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

We live in a rural area and were driving into town a few weeks back. I noticed something rather large and blue lying in the traffic lane probably a quarter mile ahead of us. It was a downhill straight which started back up, and the big blue thing was very obvious from way back. The cars in front of us just kept going, and when the front one got to it, all heck broke loose -- tire smoke from brakes, cars swerving violently to miss it. It turned out to be an ice chest that didn't survive the ordeal. But I was amazed. It was very large, very obvious, and very blue. Why in the heck, out of 4 or 5 cars, was I the only one that managed to see it until too late?

jfkmk wrote:

et2 wrote:

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?

I saw the driver of an 18-wheeler doing this in traffic. I have no idea how he was using his clutch.

The clutch just get's it rolling. After that, shifts are clutchless. At least that was the case the last time I drove one -- 30 years ago ;)

Driving our MH on the express way in San Diego. As anyone who has ever driven on multilane freeways in San Diego knows, they don't ever widen the freeways, they just repaint to add another lane. Anyway, the lanes are very narrow and I'm actually white knuckled driving in rush hour traffic. Then here comes Willie Lumplump driving his car next to me with a pocket novel on the steering wheel reading it during his commute.

While driving through rush-hour traffic on an Interstate near Boston, I saw a guy with the newspaper spread fully open across his steering wheel. He was reading while following another car at a distance of six feet at 50 MPH. The paper blocked his entire windshield.

et2 wrote:

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?

I saw the driver of an 18-wheeler doing this in traffic. I have no idea how he was using his clutch.

Living in San Diego, the kids comming back from overseas Navy and Marines purchase rice rockets (AKA Japaneese motorcycles) and on Sundays ride the back roads like there is no tomorrow just to get an adrenalin rush, and lane sliting is allowed but only at stop lights not with moving traffic.

We have had many instances when a whole bunch of kids on bikes pass us on blind curves, dips and other dangerous places, all miliatry, all have the dod decals left front strut, some times I can shift a little to the right and slow down other times all I can do is slow down a tad I do not slam on the brakes, I do not want splattered Marine on the back of the toad.

Well there are P E O P L E out there.

navegator

noplace2 wrote:

down home wrote:
BWe had a car cut us off and nearly caused us to wreck. We caught up with it a bit later. A guy was driving, nearly laying down with his knees steering, at 80MPH plus. I don't know how he was pressing the gas pedal. Maybe his passenger was doing it. It was hard to tell as he appeared to be lying down.

OK, I just have to ask. This guy was driving 80+ and you caught up with him?

When we got on the mountain semi traffic slowed him down. He was again in the right lane. We went by in the left.

busyguy wrote:
I used to drive for a big trucking company. My regular run was Dallas to Houston. I was coming out of Houston early one morning and was near Huntsville on I45. My buddy was behind me and warned me on the CB that a young girl was coming up and driving all over the road. She got up along side my tractor and I looked down into her car. Thought she might have been sleepy. Well she wasn't.'s She was trying to put on her panty hose and kept hitting the steering wheel with her knee's.
I did that run for 8 years 5 days a week and could write a book on the things I have seen going on it cars and trucks. Some of the book would be rated xxx
Busyguy

Funny you should mention that, I used to van pool on that route. There was a prostitute that worked the highway north of Houston who'd call into the radio occasionally, that's how I know that she went by the handle "Rose Cuervo". You'd see her hitch-hiking along I-45, she was very tall and had red hair, I saw her in xxx action out the van window one day when we passed a slow moving car.

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

They have to have the helmet along in case they enter a state with a helmet law. You wouldn't want them to get a ticket would you ?

down home wrote:
BWe had a car cut us off and nearly caused us to wreck. We caught up with it a bit later. A guy was driving, nearly laying down with his knees steering, at 80MPH plus. I don't know how he was pressing the gas pedal. Maybe his passenger was doing it. It was hard to tell as he appeared to be lying down.

OK, I just have to ask. This guy was driving 80+ and you caught up with him?