What wierd things have you seen while driving your car?

[caty]

I was driving down the street this morning when I noticed three pairs of white tennis shoes, which had been tied together in pairs, hanging over a telephone wire. I thought this was kind of wierd (someone was bored)---but not the weirdest thing I've ever seen when I was driving.

Once I was driving to work when a man came out of his house in a bathrobe. He opened the driver's door to his car and leaned over to get something from the passanger side. Have you guessed it yet? Yes, he was naked under the robe and I saw more that I wanted too---it was not pretty.

Another time I was driving to work and I saw a man in his front yard with a shovel and a garbage can. He was shoveling the snow off of the grass on his front yard and putting it in the garbage can. I still don't get the point of that---but maybe he liked the sight of brown grass over the sight of white snow.

What are some of the strange things you have seen when driving?
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[anarch]

1. Pennsylvania

[tigereye]

25. ah

:rofl:

disclaimer, I live in PA, but I still think this is hilarious!

[YankeyMCC]

2. Last year the day before thanksgiving

driving to work down a road I travel all the time without ever seeing any wildlife beyond squirrels and birds I saw three turkeys dash across the street.

Apparently they were on the run...but from where and to where I've no idea. :)

I've often wondered over the months if they made it and if I'll see another break this year. (BTW: I haven't seen anything like that on the road since)

[caty]

5. Maybe someone was out doing

some last minute Thanksgiving dinner hunting and the poor turkeys were running for their lives.:scared:

[1gobluedem]

3. Those shoes hanging over the telephone wires

I've heard that is a sign that whoever lives in the building behind it is a drug dealer.

[caty]

6. The strange thing about your comment is

that the we noticed that the garage behind that house had been partially burned. Makes me wonder now.:shrug: Drug dispute?

[Whoa_Nelly]

20. Snopes has multiple explanations

http://www.snopes.com/crime/gangs/sneakers.htm

[Broken_Hero]

4. Near Salt Lake City

Utah...in...93 or 92, driving on freeway and lightning struck the other side of the freeway...

same trip(not same day) in Salt Lake, about three days after above lightning attack, my father was driving, and a semi pulling cows, and the back trailer tires blew, and the trailer went one way, and split open, dumping cows onto the freeway...well, imagine this...cows...and 70mph plus cars, it wasn't a pretty picture...

[Crazy Dave]

7. A drunk guy dressed as Santa on a bicycle....

...ran straight into a street sign and busted his ass.

[bif]

8. Guy peeing out the window

About 3 stories up in an apartment building. He was buck naked.

[Broken_Hero]

11. oh damn..

you had me scared there for a minute...I thought you were going to say "say him doing the deed out the car window on the freeway"...

because...one day, a few years back...I know somebody did that, near Charlotte, NC...but I won't say who did it...



:rofl: :hide:

[Blue Diadem]

9. The funniest one , the farmer/helpers chasing pigs..

actually they were huge hogs..but darn I never knew those things could run that fast. Their ears were just flapping as they ran around that front yard while the people were waving their arms and running like crazy chasing them.

The other strange thing..was a naked man running up to a house. This was in the country so I thought maybe he'd gotten caught in the act somewhere he shouldn't have been. (like with someone elses wife or something) I found out several months later that he's a convicted sex offender.

[LaraMN]

10. A giant billboard outside my town, begging us to please

NOT burn our garbage. Seems like a no-brainer, to me; but I'm sure the sign was warranted by some of the freaks in my town. I'm sure they will revert back to heaving trash bags full of diapers onto the side of the road.:eyes:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

12. "State of Jefferson" signs.

In Northern California there are some billboards alongside I-5 that read "State of Jefferson." Apparently back in the fall of 1941 a part of Northern California tried to split off and form it's own state, "Jefferson." But it was mostly forgotten when something more important came up later that year.

[fudge stripe cookays]

13. Let's see...

North Texas--
3 ladders suddenly came hurtling out of the back of a pickup truck on the freeway. I had JUST changed lanes. I had been behind him. Scared the living crap out of me. I'm still terrified of ladders on other vehicles.

Monterey, California--
I couldn't figure out why this line of cars had suddenly just STOPPED on this main drag near this park. Then I saw the subject of the controversy crossing the street....a very imperious, very deliberate Canadian snow goose, crossing the street like he owned it. I laughed my ass off.

Chicago--
A line of Santas on big Harley Hawgs out riding for their Christmas parade.

Iowa--
During the Dean campaign, someone had taken the Fox News van and stuck a big ole Dean sticker on it. THAT was great!

[Oeditpus Rex]

40. Was the Monterey 'incident'

on Del Monte Boulevard or Fremont Street next to El Estero Park? All kinds o' waterfowl in the lake there, and they pretty much act like they own the place.

[fudge stripe cookays]

45. That's the place!

My cousin's husband is a local firefighter, and they evidently had to come up with some sort of protocol for not hitting the geese as they waddled by when they got called on an emergency. He can't stand em.

