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re: Road debris - ever had damage?
Posted on 6/7/21 at 3:28 pm to concrete_tiger
Posted on 6/7/21 at 3:28 pm to concrete_tiger
The lady in front of me this morning on I-49 was about 3 inches from hitting a shovel laying in the road i started thinking of final destination immediately!!
Posted on 6/7/21 at 3:28 pm to A Smoke Break
That right there is the saddest youtube video I’ve ever heard.
Posted on 6/7/21 at 3:30 pm to T
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That right there is the saddest youtube video I’ve ever heard.
Warned yall.
That's my biggest fricking fear on the road.
Posted on 6/7/21 at 3:32 pm to concrete_tiger
Ratchet strap bounced up and smashed my front window once. Good day to be wearing brown pants.
Posted on 6/7/21 at 3:35 pm to A Smoke Break
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Warned yall.
Not really. Hearing someone die wasn’t the sad part.
Posted on 6/7/21 at 3:36 pm to concrete_tiger
My wife was 7 months pregnant with our 1st kid years ago and was stopped at a stop sign by a school in BR. The school had grounds keepers bush hogging the field and 1 of the blades broke off and struck her windshield and stuck clean through the passenger's side.
She was pretty shaken up to say the least.
She was pretty shaken up to say the least.
Posted on 6/7/21 at 3:39 pm to concrete_tiger
I hit two ice chests in one week on 110. Couldn't dodge either of them due to traffic. I could see one ahead in between lanes and the dickweed driving a truck in front in the next lane thought it'd be funny to hit it. ping ponged it in to my lane and i guess my car didn't realize that Rtics aren't as tough as yetis. ripped the bumper off.
Posted on 6/7/21 at 3:44 pm to concrete_tiger
It’s happened a few times to me. Something flew out of a garbage truck and smoked my bumper. Insurance claim was super easy, they said it was comprehensive and deductible was $200. 2 weeks later, a hail storm came through and totaled that same truck before I could get it into the body shop.
The last time, in my new truck, I hit some piece of wicker furniture that flew off somebody’s trailer. No damage though.
The last time, in my new truck, I hit some piece of wicker furniture that flew off somebody’s trailer. No damage though.
Posted on 6/7/21 at 3:44 pm to T
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Not really. Hearing someone die wasn’t the sad part.
Fair. The whole video is bad. The dad whaling and her dying are both the worst.
Posted on 6/7/21 at 3:46 pm to Coater
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Always keep your head on a swivel
no lie a couple of years ago I was driving across the MRB and I saw a tire bouncings and rolling down the bridge. It bounced in to oncoming traffic on the other side. It stepped up and over the lane divider like it knew what it was doing. I checked the traffic twitter multiple times when I got to work to see if there had been an accident,
Posted on 6/7/21 at 3:47 pm to concrete_tiger
Not exactly debris, but a former murdering convict messed up my Honda 14 years ago when I ran his fat arse over.
Posted on 6/7/21 at 3:55 pm to concrete_tiger
I was on I-10 crossing the Mississippi River bridge during a downpour. My good fortune I got stuck behind a cane truck loaded down with cane. A chunk flew out and landed on my windshield as my wipers were coming down knocking the drivers side wiper right off. I couldn’t see shite. My only option was to pull a ace Ventura and drive with my head out the window until I could get off at port Allen. I switched the wiper from the passenger side to the drivers side and wrapped the passenger wiper arm in a tshirt that I had.
Posted on 6/7/21 at 4:12 pm to concrete_tiger
Current car has a small dent and paint damage where asphalted gravel chunk fell out of the dump truck ahead of me and bounced 2x splitting into chunks. Would've been really bad if I had caught the unsplit chunk. Same stretch of road a month or so before I avoided a 5 gallon bucket of white paint falling off a bobtail flatbed and bounce/tumbling sky high before the lid popped off. Luckily the white paint went off the side of the road.
Told the story on here when it happened about hitting something in a road construction area out in middle nowhere E.Tx that sliced my sidewall. Was on my way to interview for a job, suit and tie, Mid June. Lug nuts had never been off the car before so had to stand on the 4-way to get them loose. 1st week on that job in Mid Cities Ft. Worth area, hit another road construction trash item with the same wheel.
Also told the story before about the refrigerator/freezer box I "picked up" in OK. 1st job out of college was Manager Trainee for a Class A finance corporation. Every month end was a push to get delinquent loans to make a payment so I'd have to go knock on doors. I had a 93% success rate and developed essentially a route. I was about to get transferred to a huge city based office instead of that podunk rural one so was showing the gal that would have to take the route over how I did it. Middle of nowhere, 2 lane 65mph zone highway we see a box laying flat in the road. As we get to it, the wind catches it and it ends up draped completely across the entire windshield and most of both side windows. Used my rear view mirror and shoulder stripe paint to park on the shoulder to remove it. Ol gal passenger was still screaming "We're gonna die" till her side window was clear.![](https://images.tigerdroppings.com/Images/Icons/Iconrotflmao.gif)
Told the story on here when it happened about hitting something in a road construction area out in middle nowhere E.Tx that sliced my sidewall. Was on my way to interview for a job, suit and tie, Mid June. Lug nuts had never been off the car before so had to stand on the 4-way to get them loose. 1st week on that job in Mid Cities Ft. Worth area, hit another road construction trash item with the same wheel.
