About 9 months ago, I came across a milk crate sitting in the middle of the lane while doing 70 mph on the highway at night.
By the time I saw it, it was too late to avoid it and I hit it head on. I lauched that sucker some 20 feets straight up in the air, while damaging my bimmer's bumper.

Then in our NE meet couple months ago, we encountered a 6x8 plywood on the highway while doing 70 mph+. (Sorry for the painful memory, Glen) One of our members shredded the plywood as he drove right through it, causing many deep scratches on his S.

Since then, I have had 2 more (big) plywood encounters. Luckily I saw it in time to avoid it each time.
Maybe I should look to reside where it's Home Depot-free or something.

Now the question:
What is the most bizzare foreign object you have encountered while driving?

Somewhat off-topic, but I thought it would be fun.

 

While driving to lunch with my secretary on Jamboree Road, I noticed a car in front of me with some plywood 8x4s tied to the roof. I saw the front of the top plywood sheet lift and bend. I cut off my neighbor to my immediate left and watched as the plywood broke and sailed into the car which was right where I used to be.

While driving down the 710 at about 80, I saw a piece of looked like linoleum doing an immitation of one of those Ninja star shaped weapons, spinning through the air coming right at my windshield. It hit the top left side of my front fender causing a slight dimple.

Last week while cruising PCH in the dark, and changing lanes, I hit something in the road (no idea what it was) which mashed its way under the driver's side of the frame, made a cracking noise under my strake, and then bumped under my tire. My strake is now disjointed. Never saw it, still don't know what it was.

Keep your eyes open.

2x6spds

 

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Now the question:
What is the most bizzare foreign object you have encountered while driving?

Somewhat off-topic, but I thought it would be fun.

 

Not as weird but,

I was enjoying a particularly fun strip of backroad the other day, top down, reving around 7500rpm, flying around corners. Near the end of the road I come around the corner and notice a flock of quail...I get off the gas and I see the flock clear the road...I get on it again and then, out of the corner of my eye, the proverbial stragler. Its too late to swerve so I continue...only a slight, soft thump, but when I look in the rearview mirrorm I see feathers everywhere.. yep I got him. At the stop sign, I pull over to take a look and the majority of the intestines splattered on the lower drivers side of my car. It all came off, but it was definately not the most pleasant thing to remove... just my weird story....

 

Ugh... bad memory:

Agonizing Horse!

Someone had hit it and it was mid road in northern Mexico.

I was cruising at 70 at 2AM and woa!

Missed it barely in my not so stiff 61 Cadillac. Kept going because if I stopped, I would have been the person that killed the horse in the eyes of the owner, and two, because the horse would have been an invaluable stud in the eyes of the same owner, and three, because I would have been expected to pay for this suddenly invaluable horse.

Sucked though. Can still see the horses expression.

Dan

 

A few years back I was driving to Asheville, NC (family has land there) for the holidays in my '93 Integra GS-R.. Merrily tooling my way into the hills just south of the NC state line, some yahoo in front of me is carting around what appears to be every single item from his trailer-park living room. Every kind of table, chair and knick-knack appeared to be piled into the back of his Datsun pick-up. Literally just as I sized him up and decided to change lanes, the string he had used to secure the pile gave way and it all went streaming into my lane on I-26. I had little room to maneuver, but I managed to avoid the coffee table, La-Z-Boy, and a heap of other nasty objects. The only thing I went over was something this gentleman and I later determined to be a wooden clock of some sort. No damage to me, but after I scolded the guy, a few others came back... they weren't so lucky.

RECENTLY, I caught an armadillo on the BeeLine Highway coming back to the coast from Sebring. Fortunately for ME(Not so fortunate for him...
), I was in the Lincoln Town Car rental... Din't even upset the balance of the car.

 

A little less than a year ago I was on vacation in south Florida driving a rental (a Jimmy) when I came across the strangest road hazard I've ever seen. It was a giant yellow Pikachu from the wonderful world of Pokemon in the middle of my lane (I'm talking the size of a small person). The thing was soft and stuffed and I was driving a rental truck so I nailed it. It was oddly satisfying.

 

A couple of weeks ago, I was cruising home from work in my Acura. All of a sudden, a utility truck 1/4 mile ahead of me lost it's long metal stepladder off the back. YIKES! It's happened twice now in Richmond. I switched lanes quickly and avoided it. I think some Jeep went straight over it with no damage. If I had the S2K and wasn't paying attention, it might have been a different story........

A long time ago, my mom had a friend who ran over a cardboard box...........only it was a brand new refrigerator, not an empty box as she thought. Needless to say, her 1960s car was totalled. Since I heard this story, I always try to avoid hitting any boxes in the road

 

92 Civic; going to school from work, on the leftmost lane on 836 highway in Miami, FL, a tire tread from a dumptruck caught the right side of my car and threw me into a spin; managed to miss most traffic and bounced off the right side guard at which point a Semi carrying cement pylons caught the tail end of my poor hatchback. The trunk of my car was full of school books (we were moving house the day before and still had stuff in the car) which were ejected all over the place. *Shudder* No injury, though the poor civic was totaled.

 

oh man..about two years ago, i was following my friends MR2 in my talon and all of the sudden my friend floors his car..wel i guess his license plate wasn't screwed on tight enough or something because all the sudden this thing bounced off the pavement and started flying toward me..luckily i avoided but quite a funny sight..woo..still brings back memories..