What is the dumbest thing you have seen while on the road?

Matt_Colie wrote:
As Albert Eistein was quoted,

"There are two things that are boundless, the universe and human stupidity and I am not certain about the universe."

Matt

He also said: “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

Albert Einstein

Motorcycle riders with their helmets mounted someplace other than their heads is always a good one.

Then there are the common favourites, the texters, the eaters, the readers, the makeup appliers while driving.

Not a one of them see anything wrong or dumb about what they are doing as they are supposedly in control of a horizontily traveling missile going down the highway.

Yesterday I saw some idiot trying to drive while a 50# or so dog was sitting on her lap hanging out the drivers window..

B.O.

Two things
Driving down the interstate in NM and a big Cadillac was weaving down the road. Finally got a chance to pass him. Got beside him and. The dumb a had a book on his steering wheel reading it.
Going with my dad to AZ. Woke from a nap and saw he was driving down an ice covered road working on a Rubics cube!

This is not necessarily stupid. We have all had this happen at some point. I saw a woman driving a 36 foot Class A through the busiest thorougfare in the city yesterday with one of her cargo doors wide open. It was the kind that opens left to right. There was a roll of paper towleling attached to the door and of course it was completely unwound trailing her down the boulevard. It was a matter of time before she struck some one with that door, it would be serious if it was a motorcycle. If I could have gotten into traffic where I could have caught up to her, I would have warned her. There was no way. Back in the days of CB's I could have tried to reach her. Normally the air movement would have closed this door, but it had a stay open latch on it. A design error.
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One of the dumbest things I saw was a truck driving down a mountain highway about 10 feet ahead of an old single axle Terry holiday trailer that was no longer attached and obviously had no safety chains or trailer brakes. I was visiting with my sister as I was hooking my truck up to the trailer and I didn't push the little ball lock thingy down nor did I hook up the safety chains. We got going down the highway and hit a railroad crossing at 50 mph. I watched in the mirror and saw the trailer bounce up in the air and immediately recognized it had come unhooked. I calmly said to my wife "we just lost our trailer". She didn't believe me so I said " no really its chasing us down the highway". The kids thought it was great fun but when my wife saw I wasn't joking she started beating on me calling me an idiot. We crossed a bridge which had a curb at the edge of the road. The road was crowned in the middle so the trailer started to veer to the right. It bounced off the curb and headed to the left I was about ready to slam on the brakes to let it pile into my truck as there was on coming traffic but the crown in the road was enough to send back to the right again. It bounced again off the curb and eventually after crossing the bridge it went off into the ditch. I hooked on to the back bumper with a tow strap and pulled it back onto the road and by this time a couple other vehicles stopped to help. The wires were pulled out of the plug and the jack was damaged but other than that it was only my pride that was hurt. We had enough help to manually lift it up onto the ball hitch and after reattaching the wires we were on our way.

As Albert Eistein was quoted,

"There are two things that are boundless, the universe and human stupidity and I am not certain about the universe."

Matt

All of which proves yet again that the only resource we human beings truly have in unlimited abundance is stupidity.

Desert Captain wrote:
I'm sure this list could be endless but my personal favorite, frequently seen (saw it again today, twice), are the chuckleheaded passengers with their (usually), bare feet crossed up on the dash. Gee, I wonder how long it will take their knees to go back through their teeth when the air bag deploys?
:S

That's nothing. Wait until you see the driver with the left on the dash or out the window, and yes I have, more than once. Usually it's a very young person. I can't understand it being comfortable at all, yet safe.

What's a chucklehead?

Desert Captain wrote:
I'm sure this list could be endless but my personal favorite, frequently seen (saw it again today, twice), are the chuckleheaded passengers with their (usually), bare feet crossed up on the dash. Gee, I wonder how long it will take their knees to go back through their teeth when the air bag deploys?
:S

Don't forget the passengers who have both feet out the window. :)