Also told the story before about the refrigerator/freezer box I "picked up" in OK. 1st job out of college was Manager Trainee for a Class A finance corporation. Every month end was a push to get delinquent loans to make a payment so I'd have to go knock on doors. I had a 93% success rate and developed essentially a route. I was about to get transferred to a huge city based office instead of that podunk rural one so was showing the gal that would have to take the route over how I did it. Middle of nowhere, 2 lane 65mph zone highway we see a box laying flat in the road. As we get to it, the wind catches it and it ends up draped completely across the entire windshield and most of both side windows. Used my rear view mirror and shoulder stripe paint to park on the shoulder to remove it. Ol gal passenger was still screaming "We're gonna die" till her side window was clear.
![](https://images.tigerdroppings.com/Images/Icons/Iconrotflmao.gif)
Posted on 6/7/21 at 4:19 pm to concrete_tiger
Years ago, I was at a stopped at a light on W. Esplanade in front of the Esplanade Mall (in front of the McDonalds). As I was waiting, I saw a bucket truck exciting the mall parking lot with its bucket arm extended all the way up. I guess he must have forgotten to lower it. But I could see that the boom arm was about to hit the powerlines.
I started blowing my horn, but he wasn't paying attention. I watched as the arm hit the powerlines, began to stretch them, then finally snapped them.
The snapped lines came flying right at my car. They hit the street right in front of me, coiled up like a spring, then rebounded right over my car. Didn't touch me.
But it fricked up the pickup truck that was behind me. Smashed the windshield, dented the hood, fricked up the roof.
I started blowing my horn, but he wasn't paying attention. I watched as the arm hit the powerlines, began to stretch them, then finally snapped them.
The snapped lines came flying right at my car. They hit the street right in front of me, coiled up like a spring, then rebounded right over my car. Didn't touch me.
But it fricked up the pickup truck that was behind me. Smashed the windshield, dented the hood, fricked up the roof.
This post was edited on 6/8/21 at 9:46 am
Posted on 6/7/21 at 4:21 pm to concrete_tiger
I ran over a ladder in rush hour and it punctured my gas tank. I pulled off the interstate and called a tow truck.
Posted on 6/7/21 at 4:56 pm to concrete_tiger
Hit a retread on the highway. Ins claim later, good as new.
Posted on 6/7/21 at 5:09 pm to concrete_tiger
Back in the day,early 60s, I had a shipmate whose uncle died and left him enough money to buy a corvette.
The ship, dry docked in Connecticut, changed ports so he and another shipmate were driving the vette to the new Port in Charleston, S. C.
I'm sure they were having a few old ones, so they were forced to stop and take a leak. This was before the interstate highways, so they pulled off on the shoulder and got out. The driver left his door open and a Semi came by took it off. That was in Winter, in New York.
It was a cold ride to South Carolina.
The ship, dry docked in Connecticut, changed ports so he and another shipmate were driving the vette to the new Port in Charleston, S. C.
I'm sure they were having a few old ones, so they were forced to stop and take a leak. This was before the interstate highways, so they pulled off on the shoulder and got out. The driver left his door open and a Semi came by took it off. That was in Winter, in New York.
It was a cold ride to South Carolina.
Posted on 6/7/21 at 5:09 pm to concrete_tiger
Not a victim but a perp here. I failed to secure a porta-potty very well with a ratchet strap. Driving over and overpass on a windy day and suddenly a huge blast of wind hits and the damn potty launches off the flatbed like a rocket. I see the entire thing in my driver mirror as it crashes into a Jeep Grand Cherokee and destroys his windshield. To make matters worse the driver and passenger were news reporters for the local news station. Their camera man and another reporter showed up 10 minutes before the police and begged to interview me as I said " no comment"
This post was edited on 6/7/21 at 5:12 pm
Posted on 6/7/21 at 5:10 pm to concrete_tiger
Driving at night over Whiskey Bay and a tanker trailer hose was laying in the road. I tried to straddle it but caught just enough of it to have the fitting bounce up and puncture my gas tank. Fortunately I had a full tank of gas and was just able to pull into Tiger Truck Stop.
Weird experience…
Weird experience…
Posted on 6/7/21 at 5:19 pm to Christopher Columbo
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No. Just tired.
Weren't you the guy who came up with "That's a negative, Goat Rider, the pattern is full" last week?
Also, your stories don't faze me. My stepmom hit a horse. Not a pony. Not a quarterhorse. A fricking HORSE. It destroyed the entire right side of her car and then the damned thing walked back into its pasture (having only suffered minor bruising) through the hole in the fence it got out of. She still has never satisfactorily explained to my dad how she didn't see and managed to hit a goddamned HORSE.
This post was edited on 6/7/21 at 5:23 pm
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