been going fast. I saw the blood first, road was black and slick looking. I was looking for parts to avoid when out of no where the rib cage was dead center of my lane. So I held my lane, it was a downhill curve on slick road, not going to panic. I heard it hook the bottom of the car and bounce off. Gross. Slid a little too, it had to be fresh.

Saw a broken down trailer with lions on it out west somewhere. They didn't look to happy about being stranded on the road, and of course the rubber neckers allowed everyone else to get a good view too.

I was involved in a funny thing. Sort of funny anyways. I was coming across the bridge, almost home, when this old lady cuts me off out of no where, she very slowly came over 3 lanes and ended up right in front of me. I had kept a good distance, so I didn't hit her. But the 5 people behind me all hit each other and me too. Perfect imprint of a dodge ram on the back of that station wagon. Icing on the cake was the 2nd impact of the Ford Excursion towing the big boat.

So we all get out and clear out away from the wreckage in case anyone else comes flying into it. 50mph seems to be a farely unreasonable guideline to the locals here. I had chickens in the back in a box, the impact must have knocked the lid off. An officer yells out, "Hey, who's got the chickens?" Then you hear a rooster crow. Oh, right, that's me.

So since they had the highway closed down to one lane and it was going slow, I figured it was safe to go chase some chickens in the car. Got them all boxed up again, but the rooster kept on crowing while I was talking to officers about the oblivious old woman who had cut me off. She was close too... if I had been going faster, I would have clipped her back left corner.

No one driving by would have noticed the chickens, not with all the wreckage to look at, but to the group of shaken drivers standing there looking at a very expensive Sunday afternoon, it was something to laugh about.

The important lessons... don't tailgate, specially if towing a boat, and don't put the box of chickens in the very back of the car. To this day I seat belt animal carriers into the back seat. That little bantam rooster jibber-jabbered the whole time and crowed his head off, he was not pleased. The hens were fine, just hanging out. Wasn't really weird, so much as the chickens being comic relief on a bad day.

 

[Peaches Lee]

Once when I was a kid my dad was driving me to school and we saw a mama Black Bear with five cubs. The last little cub was a scrawny runt. A couple of days later in the same place we saw the mama Bear again, only this time with four cubs...

 

[oldrooster]

On a school bus when I was a sixth grader and the bus full of little kids seeing two steers, yes steers (I knew the owner and knew he had no heifers and no bulls) showing affection toward each other(sorry as clean as this story can get) and a bus full of kids either confused upon the sight or laughing at it or getting sick over it, the driver couldn't figure out all the comotion was over....

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Here's one for yall.

Local county sheriff (not a deputy) just drove over a bridge that crosses the interstate. A car gets off the interstate, runs a red light, then starts past the sheriff an swerves, running him off the road. Sheriff gives chase. Car runs out of the city an up the mountain. 100 MPH in the wrong lane much of the time playing chicken with on coming traffic an running them off the road. About 10 miles in to the chase they cross in to Alabama. It the next road to the right the car turns but is going to fast. It leave the road, driver over-corrects, crosses the road going off the other side an actually going up a tree a flipping over. Seconds later the sheriff asks for EMS. Hearing the whole thing an being 3 miles away I responded. I get there an I see the sheriff in shock standing by his truck an an over turned car....

I run to the car start climbing in an am shocked to see an 80+ year old woman half laying on the roof an half hanging upside down, sucking oxygen from a tank while screaming not so nice things at me. Hardly a scratch on her. Alabama EMS pulls up an shocked, I just point under the car an tell them to have fun. I then walk over to the sheriff who still looks shocked. He recounts the chase which had to be one of the most dangerous he had ever seen. The he talks about the car flipping an him drawing his gun an kicking the window out expecting a firefight with a drugged up car thief but what he sees is this old lady hanging upside down, sucking oxygen, screaming "SHOOT ME! SHOOT ME!" over an over.

 

[cassie]

My brother and I were traveling south on the busy I 5 freeway going to Los Angeles when we saw a very large RV towing a big boat at high speed. The boat trailer was swerving wildly from side to side. As we passed the RV (we wanted to get away from this potential wreck as soon as we could) I got a good look at the driver. He was a big beefy man, and he had one hand on the wheel and with the other he was holding a very large burrito. He was oblivious to the swerving boat trailer.

Another time I was driving in heavy commute traffic in San Jose and I glanced over at the driver of the car in the lane beside me. He had a copy of the Wall Street Journal spread over his steering wheel and he was reading it as we drove along. Now granted, we weren't going very fast, but we were going.

This last I didn't see myself, but I did see the picture in the paper, and it happened not far from where I lived on a road I traveled frequently. It was a picture of a sheiff's car with an elephant seal sitting on the roof. Now this was in the San Joaquin Valley in central California, miles from the ocean. This elephant seal, for reasons know one will ever know, swam from San Francisco Bay, up the delta, and ended up in the irrigation canals near Los Banos. The deputy had responded to a 911 call. When he got to the seal, it climbed onto the roof of the car. The picture showed the deputy standing beside his cruiser looking perplexed.

 

[Gomes Bantams]

A guy in a bannana suit running with a purse down the road.

 

[SillyChicken]

not sure anyone can top that one!

 

[oldrooster]

Not weird but somewhat unusual, U-haul convoys I live in a university town every fall the local dealers are overwhelmed with hundreds of trucks and trailers and there are parades of them leaving town of a fall going to new homes and every spring parades of them coming into town to replenish the stock. Also when I was growing up we had a school bus manufacturer to our south and seeing simi tractors with 4-6 chassis stacked on the back and then parades of completed going the other direction all summer.

 

[oldrooster]

lets revive this thread I was driving to work one morning it was about 545 am dark and I came upon a truck pulling a utility trailer the metal 4x8 lawn mower trailer type it was missing both the tire and wheel on the driver's side and it was hopping around everywhere and the guy was going 5-10 mph under the speed limit wouldn't pull over so i took an exit before the one i wanted took a back way to work. the place i worked was on a highway intersection and i was going home the same back way because i needed gas and 10 yards from the intersection what did i see? the same trailer it appeared from the drag mark the truck used the exit i usually used went by my employer and barely got off the road and unhooked the trailer and FLIPPED it on it's top to get it off the pavement it stayed there 3 days before the cops had it hauled off......