I lived in atlanta for ten years and you also have to watch out for those wild mattreses and ferrel couches out there on 285. I also was stuck in the "wild chicken" traffic jam around 98, when the chicken truck flipped over on 75 and all those live chickens escaped.
The other day I'm cruising on the big 635 loop that goes around Dallas and in the HOV lane there was a two wheeler with the handles pointing towards the oncoming traffic...crappp...luckily I wasn't in the HOV lane. I pity the person that hit that.
O.K,,O.K.,,you guys ain't heard shit! Time for JackandDuces or VaRodder to come on here and explain about a run to Myrtle Beach a few short yrs. ago. Road Gators are bad when you are in a rod or especially on a bike but bears are much worse. Maybe one of these Hambers will explain because I can't type that fast.
Saw a wild handtruck trying to escape once. Pickup passed us doing like 80, either gate open or no tailgate, hand truck caught on a bungee cord with the handle bouncing off the asphalt and making sparks. Driver was completely oblivious. I've noticed a lot more gators laying along the roads the last year or two than I ever remember before. Always wondered if that correlated to them relaxing the restrictions on trucks from Mexico entering the US, or if it was just some Chinese company was selling truck tires now. Have yet to have the bad fortune to see one of those escape though. Knock on wood. Or maybe on rubber. Have to think I'm not the first person to do this but I did manage once to nail a deer and not hurt the car really at all. Dumb doe standing in the road and I saw her and hit the brakes, but not soon enough, knocked her over and she rolled into the ditch. Then got up and ran away. I got out and looked at the car. The parking light lens popped off (was an '88 T-bird beater), so I picked it up and went on my way. But I did notice the next day the fenders and nose were pushed over just enough you could see the hood gaps were crooked.
I went to Maxton NC last weekend in my 54. 1300 miles of interstate. Completly infested with Interstate Alligators. None got me, but I've never seen so many as this trip. A lot of truck tires are Chinese. 'specially on the trailers. Hangook and a lot of names you can't pronounce.
This has been funny. Several years ago, below garlits place on 75, I was behind a string of loboys, when all of a sudden it looked like a cross tie slapped across the windshield. i ducked and pulled over, talk about a depends moment. didn't bust the w/s just got a parking light, 2200 dollars worth.
They can also scare the heck out of you when they jump out of their hiding places on your rig on to the pavement. I was bringing the bus back home from Co. somewhere in Arkansas they had enuff of riding when they decided to jump off. One made it, the other changed its mind and decided to hang out on the axle. Luckily I was in the hammer lane when they did this so one landed in the median so no one got attacked by it. But I had to wrestle the other off the trailer before we could resume our trip. Yes they did come off of brand new tires not caps. So much for feeling safer with new stuff. I did make it back with no problems on the old spare recap.
I witnessed a vicious attack north of Yuma Last winter. A 1 ton farm truck with a estimated 80 tons in the back blew a rear tire and just missed a couple on a motorcycle in front of me. The bike was on the farmers ass and didn't have time to react. Lucky bastard, they wouldn't have had a chance.
Yeah. You go ahead and laugh. If it not for my cat-like reflexes, you'd still be shoppin for a hot rod. Seriously, it shook me up good. When I did manage to make to the right shoulder, I didn't seem too bad. By the time I walked around the coupe and got back in, it hit me how this all could have turned out. I do laugh about it now, but not then. It's the thing that great stories are made of. Hopefully, you'll never go through what I did. I wish that on no one. Vance
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