re: Road debris - ever had damage?

That right there is the saddest youtube video I’ve ever heard.

Ratchet strap bounced up and smashed my front window once. Good day to be wearing brown pants.

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.

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.

Not exactly debris, but a former murdering convict messed up my Honda 14 years ago when I ran his fat arse over.

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.

I ran over a ladder in rush hour and it punctured my gas tank. I pulled off the interstate and called a tow truck.

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.

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…