My husband's Canadian, so we always joke about our "Canadian brethren."

I hadn't laughed that hard in quite awhile.

[WolverineDG]

14. Watching Bessie make a run for it

on the road through the King Ranch. Oh, she was making good time, headed for the bright lights of that infamous Sin City, Falfurrias, but about a mile down the road, I saw the cow cops closing in on her. Poor Bessie. Back to the ranch. No "big city life" for her. :(

dg

[fudge stripe cookays]

46. She shoulda headed for Premont....

She'd have made it! Poor Bessie!

fsc

[Swede]

15. An escaped patient standing on the ledge of a bridge.

A cop was standing about 20 feet back,with his hand on his holstered gun. The guy on the ledge had eyes that I will never forget.

[Roon]

16. A pigeon riding on the roof of another car

He was hanging on for dear life!!

[leftofthedial]

17. 300+ pound hooker leaning out an open 2nd story window

with the sweating, grunting john laying pipe behind her. Right above the bus stop, not twenty feet away from me. She was nekkid. It looked like two 50-pound bags of flour.

[NewWaveChick1981]

18. Well, let's see...

1) Two cows that had escaped from a cattle trailer that had been parked on the side of I-40 (had a flat tire). Cops had stopped traffic, but these cows were having a free-for-all. :P They were looking in people's windows and taking care of "business" on the highway and just sort of wandering around. The owner finally rounded them up and got them back to the trailer. :rofl:

2) At a traffic light, a woman with her head in a man's lap, obviously doing SOMETHING. :evilgrin: He was concentrating really hard... :rofl:

3) A ladder flying off a pickup truck on I-85 in Atlanta. Cars had nowhere to go, and several ran over it, destroying their tires and causing at least one accident. The guy driving the pickup truck was clueless until the cops stopped him. Several drivers (including me) had called the cops and were following the guy until the cops found him.


On Edit: How could I have forgotten the RightToLifeMobile that drives around here? :yoiks: It's a daddy driving with a mommy in the passenger seat and about eight kids crammed in the back of the van. There are homemade anti-choice bumper stickers (some homemade and some printed) all over the back of the van that scream hate slogans like, "Abortion is Murder" and "You Will Go To Hell If You Take A Child's Life". Additionally, there are pictures of aborted fetuses plastered on the back of the van. I cannot imagine what those children have to endure at home if they are subjected to that on a daily basis. :(

[bertha katzenengel]

19. a tree hit by lightning just before i passed it - 20 ft away

It was a pink bolt, and it struck the base of the trunk 3 times in a nanosecond. I was awed.

[BlueStorm]

51. I was riding with a friend back in 2003

and while we were passing this Cahtolic church by the free way we saw a lighting bolt strike the metal cross on top of the steeple. It was really cool.

Also back in 2001 me, my mom and my grandma were returning from this deaf club that was held at Rivertown Crossings mall. We were going down 40th street in Hudsonville when this dog suddenly appeared in front of us. My mom slammed on the brakes and honked the horn. The dog just sat there, in the middle of the road, right in front of the car blinking at us. My mom honked the horn again but the dog just got up and sniffed the right passenger tire. Finally it went on it's merry way and my mom let out a rant, "Damn, stupid, fucking dog." she said into which I cracked up laughing.

This summer I was driving from my mom's house and I saw a pheasant which apparently is now rare to see in that area.

Blue

[sweetheart]

21. in western nevada on route 50

A tree of shoes, hundreds of them, in the middle of nowhere.

[GRLMGC]

22. One time a motorcycle cut me off

I would usually be really mad but then I saw that it was a very, very large woman who seemed to dwarf the motorcycle. She was going really fast. Good for her! I couldn't help but smile.

[Reverend_Smitty]

23. I see the sneakers over the telephone wire all the time...

when driving in the city...I guess it's more of an east coast thing.

One of the strangest things I've seen was when I was driving through rural North Carolina and we passed by a combination gas station and cemetery. I'm guessing they were not actually affiliated with each other but not 10 feet from a tire pump was a dozen or so tombstones...it was truly one of the most bizarre things I've seen.

Other things I enjoy driving through the south are billboards that say things like "voted best CHRISTIAN pancake house in South Carolina" They are truly things that make you go :wtf:

[azmouse]

24. A "Save the Environment" sticker on a massive SUV!

[madinmaryland]

26. delete

[Zomby Woof]

27. I live in L.A.

"Weird" can be defined as an uneventful commute, with no accidents, no jams, and no medicated pedestrians. ;-)

[tigereye]

28. Bush sticker on a hybrid in WVA prior to the last election

and cars stopped on the freeway waiting for a mom duck and ducklings to cross the interstate. That was very cool.

[av8rdave]

29. In 1980, was eastbound on I-80 somewhere in Iowa in the middle

of the night, severe thunderstorms everywhere. I had a local AM station on, they were talking about tornados in the area. Not 5 minutes later, lightning lit up everything, and I could actually see a tornado in the rear view mirror a mile or so behind me.

