While travelling up I-45 yesterday from Texas City back to Houston, I hear a crotch rocket screaming up beside me. This was no ordinary crotch rocket....... The entire fuel tank, side covers and fenders were covered in red and black leopard skin faux fur. The fur was long enough that it waved in the breeze as he motored by. I could not believe what I was witnessing. Too bad I did not have my digital camera handy. I almost had to pull off of the freeway because I was laughing so hard.........

The really sad part of this scenario was that the kid had a MATCHING HELMET......

 

I've seen many...but one that comes to mind right now happened on my trip home from Lubbock last year. We were passed by a late model Cadillac with a mid 40's gentleman driving and in the back seat....

......in the back seat stood a full grown, alive and well, Neubian goat.

 

A 36 foot aluminum extension ladder sliding along the lane beside me at 70, sparks a flyin'. It had just slid off the ladder racks of it owner, I saw it going and beat it to the center lane just in time. It was kind of surreal....I was like "Geez!..How 'bout that, a ladder!" as it slid perfectly straight down the inner lane along side of me for what seemed like for hundreds of feet before dropping behind me. Dipstick nearly got me killed!

 

About a year ago, my family and some friends were travelling down to Whidbey Islands Deception State Park for a Camping weekend. We were both pulling 30' trailers.

I was behind our friends trailer when I noticed him swerving very badly.

He called out on our walkie-talkies "Lazy Boy!"

Sure enough, as he passed the problem, I had to miss a brand new Lazy-Boy recliner, in the reclined position, on the center line between the two south bound lanes!

My kids thought it was funny!

I had to clean out my shorts!

 

Not near as interesting as goats, chairs, and furry things, but years ago I found , to my amusement, a wheel and tire passing me. Good laugh till I found it was from my trailer. Had to chase that thing about 400 yards thru the sagebrush.

"Yea Dad, I checked the trailer"

Ed

 

the fuzzy bikes are pretty common, the guys that do the slow speed tricks crack the fairings all the time. and it runs about 1 to 2k for new plastic. so they started fuzzing them a few years ago. and put fresh plastic when they sell them.

 

Ever seen a truck driving almost sideways down the highway? I saw a Ford with such bad alignment yesterday, his front wheels were cranked almost all the way to the right and his back end was at a 45 degree angle trying to drive straight..i couldn't believe it was able to drive like that...if i was a cop he'd be going to jail for something that unsafe

Hoss: i saw a 1969 "Hoss Bogg" i mean Boss Hogg caddy being driven by an old cowboy with a HUGE fullsize live turkey riding in the backseat all puffed up and proud.It heard my turbo whistling as i went by and started flapping it's feathers all around and making the old man mad..

 

Last week I saw a Neon running 4 donut spares. I guess he liked that lowered look

 

My son tells me that we live in a zoo. Maybe he is right.

 

3 good ones, first after telling friend it wasnt a good idea to use the safety chains to hold his tactor to the trailer with..... one good bump trailer and tractor passed us on the left, friend had to force it off the road to keep it from running into a house!

second interstate rt 80 up around Rockaway watched a detach w/ a 315 cat excavator on the trailer get onto the highway near rt 15, well wasn't chained or they snapped 'cause that friggin excavator slid off the trailer onto the highway across 4 lanes and stopped upright in the median between e and w bound traffic.

can't come up w/ a specific third but it is amazing what you see people doing in their cars when you drive by in a big truck, the woman do way worse things than the men by far......

 

I was cruising down the highway in my 92 CTD when all of a sudden I heard a terrible squeal and then my truck slowed down. I looked out my window and saw my entire left rear wheel assembly including the full axle go rolling by me and down a ravine!! I guess the C-clip on that Dana gave in and snapped. I had to crawl down the ravine and retrieve the thing. It must have weighed 200lb!!

There is a C-5 Corvette convertible that runs around my town. It's red with a tan top. The funny thing is that as it's driving up on you you notice a tan nose bra. It looks kind of strange but you just say to yourself "To each his own." The funny part is that when he passes you you also notice that he has a big tan bra covering the whole rear of the car too!! It is by far the dumbest thing I've seen yet!!

There used to be an old Ford van here too that had a full black velvet paintjob. That was funny too...

My dad found a fully stocked Craftsman tool box once and I'm not talking about the little tiny ones either. I'm talking about one that he had to unload before he could put it in the vehicle..

Once I was cruising down a country road and I saw a truck coming towards me and I could see sparks coming from the driver's side. As he went by I saw that he was pulling a little trailer and the driver's side tire on it was completely gone and he had worked the rim down to half it's size and he was flying down the road...

I could go on and on.......

 

I was headed home on 290 and I noticed a minivan swerving badly behind me and coming up quick. When they got beside me, I noticed that a dad was letting his 4 or 5 year old son sit in his lap and steer at 80mph! Neither him or his other son had a seatbelt on. I called the cops and when they pulled him over, he left the kid in his lap.

 

ha jsut remembered another funny as heck one. up on I think Dingmans ferry bridge inot/ out of PA/ NJ they used to collect the toll for the bridge in bedpans..........

 

I live in Southern California... Where to start?

Let's see... Going up the side of a mountain, ungodly drop on the other side, we round a corner...
What to see other than a jack-knifed big-rig, with the tractor sticking halfway into our lane!
We couldn't stop- had to steer onto the side of the road to miss it- scant inches from falling. Darn semi was RIGHT in front of us. That was fun!

Another time we were following a car at about 80-90 on the freeway. (So Cal, ya'll) We were right behind it when it just started weaving, a little, then a little bit more; we slowed up a bit, right before it lost control, skittered over 2 lanes right through traffic, and crashed into the sound barrier (So Cal, ya'll) on the side of the freeway. (Must have been going 40 -It hit hard) As soon as it hit, almost instantly, a couple of little hotties pop out and start running down the freeway.

As for goats, I've transported fully grown goats in the back seat of trucks, cars and vans. Never a Nubian, those get rather big- mainly Spanish, Boers and little Boer-LaManche crosses. (Love the ears of the LaManche- So gentle to...)

Stuff on the freeways is commonplace... Tree limbs here, tire here, bumper here, cadaver there, etc...

 

I was driving back to the States from my home in Mexico very early one morning. It was still dark and very foggy. An 18 wheel stake bed truck full of loose avacados had missed a turn and flipped on it`s side. There were several tons of avacados all over the shoulder, median and roadway itself. When you run over an avacado with a CTD the pit will quite often shoot out from beneath your tire at near-bullet speeds. Kinda like squeezing a watermellon seed between your thumb and forefinger. Some of those pits were REALLY moving when they disappeared into the fog. I have some tips for anyone thinking of driving in guacamole:

1. It`s really slippery.
2. It really smells bad when it hits a hot exhaust pipe.
3. Cleaning the truck afterwards is NO fun.
4. It`s REALLY slippery!