Use to drive wreckers in south Fl .To many storys to tell,kids running dope on moped trying to outrun the cops.Honda doing over 100 with a seadoo trailer ,pickup the pieces for about a mile or two.Mexican lawn team caught driven with out a truck or trailer,Dot got him.He had to many things wrong to list milk crate for drivers seat,door held on by wire ,wipers with a string to make them work ect ect.Wheel chair DUI,horse DUI.Yes we had to impound the horse till animal control got it.

 

Two-lane highway going south out of Pagosa Springs, Colorado down to Chama, NM. Following a pickup at about 6:30 in the morning in my '84 Suburban with my 26-ft travel trailer hanging on. Suddenly, the pickup driver swerved left (no on-coming traffic). I had just enough time to swerve, too. In my southbound lane, right in line with my four passenger side tires, was a skunk just wandering down the highway. Barely missed that thing with the trailer.

Naples, Italy, 1990 time frame. I was alone on the inner-city freeway going south-west. I was in the extreme left fast lane doing about 80 mph. Highway curves right going slightly uphill and then curves left into a tunnel. I literally heard the words "move over" (I was alone in the car with the radio turned off). I moved to the center lane just before entering the tunnel. Just inside the tunnel in the left lane was an abandoned Fiat with no flares, triangles, or any other warning signals.
I'm glad I listened or I wouldn't be here with y'all right now.

Also in Naples, Italy, I watched a young 14-year old boy plaster himself on the front of the gutless Fiat van I was driving when he turned directly in front of me on his daddy's moped. In Spain, I watched a man slide up the hood of my '65 Chevy one evening.

As with many of y'all, the list could go on and on and on.....

DW

 

You drove one of those "fish bowls" too?? That was the truck I learned to drive in. It even had a "shiney 290" in it.
Tom

 

Yep owned two of them. 92 Detroits. Both were strong trucks, a little heavy, but strong.

 

Thanks for sharing DeaconWayne. I've had a couple things happen that I've questioned my lack of faith.

 

Kinda sounds like "Pimp my crotch rocket"

 

This is kind of sad but one of those things you have to look at each other and say "what's the chances of that!"
My dad and I are leaving the golf course and driving up a little hill to the main road and see this guy lying in a ditch and then see his elec. wheelchair and a 12pack of Mil. Best beer and some Doritos. We get out pick his chair up set it on the road put the batteries back in it pick him up set him back in it get his beer and doritos put them in his basket then the guy just takes off no thank you kiss my butt or anything? We got back in the truck and just started laughing. I told dad after the way he acted when we helped him out of a jam we should have taken his beer and doritos and told him "today just isn't your day".

 

Did you forget to mention that one of you sliced a ball into the road from the 18th tee box and think you might have hit a guy in a wheelchair?

A friend of mine did that, put his tee shot right through the drivers door vent window on an early 70's chevy pickup that was coming up the hill. The gentleman driving had to be in his 70's, with three little dogs on an early Sunday morning drive. We heard the sound....and wasn't sure what his ball hit. We didn't think it was a tree or the road. "Did one of you guys hit a ball into the road?" he asked when he got up to the tee box. When my friend said yes, he points to his missing vent window.

"You broke my window and scared me to death." he says. He took it well, though.

 

Back in the early 70s we were on a family vacation going to Butt valley Res in Northern Ca.. Yes thats its real name!. anyhow here on the side of the road sits a Station wagon towing a boat trailer with about a 16 foot run about perched on top of the wagon sitting perfectly upright. It creased the top as it slid off the trailer after a sudden stop.
We Still Chuckle and shake our heads in wonder about it.

 

Just out of curiosity....who exactly was it that told you to move over again??

 

You see....THIS is why you shouldn't drink and drive.

 

Goofiest thing Ive ever seen on the highway was Scotty and Lary!



Rich

 

HEY! I resemble that.

 

Wait....I don't get it?

It just so happens that the view while sitting on top of Scotty's shaker hood cruising the strip in Vegas, is nothing short of spectacular!

 

I told you guys... goofiest thing Ive ever seen!

Rich