If not weird then definitely unforgettable.

[ganeshji]

30. yesterday

I saw the most lovely drag queen standing next to the guy who talks to JFK on his radio all day. The mental illness in my neighborhood is at fever pitch right now.

[lectrobyte]

31. I was driving down a two lane, and saw an oncoming pickup do a

dance. A front wheel had come off the spindle or something, and wedged into the fender well and just spun it like a top.

[qnr]

32. About the snow.. Perhaps someone didn't clean up after their dog? Or

was it his whole yard?

[caty]

48. That's an idea.

But, he had over half of his front yard cleared of snow by the time I drove by. He wouldn't shovel up that much to clean up after a dog.:think:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

33. Hmmm....well, the most interesting was...

the time I was stuck in traffic with my then girlfriend trying to get out of the parking lot of a club after last call. We had a perfect view of the two guys having sex against a car parked to our right. We didn't want to watch, but like a trainwreck, it was oddly riveting. A human interest story.

A mystery animal that looked like a jackrabbit/wallaby/deer cross leapt in front of my friend's car and bounded up the cliff to our side like a kangaroo into the woods. once. We stopped the car and spent about five minutes sitting dead stopped in the road (we were in the middle of nowhere) muttering, "What the FUCK was THAT?" To this day, we are just thankful that we were in the car together, so there's at least one other person in the world that believes what we saw. And no, we were not on any drugs. We each had about 3 rum & cokes a few hours prior, but that's it.

Another time, I was driving across CT and was stuck is practically dead stopped traffic until I crossed an overpass in New Haven strewn with school chairs. Then, the traffic immediately cleared up and I was speeding towards Stonington.

[Saphire]

34. in I-10...a guy standing on the overpass wanking off.

[plcdude]

36. I was wondering

if anyone saw me hope I didn't hit your car but it was awesome

[Initech]

35. Ever see a car turned completely upside down?

Sadly, in Los Angeles, that's a pretty common sight.

[BrotherBuzz]

37. I was driving down to the mall to help jump start the economy...

when I spied this vehicle in the parking lot. Ain't America grand!

[BarenakedLady]

38. Sex

I was driving home one night back in the day (probably early 90's) and a little sports car comes flying passed me. A woman was straddled on the guy driving (facing him). There was much swerving (them) and laughing hysterically (me) involved. I briefly considered following, but I was too tired.

[cwydro]

39. a guy pulling a boat on a bike

a guy pulling a boat while walking... a guy and a girl painted all over in silver paint walking down the road...

[NV Whino]

41. Pelicans standing along the roadside...

in Arizona. Been blown in by the big storm the night before I later learned.

A cow strolling down the on ramp to Hwy 113 in Davis, CA. Best guess is it got loose from the Davis ag property.

[Crabby Appleton]

42. a bunch of huge dead bloated hogs

that fell off a truck

[KittyWampus]

43. Baby Elephant on the street corner. Come to find out, someone was

having a birthday party for their kid and rented the elephant from a circus up-island.

[deucemagnet]

53. There was a peacock by my car one day.

Really. I used to live by the Buffalo Zoo. One morning, there's this peacock by my car. I called the zoo when I got to work and asked if they were missing a peacock. "Oh, did he get out again? I'll have somebody go out and round him up after lunch." It turns out that he's quite an escape artist, but he stays in the park around the zoo, so there's no rush to go get him. It wasn't the last time I saw him outside the zoo, either.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

55. I see a white peacock wandering around fairly regularly.

I'm not sure if it belongs to the mobster's house or the miniature horse farm.

[TrogL]

44. Being chased by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

I was having a few mental health issues that year.

OK, fine. I was batshit crazy.

[Tikki]

47. Headed South on the 101 after lunch at Jocko's.....

we saw these cars on the Highway in the 50 miles it took to get home....

AmphiCar

1960's Alfa Romeo

TR6


Good pickens for a So Cal afternoon cruise....

Tikki

[BlueStorm]

49. Man with shovel under dog's butt

waiting for the dog to do it's business. I wasn't driving as I was 11 and was riding with my dad to the slot car place. I just remember my dad cracking up at it.

Blue

[texanwitch]

50. I see shoes hanging from telephone wires all the time, I have

been told it is gang related.

[lisamay]

52. about 7 years ago,

my friend and I were sitting at a light on Sepulveda in Van Nuys, when a scruffy looking guy in loose sweat pants entered the crosswalk, About halfway across the street, he reached into his pants and started to, um, enjoy himself. And he was wearing loose sweats so we could see the results. He continued to cross the street while enjoying himself and then walked into a gas station. After that, the light turned and we lost sight of him. Weird.

[ccjlld]

54. A herd of camels in Kansas

The were on the south side of I-70 just east of Fort Riley/Junction City.

Also I saw the aftermath of a strange accident in KC. If I remember correctly, it was a truck carrying Peanut Butter that wrecked around the I-70 East exit on I-435 South. Stuff was all over the road.