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re: Craziest things you've seen while driving

Posted on 9/30/21 at 9:46 am to
Posted by rexorotten
Missouri
Member since Oct 2013
4920 posts
Posted on 9/30/21 at 9:46 am to
On the way to Gulf Shores in 2012, I saw a rodeo clown in make up and everything walking along the shoulder at about 6:00 am in Mississippi.
Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
37156 posts
Posted on 9/30/21 at 9:56 am to
Driving on I-12 east to Florida for vacation, passing through the Tillman’s Corner area in Alabama. I like driving fast so was going between 90-95, moderate traffic.

I see some commotion behind me in the rearview mirror, cars jerking all over and then some bombed out looking late 90s Yukon, brown with some black panels, shite like partially ripped trim hanging off, comes barreling through weaving sharply driving about as aggressive as possible without just crashing, blowing black smoke behind it.

It looked like it could just explode any second or at least blow a rod but it was gettin it, going about 100-110. Blew right past me. I sped up for a few miles just to watch it from a safe distance out of morbid curiosity, maybe to see if it crashed or did explode. But it was out of sight before too long. It looked so shitty but drove so hard it almost looked like it was deliberately made to look shitty for some reason, like some apocalypse vehicle. Never exploded.

Another occasion also on I-10 I did see a convoy of 6-8 vehicles coming from the opposite direction, and these were in fact modified to look like Mad Max (the original or the remake) with a mix of all kinds of crazy shite on them. No idea.
Posted by Pedro
Geaux Hawks
Member since Jul 2008
37938 posts
Posted on 9/30/21 at 10:01 am to
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I take it you didn’t major in grammar and spelling.

I teach math for a reason
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
87692 posts
Posted on 9/30/21 at 10:02 am to
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I take it you didn’t major in grammar and spelling.
I teach math for a reason



adds up
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
293053 posts
Posted on 9/30/21 at 10:05 am to
Small plane landing in front of me, turning off the road and getting gas at a gas station on the highway.
Posted by BayouENGR
Seagrove Beach
Member since Nov 2015
2808 posts
Posted on 9/30/21 at 10:19 am to
Driving towards Metry on the Causeway, saw a guy shaving.

Using shaving cream.
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
41773 posts
Posted on 9/30/21 at 10:27 am to
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People wearing masks in the car.... alone.... for a virus that is droplet based... where driving has a better chance of killing the operator over the virus.


Mine was some idiot ogling drivers who forgot to take of their masks while running errands during a busy day.
Posted by LSUA 75
Colfax,La.
Member since Jan 2019
4616 posts
Posted on 9/30/21 at 10:29 am to
I was on a 4 lane highway ,road was wet from recent rain.Come to a red light cars ,stopped in both lanes,old guy on a Harley tries to stop in the left lane behind a car.His rear wheel went out from under him,crashed to the pavement, the Harley bounced back up,straightened itself and took off down middle of the highway with no rider.Went between the 2 cars in front of him without touching either.As it went down the highway it started going slower and veered off to the right shoulder and rolled over in the ditch.Damned motorcycle went couple hundred yards.
In Rota Spain I was stopped at a red light ,a guy on a brand new Honda 750 was first in line at the light.He was revving the hell out of the motor,light turned green he pops the clutch and flies off the back.The motorcycle takes off down the street ,sideswipes 3 parked cars and runs into the back of another parked and flips up onto the trunk and broke out the back glass on the car.The Honda had something like 18 miles on it.
Another motorcycle story,again in Rota.I was on Shore Patroll and we were working a wreck a few miles from base involving a sailor.A car stopped,driver all excited hollering about a guy on a Moped got run over by a car.My partner outranked me and told me to go see about it.I didn’t really want to see it but away I go.I come to a car in a ditch and a crumpled up Moped in the road but nobody lying in the road.There was a small crowd gathered around so I asked where was the driver of the Moped.Someone told me it was the Spanish Marine that had his back turned to me.I went up to him,their uniform was blue pants with a white tunic.He turned around and he had a perfect tire print from the car diagonally across his chest.He looked pale but he said he wasn’t hurt.I tried to take him to the hospital to get checked out but he refused,he was Spanish so I couldn’t make him go.
Posted by carhartt
Member since Feb 2013
8186 posts
Posted on 9/30/21 at 10:35 am to
I was in an Army convoy in Germany. We were driving on the Autobahn. A truck about 3-4 vehicles up from me had an entire wheel and hub assembly come off the generator trailer he was pulling. The wheel rolled down the left lane for a few seconds then went in the median. Luckily we were near a construction zone. So traffic wasn’t going fast at all.

I was driving down 117 from Lewisville to Natchitoches and saw a log come off a logging truck. It made a huge gouge in the asphalt then slide into the ditch. It would have crushed any car that would have been tailgating him.
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
52854 posts
Posted on 9/30/21 at 10:39 am to
Driving I-20 between Tuscaloosa and Birmingham. Late afternoon but still plenty of daylight left. This large, obese black woman was taking a shite in the grass median between the lanes. Her husband seemed like he was trying to shield her a little bit but damn that's where you stop?
Posted by Packer
IE, California
Member since May 2017
8682 posts
Posted on 9/30/21 at 10:39 am to
Drove up on a work truck stopped in the middle lane of a 5 lane highway. Roll by and there is a sheet on the ground with two feet sticking out. Guy must have jumped off the overpass.

Posted by beulahland
Little D'arbonne
Member since Jan 2013
3960 posts
Posted on 9/30/21 at 10:42 am to
Found myself lost in Dallas, and saw a man slam a toddler onto the pavement with all his might
Then, proceeded to kick the child.
Vigilante justice ensued and I left.
Posted by Hangover Haven
Metry
Member since Oct 2013
31805 posts
Posted on 9/30/21 at 10:44 am to
Was behind a pickup with a German Shepherd in the back of it tied to the bed rack on Hwy 23 coming back from fishing in Empire.

Dog jumped out and practically hung its self... People driving noticed pretty quickly and pulled over asap. Other than a skinned arse, dog was ok...
Posted by Hold That Tiger 10
Member since Oct 2013
24476 posts
Posted on 9/30/21 at 10:46 am to
Driving down a highway whenever I was pretty new to driving. 16-17 years old. The highway is separated by a grass median. I'm traveling north, at about 65, when I see the front driver's side wheel just pop off of a vehicle that was traveling south. The tire rolls across the median, into the north bound lanes and starts traveling in a straight line directly at me. There was a car on my right, so I couldn't switch lanes.

I had to make the decision to try to swerve out of its way at the last minute. I was successful, but there was a truck behind me who probably didn't have the benefit of seeing the tire coming.

The tire went under his truck, lifted his truck in the air, and ripped the entire front axel off. I can still picture the entire thing happening in slow motion. Was pretty damn scary.
Posted by Clark W Griswold
THE USA
Member since Sep 2012
10813 posts
Posted on 9/30/21 at 10:47 am to
Saw a lady driving with her mask on alone in her car. Yet she was eating. She would take off her mask to bite and then put it back on.
Posted by jchamil
Member since Nov 2009
18679 posts
Posted on 9/30/21 at 10:54 am to
Back when covid started in march 2020, driving to turkey hunt at 5 am I came up on a car that crashed into a tree. It had caught on fire with 2 people trapped inside, none of the responders while I was there realized this at the time, but a 3rd person had been thrown from the car and was out in a field. I read about the 3rd person in the paper, the only survivor of the crash, I guess they realized it either when the sun came up or they got the fire out and saw a hole in the windshield
Posted by Wtodd
Tampa, FL
Member since Oct 2013
68451 posts
Posted on 9/30/21 at 10:57 am to
quote:

Craziest things you've seen while driving

I saw a driver driving the speed limit, obeying all traffic laws and wasn't texting...craziest shite I ever saws
Posted by Centinel
Idaho
Member since Sep 2016
44116 posts
Posted on 9/30/21 at 10:59 am to
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Small plane landing in front of me, turning off the road and getting gas at a gas station on the highway.


Perfectly normal for Alaska.

Posted by BigDawg0420
Hamsterdam
Member since Apr 2010
7496 posts
Posted on 9/30/21 at 10:59 am to
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The padding from the afro saved him from serious injury


I laughed way too hard at this
Posted by Captain Lafitte
Barataria Bay
Member since Nov 2012
6524 posts
Posted on 9/30/21 at 11:07 am to
Sometime in the '80s on the way to an LSU home game (day game), we were passing a car on Hwy 190 when the hood of that car unlatched and it bent all the way to the windshield.
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